In this week’s episode, John Snyder and Steve Crampton discuss the three division of God’s law and how the New Testament Christian relates to each.
Read MoreThe authority, with which God has invested you as parents and governors of families, is a talent committed to your trust, and which you are bound to improve to your Master's honor.
Read MoreThese principles are not laws in themselves. We are not adding to God’s moral law. However, we are working to understand how we are to appreciate, approach, and apply these laws now that we are under grace. We pray these principles will help you walk closer with our King.
Read MoreAbsolute sinlessness will not be realized until we are at home with the Lord. Still, the goal toward which each believer must strive, toward which the Holy Spirit enlivens us, is perfect holiness.
Read MoreThis week, Dr. John Snyder and Steve Crampton take a look at the first table of the 10 Commandments.
Read MoreHis love is in perpetual bloom. It is always in summertime. The roots are deeply buried in Himself; therefore the branches cannot fade.
Read MoreGod’s law is truly a treasure to the believer. It shows us how to live a pleasing life to the God Who rescued us. It teaches us what a happy life is. It leads us to repentance. It reveals Christ to us. It makes us lean more and more heavily upon Christ.
Read MoreWe too have “[provoked] the Holy One of Israel” and grieved the Spirit of our gracious God by our persistent unbelief; for many a time have we thought, even if we have not said it, “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?” when His loving, bounteous hand has been preparing and spreading it before us!
Read MoreRather than conflict, there is a wonderful harmony between Christ and Moses, law and grace. A good illustration of that harmony is to think of the law as the root and the New Covenant as fruit. There is a living connection between the two and one would be incomplete without the other.
Read MoreThe believer will not ultimately be ashamed of their hope in God, of choosing Christ and turning their back on the world, when we come to the end of all things and our lives are forever a demonstration that God was worth our all.
Read MoreHow does God want us to approach His law? The moral law is a reflection of God’s moral perfection. It gives us an expression of God’s character applied to our human experience; it also expresses God’s authority as Law-Giver.
Read MoreThe words of human beings are unstable things. But not so the words of God. They stand forever, as abidingly valid expressions of His mind and thought.
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