Not Possible? # 2

If you look long enough in a serious manner you will come to see how limited the present world order really is! 

 Are you ready or not?
  
So where do you go from here?

 

 This is your mission because you will go some where when you leave this earth; maybe not where you think or would like to end up...  HUH!   This is your decision alone!
Stop and analyze all your options; make a list of the what you think is available to you!  

The only important things that you need to consider is exactly what effects your eternal destination!  There can only be one main concern -  Where will you spend eternity? 

How or what is necessary for your Eternal Salvation?

The answer will come down to two choices, either you will come to make changes and accept the will of God for your life or not! 
The is where most people spend their time on this earth; by not being not sure of  how or where God is in their life!  

***   What the world lays out before you to accept as wonderful and grand - is not really or Eternal! 
If you look long enough with a serious manner you will come to see how limited the present world order really is!
 Are you ready or not?

Life For Today Study Bible Notes

Note 1 at Romans 1:1:
Out of the six Greek words for “servant” used in the New Testament, Paul used one of the most slavish terms possible. The word used in this verse is “DOULOS” and comes from the root word “DEO.” DEO means “to bind” (Strong’s Concordance). So Paul is literally speaking of himself as being a bondman or slave of Jesus Christ–a slave by free choice yet owned and purchased by Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

The idea of being a love-slave by choice comes from Old Testament passages such as Exodus 21:2-6 and Deuteronomy 15:12-17. When Israelites bought Hebrew slaves, they had to set them free in the seventh year. However, if the slaves loved their masters and didn’t want to go free, then holes were bored through the lobes of their ears, pronouncing them bond-slaves forever.
By the use of this word, Paul was declaring Jesus as his absolute Master yet indicating the idea of his expression of love and free choice to the one whom he served.

Note 2 at Romans 1:1:
Notice that Paul spoke of his servitude to Christ before he mentioned his apostleship. This reveals Paul’s priorities and humility. These were key factors in his success.

Note 3 at Romans 1:2:
The concept of the Gospel (see note 5 at Acts 20:24) was not new. Galatians 3:8 says that the Lord preached the Gospel unto Abraham. Also, Moses gave the conditions of the Gospel in Deuteronomy 30:11-14. Paul quoted this passage in Romans 10:6-8 as he explained faith as the only condition to receiving God’s grace. Jesus Himself said that the Law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms were full of prophecies concerning Him (Luke 24:44).

The Gospel was woven throughout the Old Testament scriptures. Indeed, the job of the Old Testament Law was to “shut us up” or constrain us toward the Gospel (Galatians 3:23). In this sense, there is no conflict between the Old Testament Law and the New Testament grace. The Old Testament ministry of Law was only temporary (Galatians 3:19) until the Gospel could be put into effect by the sacrifice of Jesus.

The conflict between Law and grace comes when people try to mix the two. As Jesus described in His parables about the new wine in the old wineskin and the new patch on the old garment (see note 1 at Luke 5:36), the two covenants are not compatible.

The Old Testament Law paved the way for the Gospel and pointed people toward the Gospel. If the Law is used to point out people’s need and bring them to their knees through hopelessness of self-salvation, then the Gospel is used to provide salvation and relationship; there is no conflict. Conflict arises only when people refuse to use faith in God’s grace as the only means of salvation and insist that some degree of adherence to Law is required for justification (see note 2 at Luke 9:55 and note 1 at Luke 16:16).

  

 Note on Romans 1:5

Notice there is a comma between the words “apostleship” and “for” in this verse. That means Paul wasn’t saying he received grace and apostleship in exchange for his obedience to the faith; he received grace and apostleship–COMMA–in order to produce or bring people to obedience to the faith. Other translations bear this out.

The Amplified Bible says, “It is through Him that we have received grace (God’s unmerited favor) and [our] apostleship to promote obedience to the faith and make disciples for His name’s sake among all the nations.” The New International Version says, “Through him and for his name’s sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.”

Note 7 at Romans 1:6:
This verse states that we are “the called of Jesus Christ.” The next verse (Romans 1:7) states to what Jesus has called us: He called us to be saints (see note 5 at Acts 9:13). God’s grace has extended the call (or invitation) to every person to become a saint through salvation (Titus 2:11), but not everyone chooses to respond positively to this call. If a person rejects God’s call, then God chooses to reject that person (Luke 12:9 and 1 John 2:23), therefore the statement of Matthew 22:14,

“For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Andrew Wommack's Living Commentary.