Introduction Every believer faces a daunting dilemma. The predicament arises from indwelling sin with its agenda and tactics that infests all human bodies from birth to physical death. Of course, Jesus was not born with the dilemma because His birth was without a biological father from whom everyone else inherits indwelling sin. The [...]
ROMANS NINE REVISITED Introduction In 1983, Dr. John Piper first introduced his inspiringly thorough exegetical and theological analysis of Romans 9:1-23 to a theologically diverse audience through his book, The Justification of God. Ten years later, Baker Book House published the second edition of Piper’s book. Early in his analysis, Dr. Piper introduces [...]
OLIVET DISCOURSE COMPOSITE FROM THE GOSPELS OF MATTTHEW (24:39-26:1)MARK (13:2-37), AND LUKE (21:5-36) PREAMBLE LUKE 1:1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, LUKE 1:2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word have handed them down to us, LUKE 1:3 [...]