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Sabbath School Lesson - Stumbling

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Sabbath School Lesson - Stumbling

Stumbling

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 04:02 AM PDT

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, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith " (Rom. 9:30–32). What's the message here, and, more important, how can we take this message, written in a certain time and place, and apply the
principles to ourselves today? How can we avoid making the same mistakes in our context that some Israelites did in
theirs?


God is in the business of saving people. The Israelites decided that they would
do salvation
in their terms but God saves through His terms not ours. We can not try to subvert the design of God for salvation and impose upon it a plan of our own construction. The Israelites tried to do salvation their way did but God not ask their opinion. Gods means of salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ. God does not care if you are a Jew or Gentile He just wants to know if you are a beliver. Today we must understand that God does not discriminate with Salvation. Our salvation does not rest in the fact that we are called but it rests I'm the fact that we trust in Jesus the one who called us.



Have you ever found Jesus to be a"stumbling block" or a "rock of
offense"? If so, how so? That is, what were you doing that brought you into that situation? How did you get out, and what did you learn so that, one hopes, you never find yourself in that
type of contrary relationship with Jesus again?


Sometimes as humans we can be so stubborn. When we set our minds to something we have the capacity for great good or great evil. Sometimes the things which we fix our minds to are contrary to Gods will. When we find ourselves in a place where we do not want to surrender our will to God then Jesus becomes a stumbling block for us. This usually happens when we don't trust that God has our best interests in mind. I have found that even when we don't understand what God is doing we should give Him the benifit of the doubt because Gods way is always the best way. The only way we overcome this problem is to trust in God. We can either learn by our experience or the experience of others. It is best to trust Jesus this is a prequsite for not making Him a stumbling block.


Prayer: Father
please have mercy on our souls. Please help us not to stumble at Jesus. Teach us to trust you completely. In Jesus name amen.

Ammi: “My People”

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 08:47 AM PDT

"Read Romans 9:25–29. (Notice how much Paul quotes the Old Testament to make his point about the things that were happening in his day.) What is the basic message found in all these verses? What hope is being offered there to his readers?

God called Israel to be His chosen people, but God has now extended to this calling to all nations. Paul is using the story of Hosea to show how God loved us unconditionally. The Story of Hosea Shows how has called those who were not originally His to be His Children. God has now extended His exclusive election of Israel to every nation kindred tongue and people. We do no boast in this fact because it is only by the working of God that we become His children. The Spirit of God dwelling in us helps us to live holy lives. God's grace is the divine architect of our righteous characters and we must remember to always acknowledge this fact.

How often have people failed you? How often have you failed yourself and failed others? Probably more times than you can count, right? What lessons can you learn from these failures about where your ultimate trust must lie?

The reality is if we have lived long enough that we have been let down. Because of this fact some people choose to live life with no expectations of others. I am not sure if this is best way to handle the fact of human failure. We must learn to put our ultimate trust in God. God is the only one that we can fully depend on. Humans will fail us over and over again but God will never fail.

Prayer: Thank you for calling us to be your people. We live in l life littered with failed promises but your promises are sure, help us to put our trust in them. Thank you in Jesus name amen.

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