The key to finding life: not in being better than average; the standard isn’t just OK but – the Glory of GOD. We’ve all fallen short, You're not invited into a new code of conduct - but you're invited to a person, who lived a lifetime of perfect obedience: Jesus Christ. You become His, He becomes yours - that becomes yours in Him.
"When we see Israel in the Bible as blessed in order to be blessed, we are projecting our own immature thinking on Israel in thinking that we are merely blessed in order to be blessed"
Matthew Ryniker
"Elijah was afraid he was the only prophet yet....in Paul's day, the analogy maps like this....those who are accepting Christ versus those who are rejecting Christ. It is still grace through faith."
Matthew Ryniker
11 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. 12 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
Romans 11:11-12
"When Paul says in Romans 11 that 'all Israel will be saved' he isn't merely saying that 'everyone who will be saved will be saved' because that would be a tautology."
Matthew Ryniker
"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:17b-19