In our last look at Rom.11 I referenced Rom.12 saying that when we get to it we will read where Paul would begin to address some things about behavior as it relates to believers. And we will see now that he does. But, it’s probably not what most people think of when…
By Edward O’Hara
God’s peace, fellowship, and our relationship with Him does not falter. There is no act you can do, nor choice you can make, once you have believed in Jesus’ resurrection and confessed Him as Lord, that will ever change that.
God’s…
When Heb.2:14 says “through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil”, we see how God delivers mankind from him that held the power of death. That it was God’s plan to have a deliverer save us from that power.
This is why in the…
By Edward O’Hara
Or is there a different and more Biblical way of interpreting what Paul was teaching here in Rom.3? Is Paul trying to tell us when he writes that all have sinned means that all those who have sinned have sinned? Or is he saying all men that have…
In the parable Jesus told of the unclean spirit that was sent out of a man, only to return to find his house swept and clean. Jesus is showing us that there is nothing in a natural man. He is flesh and blood and only flesh and blood. No spirit of his own to commune with…
As in all of Paul’s letters, here too he is emphasizing that salvation is by grace and not by works. Doing so because the flesh naturally gravitates toward works when trying to attain anything.
So the problem with the flesh is that it works to attain what it wants. And…
When we think of sacrifice we usually think about it in terms of giving ones self in some way for the benefit of another. Or we may think of it in religious service like Israel did in the temple in the Old Covenant. Or maybe we think of Jesus doing the greatest sacrifice of…
By Edward O’Hara
as so many falsely teach? Jesus was the final once for all sacrifice. So says Heb.10:10. And this sacrifice was for the whole world. So says John3:16.
Now since His was the final once for all sacrifice, why is it that so many…
And now thankfully because of His death He is Lord of a “better covenant with better promises”. A covenant where grace, God’s love in action shown in Jesus’ coming, reigns unto eternal life.
In a phone conversation I was once privileged to have with…
