Sharing Jesus

September 19, 2017

Sharing Jesus

Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true.

Romans 3:4a

Read: Romans 3:1-8

In Paul’s world, the church was made up of Jews and Gentiles, non-Jews, and this presented Paul with a great challenge. For Paul, it was impossible to understand and fully appreciate Jesus as the Savior of the World, separate and apart from Jesus as God’s Messiah, the fulfillment of God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Paul strived to present Jesus to the Jews, who understood the Old Testament covenants, and to the Gentiles for whom Abraham and his descendants were strangers. Today’s introduction to Romans 3 highlights Paul’s challenge. (The issue of how the Jews fit into God’s great plan of salvation in more fully addressed by Paul in Romans 9, after we get swept away by the coming Tsunami of Grace that is in chapters five through eight.)

My Takeaway: God’s covenant with Abraham and his descendants was intended to be the means by which Israel would be God’s light to the nations. Israel failed in her mission, but Jesus the Messiah fulfilled Israel’s covenant responsibility. Today, the Holy Spirit enables and empowers the church to faithfully fulfill her responsibility to be God’s light to the nations. Oh that we would be as generous in sharing Jesus, as God was in sending His Messiah to us!

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

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Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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