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.
In our third look at Matthew 6:1-18, which contains the Lord’s Prayer, or the Our Father, we examine the prayer itself, which serves not...
Paul warned Christians about false teachers who would persuade them to boast in themselves instead of in Christ.
When we considered the Covenant of Law given through Moses, we detected a major problem that we have with God’s law: we cannot keep...