Category: Doctrinal
The Great Transition in John’s Gospel (5)
What About those Branches that are Burned? You can’t read the Gospel by John without noticing the...
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The Great Transition in John’s Gospel (4)
The Mystery of Israel’s Blinding This article will require careful thinking. But I can’t stress...
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The Great Transition in John’s Gospel (3)
What About Those Who Are Not His Sheep? “The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear...
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The Great Transition in John’s Gospel (2)
Transitional Passage 2 “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me...
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The Great Transition in John’s Gospel (1)
Introduction When the Lord Jesus arrived on the planet, we must remember there were people living...
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Five Fatal Flaws: The Warning Passages in Hebrews (5)
5. A Warning About God’s Choice (Heb 12:14-29) In this study we have stated that the Old...
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Five Fatal Flaws: The Warning Passages in Hebrews (4)
Another blessing offered in Christ, but not available in the Mosaic system, is forgiveness for acts of willful sin. The repeated refrain of the Law read: “for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance.” Any willful sin brought certain judgment without mercy. Anyone claiming the law as a means of salvation, either in the first century or today, must face this grim fact.
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Five Fatal Flaws: The Warning Passages in Hebrews (3)
In speaking with Donald Cole, radio pastor of Moody’s WMBI flagship radio station, I asked him the passage of Scripture he was most often questioned about on his call-in program. Hebrews 6 was the answer. And perhaps one reason is that we stop the warning passage where I have, at chapter 6, verse 12. If we continued to the end of the chapter, we would see the point of the whole passage is found in verse 11. What is it? Ironically, it is written that believers might have “full assurance.”
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Five Fatal Flaws: The Warning Passages in Hebrews (2)
There was a second missing component in Judaism. The writer to the Hebrews takes us to Psalm 95:7-11 and reminds us about three Old Testament scenes: first, in Eden; second, in the Sinai desert; and third, in Canaan.
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Five Fatal Flaws: The Warning Passages in Hebrews (1)
The first century Jews who had been exposed to Christianity had a very tough decision to make. If they embraced this gospel being preached by the apostles, it could cost them their jobs, their families, even their lives. But Judaism was not a man-made religion (at least in its original form). Had not God revealed it to Moses at Sinai? Wasn’t it the religion of David and Isaiah and Daniel? And of Jesus, too! Why must one give up such a religious heritage, especially since it could be so expensive to follow this new sect of the despised Nazarene?
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