"A Spirit Of Stupor"

Our messages recently have shown that by living under the New Blood Covenant established through the shed blood of Jesus Christ a person receives salvation. Romans 10:9-10 explains, "That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you are saved." 

However, we have also learned that receiving salvation has been challenging for most of the Jewish people. This week's message will outline the primary reason why all this is happening. One temptation might be to think that the Jewish people have not heard the Gospel message or how both Jew and Gentile can be saved. This is not true! Romans 10:14,18 says, "How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? . . . but I ask, did they not hear? Of course they did: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world." Indeed, the Jewish people have heard!

We need now to look at Romans 11:8 that says, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they can not hear, to this very day." God has given His Covenant People "A Spirit of Stupor" so that they cannot see or hear who is their Messiah to this very day. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer! Isaiah 55:8,9 says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares The Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

The most important concept to know is this is a temporary situation! Romans 11:1,2, "I ask then, did God reject His people? By no means! . . . God did not reject His people whom He foreknew." God has not rejected His Covenant People! 

Stay Tuned! This Story Has A Wonderful And A God Ordained Ending.

May The Lord Bless You And Keep You This Day And Everyday,

Frank