The LORD our Passover

The beginning of indexing for May 4^th

Picking up on theme of was laid the day before I have, the chosen: Mat. 24:34, Luke 24:44, John 19:28, Acts 13:32-33; Romans 9:25-30, 15:9-13, 16:25-26

Mat. 24: 34 “Verily I say to you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”

Luke 24:44 Jesus said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me.”

John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst.”

Paul is here speaking in Acts 13:32-33 “And we declare to you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made to the fathers, God has fulfilled the same to us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second Psalm, You are My Son, this day have I begotten You.”

The next one is taken from Romans chapter 9 but to get the full impact of what Paul is here saying we need to begin at the beginning and like the rest of the passages of scripture strive to separated each thought in its correct place.

Romans 9:1-5, 6-13, 14-18, 19-26, 27-29, 30-10:4 “I say that the truth is In Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.(This is more fully explained in the fig-tree parable explanation.) For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calls;) It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For He said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. For the scripture said to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hards.

You will say then to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will? Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor? If God, is willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared to glory, even us, whom He has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As He said also in Osee (Hosea), I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people; there shall they be called the children of the Living God.

Esaias (Isaiah) also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as Esaias said before, except the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrah.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of (not understanding) the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whoever believes Him shall not be ashamed. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved (come to true repentance). For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.”