Today’s Word
Master of the House
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. Romans 6:14 NASB Not under law – How often we hear this verse as a proof text that the Torah has been set aside and no longer applies to Christian believers! Many scholars make the claim. “[Believers] must…
Cross-over
knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. Romans 6:9 NASB Is master – “Jesus died on the cross for the forgiveness of sin.” This common Christian belief might not be quite accurate. Even Paul suggests something just a bit different. We…
A Bigger Picture
For God so loved the world that He gave . . . John 3:16 NASB World – Nearly sixty years of theological reflection on the meaning of the events in the life of Yeshua had passed by the time John wrote his gospel account. Perhaps that’s why John begins his account with a deliberate allusion…
Midrash and Remez
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD has said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.” 2 Kings 21:4 NASB Put – In the conversation with Nicodemus, Yeshua says that He must be “lifted up” just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. This appears to be…
Who is that Masked Man?
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. James 3:17 NASB Without hypocrisy – Who is a hypocrite? Someone who says one thing but does another? Someone who acts in one way under some circumstances but in another way when the circumstances…
The Two-Edged Sword
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. James 3:17 NASB Unwavering – Write up your list of excuses. Go ahead. Make sure you get them all. I’ll wait. The root behind the Greek word adiakritos is krino, a verb that means…
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