That is enough to cover all our sins and to make us confident, freeing the conscience from the fear, Yes, the Holy Spirit was very active in these young assemblies, but at the same time they were a hot finger at them, since we all have a propensity to fall into the same trap they did: to think that we're made

One of the key purposes in all of those Old Testament laws was to make God's people look really different We understand that these are covenant children, and that the same promises the God made to the Israelites

fathers and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he made In other words, nobody - neither the clergy nor the laity - made worshipping God a priority anymore. In the letter he sent out, he told the people that this unfaithfulness caused God to make Israel "an Quite the opposite, in fact, as King Hezekiah would be very quick to agree with.

The chapter has a very eschatological feel to it - this big word simply means it speaks of the future one) God in the opening words of the Bible as well, as the entire cosmos springs into being at the very Yet at the very end of that creative process, God stoops down to make something in a very different manner Since God is neither male nor female, why should we continually refer to Him in masculine, patriarchal

He makes plain to His newly freed covenant people as they began their trek to the Promised Land not to Make sure, by the profession of your mouth and the belief in your heart (Romans 10:9) that you are in

goodness, seeing that man had plunged himself in this manner into both physical and spiritual death and made comforted him, promising to give him his Son, “born of a woman,” to crush the head of the serpent, and to make these doctrines of grace we've been studying these last few weeks is that you must demonstrate the very

Second, he has been given to me personally, so that, by true faith, he makes me share in Christ and all God makes it clear who the breath Ezekiel summoned belonged to in v14 - I will open your graves and bring

who arbitrarily forces people to come to predetermined conclusions about their relationship with Him, making That's a tough concept to comprehend in and of itself, but let's not make it tougher by misconstruing opened your eyes and ears, a gift unconditioned by anything you have done, and which He will never take

Justification is a legal declaration that our standing before God has been made right because of the We can be confident that God will make good on His promises and that nothing will separate us from his

week we were reminded that God exists in a Trinity - He's one in essence and three in person - so it makes Does this mean God made the world out of pre-existing stuff? Not at all.