Summary: <p class="chapter-2"><strong>Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in Romans 11:1-10. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/romans-111-10/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/romans-111-10/</a>.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Rom-11-1"><span class="chapternum">1 </span>I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.</span> <span id="en-ESV-28196" class="text Rom-11-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?</span> <span id="en-ESV-28197" class="text Rom-11-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-28198" class="text Rom-11-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-28199" class="text Rom-11-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.</span> <span id="en-ESV-28200" class="text Rom-11-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-28201" class="text Rom-11-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,</span> <span id="en-ESV-28202" class="text Rom-11-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>as it is written,</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span class="text Rom-11-8">“God gave them a spirit of stupor,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Rom-11-8">eyes that would not see</span></span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Rom-11-8">and ears that would not hear,</span></span><br> <span class="text Rom-11-8">down to this very day.”</span></p> </div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"><span id="en-ESV-28203" class="text Rom-11-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>And David says,</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span class="text Rom-11-9">“Let their table become a snare and a trap,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Rom-11-9">a stumbling block and a retribution for them;</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-28204" class="text Rom-11-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Rom-11-10">and bend their backs forever.”</span></span></p> <p class="line"><strong>What do you think? </strong><br> <strong>Comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/romans-111-10/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/romans-111-10/</a>. </strong><br> <strong>Email me with comments, feedback, or prayer requests at <a href="mailto:dailydevotionalpodcast@gmail.com">dailydevotionalpodcast@gmail.com</a> and you can follow me on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/devotionpodcast">@devotionpodcast</a>. Also, you can like us on Facebook at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/facebook">www.dailydevotionalpodcast.com/facebook</a> . </strong></p> </div>
