Pentecost (35)
  1. Paul is saying that, in its curbing function or use or purpose, the Law may curb, but it curbs us to death. The Law may indeed instruct, and it will instruct us to death.
  2. You are sinner and saint, dead and alive. Old Adam, New Adam describes the existence of every baptized believer.
  3. Use your tools the way Paul does: To bend your words and thoughts toward magnifying Christ, His grace, His person, and His work. Biblical preaching preaches like the Bible does.
  4. Abraham is not a heroic example for imitation, but a witness to the God who justifies the ungodly by promise!
  5. The Spirit is not the endpoint of the sermon, but the means by which this name is delivered and confessed.
  6. He is Immanuel, God-with-us, and He is with His Church, very present where His name is, very present where His gifts are, and very present where His people are.
  7. Good works, doing good, is not some sort of value-add bonus to the Christian life. Good works are the natural, organic outgrowth of being grafted into the Body of Christ.
  8. To follow with confidence, to stand firm, to hold the traditions taught by Paul and Silas from the beginning of the Macedonian mission, is nothing more nor less than holding on to the Jesus who was handed over, standing firm on Jesus.
  9. The life of the Christian Church in the New Testament period, that is, the end times, the penultimate, is one of persecution.
  10. Paul wants Timothy to share his faith and to deliver it. Paul wants you to share his faith and to deliver it, too.
  11. Preach the Word. Preach and teach purely. Care for people, but be no “respecter of persons,” bowing to their appetites, bending to their whims.
  12. Thanks be to God that when we are faithless, Jesus is faithful, even to death, even to resurrection. His own. And yours.
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