1 Corinthians 13 –Agape Love G. Campbell Morgan wrote that examining this chapter is like dissecting a flower to understand it. If you tear it apart too much, you lose the beauty. Alan Redpath said one could get a spiritual suntan from the warmth of this chapter. A. The supremacy of ...
Based also on what Paul wrote in Romans 13, we can say that the greatest offense government can make is to fail to punish evildoers, or to reward evildoers through corruption. d. That by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: Peter knew that our conduct is a...
i. “It is no accident that God is the subject of the first sentence of the Bible, for this word dominates the whole chapter and catches the eye at every point of the page: it is used some thirty-five times in as many verses of the story.” (Kidner) ii. If you believe Genesis ...
The idea behind this word is communicated by the Latin word for comfort (fortis), which also means “brave.” ii. “Here was a man, who never knew but what he might be dead the next day, for his enemies were many, and cruel, and mighty; and yet he spent a great part of his ...
ii. Later in this chapter, Paul will reflect again on his sufferings. In these first two verses, he makes it clear that he did not suffer because he has been an unfaithful minister of the gospel. It was easy for Paul’s enemies to claim, “He suffers so much because God is punishing...
As Romans 1 points out, in judgment God may give a man up to the depravity of his heart, to his pleasure in unrighteousness. i. “They think that they are acting in defiance of Him. But in the end they find that those very acts in which they expressed their defiance were the ...
iii. This is the great resolution and deliverance that even the creation groans for (Romans 8:18-22), the day when every wrong will be righted and every matter resolved according to God’s holy love and justice. iv. Bruce onthe fullness of the times: “When the time is ripe for the...
ii. Repeatedly in Leviticus 18 –a chapter where God instructed Israel on the matter of sexual morality – the idea is given that one may not uncover the nakedness of another not their spouse. The idea is that the nakedness of an individual belongs to his or her spouse and no one else...
ii. This shows how great our need is to not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Romans 12:2). 3. (17) The folly of worldliness. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. a. ...
It needs to come back to the simple question from Romans 12:2: Are we being conformed to this world, or are we being transformed by the renewing of your mind? vi. The Corinthian Christians thought like worldly people, not like godly people. They gained this way of looking at life – ...