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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 9:15-25

15What did He say to Moses? "I will have mercy on the one on whom I have chosen to have mercy, and I will show compassion to the one to whom I have chosen to show compassion."16Whatever God does depends on the ways in which He has chosen to reveal His mercy. No desire or striving on man's part can ever bring His will about.17Look at what the scriptures say about Pharaoh: "I raised you up for My purposes so that I could display My awesome power, and do such mighty things that My name would be known throughout the world!"18He can show His mercy to anyone to whom He chooses to show His mercy; and He can harden the heart of anyone who opposes Him.19Now someone may want to argue that if God is able to harden hearts, why does He blame us for disobedience to His will?20Who do you think you are, to judge God for the way in which He has chosen to work? Is it right for a created one to even question his creator? Can you ask God why He made you as you are, as if your failings are His fault?21A potter can make whatever he wants out of a lump of clay, some beautiful articles and others for mundane, everyday purposes.22So consider this. How is God to reveal everything about Himself? How can He show people that His anger is real unless there are those who deserve to be judged and condemned? Yet at the same time He showed such great patience with the one who opposed Him, even though He knew what the final outcome would be!23By contrast, God is also able to reveal the richness of His glory that He shows to those who receive His mercy, those like us who He has determined in His pre-ordained purposes should know His glory.24For whether we are Jewish or not, He has called us believers to know His mercy and His glory!Christ - a stumbling block to the Jews25He said through His prophet Hosea: "I will call 'My people' those who formerly were not My people; I will declare My personal love for those who had not known My love."

Romans 9:30-33

30So what conclusion can we reach? Even non-Jewish people, who never even sought to live in ways that are right and pleasing to God, have been put right with God and made acceptable to Him as a result of their faith.31Yet Jews, who sought to be right with God through trying to obey the law, never obtained their objective.32Why was this? Because instead of living by faith, they tried to make themselves acceptable to God through their own accomplishments. They stumbled over Jesus, the 'stumbling stone', by rejecting Him.33God had warned that He would lay among His chosen people a Stone that would cause people to stumble and a Rock that would be their downfall. And He was proved correct. But He also said that anyone who put their trust in that Rock would never be put to shame!

John 17:20-23

Jesus prays for future believers20"I do not pray only for them, but for all those who in the future will believe in Me through the truth they shall proclaim.21I pray that they will be one in faith and love, Father, in the same way that You and I are always in complete harmony and agreement: You in Me and I in You. May they continue to live in Us so that the world will believe who I AM, the One You sent to be their Saviour and Lord.22"The glory You gave Me I have given to all who believe in Me that they may be united in faith and love, reflecting the unity that is between Us as Father and Son.23I will live in them as You live in Me. Yes, I want them to come to a place of being completely united in faith and love to demonstrate to the world that You sent Me, and that You have loved them in the same way that You have loved Me while I have been here on the earth.
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