Living as Designed
It was the Law of God. But its purpose was not to produce righteous people. It was to make it clear that no amount of effort could possibly make them righteous and acceptable to God.
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EPHESIANS: Without Hope Without God
Many have taught, and not a few still teach, that Christianity is essentially a “Judeo/Christian” religion. Many have been told that at least some part of the covenant of the Law handed down from God to the nation of Israel by Moses applies to us today. Most would exclude the ceremonial laws and the sacrificial laws, even the dietary laws. But, they say, we need to keep the moral laws.
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Do This or Your House will Fall
Do This or Your House will Fall Jesus closes His great teaching session we call “the Sermon on the Mount,” with this: Matthew 7:24–27 (ESV)24“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25And the rain fell, and the floods…
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A Look at Galatians 3:24-29
A Look at Galatians 3:24-29 Galatians 3:24–29 24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you…
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I Fought the Law and the Law Won
I Fought the Law and the Law Won Romans 3:19 (KJV) 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there…
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Grace Free for All
Grace Free for All Romans 3:21-24 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all…
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On Boasting and the Law
On Boasting and the Law Romans 3:27-31 (KJV) 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is…
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A Tale of Two Covenants
A Tale of Two Covenants A Study of Hebrews 8:7-13 We’ll begin our study of Hebrews 8:7-13 in Exodus 24. In this passage we find Moses delivering the Law of God to the Hebrew people. Let’s drop in at Exodus 24:3 “And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and…
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Beware of the Dogs
Beware of the Dogs Philippians 3:2–3 (NIV) “Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh.” In this passage, Paul is being polemical in…
