Category: Law

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Yesterday we talked about the importance of our identity. In Christ we've been made new and give a brand new identity. Jesus came into this world to save sinners and all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Now we've been born again into the family of God. We are children of God. Romans 8:15-16 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God..."

• How do we answer those who claim the power of the Holy Spirit gives us the power to keep the law? What about those who claim physical healing based on Isaiah 53?
• Roman asks if it's OK to drink alcohol as a Christian?

Categories: Identity/Self Image Law Christian Living

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

Grace puts us in union with Jesus. His story becomes our story. The truth of this is profound. It's one thing to know that we have been saved and will spend eternity with him. It's quite another to know that you have been given a new heart and Jesus has taken up residence in you. When you realize you are a new creature in Christ, you can live a life full of abundance.

• Why would Paul circumcise Titus in the Book of Acts?
• How do I get my zeal for God?
• With reference to Galatians 3, why are we not justified by our efforts to keep the law?
• Some use 1 Peter 3:21 as a water baptism requirement for salvation. Is this verse saying water is only a picture of the real baptism?

Categories: Bible Christian Living Law Baptism

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

When we don't know who we are, we play religious games to try to figure out who we are. But God wants us to know we are children of God. John wrote: "He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God."

• How do I answer someone who questions the validity of the Gospels?
• I have learned that it is not by works (what we do or believe), it is by Grace. So how can I interpret that?
• Can you speak a little about using verses such as Jeremiah 29:11 to prove a point even though it was spoken to a specific individual or nation?

Categories: Identity/Self Image Apologetics Prayer Bible Law

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Discussion about Afghanistan and the hurricane in Haiti. There's so much going on in the world. We have to turn to Jesus Christ and the Gospel. Ephesians 2 speaks to this: "For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility". In Christ, we can be at peace with another. This has huge implications to us individually, but also to the world around us.

• United Conference https://basicgospel.net/united
• What part does the law have in a believer's life?
• My friend believes that Jesus went into Hell for three days. How can I convince him otherwise?

Categories: Law Jesus Christ

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

What is the truth about God? God is love. God so loved the world... We need to get our ideas about God aligned with what He says about himself. Our view of God is distorted by our life of sin and death. But when we are born again we can know God as who He truly is. And that changes how we relate to one another.

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• Did Jesus shed his blood at any other time?
• Are we in the Great Tribulation? Do you believe in the Rapture?
• As gentiles, have we ever been under the law of Moses?
• How would you address a church that still preaches that Baptism is "an act of obedience", especially to youth ?

Categories: Theology Jesus Christ End Times Law Baptism

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Yesterday we asked the question, "do you know what you believe"? When you think about God, what comes into your mind? What are your thoughts about God? Why is this important? Because God is the most important person in our lives. "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." A. W. Tozer

• UNITED: Message | Purpose | Mission https://basicgospel.net/united/
• Rob asks about the role of the law in the Christian's life today.
• Matthew chapter 4 verse 17 Jesus says the kingdom of God had arrived. Then in chapter 6 verse 33 says : ask firstly the kingdom of God. Can you help me with that?
• How do we keep a Bible reading routine?

Categories: Theology Law Bible Christian Living

Andrew Farley, Bob Davis

"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" Romans 8:31-32

• As Gentiles we were never under the law, so how do we understand the difference between law and grace?
• Michael calls to disagree with Andrew about the law's role.
• Steve asks for clarification on Acts 8:14-17 concerning receiving the Holy Spirit.

Categories: Christian Living Law Righteousness/Justification Holy Spirit

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Far from being a dull theological tenant, the way of grace is the most exciting way to live. As children of God, we're no longer under the law. We live under the grace of God. No one is righteous under the law. Righteousness is a free gift of the grace of God. How then should we live? Led by the Spirit. The good news is God has sent his Spirit to take up residence in us. The Spirit renews our minds and empowers us to live as children of God. "For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God." Galatians 2:19

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Categories: Law

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Because of Jesus, we have died to the law Romans 7:4-5

• Escaped from legalism into grace. What is our new life in Jesus?
• What happens after the Rapture? Do we get clothes of white for our new bodies?
• Do I have to be baptized in water to be saved?
• What does it mean when Pastors are shepherding the flock?

Categories: Law Grace Theology Baptism Holy Spirit

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Richard Peifer

When we're talking about law and grace, it really gets down to the covenants. The Old Covenant established through Moses and the New Covenant that was established through Jesus Christ. Recall David who pleaded with God, "Don't take your spirit from me." contrasted with Jesus' plea from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

• Gus is struggling with sharing the Gospel with his family.
• Will children be raptured who are under the age of accountability?
• Jean asks about the presentation of salvation. And how can people know they are saved if the message isn't correct?

