There should be a direct connection between grace and humility. If our works cannot possibly please God because everything is stained by sin, then the fact that God stoops down to save us when we cannot save ourselves should humble us. The God who inhabits eternity and whose name is …
The emphasis is clearly on the Word of God understood and applied.
for weakness, note 11:35b-40 and 2 Cor.12:10. For victory, see 11:30-35a and 1 John 5:4-5.
Calvin: ‘As we know, most people soon tire of things which are beneficial to them’ … ‘Yet men, alas, are always craving novelty.’
In verses 24-26 the focus is more on the decisive shift in Moses’ thinking, but in verses 27-29 the focus is more on what he did as a result of that faith.
Bonhoeffer commented that grace is free, but not cheap. Faith cost Moses something as it cost Paul something – Phil.3:7-8.
The Christian faith requires us to look with realism at the state of the world and with hope to the promises of God. Both are necessary. The Western world gives every indication of being in an advanced state of decay. On 24 June 2022 the Supreme Court of the United …
Life consists of seasons – of birth and death; of joy and sadness; of silence and speech; and of deep issues and comparatively trivial issues (see Eccles.3:1-8). Yet, in a real sense, nothing we do is trivial. A cup of cold water given to a little one, as a Christian …
Not long before this Paul had to warn the elders there about threats to biblical truth – Acts 20:29-30.
Amram married his father’s sister, Aunt Jochebed (Ex.6:20; Num.26:59), which would soon be forbidden under Moses’ law.
