Look at the Book

Even though people can know about God through creation, hard hearts suppress that knowledge. Thus, sinners do not know God.

For Paul, pagan idolatry and reliance on the law to get right with God amount to the same thing. Neither can offer any help to save our souls.

When Paul describes the Spirit’s witness in the heart of believers, he says the Spirit cries, “Abba!” Why is that name so significant?

Why did Jesus need to be born of a woman as a human being in order to redeem those under the curse of the law?

God sent his Son into the world, born of a woman and under the law. Few statements hold more import, wonder, and mystery.

Paul says that the law was given by God to act as a guardian until “the fullness of time” had come to pass. When is the fullness of time?

God intended the law to act as a guardian, pointing us to our need for a redeemer. However, when we put our faith in the law, it’s no better than the rules of pagan religions.

How do people become sons of God and heirs to his promises? They must put on Jesus Christ, God’s true Son, by faith and not by law-keeping.

Paul calls the law “a guardian” meant to lead us to Christ. What does that mean? How does the law guard us and guide us to Jesus?

Paul reveals that God gave the law to pave the way to faith in Jesus, who fulfills the law completely.

The New Testament authors insist that the law was given to Moses by angels. Why would they repeat that?

If God made the promise of life to Abraham based on faith, then does the law contradict that grace? Does the law present a different way of life?

Why does Paul insist that the promises made to Abraham were made to his singular seed? That nuance is vital to our salvation.

Does the law given through Moses somehow contradict the covenant of faith made with Abraham? Why does that matter to us?

The only result of attempting to be justified by works will be curse, but Christ took our curse on the cross. How does that exchange work?

Obedience to the law can never make a person right before God, but the faith that saves produces works that conform to the law.

Trying to be right with God through works is an all-or-nothing enterprise. If you do not keep the whole law, you have violated the whole law.

How do Gentiles become sons of Abraham? And what is the blessing promised to all of Abraham’s true heirs?

Galatians says that Abraham’s faith was counted to him as righteousness. What did that mean for him, and what does it mean for us?

We know that the New Testament teaches justification by faith alone, but what about the Old Testament? Does it teach salvation by faith or by works?

The Spirit is both the gift of faith and the agent of faith. We receive him by faith, and he grants the very faith by which we receive him.

Neither the beginning, nor the middle, nor the end of the Christian life is left untouched by the saving might of the Spirit.

The Christian life both begins and continues by the work of the Holy Spirit.

The Christian life consists of more than a right legal standing before God. By the Holy Spirit, we can experience actual fellowship with God.

Christ gave himself for our sins. He was punished for our sins. He paid the penalty for our sins. And, therefore, his death was not in vain.