Because God Said So


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Old Testament Scripture Reading 1 Kings 8:18-27 (NASB)
(1 Ki 8:18 NASB) “But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.
(1 Ki 8:19 NASB) ‘Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you, he shall build the house for My name.’

(1 Ki 8:20 NASB) “Now the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

(1 Ki 8:21 NASB) “And there I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt.”

(1 Ki 8:22 NASB) Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

(1 Ki 8:23 NASB) And he said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like Thee in heaven above or on earth beneath, who art keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Thy servants who walk before Thee with all their heart,

(1 Ki 8:24 NASB) who hast kept with Thy servant, my father David, that which Thou hast promised him; indeed, Thou hast spoken with Thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with Thy hand as it is this day.

(1 Ki 8:25 NASB) “Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Thy servant David my father that which Thou hast promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.’

(1 Ki 8:26 NASB) “Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Thy word, I pray Thee, be confirmed which Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, my father David.

(1 Ki 8:27 NASB) “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain Thee, how much less this house which I have built!

New Testament Scripture Reading 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 (NASB)
(1 Cor 1:4 NASB) I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
(1 Cor 1:5 NASB) that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,

(1 Cor 1:6 NASB) even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you,

(1 Cor 1:7 NASB) so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

(1 Cor 1:8 NASB) who shall also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(1 Cor 1:9 NASB) God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Study Notes

Israel: Chosen For a Purpose

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Old Testament Scripture Reading Deuteronomy 4:30 – 39 (KJV)
Deu 4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Deu 4:31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Deu 4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Deu 4:33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Deu 4:34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deu 4:35 Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Deu 4:36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deu 4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
Deu 4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Deu 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

New Testament Scripture Reading Romans 2:29 – 3:9 (KJV)
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Rom 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Rom 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Rom 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Rom 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Rom 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
Rom 3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Rom 3:7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Rom 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Rom 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin

Study Notes
Transforming Power Statements:

#1) Since Paul has closed up every possible loop-hole that people might have sought in order to be deemed righteous by any other standard; and has proven that no man, neither Jew nor Gentile can be justified in the sight of God by their own works, he now begins to answer the obvious objection of just why then did God separate Israel to Himself? What was God’s intention in this calling out of these people?

#2) The Jews were the vehicle through which God chose to transmit His Word to the human family and to set up His standard of righteousness which was symbolized in the Temple Worship and sacrificial system, which were foreshadows of Messiah who also came through the fleshly lineage of the Jews.

3) Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the purpose for which Israel was called and is to be preached in all the world as the final message of hope from the Most High, Almighty God to all men as the only way of to attain the perfect righteous standard that God requires for the salvation of any sinner.