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Romans Paraphrase
Chapter 8 Cbrist’s Righteousness is Imparted by the Spirit [1] Therefore, the good news of the gospel is not salvation through self-righteousness but…
The Sanctuary
…le and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place. “Know and understand this: From the time the word…
The Church - An Extension of Christ
…sion, “sacrifice of atonement.” A good example is: Romans 3:25 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forebearance he had left the sins committed befo…
The Sanctuary
…o the Jews — and, through them, to us — that God is going to bring sin to an end. He is going to usher in everlasting righteousness. Now because it was a very solemn time, and we are living in the antitypical Day of Atonement, we are living in a tim…
The Church - An Extension of Christ
…ament, women and children were not counted (sorry, ladies). Therefore, the number that were converted to Christianity by that one sermon Peter and John preached could easily be doubled. That is what happens when the church becomes a Spiri…
The Sanctuary
…elf up for her.... Christ gave Himself for the church that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. Through the preaching of the word, the application of Christ our Righteousness, God wants to cleanse and sa…
Romans: The Clearest Gospel of All
…his time of trouble that is known in scripture and in Theology as the Great Tribulation? Many answers are given today by many people. There are some who say to the Christian church, “Don’t worry, there will be a secret rapture so that you…
The Divine-Human Family
…he one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us. John 17:21 ...That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May…
Built Upon the Rock
…rsy , Page 409 The scripture which above all others had been both the foundation and the central pillar of the advent faith was the declaration: “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed” Daniel 8:14. Ei…
Built Upon the Rock
…the late evangelical scholar Walter Martin who, at one time, categorized Adventism as a cult: Kingdom of the Cults , by Walter Martin, Page 479 Holding as they do to the doctrine of the Investigative Judgment, it is extremely difficult f…
Built Upon the Rock
Appendix D: The Humanity of Christ, Our Savior While no official action has ever been taken by the Seventh-day Adventist Church to define the human nature of the Savior, the question is vitally connected with the…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 12: Baptism Fundamental Belief #15By baptism we confess our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and testify of our death to sin and our p…
Romans: The Clearest Gospel of All
…– Baptized into Christ “Our first baptism was not genuine. Some of us were forced into it; some of us were pressured by our friends; some of us were baptized because our classmates were baptized. But one thing we all have in common: we d…
Romans: The Clearest Gospel of All
…he failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. In Romans 14:1, he spoke about two groups of people: the weak in faith, in contrast to the strong in faith. Here in chapter 15, it is not the same two groups but he is dealing with the mat…
Beyond Belief
…The Sin Problem The gospel is God’s solution to the sin problem. So it is important to begin our study of the gospel by first understanding sin. Too often we try to understand the solution God has prepared for us in Christ (the gospel) w…
Beyond Belief
…he last chapter, is the mark of our identification with Christ crucified, buried, and resurrected [see Romans 6:3-5]. Faith in Christ identifies us with His cross so that it becomes our cross as well. That is why Paul says, May I never boast…
Beyond Belief
…o the world. “When he [the Holy Spirit] comes, he will prove the world [unbelievers] to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment” [John 16:8]. This is the first step in salvation. Sinful, fallen human beings must be convicted of sin,…
Beyond Belief
…of the church. The First Component — The [Human] Spirit The following texts clearly teach that each of us, as created by God, possesses a spirit: “The Lord ... who forms the human spirit within a person...” [Zechariah 12:1]. “11 For who k…
Beyond Belief
…smell pombe [a local beer] on your breath?” Taken aback, he answered in amazement, “Don’t you know that we are saved by grace and not by works?” So I asked him to explain what he meant. “Christ did it all,” he answered. “I see,” I replie…
Beyond Belief
…s 5:18; 1 John 2:2]. What God does in us, on the other hand, applies only to the individual, born-again Christian who by faith has accepted Jesus Christ as his or her Saviour [see Romans 8:9-10; Ephesians 3:17]. Divine and Human. God’s sa…
Beyond Belief
…n Catholic scholars during the Reformation. The central issue under dispute had to do with the ethical problem raised by the truth of justification by faith. The issue is real, and it still concerns us today: “How can God justify believin…
Beyond Belief
…ady received the atonement. Paul then goes on to explain verses 12-21 how we have received this atonement. He does so by using Adam as a type, or pattern, of Christ [see verse 14]. He argues that we are redeemed “in Christ” in the same wa…
Beyond Belief
…o belong to the heavenly Christ will reflect His heavenly (righteous) nature and character. Verse 49. Just as we all, by nature, are a reproduction of the earthly image of Adam, so likewise we shall reflect fully the image of Christ’s res…
Romans Paraphrase
…o be an apostle and especially set me aside to proclaim God’s good news of salvation. [2] This good news was promised by God long ago through His prophets who recorded it in the Holy Bible, what we now call the Old Testament. [3] It has t…
