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Clear searchHow the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
…testimony of Scripture. Does faith make the Law void? Paul anticipates the objection that justification by faith must empty the Law of value: "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." —Romans 3:31 This does not mean that believers are pl…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…an they are. He forgives sin and credits righteousness to the one who trusts Christ. This justification is a verdict, not a claim that believers instantly become morally perfect. The justified are also renewed by the Spirit and called to good works. Grace produces obedience; it d…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…e "of faith" are therefore called the children of Abraham, and Scripture had foreseen the justification of the nations when God promised, "In thee shall all nations be blessed" (Galatians 3:7-8). The issue is access to Abrahamic blessing, especially justification and the promised…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…vation in Christ. Gentile believers receive the blessing of Abraham, the promised Spirit, justification by faith, adoption, resurrection hope, and an inheritance in the new creation (Galatians 3:6-29; Ephesians 1:3-14). Jewish and Gentile believers form one body with equal access…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…obsolete as the governing covenant. Believers are not placed under Sinai as the means of justification or covenant standing. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes (Romans 10:4). This must not be confused with saying that the Old Testament was mi…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…ndled as though it authorised ethnic contempt. It does not. Paul's opponents were seeking justification through the law and pressuring Gentile believers to accept circumcision. His argument is theological, not racial: children of promise are produced by God's grace rather than hu…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…ns of catholic fellowship. The ordinary Christian who cannot explain every implication of justification, Christology or eschatology is not therefore a lower order of believer. He possesses the same Christ and confesses the same saving truth. Irenaeus’s rule of faith is broad enou…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…h the law. He opposed circumcision as a requirement for Gentile salvation and taught that justification is by faith apart from works of the law. Nothing in his Jewish ancestry could earn standing before God. Yet he did not cease to identify as Jewish: "Circumcised the eighth day,…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…. Kingdom assignments concern service under the King, not different gospels or degrees of justification. The promise survives Israel's failure Jesus made this promise while moving towards Jerusalem, where He would be rejected and crucified. He knew Israel's leaders would condemn…
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