Gary Gleans

                                                                                       Romans 11:1-6 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin, God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?   “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”   But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”   So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.   But if i...

                                                                             Romans 10:18-21 But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for  “Their voice has gone out   to all the earth,   and their words to the ends of the world.” But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,  “I will   make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a   foolish nation I will make you angry.” Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,  “I have been found by those who did not seek me;   I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.” But of Israel he says,   “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.” The main point of this section of Romans is to explain how the Gospel being expan...

                                                                        Romans 10:13-17 For   “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”   How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him   of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear   without someone preaching?   And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written,   “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”   But   they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says,   “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”   So   faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. In order for someone to come to faith, there is a process that inv...

                                                                                       Romans 10:5-13 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.   But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)   “or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).   But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);   because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart tha...

                                                                             Romans 10:1-4 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.   For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.   For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.   For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.   The most important thing that anyone can know is how to be saved.  People have many different convictions about salvation and how they can attain it.  Unfortunately, there are many false teachings about salvation.  Paul writes ...

                                                                             Romans 9:30-33 What shall we say, then?   That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is,   a righteousness that is by faith;   but that Israel   who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.   Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the   stumbling stone,   as it is written,  “Behold, I am laying in Zion   a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;   and whoever believes in him will not be   put to shame.” Salvation is only obtained through righteousness.  Righteousness is only obtained t...

                                                                                  Romans 9:19-29 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For   who can resist his will?”   But who are you, O man,   to answer back to God?   Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”   Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump   one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?   What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience   vessels of wrath   prepared for destruction,   in order to make known   the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he   has prepared befo...