To Be What We Were Created to Be The Law of Liberty (8) “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.” Jeremiah 31:33 The Bible teaches that, in their heart of hearts, people are bent toward knowing and doing the works of God’s Law. It is ...

Get in Touch with Your Heart The Law of Liberty (7) "For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. The show that the work of the law is written ...

Three Texts on the Spirit The Law of Liberty (6) "…for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure."  Philippians 2.13 We want to examine briefly three passages that can help us to understand what it means to be filled with the Spirit of ...

Filled with the Spirit? The Law of Liberty (5) "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit…" Ephesians 5.18 All true believers have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them. That being the case, Paul commands us to make the most of this gift ...

Saved unto Good Works . The Law of Liberty (3)  . “Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be ...

The Royal Law . The Law of Liberty (2) . "If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well." James 2.8 . But which law is the “royal law”, the “law of liberty”?...

A Standard for Christian Conduct . The Law of Liberty (1) . "So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty." James 2:12 . Martin Luther, the great 16th century apologist for the doctrine of justification by faith, ...

The Duty of God’s People The rule of God’s Law entails three duties. “Pay attention to all that I have said to you….” Exodus 23:13 We are beginning to see that submitting to the rule of God’s Law is much to be preferred to submitting to any other law. The Ten Commandments, and ...

The Resurrection and the Life May 20, 2012 Lesson: John 11:1–5, 20–27, 38–44 Key Verse: John 11:25  asfas Introduction Christ asked Martha, “Believest thou this?” Charles Spurgeon titled his discourse with these three words, “The Believer Catechized.” He wrote that “Faith cannot believe what it does not know, and, therefore, you have missed fat ...

The Way, The Truth, The Life May 27, 2012 Lesson: John 14:1–14 Key Verse: John 14:6  asdfas Introduction Christ testifies, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” We are also to believe that He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. ...