Last week Philip Graham Ryken’s two volume commentary on Luke in the Reformed Expository Commentary series arrived. Ryken is pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church Philadelphia. Among his predecessors were the late Donald Grey Barnhouse and James Montgomery Boice. Apart from sharing three part names, they are very, very skilled expositors of God’s Word. Barnhouse’s and …
Alive and Free – The Outline: 1) More sin, more grace? a) NO! b) We are in Christ. c) Sin has no dominion over us. d) Live as those alive. 2) Free from law, free to sin? a) Again, NO!! b) We are free from sin. c) We now belong to God. d) He is …
The outline: 1) The history of death. a) The one man’s transgression. (12-14) b) God’s judgment. (9-10) c) Humanity’s status. (6-8) 2) The history of life. a) The second man’s obedience. b) God’s love. c) Our status. Some comments. The chapter does break into two sections, 1-11 and 12-21, but since the content overlaps between …
Okay, this is a very large section of Scripture. I think there is a cohesive unity that makes it beneficial to consider as a whole. Today we examined firstly 3:21-31. The word ‘But’ represents a massive turning point in a line of argumentation that goes all the way back to Romans 1:18. Even more important …
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