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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 15) - Chapters 13b-15: Life with Love and Reason]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Romans 13:8-14 provides us not only with a conclusion to chapters 12 and 13, but also the armament with which to tackle Romans 14. The section is divided into two paragraphs, each offering one prong of our two-pronged approach. The first prong reiterates the benefit of love.

Love, remember, is the uncoerced desire for the benefit of another that outweighs all other desires, including those for self. This desire for the benefit of others is the New Covenant answer to the legalism of the old...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 14) - Chapters 12-13: Presenting our Bodies]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Romans 12 opens with a call to present our bodies sacrificially to God. But that call is based on what Paul has discussed before. Paul’s argument is that since God has accomplished salvation and applies it through faith (Romans 1-8) and since God’s sovereignty controls all creation to accomplish His prioritized will so that Jews and Gentiles will be joined as one body in Christ through faith (Romans 9-11) and since God is rich in wisdom and knowledge, sovereignly directing all things from,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 13) - Chapters 9-11: God's Covenant People]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[We learn from the last part of Romans 9 that God will keep a remnant of Israel although He cries out in Hosea that they (the nation) are no longer His people. Understanding the reason for the dismissal of the nation and the election of a remnant is not only the focus and climax of the Romans letter in chapters 9 through 11, but it is the very conjoining bridge of the old covenant and the new.

The old covenant, made with Abraham and his offspring (specifically through Isaac and Jacob) was...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 12) - Chapter 9: God's Sovereign Election]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Election, the choosing by God of those to whom redemption will be applied, occurred before the world began. This election involves the “middle knowledge” of God (knowledge of potentiality, as opposed to necessary knowledge—truths not dependent on God’s will—and free knowledge—truths dependent on God’s will). God created for His glory based on establishing relationship with His creatures. He did not just create Adam and Eve for this relationship. He created all people—knowing all of us in this...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 11) - Chapter 9: Calvinism]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The last post covered three of four key concepts that frame our discussion of God’s application of Christ’s accomplished redemption. Those three and our concluding thoughts about them are as follows:

1. Sovereignty – God’s absolute control, accomplishing His prioritized will.

2. Death – Separation from God, requiring God’s intervention for saving faith.

3. Faith (Saving) – Assent to Christ, which is God’s basis for application of accomplished redemption.

The fourth key concept is Love....]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 10) - Chapter 9: Key Concepts]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Four key concepts exist that frame our discussion of the application of God’s redemption. These four include sovereignty, death, faith, and love.

Sovereignty
As discussed previously, the problem of evil can be presented using three premises.
Premise 1: If God is all powerful, He could prevent evil.
Premise 2: If God is all good, He would prevent evil.
Premise 3: Evil exists
These premises yield the following possible conclusions.
Conclusion 1: God is not all powerful
Conclusion 2: God is not...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 09) - Chapter 9: Sovereignty]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The problem of evil has plagued Christian thinkers for centuries. Atheists use it to attack the existence of God. Theists grapple with it in trying to understand the balance between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility. Some Christians “resolve” the problem with a shrug of the shoulders and an exhortation to trust God. And where God is silent, we should take a lesson from God’s response to Job—trust the almighty, omniscient Creator. However, the multitude of commands to read, study, and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 08) - Chapter 8]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The first two verses of Romans 8 actually conclude the thought of Romans 7. In chapter 7, Paul has lamented the fact that although we died in/with Christ (Romans 6:3)—which means we are both dead to sin (6:2) and dead to the law (7:4)—he still finds that “the evil [he does] not want is what [he keeps] on doing” (7:19). But he concludes nevertheless in 8:1-2 that there is no condemnation any longer for this sin in the flesh because we no longer are under the law of sin and death (the law that if...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 07) - Chapter 7]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Romans 7 begins with an analogy. Paul has just argued in Romans 6 that those who belong to God, although not under the Law, are nevertheless servants of Christ and righteousness. Paul's analogy in the first 6 verses of chapter 7 is meant to drive the point home. But there may be some confusion as we look into it.

Paul starts with an illustration. He says that a woman is bound to her husband by the law. If the husband dies, the woman is free to marry another. Okay, in the example, then, figure...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 06b) - Covenant Theology]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[I wanted to talk about Covenant Theology before continuing in Romans so as to establish a framework for some of the things we had focused on in the first six chapters as well as for upcoming discussions in the middle chapters of Romans.

My definition of a biblical covenant is this: an absolute relational bond of faithfulness initiated, defined, and administered by God, involving obligations and benefits. This differs somewhat from traditional covenant definitions. For example, O. Palmer...]]></description>
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