The following are some suggestions about Christadelphian books which can help us in our daily Bible readings during March and April and which are available from the Christadelphian Scripture Study Service (http:// www.csss.org.au/).
Leviticus, Num…
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Several Christadelphian books can help us in our daily Bible readings during September and October. The following are some suggestions which are available from the Christadelphian Scripture Study Service (http://www.csss.org.au/):
2 Kings
Josiah and His Children by Stephen Pa…
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Paul continues his exhortation to sow to the Spirit, and then returns to ring the final changes in his battle with the Judaists.
IV. Sow to the Spirit — Do Good to All Men (6:9-10)
7. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8. For he that soweth…
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III. C. ii. Remember our Relationship! (4:12–20)
Paul’s exasperation with the Galatians dies quickly and he moves into an extended appeal to remember the quality of their relationship in the past, when they honoured him as a spiritual father, appreciating his divine message and personal sacri…
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B. Live in the Spirit, not in the Flesh (5:13–26)
iv. The Fruit of the Spirit (5:22–23)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
22. From stern and unambiguous warning Paul turns t…
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B. Live in the Spirit, not in the flesh (5:13-26)
i. Liberty is not licence (5:13-15)
13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love t…
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iii. Stand fast in liberty, and cast out the slaves! (4:28–5:1)
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the…
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The apostle Paul’s urgent appeal to the Galatians highlights the folly of moving away from a position of grace in Christ to a bondage to the weaker elements of Law. The writer’s exhortation uses the warning to the Galatians to alert us to the insidious drift we can experience in losing our initi…
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Galatians is one of the Apostle Paul’s earliest writings. Even in those early days of the ecclesial world there was a need for him to combat some seriously wrong thinking. He admonishes them with some rather stern words, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the t…
D. The Allegory of Hagar and Sarah (4:21–5:1)
Paul returns to his exposition of the true relationship between the Promises and the Law, concluding with a master-stroke. In these verses we are reminded of the exceptional student, engaged in his rabbinical studies at the feet of Gamaliel. He has …
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