The reason Jewish Christians in the early Church were still under bondage to the Law, was because 1st century Jews were more captivated by what their famous Rabbis taught than they were with the Scriptures. 2000 years we later we suffer from the same ill, as the American Church pays more attention [...]
In Romans Chapter 4, the Apostle Paul brings two witnesses to the stand in Abraham and David, to show the religious Jew and indeed all of us, that God has always justified a person by faith alone. Now this is something organized religion doesn’t want you to know, because it’s far easier [...]
The Apostle Paul rolls out the remarkable doctrine of justification by faith, as the solution to human depravity he spent the last 2 Chapters making a case for. What is stunning concerning the doctrine of justification for those in Christ, is that any and every record of our wrong doing before the [...]
The Apostle Paul takes the righteousness of the human heart into the courtroom for our final study in the doctrine of depravity in Romans Chapter 3. Before making his closing arguments, he allows an imaginary Jewish debater to cross examine the case he has been making since Chapter 1. The only way [...]
Paul continues his diatribe in Romans Chapter 2, trying to bring every one of his readers to understand their desperate need for the Gospel. Now the great Apostle is not trying to get his hearers to straighten up and fly right, but rather he is seeking to systematically strip them of any [...]
James tells us in Chapter 2 of his epistle, that if we fail in one point of God’s law, we fail in all of it concerning salvation. In other words, the law of God is not a series of detached injunctions, but rather a unified standard that requires perfect love of God [...]
We head into some very rough waters in our final study in Romans Chapter 1, where Paul describes for us the 3 stages that a collapsing civilization experiences, as God judicially gives them over to themselves. Two things are astonishing here. The staggering accuracy in which the text applies to dismantled societies [...]
The New Testament knows nothing about unattached disconnected Christianity, which so tragically seems to be gaining traction in the Church today. Having justified us by faith alone in Christ alone, God has designed you and me as instruments for one another’s mutual sanctification. It is the only way you will grow. You [...]
In the ancient Japanese art form of Kintsukeroi, they would restore broken pottery with gold, in such a way that the fractures were literally illuminated by the gold. They treated breakage and repair as part of the history of the object. That which made the vessel worthless, was in fact the very [...]
