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 #25: Sinful human reason wrongly assumes that God gave the law so that by keeping it people would become righteous and thus be saved. When told that the law and the works of the law do not contribute to our salvation, the usual response is to assume an antinomian (against the law) position. Slanderously […]
Class #24: In Galatians 3:15-18, St. Paul uses the example of the unchangeability of a probated last will and testament to teach about the divine covenant which God made with Abraham and Christ (Genesis 3;15, Galatians 22:18). The introduction of the law 430 years later cannot annul the promises made to Abraham and received through […]
Class #23: When St. Paul teaches “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us” (Gal 3;13), he is uniting the fulfillment of the Law and the promise of the Gospel in one Person, Jesus. Our Savior, who had led a perfect life of keeping the law, was […]
Class #22: In Galatians 3:11-12, St. Paul cites two Scripture passages, one gospel and one law. Surprisingly both law and gospel speak of the promise of giving life. The gospel in Habakkuk 2:4 shows that God has always intended to declare a sinner righteous and give eternal life through faith. The law in Leviticus 18:5 […]
Class #21: Galatians 3:10 teaches that those who seek to be justified by the law are under the curse of the law. St. Paul cites Deuteronomy 27:26, which leaves no loopholes from which we could escape from that curse. The curse is the divine verdict/pronouncement of wrath, death and destruction by God against lawbreakers. The […]
Class #20: Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness” (Galatians 3:6, Genesis 15:6). All of the Old Testament upholds the Scriptural doctrine of justification by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. The promise given to Abraham was not that he was to be the father of the Jewish nation. God’s […]
Class #19: St. Paul unceasingly preached Jesus Christ as crucified for their sins, in order that faith would come to the Galatians by the hearing of the Gospel message. They had received the Spirit by the hearing of faith. They were progressing in sanctification by the hearing of faith. Both St. Paul and the Galatians […]
Class #18: There is a distinction between justification(Christ for me) and the fruits of justification, called sanctification(Christ in me). A person is saved when he is justified by faith in Christ, “who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Gal 2:20). It always follows that the person who is justified, is sanctified. That is, God […]
Class #17: St. Paul continues to emphasize the contrast between righteousness by(διά) faith in Christ and righteousness by (διά) law. The Scriptural teaching of justification by faith cannot allow the introduction of even a drop of works-righteousness otherwise grace is frustrated and Christ died for nothing. The law has no place in the doctrine of […]
Class #16: St. Paul declares that Jews know—because of the teaching of the Old Testament—that no flesh is justified by keeping the law(Ps 143:2). Therefore, in order to be justified according to the promise of the Gospel(Mk 16:16), Christians have believed in Jesus Christ. With Galatians 2:17-18, St. Paul shows the logical result of what […]