The Gift and The Reward. 2 Tim 2:11-13

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by Brad Bell The emphasis of GES can be distilled to two essential elements. These elements are succinctly summarized in 2 Tim 2:11-13: This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. This is the Gift. Unconditional. If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If
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Justification before God Is by Faith Alone, Completely Apart from Works, Romans 3:26

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by Zane Hodges, excerpted from his commentary on Romans The result of the death of Christ on the cross is that God can be righteous and justify the person who has faith in Jesus. The English necessarily obscures an obvious Greek word play, since the Greek words for righteous (dikaion) and justify (dikaiounta) are cognates
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We Are More Sinful Than We Think

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But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Mat 5:28) I live near a conservative evangelical Bible college and seminary. I visit it maybe three times a week in order to use their library. It is safe to say
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Rosenius on God justifying the ungodly

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Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness (Rom 4:4-5). “These words present to us mysterious and strange governing principles in the Kingdom of Christ. Unworthy ones
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Take care, lest we forget how to blush

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In some recent blogs I wondered aloud if Christians in America today could look at certain things going on around us and conclude that judgment is coming to our country. It is interesting that just today I was listening to the radio on the way to work. Rush Limbaugh was quoting a recent survey that
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After Just One Drink

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  by Diane Boring, originally published in the July/August 2013 edition of Grace in Focus Our Ladies’ Bible Study is going through the Gospel of John, and right now we’re in John 4—the encounter that Jesus had with the woman at the well. I’ve come to see that this is one of the greatest passages
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Rewards, Selfish?

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by Zane Hodges, excerpted from an article originally originally published in the Autumn 1991 edition of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, note: this is a follow up from the blog posted October 25, 2016 Jesus taught rewards Another problem some Christians have with the doctrine of rewards is that this doctrine seems to
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Rewards, Antithetical to Grace?

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by Zane Hodges, excerpted from an article originally published in the Autumn 1991 edition of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Among the very last recorded words of our Lord Jesus Christ are these: “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his
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