Righteousness
When the Gentiles began believing in Yeshua, there was a great debate. Everyone asked the same questions:
February 23, 2025
When the Gentiles began believing in Yeshua, there was a great debate. Everyone asked the same questions:
The atoning sacrifice of Yeshua, God the Son, satisfied God’s loving mercy to save the sinner, without violating His own righteousness.
The next word is “justification” or “justified.” This word comes from the same “group” as righteousness.
Paul uses important but challenging words in his letter to the Romans…righteousness
Job had spent his life fearing God and trying to be righteous in the only ways he knew through faith, worship and sacrifice. He was confused as the suddenness of his terrible sufferings. The only explanation his friends offered was that Job had sinned.
Israel had been desperately trying to find help by making covenants with other nations. But God considered those covenants, “Covenants of Death” which one day He would destroy, leaving Israel helpless and hopeless.
The prophet Isaiah was the first to refer to the Messiah as a stone that would cause the Jewish people to stumble and take offense:
The prophet Isaiah was the first to refer to the Messiah as a stone that would cause the Jewish people to stumble and take offense:
Paul answers the question, “Why didn’t the Jewish people find God’s righteousness when they so eagerly looked for it?
We moved too fast into Chapter 10 and discovered the solution before Paul was finished discussing the problem Israel faced. The problem was – how to become righteous (accepted) before God.
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