Tag: New Covenant
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Love: The Great Commandment
(Romans 13:8-10) What is the ultimate expression of the faith and beliefs of a Christian? Is it good works? Is it giving a helping hand when needed? Is it showing our faith is real through the things we do, our behaviours and where we stand when the going gets tough? Well, all of these things…
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Mystery of the New Covenant
(Romans 11:25-27) The new covenant was a mystery to the Jews prior to the coming of Jesus Christ. There was much written about it in the law and prophets but it was not understood and revealed in its fullness until Christ came to fulfill the prophecies and to explain the new covenant. One of the…
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Chosen by Grace
(Romans 11:1-6) The foundations upon which the new covenant rests are twofold. First there is the principle of faith. To receive the gifts of God and to enter the kingdom of God requires faith. You cannot receive or achieve anything from God on the basis of works alone, but only through faith for that is…
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Children Of Faith
(Romans 9:6-13) When Abraham walked the earth he lived a righteous life. He chose to follow the ways of God and he believed that God could do anything. He understood that when God was testing him by asking that he offer his son Isaac, through whom he had been told by God that his descendants…
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Choose Christ
(Romans 9:1-5) This section of scripture looks at the issue of choices. It considers the choices God made and the choices that people made in biblical times, which carry through to today. God chose Israel to be His chosen people and in other places He calls Israel the “Apple of my eye”. It was God's…
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Serving the Law or Serving in the Spirit
(Romans 7:5-6) In my recent posts I have discussed the purposes and processes for freedom from law and freedom from sin that we receive by the grace of God in Jesus Christ. These two scriptures continue and expand this issue of law or freedom from law as they drive to the heart of the two…
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Why You Are Freed From Law
(Romans 5:12-14) A few posts ago I wrote about the nature of sin in a post titled “What Is Sin.” In that post I looked at sin and identified that it is a very broad concept but at the root sin is the state of disobedience to and rejection of the will of God. In…
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Essence of the New Covenant
(Romans 4:22-25) If ever there were just a few verses that summed up the essence of the new covenant and how both it works and what we are to believe and accept in Jesus Christ, these are those few verses. The new covenant is deliberately simple to grasp and take hold of. It had to…
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The Gospel Message
(Romans 1:16-17) There are a few scriptures in the bible that succinctly and clearly sum up key or critical messages of the gospel of Christianity. These few verses are one of those examples and thy tell us much in a very few words. In these few words we see what the function of the gospel…
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Romans
(Romans 1:1-15) Today we commence looking at the letter of Paul to the Romans and even in the introductory sentences we see some insights that help us to understand what this letter was about and why it was written the way it was. For some reason I often thought that this letter was written after…
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Paul In Rome
(Acts 28:11-31) As the book of Acts comes to a close we see Paul finally arrive in Rome. After a harrowing journey in danger from the Jewish leaders seeking his life to shipwreck, being bitten by a venomous snake to being lost at sea in storms that lasted many days, his journey comes to an…
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Baptism and Receiving the Holy Spirit
(Acts 19:1-6) There are six foundational teachings that underpin the practice of Christianity as taught in the bible. These are found in Hebrews 6:1-2 which says, 1 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward…