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April 26 - The Right Way Up · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today, April 26th.
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  The right way up. Sometimes the world feels upside
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  down. Doing the right thing may go
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  unnoticed, while dishonesty seems to get rewarded.
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  People may celebrate shortcuts, pride, or selfishness and it can
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  make you wonder if righteousness really matters.
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  Proverbs chapter 14 verses 34 to 35 says righteousness exalts a
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  nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
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  God is reminding us that right living is never meaningless.
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  It shapes people, families, communities, and even nations.
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  Romans chapter 10 verse 13 says everyone who calls on the name
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  of the Lord will be saved. That is the mercy of God wide
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  open. No one is too far away to call
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  on Him. No one is too broken to be
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  heard. Then Romans Chapter 11 verse 36
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  says, For from him and through him and to Him are all things.
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  To him be glory forever. Everything begins with God, is
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  sustained by God, and is meant to point back to God.
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  That means your life has purpose.
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  Your choices are not random. Your honesty, compassion,
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  obedience, and courage matter because they can reflect God's
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  glory in a confused world. Living God's way may not always
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  make you popular, but it will make your life aligned with what
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  is true. You do not have to fix the whole
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  world today, but you can live rightly where God has placed
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  you. You can call on Him when you are
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  weak. You can use your words, gifts,
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  friendships, and decisions to honor Him.
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  The world may feel upside down, but God's way turns your heart
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  right side up. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, thank you that everyone who calls on you can be
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  saved. Help me live in a way that
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  honors You and reflects Your righteousness.
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  Use my choices, words and gifts for Your glory.
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  Give me courage to do what is right even when it is not easy.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs chapter 14, verses 34
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  to 35 World English Bible. Righteousness exalts a nation,
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  but sin is a disgrace to any people.
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  The King's favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but
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  his wrath is toward one who causes shame.
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  Romans chapters 10 to 11 World English Bible brothers.
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  My heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they
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  may be saved. For I testify about them that
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  they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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  For being ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to
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  establish their own righteousness, they didn't
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  subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
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  For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to
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  everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the
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  righteousness of the law. The one who does them will live
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  by them. But the righteousness which is
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  of faith says this, Don't say in your heart who will ascend into
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  heaven, that is to bring Christ down, or who will descend into
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  the abyss, that is to bring Christ up from the dead.
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  But what does it say? The word is near you in your
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  mouth and in your heart. That is the Word of Faith which
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  we preach, that if you will confess with your mouth that
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  Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him
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  from the dead, you will be saved.
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  For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness, and
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  with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
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  For the Scripture says, whoever believes in him will not be
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  disappointed. For there is no distinction
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  between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is Lord of
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  all, and is rich to all who call on him.
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  For whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.
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  How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
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  How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard?
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  How will they hear without a preacher?
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  And how will they preach, unless they are sent as it is written?
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  How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news
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  of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things.
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  But they didn't all listen to the glad news, for Isaiah says,
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  Lord, who has believed our report.
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  So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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  But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly their sound
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  went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the
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  world. But I ask, didn't Israel know
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  first? Moses says, I will provoke you
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  to jealousy with that which is no nation.
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  I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.
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  Isaiah is very bold and says I was found by those who didn't
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  seek me. I was revealed to those who
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  didn't ask for me. But about Israel he says all day
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  long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary
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  people. I asked then did God reject his
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  people? May it never be, for I also am
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  an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of
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  Benjamin. God didn't reject his people
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  whom he fork knew. Or don't you know what the
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  Scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against
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  Israel? Lord, they have killed your
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  prophets, they have broken down your altars.
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  I am left alone and they seek my life.
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  But how does God answer him? I have reserved for myself 7000
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  men who have not bowed the need to bail.
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  Even so too, at this present time also there is a remnant
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  according to the election of grace.
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  And if by grace then it is no longer of works, otherwise grace
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  is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no
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  longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work.
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  What then? That which Israel seeks for that
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  he didn't obtain. But the chosen ones obtained it,
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  and the rest were hardened according as it is written.
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  God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should
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  not see, and ears that they should not hear.
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  To this very day. David says, Let their table be
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  made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a
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  retribution to them. Let their eyes be darkened, that
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  they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.
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  I asked. Then did they stumble that they
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  might fall? May it never be.
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  But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles to provoke
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  them to jealousy. Now if their fall is the riches
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  of the world, and their lost the riches of the Gentiles, how much
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  more their fullness. For I speak to you who are
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  Gentiles, since then, as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify
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  my ministry, if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those
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  who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
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  For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world,
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  what would their acceptance be but life from the dead?
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  If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump.
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  If the root is holy, so are the branches.
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  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a
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  wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker
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  with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
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  don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that
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  it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
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  You will say then branches were broken off, that I might be
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  grafted in. True, by their unbelief they
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  were broken off. And you stand by your faith.
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  Don't be conceited but fear. For if God didn't spare the
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  natural branches, neither will He spare you.
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  See then, the goodness and severity of God toward those who
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  fell severity, but toward you goodness.
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  If you continue in His goodness, otherwise you also will be cut
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  off. They also, if they don't
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  continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able
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  to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of that
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  which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary
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  to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these,
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  which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive
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  tree? For I don't desire you to be
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  ignorant brothers of this mystery, so that you won't be
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  wise in your own conceits that a partial hardening has happened
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  to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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  And so all Israel will be saved, even as it is written.
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  There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will turn away
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  ungodliness from Jacob. This is my covenant with them,
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  when I will take away their sins.
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  Concerning the good news, they are enemies for your sake, but
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  concerning the election, they are beloved for the Father's
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  sake. For the gifts and the calling of
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  God are irrevocable. For as you in time past were
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  disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their
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  disobedience, Even so these also have now been disobedient, that
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  by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
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  For God has bound all to disobedience, that He might have
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  mercy on all. O the depth of the riches, both
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  of the wisdom and the knowledge of God.
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  How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past
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  tracing out? For who has known the mind of
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  the Lord, or who has been His counselor, or who has first
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  given to him? And it will be repaid to him
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  again. For of him and through him and
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  to him are all things. To him be the glory forever.
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