Read Ro. 15
Reading the first 3 verses makes me wonder how Jesus did it. How did he put up with our stupidity and ignorance? He was so patient with his disciples and the general public but he wasn't so kind to the scribes and Pharisees. It was because they had no excuse, they had the privilege of the best education in the Word and refused to live it or understand it. I was reading in John 12 this morning about how Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey and it said that his disciples didn't understand at the time that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. But after Jesus entered into his glory, they remembered what had happened and realized that these things had been written about him. I bet they went back and read the scriptures and found many other prophecies about Jesus that had been there all the time but that they had never them seen before. The Old Testament is full of Jesus. Verse 8 says that Jesus confirmed the promises made to the fathers. Then he reminds us of the prophesies that say the Gentiles will come into the knowledge of the truth about God.
Truth is the Gentiles were always exposed to the truth. Everyone on the earth had heard of what the Hebrew God did to Egypt in the days of Moses. All through the Bible there are Gentiles who chose to worship God like Rahab, Ruth, Naaman, and the people of Ninevah. But when Jesus came there was a huge harvest of Gentiles. Paul, one of the most educated Jews was called to the Gentiles. He went to the Jews first but when they didn't want to hear, he went to the Gentiles. It has always been God's plan to save the whole world. He just needed a people to be his example. We are now that people that show the world the glory of God.
Now the God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believeing, that we may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. And I am also persuaded that we are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another.
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