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Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Romans 2:12-16.  Let’s go!

Romans 2:12-16 (NIV)
12  All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
13  For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
14  (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law,
15  since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)
16  This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

On verses 12-16:  Here Paul addresses the question, “How can God judge everyone in the world when some people have heard of God’s law through Moses and others have not?”  Paul says that whether people have heard of God’s law through Moses or not, we all have God’s law in our heart and will be judged on how well we obeyed that law. 

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Romans 1:24-32.  Let’s go!

Romans 1:24-32 (NIV)
24  Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25  They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen.
26  Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28  Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
29  They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30  slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31  they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32  Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

On verses 24-32:  Have you ever been ripped off?  Have you ever exchanged something incredibly valuable for something that turned out to have little or no value?

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Romans 1:8-17.  Let’s go!
 
Romans 1:8 (NIV)
8  First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.
 
On verse 8:  I love how Paul always begins his letters with thanks.  That’s such a great to live life and to do relationships.  Always begin with an attitude of gratitude.
 
Romans 1:9-10 (NIV)
9  God, whom I serve with my whole heart in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
10  in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.
 
On verses 9-10:  Paul had never met the Christians in Rome before, but his heart went out to them and he would pray for them often.  A great way to love people when you can’t be with them is to pray for them.

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 34:1-12.  Let’s go!
 
Deuteronomy 34:1-12 (NIV)
1  Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land–from Gilead to Dan,
2  all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,
3  the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.
4  Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”

On verses 1-12:  In the last chapter of Deuteronomy, God takes Moses up to the top of Mount Nebo to a peak called Pisgah.  There God shows Moses the entire Promised Land (v1-4).  Shortly after, Moses passes away in the country of Moab (v5).

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 33:1-12.  It’s one of my favourite passages in Deuteronomy.  Let’s go!
 
Deuteronomy 33:1 (NIV)
1  This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.
 
On verse 1:  Moses already knew that he would not be allowed to enter the Promised Land (see chapter 32).  Still, Moses blessed the Israelites as they prepared to enter it, rather than envying them.  From this we see Moses’ humility and his love for the people he led, putting the people before himself.  No wonder he was called “the man of God”.    
 
By the way, the last record of anyone blessing the Israelites tribe by tribe this way was in Genesis 49.  There an elderly Jacob blessed each of his sons before his death.  Now here in Deuteronomy 33, we see Moses, the spiritual father and pastor of the Israelites, giving a fatherly and priestly blessing over the tribes of Israel before his death.

Like Moses, throughout your time on earth and when it is done, may you be known for leaving behind a blessing.