NEXT BIBLE STUDY on Exodus 33 - April 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Solomon teaches that success lies only in the hands of God. We are given to do our work in the present, but we cannot control the future. He tells us that we should receive a quiet and peaceful heart and commit everything to God. Some fools respond by saying, “Then let us do no work.” […]
When Solomon says that man’s labor under the sun is meaningless, he is not speaking about the work of our vocation, which God has given man to do. Solomon is speaking about man’s toil and striving apart from God (or even against God’s will). Everything which God has made is good. It is the misuse […]
For the month of May, we are going to give a cursory look at the book of Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes teaches us about the vanity of man’s heart which is not content with his present vocation but always desires future honor and wealth and fame. “What does the worker gain from his toil?” Whatever man seeks […]
Knowing that the Law can only produce “works of the law”(Rom 3:28) while the Gospel creates faith, which brings forth “fruits of the Spirit” (Gal 5:2) 1 Timothy 1:5), we might wrongly decide that the Law is not to be preached to believers. In this study, we examine the Scriptural teaching concerning the third use […]
The law can only produce “works of the law”(Rom 3:28). The Gospel creates faith, which brings forth good works, which are called “fruits of the Spirit”—“love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith” (1 Timothy 1:5). So what are Christians to do with the law? How do Christians use the […]
The fruits of faith are so much more than good works. Without faith in Christ, which produces new spiritual impulses, we could not do good works. Those impulses include submitting to God’s will, contentment, love, mortifying the old Adam, enduring suffering, facing death with peace and hope, etc. “Therefore we also hold that the keeping […]
There is a Scriptural difference between “the new man” who should daily emerge and arise and what the new man does “to live before God in righteousness and purity forever.” One is faith and the other is the fruits of faith. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the […]
The Small Catechism says, “…and that a new man should daily emerge and arise to live before God in righteousness and purity forever.” According to the Scriptures (Eph 4:23, 2 Cor 4:16, Col 3:10, Gal 4:19), the new (inward) man is faith. This new man in the Christian is being renewed by God through the […]
A shorter and simpler study on the difference between general faith and personal faith. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession, XII. 60, “When our opponents talk about faith and say that it precedes penitence, they do not mean justifying but the general faith which believes that God exists, that punishments hang over the wicked, etc. […]
There are two parts to the baptized Life. After eight lessons of “putting to death the old Adam,” it is time to discuss “the resurrection of the new man.” Neither mortification, nor quickening can be found in the unbeliever. This second part will teach us about God’s work in the Gospel to give faith which […]