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Going deeper...to go further

Daily Bible reading strengthens our relationship with God, nourishes our spirits and equips us to live a fruitful, effective life for Him.

This month we're looking at scriptures which talk about Jews and Gentiles alongside a passage about love. The first scripture each day follows this outline: 
Days 1-6 - The Foundation & the Prophets
Days 7-10 - Jesus and the Nations
Days 11-19 - The Early Church & the Gentiles
Days 20-30 - God’s Plan for Jews and Gentiles United in Christ
Day 31 - The Final Reminder of God’s Global Kingdom. As we read the Word it’s important that we apply what we read and pray it out over our lives. One of the way you can do this is by using the acronym SOAP. To find out more about SOAP watch this video.

Below you’ll see what we’re reading today. To go forward or back a day in our reading plan use the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons.

Love

  • The nature of God, but not an emotional love; rather a love that is expressed in positive action.
  • God’s love (agape) is expressed in the ways He gives to His people.
  • He has demonstrated His unfailing love for all mankind in sending His Son to die on the cross for them, so taking upon Himself the punishment they deserve.
  • God’s love is expressed in all He does in relation to His people, even when He needs to refine and discipline them.
  • His love is imparted to the hearts of believers by the Holy Spirit.
  • Believers are to love God wholeheartedly, their neighbours as they love themselves and one another in the same way that Jesus Christ has loved them.
  • Those who truly love Jesus obey His commands.
  • To love others with His love is to live for them rather than for yourself; to lay down your life for them by seeking to bless, serve, encourage and give to them in practical ways.
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Romans 7:1-6

Free from religious law1I speak to you as my brothers and as those who know the religious law. You are aware that the law only has authority over a person while he is alive. When he has died it is of absolutely no relevance to him.2For example, a woman remains married to her husband as long as he lives; but if he dies her marriage also ends according to the law. She is free to marry again, if she so desires, without being guilty of adultery.3Whereas if she were to enter into another relationship while her husband was alive then she would be an adulteress.4So, my brothers, understand that it was only possible for you to become a living member of Christ's body because you had died to the law first. You cannot be 'married' to both the law and Christ. It is clear that you live in Christ Jesus, He who was raised from the dead, so that now you might live a life that fulfils God's purpose for you, not simply obeying a set of religious laws. When you died with Christ you died to the religious law; now you are united with Him in His risen life.5In the past, when you were under the control of your flesh, your natural inclination was to sin and to break God's law. In fact, whatever the law says you are not to do aroused in you a perverse desire to do those very things. Consequently, you used your body in sinful ways that only led to spiritual death.6Yet the situation is now completely different. Because you have died with Christ, you are free from the sinful passions that once put you into bondage. You have been liberated from the very idea that you can please God by trying to obey a set of religious rules and regulations. You understand now that the only way you can serve God and please Him is by walking in the new way, led by the Holy Spirit. This is such a better way of life that it is pointless to return to your former way of trying to please God in ways that you failed to keep anyway!

Psalm 103:1-5

Of David.1Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.2Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—3who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,4who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,5who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
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