THE GIFT AND CALLING OF GOD IS WITHOUT REPENTANCE

SATURDAY, 25TH JUNE, 2022

THE GIFT AND CALLING OF GOD IS WITHOUT REPENTANCE

MEMORIZE: “For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”  - Remain 11:29

SCRIPTURE READING: “And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins." Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” – Romans 11:26-29.

EXPOSITION:

God's gracious intentions concerning Israel were made the matter of a covenant, which the God that cannot lie could not but be true and faithful to. They were the children of the covenant, Acts 3:25. The apostle adds, When I shall take away their sins, which some think refers to Isaiah 27:9, or only to the foregoing words, to turn away ungodliness. Pardon of sin is laid as the foundation of all the blessings of the new covenant (Hebrews 8:12): For I will be merciful. Now from all this he infers that certainly God had great mercy in store for that people, something answerable to the extent of these rich promises: and he proves his inference (Romans 11:29) by this truth: For the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. Repentance is sometimes taken for a change of mind, and so God never repents, for he is in one mind and who can turn him? Sometimes for a change of way, and that is here understood, intimating the constancy and unchangeableness of that love of God which is founded in election. Those gifts and callings are immutable whom he so loves, he loves to the end. We find God repenting that he had given man a being (Genesis 6:6, It repented the Lord that he had made man), and repenting that he had given a man honour and power (1 Samuel 15:11, It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king) but we never find God repenting that he had given a man grace, or effectually called him those gifts and callings are without repentance.

PRAYER POINT: Lord, help me to remain relevant in your heavenly calling in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Psalm 75-77.

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