“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.” (Romans 11:33-36 NASB1995)

This is the last paragraph in Romans, chapter 11, and it not only summarizes the chapter, as a whole, but it summarizes Romans, chapters 9-11. And truly it summarizes the whole of the teachings of God in the Scriptures. For that is what the Bible is all about, the wisdom and the knowledge of God, his ways, his judgments, his thinking, and the counsel of God for us humans. And so it is critical for us that we read and study the Scriptures in their correct biblical context so that we get the correct biblical teaching intended by God.

For we live in an era where so many charlatans and “wolves in sheep’s clothing” are teaching lies from the Scriptures taught outside their biblical context. And they are making them to say what they do not teach if taught in the correct biblical context. For their goal is to steal, to kill, to destroy, and to deceive. For they are “thieves and robbers” disguised as sheep who have entered into the gatherings of the sheep by another way other than through Jesus Christ, the door to the sheep (see John 10:1-15).

So, just because someone has the title of “pastor” or “missionary” or “evangelist,” or just because they have Bible college or seminary degrees and denominational credentials, or just because they are the son or the daughter of a famous preacher and/or evangelist, it does not mean that what they are teaching is the truth of the Scriptures as taught by Jesus Christ and his New Testament apostles, in their correct biblical context. For many people today are altering the gospel message to appease humans.

So, if truly you want to know the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God, as taught in the Scriptures, you need to study the Scriptures for yourselves in the correct biblical context under the direction of the Holy Spirit, being willing to unlearn anything you were taught wrong so that you now follow after the truth and not after any of the lies. And I know that I was taught some things wrong over my lifetime, because I was taught Scriptures out of their biblical context, so I had to unlearn some things.

And whether in the Old Testament or the New Testament, or under the Old Covenant or the New Covenant, salvation from sin and eternal life with God are dependent upon us surrendering our lives to the Lord, walking in his ways, in obedience to his commands, and us no longer living in deliberate and habitual sin against God. For God has always and still does consider deliberate and habitual disobedience to his commands as unbelief, and he regards faithful obedience to his commands as belief in him for salvation.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

O The Deep, Deep Love Of Jesus

Samuel Trevor Francis (1875),
Welsh melody adapted by Thomas John Williams (1890)

O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean
In its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me,
Is the current of Thy love
Leading onward, leading homeward
To Thy glorious rest above!

O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Spread His praise from shore to shore!
How He loveth, ever loveth,
Changeth never, nevermore!
How He watches o’er His loved ones,
Died to call them all His own;
How for them He intercedeth,
Watcheth o’er them from the throne!

O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Love of every love the best!
’Tis an ocean vast of blessing,
’Tis a haven sweet of rest!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
’Tis a heaven of heavens to me;
And it lifts me up to glory,
For it lifts me up to Thee!

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