Christ My Covenant - New Covenant Theology http://www.christmycovenant.com/ en Christian christmycovenant.com Moe Bergeron Moe Bergeron http://www.christmycovenant.com/content/js1/js_lib1/stay_put.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:49:23 GMT Jimmy Snowden: Paul has been dealing with issues regarding sexuality, marriage, and celibacy throughout 1 Corinthians 7. Paul continues this discussion all the way unto the end of the chapter. The passage we will be considering this morning is located smack dab in the middle of this large chapter. Although it may seem at first glance that Paul is digressing from the topic at hand in vss. 17-24, a closer look will prove that he is not in any way getting off topic. Rather, what Paul is doing is these verses is reinforcing and illustrating the practical teachings about marriage and singleness that he has just laid forth. He points to two of the most extreme examples, circumcision and slavery, to reinforce his main exhortation. [...] http://www.christmycovenant.com/content/df1/df_lib1/why_the_law.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:49:06 GMT Dave Frampton: Paul has been saying that the only way to be right with God is through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Some false teachers had been telling the Galatians that they also needed to keep the law covenant, especially the command about circumcision. So Paul has proved that the law that came 430 years after the promise of justification cannot change the way of justification. Now he must answer an important question. “Since the law was not given to provide people with justification and life and God’s blessing, then why did God give it? What place did the law have in the plan of God?” [...] http://www.christmycovenant.com/content/jd1/jd1_lib1/fountainhead.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:49:48 GMT John Dunn: The fountainhead of the Abrahamic covenant and its blessings flow from Christ Jesus. One of the blessings secured by the Abrahamic covenant is the promised indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which was prefigured by circumcision of the flesh and pointed to the circumcision of the heart by the Spirit. (Rom 2:29, Col 2:11) The Spirit is the ratification of the Abrahamic Covenant upon the hearts of those who are in Christ ... Abraham's true children. [...] http://www.christmycovenant.com/content/crb1/crb-lib1/gospel_in_genesis_-jacob.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:50:03 GMT Chad Bresson: Years of hard living at the expense of Laban have stripped Jacob of his former pretense. It is clear that his transformation has already begun. Jacob acknowledges that he is not worthy of God’s covenant love, a love that has loved Jacob even as he has been unlovely. And Jacob knows this is no ordinary love. This is the second mention in scripture of the formulaic “steadfast love and faithfulness” that describes God’s covenantal favor toward His people. [...] http://www.christmycovenant.com/content/er1/er_lib1/ten_commandments.html Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:01:58 GMT Ed Ross: As we come to the second giving of the Law (Deuteronomy), we stop to take at more focused (albeit very brief) look at these two tables of stone that have caused so much controversy among Christians in modern times. What is their significance today? What does it mean to be no longer under the Law, but under grace? Of course, we have been looking at the law from these and other perspectives throughout our series thus far; but here, I want to present a brief, more concise summary. [more] http://www.christmycovenant.com/content/cmc_ed1/cmc_ed_lib1/pauls_key.html Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:19:54 GMT Moe Bergeron: Speaking of the Spirit as Paul did in 2 Corinthians 3 is enough to provoke the antinomian hunters out there into a mad feeding frenzy --some from even within NCT circles! It would appear that our critics have forgotten that the Sword of the Spirit is the word of God and that word from Genesis to the Revelation. Who needs all this talk about law when you have the complete Bible in your hand? [more]