How Does Faith Establish the Law?

The book of Romans is like a song in which some lyrics are popular but others are unfamiliar and hummed through, obscuring the overall message.

How Does Faith Establish the Law? (Part One)

Many read the Bible erratically, agreeing with the parts that fit their beliefs but ignoring or rejecting those that bother them, like some of Paul's writings.

The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Four)

Justification does not 'do away' with the law; it brings us into alignment with it, imputing the righteousness of Christ and giving access to God for sanctification.

The Traditions of Men

The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Twenty-Nine)

A summary of the Covenants, Grace, and Law series, reiterating the differences in the Covenants and the respective places of grace and law in God's purpose.

How Does Faith Establish the Law? (Part Two)

The meaning of Romans 3:31 is plain unless one believes that grace abolishes God's law. Justification by faith is based on the law's true purpose.

Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part Eleven)

Because of Dispensationalism, many believe there is an adversarial relationship between law and grace, as though they cannot be complementary.

The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Seventeen)

The Law (including the judgments, ordinances, and statutes), far from being done away, shows us our faults and outlines the way of mercy and love—how to live.

Elements of Motivation (Part Four)

Because we have been bought with an awesome price, we have no right to pervert our lives, but are obligated to look upon our bodies as vessels in His service.

Leadership and Covenants (Part Twenty-Two)

Much of Protestantism misconstrues the significance of the New Covenant as a 'free pass into Heaven' without paying attention to the Law within the Covenant.

James and Unleavened Bread (Part Three)

James had to be written as a counterbalance to antinomian elements that twisted Paul's writings to proclaim that that grace nullifies the need for works.

The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Eleven)

It is not the physical nation, but the spiritual remnant with whom God is working, circumcising their hearts and writing His laws in their minds.

The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Twenty)

God has given us His Law, which shows us the way of sanctification and holiness. God is in the process of reproducing His kind — the God-kind.