1 Samuel 31: Saul’s Death
A big thanks to Guy McKenzie for preaching this week when Nick was away at the School of Theology. We appreciate it!
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Romans 14:7-8: Belonging to God in life and death
Introduction: The portion in Romans that we are presently studying in confounding to the modern-minded person. Paul is talking about accepting each other, not judging each other and the liberty that we ought to extend to each other, all of which are popular distinctives today. The confounding part is where in the middle of a discussion about liberty, he talks about being slaves of Christ and everything we do either in life or death we are the Lord’s. Romans 14:7-8, ‘For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we...
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1 Samuel 31: Suicide
Outline God’s plan Saul’s sin Introduction Today we are going to be looking at one of the more underappreciated gifts, the gift of encouragement/exhortation. Romans 12:8 reads, ‘the one who exhorts, in his exhortation.’ The Greek word here occurs 107 times in the NT and has been translated in various ways, beseech, comfort, desire, pray, entreat, console. The word for exhortation in this text is literally paraklese, this may sound familiar to you because when Jesus promises the Holy Spirit He promises the Parakletos. This means the one called alongside. The Latin translation of this is cum forte, the...
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