Paul makes it clear that the Gentiles were not formerly a part of the people of God and with that came five disadvantages, but now they are included and that is to drive them to praise God.
We will see that the Deacons have the unique role guarding the holiness of God’s name by caring for the hurting in the flock.
The office of the deacon is established as a part of the church (which is the New Israel) and, in so doing, it displaces the older priestly order.
Joshua, the high priest, serves as a sign that God will come and suffer in order to establish his kingdom and bless his people.
Christ redeems a people to himself by taking their iniquity upon himself and by renewing them in his own image.
The tenth commandment requires that we do not desire or cling to temporary blessings above our eternal blessings.
The ninth commandment requires the preserving and protecting the good name (the dignity, honor and right to inheritance) of those who bear the image of God.
The eighth commandment calls us to be imitators of God who generously gives to and serves others at great cost to himself.
The seventh commandments calls us to be faithful in all our human relationships as a reflection of God’s faithfulness to us.
Psalm 16 is a portrait of a worshipper who is wholly devoted to the Lord and the confidence that belongs to him in such devotion.
Psalm 15 paints a picture of a hope that rests in the fact that God is both perfectly righteous and a God of grace who is willing to suffer for those whom he loves in order to bring them into his presence.
aptism is a catechism for understanding our faith and for teaching it to our children the faith - namely that we are sinners in need of grace, which is found in Jesus Christ alone.
Holy war is about two things — the destruction of God's enemies for the preservation of the holiness of his kingdom and the gracious subjection of some of those enemies that they might be heirs of that kingdom.
The sixth commandment is a call to show love to your fellow man by actively protecting his property and well-being.
The Lord sends his prophets and, ultimately, the Prophet to mediate his word to us lest we die.
The Levitical priests of Israel were meant to serve as a continual reflection to Israel of who they were by God’s election — a people destined to dwell with God for all eternity.
God has given rulers to his church through which he maintains justice and, through that justice, liberty.
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