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Commentary on "Redemption for Jew and Gentile"
Day 3: Monday, August 30, 2010 - Elected
1. The Lesson does not mention Romans 9:16 which reads, “So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.” Describe, as best you can, the following:
2. The Lesson says, “We’ve all been elected to be saved, not lost.” And then it lists two verses to support this. Read each verse in context and decide if the stated verse really supports the author’s statement that “we’ve all been elected to be saved, not lost.” Respond with “Yes” or “No” after reading each verse.
3. The lesson seeks to illustrate how people with differences can all be members of one church. It lists: “race, cast, ethnicity, color or gender.” However, this list really misses the REAL issue in the early church to which Paul’s letters to the Romans and Galatians, and Luke’s book of Acts bring into sharp focus. The real issue was: Do the Gentiles have to keep the law?
“But certain ones of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed, stood up, saying, ‘It is necessary to circumcise them, and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses’” (Acts 15:5).
To put the same issues into today's context respond to the following:
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