FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God
Romans 9:25–29: As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved.” “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of the living God.” Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved. For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.” Isaiah said: “Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah.”
FAITH: Comes by Studying the Word of God
Lastly, Paul calls us to realize that Israel’s failure and his choices of Gentiles was prophesied in the Scriptures, namely Hosea and Isaiah. As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one.” “My friends,” Paul is saying, “the failure of the Jews and the inclusion of the Gentiles has been in God’s plan from the beginning. God is just. His word has not failed.” Paul succeeds in defending God. 1
FAITH: Comes by Obeying the Word of God
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26
Rejoice in the fact that you are forever in the family of God. Adopted and sealed.
FAITH: Comes by Experiencing the Transforming Work of God
My failures will never keep God from His successes.
FAITH: Comes by Praying with the Word of God
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. Lamentations 3:22
Dear Father, thank You for the blessing of Your daily mercies. In Jesus Name, Amen.
1. Hughes, R. K. (1991). Romans: righteousness from heaven (pp. 179–180). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
