Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Romans 10:1-8
by: Leanne Lippincott.
Paul, himself a Jew, had great love for his people. He desperately wanted them to be saved. In Romans 9, we learned that he was willing to sacrifice his very soul for them. “For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, the people of Israel” (v. 3, NIV).
Taken as a whole, the Jewish people were zealous for God—but they didn’t understand that righteousness comes from God, not from their own efforts to keep the law.