Behind all this there was, of course, an intimate knowledge of the Greek Testament. John Wesley was Greek Lecturer at Lincoln College, and that did not mean that he had to do with Hellenic studies (as some who have written about it have assumed), but that he lectured on the Greek Test...
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The question one might ask is this,“Why do I need to be saved?”“What I am being saved from?” The Bible says,“all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God”,(Romans 3:23). The Bible explains where sin originates from by saying“by one man (Adam) sin entered into the...
16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? (Jesus in Matthew 12:12 says it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath day. See also Matthew 12:10-12, Mark 3:1-4, Luke 14:...
Through water and the Word, God brings all the power and blessings of the Gospel to the sinner who is being baptized. Water is life. Baptism is life in a far higher sense. Water cleanses our bodies from dirt. Baptism cleanses us from sin. We drink water to stay alive and remain ...
—The longest life on earth is nothing, compared with eternity, yet our future state depends upon our conduct in this life. If we would be eternally happy, we must walk in constant readiness for eternity.—A sinner cannot redeem himself from death, much less from hell, by his earthly ...
All need to be careful about being "hardened through the deceitfulness of sin" (Hebrews 3:13).Solomon pursued them, while still having wisdom as he wrote:9 So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. 10 Whatever my ...
“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” Genesis 2:7 “For he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.” Psalm 103:14 “By the sweat of your brow you wil...
In 1 Timothy 1:16 we see how Paul was used of God as a “pattern” for a sinner saved by grace, “Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern (ὑποτύπωσις (hypotypōsis)) G5296to them ...
Being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit… When we become willing to take up our cross—willing topresent our bodies a living sacrifice, holding nothing back—we find there is no necessary conflict between the hardships of life and the joy of our salvation. The turn...