Categories: Grace Law Christian Living End Times Salvation

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

2 Corinthians 3 lays out the contrast between law and grace. Let's talk about why it's important to draw a contrast between law and grace. Paul states God "made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

• How do you continue to be a good dad when your daughters live in a different state?
• How long is a generation? Do I have the time to live my life the way God wants me to?

Categories: Grace Law Parenting/Children End Times

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Everything about this life is grace from start to finish. But often we have to seen grace in contrast to something else. That contrast is typically the law. "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." John 1:17 The ministry of Jesus Christ is a ministry life. "What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin." Romans 7:7

• I know the truth about my new identity. But how can I grow in grace practically in my daily life and issues? Is it Just resting in His truth?
• If we Gentile Christians were never under the Law, what do you do with Romans 3:19?

Categories: Grace Christian Living Law

Andrew Farley, Bob Davis

Aren't we to obey all the 10 Commandments?

• Are we really dead to the law?
• How do we live in this new covenant?
• What is the goal of a Christian?
• 1 John 3:6 No one who lives in Him keeps on sinning?
• What is our treasures in Heaven going to be?
• 2 Cor 6:14 Can this be for business partners or room mates?

Categories: Law Sin Heaven Bible Jesus Christ

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Let's look at the Old Testament in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."

• What does it mean to trample under foot the grace of Christ?
• Could you explain the commandant of remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy?
• Can you explain Psalm 103:12 "as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us."
• Are the promises of God in the Old Testament for us as well?

Categories: God's Will New Covenant Law Bible Old Covenant

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Why are we so quick to condemn?

• If Jesus is the Alpha, then why are churches so feminine?
• Rest in who you are and grow in grace
• How do we receive the Holy Spirit?
• Why doesn't God answer my prayers?
• Have you believed?

Categories: Law Hope Holy Spirit Prayer Jesus Christ

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Will more laws help me run my life? Colossians 2:20-23

• Are there any consequences from God and does He turn His back when I sin?
• What is prayer according to the will of God?
• Do you know your identity as a child of God?
• What does it mean to say that God opens doors?
• Do we need to ask for forgiveness every day?

Categories: Marriage Law Prayer Jesus Christ Forgiveness/Repentance

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

We encounter all kinds of trials and tribulations because we live in a world that is anti-God. Jesus entered into the darkness of the world and placed us into his kingdom. And as believers today we are ambassadors for this his kingdom. God sustains us by his power. "In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire... " 1 Peter 1:6-9

• Why did Jesus make so much wine? Wouldn't that make everyone drunk?
• Mike asks about Matthew 8:20 "And Jesus said to him, 'Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.'"
• My question has to do with what is called "the third use of the law". What exactly is it?

Categories: Christian Living Jesus Christ Bible Law

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

We can't earn salvation. It's not a works based program. We see this in Romans 4 where Paul spells it out that the righteous will live by faith. And to that faith in imparted righteousness. Do you want to be right with God? Do you want to know that all is right between you and your creator? Christ dealt with your sins and took them away, giving you the very righteousness of Christ. Grace justifies you freely because of the work of Jesus Christ

• I don't recall a specific moment of salvation and I struggle with doubt concerning my salvation. What can I do?
• Is grace a substitute or replacement for the law? And in Galatians, is Paul speaking of the stone law or the ceremonial law?
• What is your biblical stance on satan and his place in the life of a believer and what is your biblical understanding of Ephesians 6 about spiritual warfare?

Categories: Grace Salvation Law Christian Living Spiritual Warfare Holy Spirit

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Paul writes about the Gospel that saves in 1 Corinthians 15 "Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, ... " He declares the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Paul's encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus changed his identity and totally transformed him by the grace of God. "But by the grace of God I am what I am " v. 10

• What are your thoughts on the chosen or the elect?
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• I was told that every time we sin we have to repent. Did Jesus die for all sins and we don't continue in sin?

Categories: Grace Law Apologetics Sin

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Far from being a dull theological tenant, the way of grace is the most exciting way to live. As children of God, we're no longer under the law. We live under the grace of God. No one is righteous under the law. Righteousness is a free gift of the grace of God. How then should we live? Led by the Spirit. The good news is God has sent his Spirit to take up residence in us. The Spirit renews our minds and empowers us to live as children of God. "For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God." Galatians 2:19

Categories: Law