Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church-Louisville, Georgia

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SUNDAY JANUARY 31ST 2021 INSIGHT A distinctive of Paul’s letters is that they contain both biblical doctrine (teaching beliefs) and instruction on practical living. Having explained what the gospel is in Romans 111, in chapters 1216, Paul applies it to the everyday relationships of the believer in Jesus, including our relationship with God (12:12), other believers (vv. 321), governing authorities (13:17), the community (vv. 814), the spiritually weak (14:115:3), and ...co-workers (ch. 16). Paul’s overarching emphasis in these five chapters is the importance of Christlike love in the life of the believer (12:910; 13:810; 14:15), for love is the fulfillment of the law (13:10). Today’s passage, Romans 12:921, may seem like a collection of unrelated sayings, but Paul is still talking about this love that reflects Jesus. Love for enemies (vv. 1421) is the litmus test and demonstration of such a radical love (Matthew 5:4348). To learn more about the role forgiveness plays in a believer’s life, visit ChristianUniversity.org/SF107. See more

SUNDAY JANUARY 31ST 2021

Saturday January 30th 2021 INSIGHT The prophet Elijah, whose name means my God is Yahweh, served during wicked King Ahab’s reign (around 875850 bc) over the Northern Kingdom of Israel (1 Kings 16:2933). Ahab’s wife, Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon, influenced her husband to adopt a vile form of Baal worship, which included ritual prostitution. Baal was the Canaanite god of rain and fertility. During Elijah’s first three and a half years as a prophet, he served as God’s spokesman in an effort to bring the Israelites back to the one true God. His struggle culminated in a contest between him and 450 prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel (18:1640).

Saturday January 30th 2021

Friday November 13th 2020 INSIGHT This text in Isaiah 55 is a powerful reminder of one of the most important elements of our relationship with Godthe element of mystery. We sometimes make the mistake of attempting to somehow categorize or distill the God of the universe into some small, understandable package. Any god who can be so reduced, however, is not the God of the Biblenor the God we so desperately need. This issue seems to have been behind J. B. Phillips’ writing of the powerful little book Your God Is Too Small. Our God is too great, vast, and incomprehensible to be minimalized or neatly packaged. His ways and thoughts are beyond us (vv. 813), which means that we in our finiteness must learn to accept the mysteries of His greatness.

Thursday November 12th, 2020

Thursday November 12th 2020 INSIGHT After more than four hundred years of slavery in Egypt, the march to the Promised Land for the children of Israel begins in Exodus 13. In this act of departure, both a prophecy and a request are fulfilled. The prophecy was delivered by God to Abraham at the establishment of His covenant with the patriarch. In Genesis 15:13, God warns that for four hundred years Abraham’s descendants would be strangers in a country not their own and . . . enslaved and mistreated therebut God would deliver them from that oppression. That deliverance is realized here in Exodus 13. In Genesis 50:25, Joseph requested that his remains be taken to the land of promise and be buried there. Exodus 13:19 tells us that this request hadn’t been forgotten by his people. Joshua 24:32 records the burial.

Happy Birthday to the Chairman of the Deacon Board ROBERT DIXON