Second, notice the qualifiers in v28: This promise is only for those who are called by God and who love

Notice how those seven hundred wives are described: they're of royal birth.

Notice that the chapter ends with Abram silent in his shame.  

Notice the parallels between verses 6 & 8: 6 - when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly

more outwardly visible gifts are very much dependent on the solid, well grounded but slightly less noticeable

Notice that when the first group of deacons were named, the exact mechanism the church employed isn't

Notice all of these verbs are past tense. It's already happened. This is why you can be so certain.

But although grace certainly depends upon Christ's atonement for sin, notice that it's not where grace

Summary As we noticed yesterday, we've been turning to the book of Hebrews often the last few weeks,

Our activities on Sunday afternoon ought to be noticeably slower paced than the other days of the week