NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS

NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS

Romans 3:1-2

What Advantage Then Hath The Jew? Or What Profit Is There Of Circumcision? Much Every Way: Chiefly, Because That Unto Them Were Committed The Oracles Of God.

Romans 9:4-5 

Who Are Israelites; To Whom Pertaineth The Adoption, And The Glory, And The Covenants, And The Giving Of The Law, And The Service Of God, And The Promises; Whose Are The Fathers, And Of Whom As Concerning The Flesh Christ Came, Who Is Over All, God Blessed For Ever. Amen.

Romans 11:11-36

I Say Then, Have They Stumbled That They Should Fall? God Forbid: But Rather THROUGH THEIR FALL SALVATION IS COME UNTO THE GENTILES, For To Provoke Them To Jealousy. Now If The Fall Of Them Be The Riches Of The World, And The Diminishing Of Them The Riches Of The Gentiles; How Much More Their Fulness? For I Speak To You Gentiles, Inasmuch As I Am The Apostle Of The Gentiles, I Magnify Mine Office: If By Any Means I May Provoke To Emulation Them Which Are My Flesh, And Might Save Some Of Them. For If The Casting Away Of Them Be The Reconciling Of The World, What Shall The Receiving Of Them Be, But Life From The Dead? For If The Firstfruit Be Holy, The Lump Is Also Holy : And If The Root Be Holy, So Are The Branches. And If Some Of The Branches Be Broken Off, And Thou, Being A Wild Olive Tree, Wert Graffed In Among Them, And With Them Partakest Of The Root And Fatness Of The Olive Tree; Boast Not Against The Branches. But If Thou Boast, Thou Bearest Not The Root, But The Root Thee. Thou Wilt Say Then, The Branches Were Broken Off, That I Might Be Graffed In. Well; Because Of Unbelief They Were Broken Off, And Thou Standest By Faith. Be Not Highminded, But Fear: For If God Spared Not The Natural Branches, Take Heed Lest He Also Spare Not Thee. Behold Therefore The Goodness And Severity Of God: On Them Which Fell, Severity; But Toward Thee, Goodness, If Thou Continue In His Goodness: Otherwise Thou Also Shalt Be Cut Off. And They Also, If They Abide Not Still In Unbelief, Shall Be Graffed In: For God Is Able To Graff Them In Again. For If Thou Wert Cut Out Of The Olive Tree Which Is Wild By Nature, And Wert Graffed Contrary To Nature Into A Good Olive Tree: How Much More Shall These, Which Be The Natural Branches, Be Graffed Into Their Own Olive Tree? For I Would Not, Brethren, That Ye Should Be Ignorant Of This Mystery, Lest Ye Should Be Wise In Your Own Conceits; That Blindness In Part Is Happened To Israel, Until The Fulness Of The Gentiles Be Come In. And So All Israel Shall Be Saved: As It Is Written, There Shall Come Out Of Sion The Deliverer, And Shall Turn Away Ungodliness From Jacob: For This Is My Covenant Unto Them, When I Shall Take Away Their Sins. As Concerning The Gospel, They Are Enemies For Your Sakes: But As Touching The Election, They Are Beloved For The Fathers' Sakes. For The Gifts And Calling Of God Are Without Repentance. For As Ye In Times Past Have Not Believed God, Yet Have Now Obtained Mercy Through Their Unbelief: Even So Have These Also Now Not Believed, That Through Your Mercy They Also May Obtain Mercy. For God Hath Concluded Them All In Unbelief, That He Might Have Mercy Upon All. O The Depth Of The Riches Both Of The Wisdom And Knowledge Of God! How Unsearchable Are His Judgments, And His Ways Past Finding Out! For Who Hath Known The Mind Of The Lord? Or Who Hath Been His Counsellor? Or Who Hath First Given To Him, And It Shall Be Recompensed Unto Him Again? For Of Him, And Through Him, And To Him, Are All Things: To Whom Be Glory For Ever. Amen.

Ephesians 2:4-22 

But God, Who Is Rich In Mercy, For His Great Love Wherewith He Loved Us, Even When We Were Dead In Sins, Hath Quickened Us Together With Christ, (By Grace Ye Are Saved;) And Hath Raised Us Up Together, And Made Us Sit Together In Heavenly Places In Christ Jesus: That In The Ages To Come He Might Shew The Exceeding Riches Of His Grace In His Kindness Toward Us Through Christ Jesus. For By Grace Are Ye Saved Through Faith; And That Not Of Yourselves: It Is The Gift Of God: Not Of Works, Lest Any Man Should Boast. For We Are His Workmanship, Created In Christ Jesus Unto Good Works, Which God Hath Before Ordained That We Should Walk In Them. Wherefore Remember, That Ye Being In Time Past Gentiles In The Flesh, Who Are Called Uncircumcision By That Which Is Called The Circumcision In The Flesh Made By Hands;  That At That Time Ye Were Without Christ, Being Aliens From The Commonwealth Of Israel, And Strangers From The Covenants Of Promise, Having No Hope, And Without God In The World: But Now In Christ Jesus Ye Who Sometimes Were Far Off Are Made Nigh By The Blood Of Christ. For He Is Our Peace, Who Hath Made Both One, And Hath Broken Down The Middle Wall Of Partition Between Us; Having Abolished In His Flesh The Enmity, Even The Law Of Commandments Contained In Ordinances; For To Make In Himself Of Twain One New Man, So Making Peace;  And That He Might Reconcile Both Unto God In One Body By The Cross, Having Slain The Enmity Thereby: And Came And Preached Peace To You Which Were Afar Off, And To Them That Were Nigh. For Through Him We Both Have Access By One Spirit Unto The Father. Now Therefore Ye Are NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, But Fellowcitizens With The Saints, And Of The Household Of God; And Are Built Upon The Foundation Of The Apostles And Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself Being The Chief Corner Stone; In Whom All The Building Fitly Framed Together Groweth Unto An Holy Temple In The Lord: In Whom Ye Also Are Builded Together For An Habitation Of God Through The Spirit.

Donna K Purifoy

4/15/2023