NEXT BIBLE STUDY on Exodus Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen - December 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Overhead 1: Text-for-Exodus-14v10-31-Draft-Summer-2023.pdf
Overhead 2: Text-for-Exodus-15v1-21-Dec-2024.pdf
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Class #46: Christians strive to avoid the works of the flesh, but we can’t avoid the desires which come from our sinful nature/flesh. Therefore, the Christian life is a continual struggle against sin. With our salvation secured through faith in Christ, we desire to please our Lord. We walk by the Spirit when we confess […]
Class #45: Before conversion there is nothing to oppose the lusts of the flesh, and therefore the sinful flesh has free reign. After conversion, “the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another….” Due to the remaining sinful nature, which wars against the Spirit, the […]
Class #44: What follows from St. Paul’s teaching of justification by grace through faith? The Christian life becomes a gift of freedom to love the neighbor. However, the Christian still carries within him the flesh which lusts against the Spirit, creating contradictory desires. As a result, the Christian walks by the Spirit, so that he […]
Class #43: Where there is no concord in the true Christian doctrine, there is also no peace in Christian love. Parties and factions form based on human law opinions. Making demands for particular external works, these self-appointed life-styles create dissension and thus cause limitations on love. In the end, each one bites and devours the […]
Class #42: We often speak of how we are saved FROM sin, death and the power of the devil. With Galatians 5:13ff, St. Paul tell us what we were saved FOR. Having been slaves, we were called by the Gospel NOT FOR indulging the flesh, but FOR serving one another in love. Having laid the […]
Class #41: St. Paul has presented the truth of the believer’s justification through faith in Jesus Christ alone. He has made it clear that anyone who admits the bondage of the yoke of the law into the article of justification has “fallen away from grace” (5:4). Last of all, St. Paul tells the Galatians to […]
Class #40: If the baptized life of a Christian were a race, the Galatians were running it well. They were justified by faith in Christ alone, and were continuing to hear and follow God’s Word. But then false teachers persuaded the congregation to admit a little law into the article of justification. This little leaven […]
Class #39: “…as soon as the Holy Spirit has initiated his work of regeneration and renewal in us through the Word and the holy sacraments, it is certain that we can and must cooperate by the power of the Holy Spirit, even though we still do so in great weakness…. There is therefore a great difference […]
Class #38: In chapter 5, verses 1-4, St. Paul is warning the Galatians against requiring the keeping of any law into the article of justification by faith. Those who are trying to be justified by law–which is impossible–have already fallen from grace. The works-righteous requirements of the Judaizers does not avail anything, but only separates […]
Class #37: Having completed his teaching on salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone, the Apostle St. Paul now drives home what would be the result for the Galatians, if they obeyed the yoke of law provided by the Judaizers. Christ will profit you nothing. You will be a debtor to the whole law. […]