Bread of Life Fellowship

Rich and Much Richer

There is an incentive for Paul as an Apostle to the Gentiles to continue to seek to bring some of the Jews to Christ. They represent a bridge into God's salvation for the whole nation. And Paul knows the salvation of the nation as a whole will only increase the blessings of the World and the believing Gentiles as a whole. Israel's falling away has precipitated a movement of the Gospel upon the Gentile world and brought to them salvation and riches and reconciliation... This can only mean to Paul that their return will mean a fuller expression of that salvation, greater riches and a more enriched and vigorous experience of the abundance of life we have in Jesus Christ.

How Paul was Like Elijah

An interesting observation in the writings of the Prophets will reveal a cross current of love and hatred. The prophet will pray and plead for and with his nation to turn them back to the Lord and next he will be railing against them in their sins. He will be found in his prayers, defending them before the Lord in one turn and then in the next speaking of them with great disdain and anger

Obeying the Gospel

Simply consider what it means to obey the gospel. "But they have not all obeyed the gospel..."

Our Profession

Last week we spoke on the Urgency of our Prayer – "My hearts desire and prayer is for all of Israel to be saved." And we spoke on the centrality of our Proclamation "That if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you shall be saved." And now we must turn to embrace the Necessity of Evangelism as our Profession. the prayers and the proclamation that rise from this great hope... now lead us to a point of identity... we come to a point where our Profession is embraced.

The Prayer The Proclamation

Romans 10:1-13 brings us to the peak application of the book of Romans. Here Paul, led by the Holy Spirit, brings us into the culminating expressions of the Christian before the glory of the Gospel.