Today maybe my last post dealing with Amos 3:3, which states this in the KLV, " Can two walk together, except they be agreed?", and this in the ASV, "Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?" or this in the ESV, "Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?" And then this in Ephesians 4:4-6 in the JKV, "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." and this in the ESV translation, "There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." In the course of doing this I have used articles written by Norman Grubbs, a long time missionary who has walked with the LORD for many many years. His insight is an a little stranded as he sees things from another angle, maybe because of his back ground and life experiences and then Pastor Hoekstra. Because Grace is a life long experience of our being built us up and gives us an inheritance. If we do not loose heart. All that said today I will again call on Norman Grubbs one more time and then Pastor Hoekstra on his word of Grace and then I will use the ESV to look at, One GOD. And because this will be lengthy I may break it up again.
Romans
By Norman P. Grubb
"Now here is a double standard. Am I to take that? Now he says, “You take it first.” You have to get the fact that God is always perfect. Now that is a very great thing for us to learn, because it is very difficult for us to learn something—that whatever happens, God is behind it. And, it is always perfect. That is a very great lesson for us to learn because that is what tears us apart. “Oh, I can’t take that. That can’t be God. What kind of a God would do that? And you are torn up inside. And then you live in your hell, until you can say, “What God does, I may not be able to relate it to love at the moment, but what God does is perfect.”
The world says, “Well, why does He find fault, if He hardened Pharaoh and had mercy on others? Why does He find fault with people?” Then Paul comes back and says, “Don’t say that. Who are you to replay against God?” Steady now, don’t you reply against God! God will explain Himself sometime. But, don’t you reply against Him. Accept what He says. Even we Christians don’t like that too well. Paul takes the common example of the potter. He says, “Shall the thing that is formed say to Him that formed it, ‘Why did You make me like thus?’ Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?’” Some for useful purposes. Dishonor, you see, is more than just a humble kitchen pot or something. The pot of dishonor is for unpleasant purposes. Rom 9:22 and 23. “What if God, desiring to show His wrath and to make known His power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction, in order to make known the riches of His glory for the vessels of mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory.” That is where we get that we are all vessels. This is one that proves that humanity always contains a deity. Which deity? Vessels of wrath express the Satanic deity; vessels expressing Jesus Christ through Whom mercy comes.
Then he begins to change. He says, “Look, it looks like that. You have got to get it. God means what it is to be. That is what it is. Because, there is a hidden trick in this thing. It is like this. God is prepared to have mercy, even to us who He has called, not to the Jews only, but also to the Gentiles.” Oh! Gentiles are mixed up in this. We know He came to the Jews and now the Gentiles. Then Paul says, “God has said a strange thing, ‘I will call those people who are not, My people.’” This is from Hosea, “Now I will call those people (those Gentiles) who are not my people, I will call them My people. I will call them beloved who are not beloved”—those Gentiles. “And, in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the Living God’.” Which is another lovely expression. The Children of the Living God. Then Paul says, “He always had mercy. Israel was so rebellious. However, there was always a remnant there. There has always been this remnant all through history—the saved Jews. Isaiah said that the remnant shall be saved. He said, “He left us a seed even though we behaved like Sodom and Gomorrah. He has left Himself a seed.”
Now then, “What shall we say then? The Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is faith.” The Gentiles who followed not after righteousness are declared righteous by God. They received the righteousness through Jesus Christ. We talked about justification through faith. “But Israel, which followed the Law of righteousness hath not attained to this true Law of righteousness. Wherefore because they sought it not by faith.” Now we are getting something. “But as it were by the works of the Law for they stumbled at that stumbling stone, the Rock of Offense.”
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