April 26 – The Right Way Up

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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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In Jesus name, Amen.
What if you could rise up and

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declare with full spiritual
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live?
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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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Amen.
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