Heralding Truth

Adam stole from the tree and through this act, death reigned. Christ having fulfilled  perfect righteousness was crucified upon a tree, so that those who believe will reign in life.  Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Looking at true Christian Peace  Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

We look not on the strength of Abraham’s faith, but on the strength of Abraham’s God. Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Israel burdened Yahweh with sin, but Christ bore the burden of sin in His body on the tree. God does not remember the sins of His people against them because He remembered them upon His Son.     Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Romans 4:9–12 is one of the clearest passages in Scripture against any notion that a covenant sign, religious ordinance, or outward badge can be the basis of justification. Paul’s entire argument is built upon the chronology: faith first, righteousness, sign afterward. Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

God does not simply pardon the guilty by overlooking sin; He justly justifies sinners through the righteousness of Another. Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Isa 43:13   “Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?”  Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

The Law reveals the righteousness that God requires; the Gospel reveals the righteousness that God provides.   Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Romans 3:21–26 reveals that God righteously justifies sinners apart from works by providing, through the sacrificial death of Christ, the very righteousness He requires.       Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

  Isaiah 43:1–7 first comforts Israel with the assurance that, though judgment is deserved, Yahweh has not abandoned His covenant people. The exiles would hear in this promise the certainty of literal return from captivity, for no direction of the earth could hold back those whom Yahweh had redeemed. Yet in Christ this promise expands to its fullest covenantal horizon: God gathers His elect from e...

Rom 3:9   What then? Are we better? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; Rom 3:10   as it is written, “THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; Rom 3:11   THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; Rom 3:12   ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME WORTHLESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.” Rom 3:13  ...

 | Isaiah 42:1–4 | Isaiah 42:18–25  | The Servant brings justice | The servant is blind  | The Servant is faithful | The servant is deaf  | The Servant opens blind eyes | Israel itself cannot see This prepares the reader for the distinction between: Israel as servant, failing in blindness The Messiah as Servant, faithful and obedient Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

God remains faithful and accomplishes His purposes despite human unbelief—not because unbelief is good. Just as Israel was entrusted with the oracles of God, so the visible church today is entrusted with the Word and the gospel. That privilege is real and weighty, yet it does not guarantee salvation. God remains faithful to His covenant purposes even when some within the covenant community are unf...

“Sing to Yahweh a new song, Sing His praise from the end of the earth!” Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Paul is not denying Jewish privileges. He is denying that privileges justify. He is not denying the value of circumcision in its covenant context. He is denying that circumcision saves apart from obedience. He is not teaching that some sinners are justified by sincere law-keeping. He is exposing the bankruptcy of relying on possession, profession, and ordinance while lacking inward reality. Feel f...

“Nothing speaks more terror to sinners, or more comfort to saints, than this, that Christ shall be the Judge.” -Henry Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

God’s role as Creator is often invoked in Isaiah to ground confidence in His role as Redeemer. Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Isaiah 41 ends with silence and emptiness; Isaiah 42 begins with a voice and a Servant. This shows that God’s ultimate answer to fear, idolatry, and confusion is not merely power—but a Person. Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Romans 2:6–11 establishes that God will judge every person impartially according to their works, a standard that exposes the universal failure of humanity and prepares the way for the righteousness revealed in the gospel.  Romans 1–3 strips every person of excuse, confidence, and righteousness so that the only hope left is the righteousness of God revealed in the gospel.   Feel free to reach out!...

The idols must be nailed down so they do not fall, but Yahweh opens rivers in deserts. The idols cannot speak, but Yahweh speaks in such a way that even a child can hear. The difference is not small—it is the difference between life and nothingness. Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

As we move into Romans chapter 2, Paul turns from the openly rebellious sinner to the one who judges him. While chapter 1 exposes the depravity of those who suppress the truth, chapter 2 warns the self-proclaimed righteous not to rest in their judgment of others. The Jew, entrusted with the Law, and even the moral Gentile who lacks it, are both accountable before a God who judges impartially. The...

In this text we are encouraged through the command of Yahweh God to His people to not fear. Also we discuss the irrationality of God’s covenant people to fear anything in this earthly life.  Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

Because God has chosen His people, taken hold of them, and not rejected them, the command “Do not fear” follows necessarily. Fear is inconsistent with covenant identity grounded in divine election.  God Almighty—the One who is self-existent, sovereign over all, needing nothing and dependent on no one—has, in His perfect and unchanging love, chosen a people for Himself. He has taken hold of them an...

God’s wrath for the suppression of Truth, gives over the unbeliever to intellectual and moral decline.  Feel free to reach out! *Text here*

When fear grips the human heart, we instinctively look for something bigger than ourselves to save us. The nations strengthen their idols, Saul seeks a medium, Ahaz runs to Assyria, and Israel builds a golden calf. But the servant of Yahweh hears a different word: “Do not fear, for I am with you.”   Feel free to reach out! *Text here*