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The Moral Nature of God (Part 4)

Part 1     Part 2     Part 3 God’s Goodness Imagine a deer running through the woods at the very time a dead tree falls, trapping the deer helplessly alone.  The deer starves to death in solitary confusion.   An agnostic might ask and say, “If there is an all powerful, good God, why or how […]

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Right Applications of Matthew 5:17-20 and Wrong Ones (Part Three)

Part One     Part Two Jesus Is Scriptural Everything that Jesus said in His sermon from Matthew 5:1 to 5:16 was a scriptural concept.  Nothing Jesus taught contradicted God’s Word.  Jesus is God.  On the other hand, the religious leaders in Israel were “making the word of God of none effect through [their] tradition” (Mark […]

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A Hot Thing Today in Evangelical Hermeneutics Is Now To See Social Justice All Over the Minor Prophets

Was God angry with Israel for its lack of social justice?  No doubt God was angry with Israel and through His prophets He warned them.  The Bible, including the Minor Prophets, doesn’t mention “social justice.”  It mentions just “justice.”  Those who point out social justice in the Minor Prophets, or “The Prophets” as the Hebrews […]

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The Meaning of “Done” and the Work of Christ

I didn’t hear language until recently both in preaching and in reading of the existence of only two religions, one “do” and the other “done.”  This nice turn of phrase might help someone who thinks salvation is by works.  A popular leader in “new revivalism,” comparable to the label “new Calvinism,” wrote a book titled, […]

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Justification In Job, pt. 2

Part One Justification by faith is both an Old Testament and a New Testament doctrine.  It reads like a major theme in the book of Job, the oldest Old Testament book.  Job’s friends speak to him about justification and Job answers about justification.  Is Job justified? A related aspect to justification is a common Old […]

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Justification In Job, pt. 1

When someone thinks of Job, the book of Job from the Old Testament of the Bible, maybe he doesn’t think of “justification.”  I’ve taught through the whole book twice, once fast and the second fairly slowly.  Recently I was reading through it the second time this year, moving through the Bible twice in this year, […]

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What Is the Righteousness of the Pharisees That Ours Is Supposed to Exceed According to Jesus?

In what’s called the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says in Matthew 5:20: For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. I’ve heard this explained in a number of different ways, often, I’ve found, […]

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Christian Patriotism

Christian patriotism could sound like an oxymoron.  Patriotism is devotion to and rigorous support of one’s country and Christian is devotion to and rigorous support of Jesus Christ.  If you’re really a Christian, then there would not be room for patriotism.  What is true about this? At some point, some kind of patriotism isn’t Christian […]

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