Category: Christianity
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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 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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Galatians: Gospels in Conflict, Children of Abraham and Heirs of Freedom part 8a
Children of Abraham and Heirs of Freedom Galatians 3:26-4:11 “And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abrahams offspring, heirs according to the promise” Galatians 3:29 “When the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, burn under the law, to redeem those who are under the law, so that…
Pastor Lester Bentley 