One of the questions I am asked is what’s the difference between a sacrifice and an offering. The short answer and being very general is an offering is usually freely given as an act of praise or form of worship. Even a required burnt offering is used as a form of worship. A sacrifice was required as an open admission for sin, a cry of repentance and a request for mercy and forgiveness. However both may have other purposes.
For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.
Romans 11:24 ESV
It is easier to graft a branch of the same cultivar than of a different variety. God has the power to graft into Israel wild branches who have no heritage of the Law and the Prophets, so he surely has the power to restore those who do have that heritage.
The Jewish sages had been studying the Scriptures for a thousand years before there was a single gentile Christian scholar. They have much error, but this is part of the temporary blinding that God has imposed on them (see vs 11 and 25). When God removes the spiritual blindfold on the seed of Abraham, they will return to him en masse. The world will see the greatest revival it has ever known.
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And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
Romans 11:23 ESV
The word for “unbelief” is apistia (απιστια), which can also mean faithlessness, such as in Romans 3:3. In this instance, even if “unbelief” is the intended meaning, it is unbelief which leads to disobedience. In the context of salvation, the two ideas are inextricable.
Nobody is saved by assenting to a fact, but by believing in the character (name) of YHWH to forgive and keep his promises, which belief will always lead to faithfulness. In Scriptural parlance, faith and faithfulness are not necessarily the same thing, but there is no separating faith (or belief) from faithfulness, nor unbelief from unfaithfulness.
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WORD FOR TODAY “ are you doing this?”: Neh 13:11 So I reprimanded the officials and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" Then I gathered them together and restored them to their posts.
WISDOM FOR TODAY: Pro 26:20 For lack of wood the fire goes out, And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.
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