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WHY YOUR DEFINITION OF SIN MAY DECIDE IF YOU RECEIVE WAGES OR THE GIFT OF GOD- Rom.6:23
HNewsWire: As we have seen in chapters 1,2,and 3 idolatry began to show itself among the people before the flood. We also saw in ch.2 that the Jews who made an idol of the law were hypocritical when they judged other idolaters. And in ch.3 we saw that doers of the law are those who love as God does. Those who trust in Jesus as He trusted in the Father.And in ch 4 we learned that righteousness is by faith without works. And to be saved our faith must be as Abraham’s was in that he was called righteous by faith while being yet uncircumcised. A righteousness without works. Then in a prelude to ch 5, a chapter that we will look at today, I showed that Paul taught that sin was in the world before there was law. And…
Read MoreWHY GOD MADE ABRAHAM, NOT MOSES, THE “FATHER OF MANY NATIONS”
By Edward O’Hara “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?” Rom.6:23-7:1. Question; Is this statement true for all men? Answer; NO! Let me show you why. In the very next verse Paul says he is speaking to them that know the law. And those who know the law are not all people, but only Hebrews. Because only Hebrews were ever given the law and required by God to meditate upon it to keep it. This is what God says to Israel in the Old Testament. And what Paul says in Eph.2:11-13. So when we talk to someone who is not a…
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