Relating to Sermon on the Mount
44 ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν· ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν καὶ προσεύχεσθε ὑπὲρ τῶν διωκόντων ὑμᾶς, 45 ὅπως γένησθε υἱοὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς - Love your enemies and pray on behalf of those who persecute you, that you might be sons of your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:44-45a, author's translation)The phrase "love your enemies" is certainly ...
Translation
12 Not that I already grasp this, or have already been made perfect; [1] but I press on [2] to make it my own because it was also made my own by means of Jesus Christ. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have made it my own; but one thing - on the one hand, forgetting the things that are ...
Why do you spend moneydoes not satisfyeat what is gooddelight yourselves in rich food, so that you may liveBlessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfiedCome, buy wine and milk without money and without pricethat which does not satisfy.thirst for righteousness will be satisfiedseek the Lord while he may be found.Whydo you spend your ...
Translation
10 For it was fitting for God, [a] because of whom all things are and through whom all things are, to perfect [b] the entrepreneur [c] of their [d] salvation through suffering bringing many sons [e] to glory.Commentary[a] Greek ????, him.
[b] ??????? is a word that does not translate into English well at all. It is glossed as to complete, perfect, bring to its goal, finish, ...
My wife and I are reading through a most contemplation evoking paper presently on the Eucharist that has sparked a great wonder and awe of God in me. Traditionally, we have thought of God as being of infinitely greater and altogether different kind of being from which we have our being analogously. Even so, one of my favorite theologians begins ...
justifyingJustification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners, in which he pardons all their sins, accepts and accounts their persons righteous in his sight; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them, and received by faith alone.[1]...the transgression of the ...
IV. Christ-the Essential Description of RighteousnessSo we are faced with the fact that God has spoken definitively in His Law, in His word. We are ourselves subject to the same self-deception and self-righteousness of the Pharisees. And here is God’s Incarnate Son explaining to his hearers that they do not rightly understand the Law. If we care ...
C. Christ Our Righteousness (Mt 5:17-19)So far we have said that one must have righteousness that abundantly surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We have also found that the nature of this righteousness is essential, relating to the core of our beings. Further, we considered that the Law of God has ...
B. Essential Righteousness (Mt 5:13-16)The connecting thoughts between the Beatitudes and Jesus' staggering statement about righteousness in Matt. 5:20 are the rest of the passage we are considering together. He begins by using two metaphors to explain the nature of true righteousness - righteousness that actually corresponds to the righteous standard of his Father - the righteousness that abundantly surpasses ...
III. The Teaching of ChristA. Righteousness that Abundantly Surpasses ... (Mt 5:20)We have reviewed the Law of God and saw that the Old Testament presents it as a description of the Righteousness of God. We then turned our attention briefly to the Law of the Pharisee, which we have said was a perversion of the Law of God, having twisted ...
II. The Law of PhariseeIf the Law of God was the description of True Righteousness but lacked the power to transform the deadness at our very core, the Law of the Pharisee was something subtly other than that.
The Pharisees were the religious leaders of the day who had won the esteem and the fear of the masses by vigorously establishing ...
I. The Law of GodFirst and in a very cursory way, let us consider the Law of God. The Law of God is the verbal revelation written down for us as a lasting description of who God is essentially, at the core of His being. The Ten Commandments are not a prescription by which God must abide in ...
"You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and ...
