ROMANS CHAPTER 11 PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS (DEATH UNTO LIFE)

Mike Balloun teaches today 01-23-21.

THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 11
PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS (DEATH UNTO LIFE)

VERSES: Jeremiah 16:14-15; Romans 11:11, 11:25

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DEATH unto Life is the revelation of the principle of God’s maturing method for His eternal purposes for mankind. The Life of the Messiah Jesus Christ and His soulical death requirement sets forth this principle. It is seen historically that Israel, after having covenanted with God to be His priests in the earth to all Nations, continually resisted that certain selfless death after their justification. They have skirted His soulical requirements by insisting on a useless type of righteousness of their own. That righteousness attained by checking off a performance list of do’s and don’t’s, without allowing God’s heart to touch the core of their being. Walking in their observance of the Law of Moses without the heart of God behind it. Judgments from God have followed due to their continued stubborn hardness to His methods and plans. This will ultimately be severe enough to cause Israel to come to a reconciliation with their need for a selflessness, realized in soulical death (dying to the desires of the carnal soul). That is to say, a final surrender to their own perpetuating of a religious carnal life, separate and apart from the directives of God, and finally realize the fullness of their Covenant calling. This calling being to be a people of God out from all other peoples as His priests to all the other nations.

And further, it is to be realized by the Gentiles that if the Messiah and Israel would need to suffer unto this kind of selfless death, so would they have to manifest the same death to self in their lives. Suffering serves the furthering of His purposes for the bringing forth of a new creature from mankind, who have the Glory of God as the purpose of their existence. Not to serve themselves, but to love God with all their hearts, minds and souls, in the willingness and practical application of giving themselves up even unto physical death for others. (That death unto selfishness being what the Book of Romans ultimately has in view; that being displayed in Gentile appreciation and love of their brethren and wayward Israel.) This is the true reflection of God’s manifest manifold wisdom and glory. Those undefeatable traits of acquired character through Gospel Covenant with Christ, being now manifest unto the unseen spirit powers now ruling in this world. It is a true and frightening testimony to their sure demise and future replacement, seen in His purposes that declare the character warrant and necessary to rule in His Kingdom. The mandate has gone forth, and the Severity of God was realized in Israel’s negative response to God’s proclaimed purposes. The question was; will the Church rise up in this selfless, loving faith and yield to suffering in the power of the Spirit in answer to God’s Glory? Or like Israel before them, do they expect on the basis of some pretentious religious skirting, that God will wink at their half-heartedness and declare their works better than stubborn Israel’s before them? Would He establish them without merit to replace those that were to manifest His great Glory and Power as examples of selflessness that deserve to govern over this World in their stead? NO! The New Man can be cut off as well for rejecting the death message, and not qualify to rule and reign as priests either.

Paul was designated the Apostle unto the Gentiles. His purpose being to reveal the mystery of the inheritance of the heavenly kingdom understanding. It was in this revealed understanding that he was first appointed as one to initiate the challenge of God to Israel. Israel being His estranged wife/those now stubborn Jews, to whom He, by first directive, proffered this great inheritance to, yet they persisted in rejecting it. And although the Nation slipped into stone cold hard-heartedness, Paul yet tried to snatch out a few through jealousy. Those who understood his expounding of Scripture to mean that God now was turning to the Gentile, willingly accepted justification in Jesus Christ and the Covenant of the heavenly kingdom inheritance, from which they found themselves cut off.

We (Gentiles/New Man) are not an end in God’s salvation plan in and of ourselves but a part. And we can also be the means by which He will restore Israel (on the one hand by a few who selflessly give their lives in loving care, and on the other hand by the final judgment of God in the cutting off of His Gentiles’ calling in answer to their Christian pretense and persistence in religious Babylonianism). If we don’t have the correct....

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