| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 6 secs | 0 Comments
Luke shows a couple of fights Jesus had over the Sabbath. Jesus was often criticised for breaking the Sabbath but as Michael Eaton writes “There is not the slightest hint anywhere in the gospels that he ever disobeyed anything that was required by the Mosaic legislation.” Jesus kept the law, but no more than He […]
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Hebrews 10 The law cannot sanctify is – it has no power and is a shadow that requires constant sacrifices to work at all. We are made holy through Christ’s death (Grace also teaches us to say no to unrighteousness (Titus 2:12) verse 17 Grace means that God doesn’t remember our sins or lawless acts […]
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Exodus 33 Under the Old Covenant one would have needed a priest as a mediator to access God – by grace we all have access to god by one Spirit because of Jesus (Eph 2:18) Much of this chapter is about the obedience required – under grace, we get to obey by faith Rom 1:5 […]
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Continuing blogging some thoughts as I go through teh Bible with the Murray M’Cheyne Plan. Exodus 23 Verses 1-3,6-7 talk about lawsuits. Grace tells us we can deal with civil conflict within the church without recourse to the courts (1 Cor 6) The sabbath laws point to the sabbath rest from works that comes when […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 37 secs | 0 Comments
Was too busy to blog last week, so back on track with Murray M’Cheyne’s Bible reading plan… Exodus 22 Grace goes beyond the law – the law points us to Christ. Being in Christ, full of the Spirit, means that we fulfil the law and are often empowered to go beyond! So when I read […]
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Exodus 21 Ch 20 had the ten commandments v1-17, which introduced fear v18-21. Then further legislation from v21. Chapter 21 is case law v2-11 are “when..then..”, v12-17 are someone doing something and from v18 when..then.. scenarios. Galatians teaches us the law drives us to Christ. The gospels show that Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly, the […]
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Genesis 40 Joseph had been in charge of the prison but expereiences two more setbacks. Firstly the captain of the guard, Potiphar, makes him serve two new prisoners. Secondly one of them will forget to put in a good word, leaving him languish in jail for a few more years. Dream interpretation is a God […]
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Romans 7 Paul uses the illustration of marriage to show how we have died to the law and are not under it. The law was a nagging powerless wife, telling us what we were doing wrong, but not offering any power to change. We have died to that old wife and are free from her […]
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We are on day 15 of blogging through the Bible using the Murray M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan Nehemiah 5 Lots of people were being exploited and charged usury which made Nehemiah hugely angry. He dealt with it by demanding that people walk in the fear of God and give back property, people and usury. What […]