Why did Israel fail to attain unto righteousness?

Answer

"But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled
at that stumbling-stone!' Rom. 9: 31, 32.

What must be crucified and eliminated from our lives if we would be holy?
With what sins are rebellion and stubbornness classed?
Who will sing the song of Moses and the Lamb on the sea of glass?
What is the result of willful sin?
Did Christ keep the Sabbath?
What was decreed by the Council of Laodicea, in AD. 364?
When the Jews rejected Paul's preaching of the gospel, what did he and Barnabas say?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle