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...
iv. The Apostle Paul wrote on this theme: For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes (Romans 10:4).v. “In a word, Christ completed the law: 1st. In itself, it was only the shadow, the typical representation, of good things to come; and he added...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionFor you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.New Living TranslationFor you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last ...
i. “The powerful working of God is usually expressed by this word,Ephesians 1:19;Philippians 2:13; and the working of Satan also,Ephesians 2:2. Men possessed with the devil are calledenergumeni. And where the word is believed and received as the word of God, there it has this energy...
h. We know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the consolation: According to many passages in the New Testament, suffering is promised in the Christian life (Acts 14:22, 1 Thessalonians 3:3, Philippians 1:29, Romans 5:3). Nevertheless, we are also...
First, because of what Adam did to us and the whole human race, we are appointed to wrath (Romans 5:14-19). Second, because of our own sin, we are appointed to wrath. When Jesus died on the cross, He stood in our place in our appointment to wrath and reschedules us with an ...
i. John here exposes the great sin of unbelief. Most everyone who refuses to believe God (in the full sense of the wordbelieve) doesn’tintendto call God a liar. But they do it nonetheless. “The great sin of not believing in the Lord Jesus Christ is often spoken of very lightly and...
a. Therefore we do not lose heart: Paul began the chapter (2 Corinthians 4:1) by declaring since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. Then in the chapter he described all the death-like sufferings he had to endure in the ministry. It is as if ...
ours only but also for the whole world(1 John 2:2). But theallPaul mentions here is probably “all the saved,” because he also writesthen all died. It can only be said that those who join themselves to Jesus by faith have spiritually died and risen again with Him (Romans 6:1-6...
(Exodus 14:21-31). This was not only an amazing demonstration of God’s love and power, but also a picture of baptism – by “passing through water,” all of Israel was identified with Moses, even as by “passing through water,” a Christian is identified with Jesus Christ (Romans 6...