A Call to Love and Other-centeredness

Romans 12:9-10A Call to Love and Other-Centeredness If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans chapter 12. As we go back to the book of Romans, remember where we have been. This is Paul's great declaration about the first principles of Christians living. You can't get more practical than Paul is here. You can't get more theological than Paul is here. He mixes those things together. All his theology is practical and all his practice is based on good theology. For much of the rest of the book, beginning here in Romans 12:1, Paul is going to be showing and telling us what grace produces in the Christian life. You remember all the way back in Romans chapter 5, he told us that grace reigns in righteousness. Well, beginning in Romans 12:1 he is going to show…

A Foreshadowing of Judgment, Part 3: The Fruitless Fig…

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to take them in hand and turn with me to Matthew, chapter 21. So far in Matthew 21, we have seen Jesus kingship clearly set forth in His triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem. And then in verses 12 through 17, we have seen His judgment against Israel, that has a form of worship and religion but denies the power thereof. And so He brings judgment in the cleansing of the temple, in verses 12 through 17. And that theme of judgment, not only immediate judgment, but the foreshadowing of judgment to come continues here in Matthew, chapter 21, verses 18 through 22. So let’s turn to God’s holy word and hear it: “Now in the morning, when He returned to the city, He became hungry. And seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it, and…

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A Call to Love and Other-centeredness

A Foreshadowing of Judgment, Part 3: The Fruitless Fig…