Jan 25

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    treforw added a text contribution Sin Management
    The passage (up to v39) is clearly exhorting the readers to perservere. the writer sees that sin is an issue. he wants the readers to realise what a dreadful thing sin is. it's punishment is literally to be dreaded. 'Come on' he says later (ch 12:1-3) 'dont let sin get in the way of this glorious life God is offereing to us.' Here, in Ch 10 he wants us to consider the scrifice Jesus made to make our forgiveness possible. This is the theory of substitutionary punishement… Read more »

Jan 19

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    treforw added a text contribution are you serious? Psalm 25
    the psalmist has a clear grasp of the fact that God works with those who are serious about their relationship with Him. Those who want to know what His way of life is and are wiling to try and live it. those who realise that thoer lives have not been perrfect, who are contirte about their former failings. those who humbly trust that what he says is best. those who have a healthy fear of His authority over our lives. Jesus put it in another way: 'if you love me you will obey my commandments… Read more »

Jan 9

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    treforw added a text contribution sexual immorality - the curse of the age?
    Jesus is pretty tough on this one, as he was in the sermon on the mount, "if you even so much as look at another woman lustfully, you have committed adultery with her in your heart" the result according to this passage is a 'bed of suffering' - dont those who struggle in this area know the truth of it? Its called guilt. the implications for churches who dont deal with this aspect of our fallen humanness is that they have significant sections of their communities bound up and… Read more »

Jan 8

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    treforw added a text contribution suffer and die
    don't hear this preached much do you? Not in the west at least! Read more »
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    treforw added a text contribution Spirit on our children?
    Isaiah prophesies that God's covenant is that his words and his spirit will rest upon those of his people who 'repent of their sins' . the preceding passage is clearly messaianic, so we can assume that promises made are for those for whom Christ has worked salvation. I wonder therefore what we are to make of the final promise of the passage (v21) that Gods Spirit and his word are in hte mouths not only of those saved but on the mouths of their children and their decendants 'f… Read more »