Aaron Ireland
The following thoughts came to me after meditating upon Rom 10, particularly v1-4:
1 Brethren, my heart desire and prayer to God for Israel, is that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knoweldge
3 For they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
4 For, Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness, unto every body that believeth.
To set the scene for my train of thought, I’ll include a number of assumptions that can be made.
Paul, being a pharisee, knew what Isreal considered to be righteous.
Paul had not given up on Israel.
Israel, as a people, were particularly zealous for God.
Rather than trying to find the heart of God, they distilled all the statements of Moses and the Prophets into a detailed list of “dos and don’ts”.
Christ’s purpose is that people would cease to follow these letter of the Law, and being to operate out of a heart for God.
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