Final Teaching on Works Righteousness and Justification
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When God's Love Annoys Us
Jonah 4:2: He prayed to the LORD, 'Isn't this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity'" (NIV).
My family and I were discussing the story of Jonah last night. As we discussed the story, we noticed how much hatred Jonah had towards the people of Nineveh. By nature, Jonah had every right to feel the way he did. The Ninevites had been repulsively brutal in the treatment of the Jewish people. The Ninevites were a ruthless people whom showed no mercy on and had no respect for human life. There are stories from history that describe how the soldiers of Nineveh stacked the decapitated heads of their victims' corpses in shapes of pyramids as a symbol of victory to themselves and as a message to their enemies. There are incidents where the skins of human flesh were peeled off as a t…
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Reflecting on What Jesus Has Done
Ephesians 4:22-24: To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness (ESV).
It can sometimes be difficult to figure out just how we are to put off the old self. We develop character and habits that stay with us as we go throughout our lives. Our experiences have a way of shaping the way we think, feel, and react to certain situations. These ideas that we form along the way can be very difficult to refute, much less change. It is, though, something that we must do in order to live a new life in Jesus. How do we accomplish this daunting task? The truth is, we can't! The only way we can change is to allow God to change us from the inside out by the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. When we turn away from our former way of life and ask the Lord Jesus to come live on the inside …
It can sometimes be difficult to figure out just how we are to put off the old self. We develop character and habits that stay with us as we go throughout our lives. Our experiences have a way of shaping the way we think, feel, and react to certain situations. These ideas that we form along the way can be very difficult to refute, much less change. It is, though, something that we must do in order to live a new life in Jesus. How do we accomplish this daunting task? The truth is, we can't! The only way we can change is to allow God to change us from the inside out by the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. When we turn away from our former way of life and ask the Lord Jesus to come live on the inside …
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