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  • Normative Behavior

    So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, that you are to no longer walk just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their minds, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;  Ephesians 4:17-18 NASB Futility of their minds –…

  • Tribal Law

    Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard about it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a [d]disgraceful thing in Israel by [e]sleeping with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. Genesis 34:7 NASB A disgraceful thing – The story of…

  • Man Alive

    “Can mankind be righteous [h]before God?  Can a man be pure [i]before his Maker?”  Job 4:17  NASB Mankind/ man – As we learned yesterday, the Hebrew verse encompasses three important parallels.  We have isolated two of them for investigation.  We discovered that ʾĕnôš and geber, both translated “mankind,” actually reveal ethical and ontological distinctions that bolster Eliphaz’ argument.  But…

  • A Tragic Mistake

    For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under [a]the Law but under grace.  Romans 6:14 NASB Not under the Law – Martin Luther’s mistake cost all of us centuries of spiritual deprivation.  Luther read Paul’s words and concluded that the Law no longer applied to the faithful.  He did just what the translators of the…