Sharing is Caring

  ‘The word of faith we are proclaiming’       [Romans 10:1-15 ]                      We have already considered two things under the title of “The stumbling stone” centered on Romans 9:30-33.   Those two things mean that Jesus Christ became the stumbling stone (vv. 32, 33) to the Israelites who followed the law of righteousness (v. 31), while He became the steppingstone to the Gentiles who followed the law of faith (3:27).   In other words, we learned that Jesus Christ became the stumbling stone to the Israelites who relied on works and the steppingstone to the Gentiles who relied on faith (9:32).   We learned that the Israelites, for whom Jesus Christ was the stumbling stone, would be put to shame, and the Gentiles, for whom Jesus Christ was the steppingstone, would never be put to shame (v. 33).   After that, we were encouraged to live a steppings...