HAVING THE MIND OF CHRIST – Romans 12

It cannot be doubted that this very fact led to the fantastic emphasis in this epistle to the effect that nobody, but nobody, ever deserved salvation.

THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH IN THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST

the subject matter as recorded in all four of the gospels which Jesus Christ discussed during this chronological period dealt very systematically and almost exclusively with the subject matter of Isaiah 40-66.

THE SUPREMACY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

God created Adam in his own image (Genesis 1:27); but Adam promptly sinned and fell from that image.

By these words here, Paul compels us to see in Jesus a SECOND Adam who was indeed God’s image.

CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY

What a commentary on the true condition of the sinner is this, that for all of his vaunted power, established and reinforced by every worldly device of wealth, authority, and position, the sinner is “yet weak” until he shall find his true strength IN CHRIST.

THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN

It is our conviction that “a certain Samaritan” in this parable does not stand for non-religious humanitarians at all, but for the Christ of Glory, who alone, of all who ever lived on earth, has shown infinite compassion and pity upon all.

GOD’S REVELATION TO THE GENTILE NATIONS – Romans 1

The information thus revealed in this verse is of the first magnitude of importance, because there are still people in the world who imagine that they have reason to be critical of God for his neglect of the pagan nations prior to the Christian era.

THE CRUSADE AGAINST JESUS CHRIST

Having determined that Jesus was not the type of Messiah they wanted, the priestly leaders of the people exhausted their resources of cunning and deceit in an all-out campaign to convince the people that Jesus was not the Christ.