Author: Pastor Lester Bentley
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Philemon: The Letter, Philemon’s Duty
Philemon’s Duty Philemon was a convert, a wealthy man, an owner of slaves in a society in which there were three slaves to every freeman. Yet he had heard the gospel message and accepted the gospel. Within his heart, the work of grace had started small. In the beginning, it was by just a word…
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Galatians: Gospels in Conflict, Children of Abraham and Heirs of Freedom part 8c
Sliding Back Galatians 4:8-11 Paul having established the dignity of the Galatian converts as children of God and heirs of the Abrahamic promise moves in verses 8-11 to their failure to live up to their heavenly status as heirs to God’s promise. Paul, in verse eight and the first half of verse nine again contrasts…
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Galatians: Gospels in Conflict, Children of Abraham and Heirs of Freedom part 8b
Heirs and Members of God’s Family Galatians 4:1-7 Galatians 4:1 is a continuation of the thought started in Galatians 3:29 with the word heir linking to the two verses. “If you then are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.” What is the purpose for linking these two texts? Because chapter three ended with the…
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