With so much insistence in Galatians on our being right before God through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, we might well wonder what is the purpose of the law. In Galatians 3:15-29, Paul raised this question and gave a partial answer to it by laying out what is called the first use of the law. As it turns out, the law is not against the gospel but in fact prepares us for and drives us toward faith in Christ.
No matter how bad things get, God is still working out his own holy will through seen and unseen agents.
For Easter Sunday, we reviewed Acts 2:22-36, part of the first Christian sermon ever preached, in order to discover what are the essential points...
After the Covenant of Works/Life resulted in failure and death for humans, God dealt with them on the basis of his grace, or free...