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The gospel, God's rule, and righteousness

Accordingly, human notions of both power and purity were challenged, toppled, and then turned right-side-up by the gospel. Rome imposed its power by a sword; the church found its increase by a word that invited believers of every tribe and people.

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Notes on Scripture

- Galatians
- Galatians 5:1

Mood, Medium, & Message

The character of the biblical revelation informs the content of the sermon

Paul first makes his readers to understand the facts upon which their faith depends, for faith must understand the works of God before it gives answer to the will of God.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Acts of the Apostles
- Acts 26:1-18

The Gospel & Corresponding Christian Witness

The facts of the gospel shape an ironic ministry

The Apostolic witness regarded the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the fact of the resurrection was combined with the records of Jesus’ life and death, these together became the essential characteristics of a different kind of news, even a new kind of news—the gospel.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Genesis
- Genesis 18

Word & Deed on the Plane of Time

A field in Canaan confirms the character of God & man

The chapter begins with the silence of God, but that yields to the kind of creative speech that can only belong to God: He will return to Sarah the time of life. But the elderly couple? They must learn to say less—or perhaps speak differently, and that in agreement to what God has spoken.

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Commentary & Exposition

- 1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Conceiving a Fiction

Paul asks his readers to imagine the circumstances were the Christian account actually mistaken

As others have remarked before, this is an extraordinary argument. Paul, in fact, asks his reader to conceive of the resurrection’s fact as if it were a fiction. This is an uncommon kind of argument, for it gives up the ground upon which so much rhetoric is finally made to depend—the strong, emotional sentiments that are sometimes made to stand in the absence (or refusal) of facts.

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