We examine the love of God together, which is an everlasting love, and a love for his people, the elect. There is nothing that can separate God’s people from his love, and all for which he loved shall certainly be with him in heaven and none can pluck them out of the Father’s hand.
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As we consider Abraham as the principal example of justification by faith in the New Testament, studying his life clarifies some very important points in understanding justification by faith. Abraham was not born again or declared righteous before God in Gen. 15 when he believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. No, he was already a born again man walking by faith at the end of Gen. 11 when he left Ur. Also, we see from Abraham that a child of God’s faith will not be progressively going upward, bur rather is a roller coaster of peaks and valleys, a few successes and many failures on a daily basis.
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We consider the love of God towards his people from the word of God, which is considerably different than the general thoughts towards God’s love in the Christian marketplace today. God saw fit to love not the whole world, but he chose to love an elect people before the world began to save and send his Son to die for their sins.
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Justification is a topic in scripture similar to salvation that requires great precision in rightly dividing what the word justification means in the right context. How can we be justified by both grace, but also justified by works, when they are directly opposing? We discuss the various aspects of justification in scripture and the correct rightly dividing of justification by faith which offers assurance for God’s children in their heart and conscience.
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They seem to be opposite extremes, so how can mercy and truth meet together and how can righteousness and peace kiss each other? Only through the mediator, Jesus Christ, can righteousness, peace, mercy and truth be brought into harmony and kisses through his work on the cross.
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As we examine the different aspects of faith, we study vital faith, or simply the indwelling nature and substance of Christ inside us. While the outworking of our faith may wax and wane and even falter, the true substance of Christ inside of us can never be corrupted and will ultimately overcome the world.
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While poverty gets a lot of attention in political and cultural realms, we attempt to consider poverty from the word of God. Jesus affirmed that we would have the poor with us until his second coming, and poverty would not be eradicated by social systems in this world. There are also blessings of giving and seeing the Lord’s providence that would be diminished if there were no poor to be able help by generous giving.
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As we consider the different aspects of faith in scripture, we study doctrinal faith, the faith once delivered to the saints, the body of truth held to by the church. Children of God can err from time to time from the body of doctrinal faith, but all of God’s children will be eternally secure in hand of God the Father.
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We begin to study together the dynamic topic of faith. How is faith received? What does faith look like lived out in our lives? While the external manifestation of faith might vary in our lives, the indwelling nature of God we have in faith can never be extinguished.
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We are called by the grace of God revealed to us in the new birth. The apostle Paul was called according to the good will and pleasure and timing of the Lord. That grace was then inwardly revealed by the Holy Spirit.
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