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  • Daily Devotional: Ephesians 1:1-6

    Daily Devotional: Ephesians 1:1-6

    Introduction: The Apostle, Paul, wrote Ephesians from prison in AD 60-62 to the saints. While the letter certainly made it to Ephesus, it may have simply been written “to the saints,” because “at Ephesus” is missing from three early manuscripts. The tone of Ephesians is more generic than Paul’s other letters. The letter is about…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-28

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-28

    Paul closes his letter by instructing the Thessalonian believers to rejoice always. Show your joy again in celebration. Party like something good has happened. Out of all the people on God’s earth, Christians are the ones with most reason to have a good time, celebrate, and rejoice. The rejoicing does not stop. God is doing…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

    Paul does not want the Thessalonians to be uninformed concerning those who are asleep, or their brothers and sisters in the faith who have died. Whatever Paul is about to write is about a particular type of rapture, but not a future, secret rapture of all the saints all at once prior to a greater…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10

    Paul is confident in the salvation of the Thessalonians, meaning we can be confident in the salvation of others. He is confident because of their fruit, yes, but also because of the power of the gospel. According to Paul, the gospel did not go out from them in word only. Have you ever listened to…

  • Daily Devotional: Romans 13:1-6

    Daily Devotional: Romans 13:1-6

    After Paul applies monergistic doctrine to the lives of people—insisting that Christians always consider others to be more important than themselves, do not seek retribution, but love and serve even their enemies, I’m sure there are some questions. There are questions when I teach those principles in our own day. What about justice? Are we…

  • Daily Devotional: Romans 10:1-11

    Daily Devotional: Romans 10:1-11

    After writing about God’s work of predestination, Paul, still referring to Jews who were not predestined, shares his desire that they be saved. They have a zeal for God, but their zeal is without understanding. They are trying to establish their own righteousness instead of resting in God’s righteousness—something many religious people in every context…

  • Daily Devotional: Romans 8:1-9

    Daily Devotional: Romans 8:1-9

    Paul clarifies what he means when he states that the Law is fulfilled. Paul has a high view of the Law. He is a Jew. He already clarified that he did not mean the Law was abolished. Since all people have transgressed the Law, all people stood condemned. Now there is no condemnation for those…

  • Daily Devotional: Romans 7:1-25

    Daily Devotional: Romans 7:1-25

    Paul’s audience is mostly gentile, and Paul is trying to explain to them about the Law’s purpose. There was a time before the Law was given. God gave the Law to the Hebrews. The Law was meant to increase the trespass so that grace may abound. An obvious question arises; is the Law abolished in…

  • Daily Devotional: romans 3:19-31

    Daily Devotional: romans 3:19-31

    God is the God of both the Jew and gentile because He is sovereign over all. He is creator. Therefore those who are under the Law, Jews, are shown their unrighteousness by the Law so that every mouth may be closed—so that people will know that they cannot boast in their works. No one can…

  • Daily Devotional: Romans 2:17-29

    Daily Devotional: Romans 2:17-29

    Paul is writing to the unincorporated in Rome—largely a gentile audience. There are apparently Jews there. Here, her explains that Jews are not true Jews if they transgress the Law. Further, Gentiles who keep the Law without having it are true Jews—the people of God. Paul gives us a clue as to the nature of…