The Biblical Basis for Pastors The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply God’s Law today? The Law of God establishes the office of the priest/pastor. Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve ...
Think Like Jesus The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply God’s Law today? Interpreting God’s Law requires the mind of Christ. But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16 Let’s sum up what we can learn about interpreting the Law of God from the situation involving the ...
Lest He Be Overwhelmed The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply God’s Law today? There is always room for the repentant to return to the community of life and light. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive ...
Delivered unto Satan The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply God’s Law today? The death penalty might still be applied. …you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 1 ...
Banished from the Lord The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply God’s Law today? Removal from the community of faith is a type of death sentence. “But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may ...
The Law in Their Hands The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply God’s Law today? Church leaders must act on behalf of the purity of the Body of Christ. Let him who has done this thing be removed from among you. 1 Corinthians 5:2 The Law of God exposed ...
The Death Penalty: Now The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply God’s Law today? We live in an age of grace, but the Law still serves to define sin. It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not ...
The Death Penalty: Then The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply God’s Law today? The Law of God endorses the death penalty under certain conditions. “A man shall not take his father’s wife, so that he does not uncover his father’s nakedness.” Deuteronomy 22:30 “If a man lies with ...
Once More, for Emphasis The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply the Law of God today? The oxen statute packs a double-whammy. Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “You shall ...
And You Are Like This! The Law of God: Questions and Answers How shall we understand and apply the Law of God today? If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we ...