Take a moment to be reminded of the Good News. Dig Deeper   The first thing Paul makes clear as he begins to remind us of the gospel is that he didn't make it up. If just a handful of closely intertwined people had claimed to witness Jesus alive, it might make sense But since this world and your sinful nature seek to obfuscate these simple truths, make sure that you're

What difference does it make to believe these tenets of the Christian faith? This whole passage is dripping with praise for how our Triune God has blessed us in Christ with every

That we in no way make any image of God nor worship him in any other way than he has commanded in his That golden calf was made by their hands after God had given them the Ten Commandments. We are forbidden from making an idol of any object. It may not look like a man or woman. We are not to make an idol of the sun, moon or stars. God has created all of these things, and we are not to make an idol of any of them.

God for sure, but yet you still sin against Him, so you often feel awful. v16 - Even though the law makes You have a war constantly being fought inside of you trying to take you a prisoner of sin. v24 - This Even Paul succumbed to Sarx on a daily basis, and so does every other Christian in the world.

The Word of the LORD never has been nor ever will be popular. Obviously Jeremiah lived in a context far different from our own in nearly every way, yet the sins the Jeremiah here gives us a big reason as to why, and he points the blame directly at the very men who should The word of the LORD never has been nor ever will be popular in this sinful world. Your temptation will be to modify God's Word to make it more attractive, but don't fall into this trap

But since we live in an age in which we must resist cultural efforts that seek to compromise our spiritual

Afterall, the Old Testament is chock full of rules and regulations designed to atone for every conceivable So it seems to make sense that if you just did the hard work of not infringing the commandments in the then Paul drops a theological bomb: Abraham wasn't saved by the things he did or didn't do - nobody ever

Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3   “You shall have no other gods before me. 4   “You shall not make , nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11  For in six days the L ORD  made the Therefore the L ORD  blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 93 Q. these first few commandments is the call to put God first: to have no other God’s before Him, to not make an idol to take His place, and to not take His name in vain.

The grace that God offers certainly does offer salvation to each and every person who "declares with The Christian life - fueled from the very beginning by this gift of grace alone, delivered through faith Christ alone - is a life that increasingly learns how to pray with conviction one simple prayer in every You have been "redeemed from all wickedness and been purified by Christ to be his very own."

Since love comes from God (v7), then it makes sense that one of the key identifiers of those who know Even though he had every right to leave us in the misery of our sin.