The first duty of a preacher of the Gospel is, through hisrevealing of the law and of sin, to rebuke and to turn into sineverything in life that does not have the Spirit and faith inChrist as its base. [Here and elsewhere in Luther's preface, asindeed in Romans itself, it is not...
The all-encompassing purpose of any true or pure church is that in everything Jesus Christ would be preeminent (Col 1). Read also the goal of Paul’s ministry in Romans 1:1-6. Finally, in its popular use, the term “cult” is frequently used to describe the visible manifestation ofpow...
if you found a good book describing the “fruit of the spirit” or the “works of the flesh” in Gal. 5:19, this book would qualify as a “Bible commentary.”Some great Bible commentaries actually take the form of a topical study. ...
17. While in Strasbourg, Calvin produced an influential commentary on the Book of Romans, oversaw the preparation of a liturgy and a psalm book that he would use later in Geneva, and married the widow Idelette de Bure. 虽然在斯特拉斯堡,制作一个卡尔文有影响力的评注书罗马,负责编制礼仪和诗篇书...
of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.” (2 Thessalonians 2:6-8) ...
Glanders is a disease of antiquity described by Hippocrates and the Romans. It is caused by a Gram negative rod,Burkholderia mallei, and is an obligate pathogen of mammals (ie, there is no environmental reservoir). I am always amazed to think of a disease that has survived millennia hopping...
the lives and behavior of each individual Jewish person. We Gentiles (Christians) have no right at all to say that God abandoned Israel in favor of “the Church.” Too bad “the Church” hasn’t read this passage of Romans in that particular light over the past nearly two-thousand years...
The Case For Grace: A Commentary On Romans 1-8The Structure of Romans: The Power of Basics... 6Romans 1... 16Romans 2... 37Romans 3... 59Romans 4... 79Romans 5... 100Romans 6... 136Romans 7... 156Romans 8... 175Duncan Heaster...
Paul uses the phrase in a similar way in Romans 7:5-6. Second, we could look at something God says about “fruit” in the creation account in Genesis 1:11: “And God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, ...
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