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Showing posts with label Righteousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Righteousness. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2025

HaYesod's 2023 edition (First Fruits of Zion, Torah Club) heretically redefines grace: "grace is earned" and claims humans can atone for sins by suffering

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  HaYesod is the primary disciple-training material for the Hebrew Roots Movement aligned organization: The First Fruits of Zion This analys...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Sermon Video: Abraham pleads with God to spare Sodom, Genesis 18:16-33

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In a fascinating conversation, Abraham humbly pleads with God on behalf of the soon-to-be condemned city of Sodom. Why?  We know that his ne...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Sermon Video: Is Anything Too Hard for the LORD? - Genesis 18:1-15

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  Through the lens of God's conversation with Abraham and Sarah about the impending birth of Isaac, consider the question of limitations...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Sermon Video: God's Wrath and Noah's Righteousness - Genesis 6:7-13

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  As the Flood narrative begins, God expresses his intention to pour out his wrath on the human population which had embraced evil, especial...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Sermon Video: Crime and Punishment from God's point-of-view, Romans 13:3-5

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What does an ideal government do with respect to crime and punishment?  The Apostle Paul was well aware of the shortcomings of human governm...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #26: Luke 18:9-14

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Luke 18:9-14     New International Version 9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus t...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Sermon Video: Slaves to God? Romans 6:15-22

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Contrary to post-modernism, American culture, and the tendency of Baptist theology, we are NOT autonomous individuals.  Here's the thing...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Sermon Video: "do not let sin reign" - Romans 6:8-14

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Having described the condition of the redeemed Christian as being 'dead to sin' and 'alive with Christ' and 'alive to Go...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #10: Matthew 6:33

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  Matthew 6:33     New International Version But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as ...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Sermon Video: Nobody is Good Enough for God - Romans 3:9-20

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Before offering hope in the subsequent verses, the Apostle Paul emphasizes the conclusion that ON OUR OWN nobody is good enough for God.  Al...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Sermon Video: The insanity of: "Let us do evil that good may result" Romans 3:5-8

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By way of answering a question about why our sinfulness doesn't make God's holiness more glorious, the Apostle Paul refutes a hereti...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Sermon Video: Those who are Righteous in God's sight - Romans 2:12-16

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Long story short, the only ones whom God will declare to be righteous are those who obey his Law (that of Moses for the Jews of the Abrahami...
Sunday, May 8, 2022

Sermon Video: Righteousness by Faith - Romans 1:16-17

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It was the study of Romans, in order to lecture upon the letter, that led Martin Luther to question the accepted understanding of the relati...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Sermon Video: The Way of the Righteous - Psalm 1

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The psalm chosen to begin the collection of music brought together as the book of Psalms highlights two stark and divergent paths.  The righ...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Sermon Video: Tradition Needs Integrity - Mark 7:9-13

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 Having reprimanded the religious leadership of Judaism for clinging to tradition without sincerity, now Jesus focuses upon one example of a...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Sermon Video: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Mark 2:13-17

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After preaching yet again to large crowds, Jesus decides to add to his group of disciples by making an unorthodox addition: the tax collecto...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Sermon Video: The problem with fake Christians

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Having warned about the danger of those denying Christ and using God's grace as an excuse for sin, Jude concludes that 'these people...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Sermon Video: The Messiah Needed - Ecclesiastes 7:20

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Are good people in heaven?  The problem with this question is that it assumes a definition of the term "good" that is not connecte...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

How a Christian must respond to adversaries

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It has become readily apparent that a significant number of Christians have decided that those who oppose them, in a variety of settings tha...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

A Refutation of: Easter isn't about sacrifice, it's about faith and love - by Jay Parini

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The opinion piece from CNN was written by Jay Parini, an author and English teacher at Middlebury College.  It appears that his perspect...