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PHall | December 18, 2009
Blunt sins require blunt responses. Read with that awareness in mind. But blunt sins require the kindness of God and grace as do all sins (Romans 2:4). Let’s keep that in mind too. Let’s ask some questions that are designed to make us think. Are people genetically born homosexual? Then if one identical twin is […]
PHall | December 2, 2009
Romans 1:16-17 NASB For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (17) For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man […]
PHall | October 26, 2009
Practical Relational Christianity: Love – for Spiritual Family 1 Let love of the brethren [i.e., believers or believers they know] [philadelphia] continue [present imperative]. Hospitality – to Anyone 2 Do not neglect [negative present imperative] to show hospitality [lit., love of strangers] to strangers [i.e. unbelievers or believers they do not know], for by this […]
PHall | October 26, 2009
Heb.13:22 – Exhortations: 2:1-4; 3:7-4:16; 5:11-6:12; 10:19-39; and 12:1-13:22 How To Succeed (vv.1-3) Find Strength in Success of Others of Faith Free Yourself from Obstacles Against Faith Focus on Jesus the Originator of Faith 1 Therefore [back to chapter 11], since we have so great a cloud of witnesses [ch.11] surrounding us, let […]
PHall | October 26, 2009
Notice “gifts” is plural – did Abel offer more than just an animal sacrifice, and all his gifts were accepted because he offered the best? That is what is hinted at in the original text (Gen.4). Or is “gifts” referring to his all the animals he brought? Or if his faith counted as one of […]
PHall | October 26, 2009
An intriguing side-note, if indeed Cain was the first-born (and there is no reason to doubt otherwise), is that very few first-born sons in Genesis fared well: Cain/Abel; Ishmael/Isaac; Esau/Jacob; Reuban/11 brothers; and Manassah/Ephraim.
PHall | October 26, 2009
How powerful is the word of God? By it the worlds were prepared. Read Genesis 1 and be in awe of the reaction to, God said. This same God made promises that He kept and keeps. We can have confidence in this God, that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him
PHall | October 26, 2009
This small seemingly insignificant pronoun is profoundly important. The Hebrew writer generically references the men of old gaining approval through faith. He also makes a manifest of Patriarchal and Jewish Heroes. In between he mentions, we. This included the saints he wrote to with the heroes of faith. We had already experienced the faith necessary […]
PHall | October 26, 2009
Some ironies of faith: Faith is both the assurance of that which is unseen in God, and the display of that which is unseen in me. It is by faith that the unseen is proved as if seen (vv.13,27) Hebrews 11:13,27 13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them […]
PHall | October 26, 2009
An interesting exercise in Hebrews 11 is to discover what was not seen; yet believed in as if seen: v.3 No one saw God prepare the worlds (Lit., ages) by His word v.7 Noah had not yet seen the flood. Some doubt any at that time has even seen rain. v.8 Abraham left for […]