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The Gospels What Failure, Why? The Gospel According To Matthew Introduction The Baptisms, The Temptation Of Christ, New Wine Raca, Thou Fool Children In The Marketplace, Blasphemy And Casting Out Devils One Wiser Than Solomon Logic In The Gospels Kingdoms Divided The Line Is Drawn The Line Is Crossed The Family Of God Empty The Man, The Man Won't Rest, The Rest Won't Fail The Mustard Plant, Leaven In The Meal No Wedding Garment, Whose Resurrection? Ten Virgins, Ten Talents The Gospel According To Mark Introduction Bridegroom And Fasting, Christ The Testator Demons By Demons, Candles And Bushels The Sower – Reaping And Mustard Trees Corban ‘The Gift’ – Rewards In This Life, But Not $$$ A Close Comparison To Matthew 24 The Gospel According To Luke Introduction Temptation Of Christ, Dropping The Bombshell Bridegrooms, Garments, Children In Marketplaces Who Say Ye That I Am? – Mary And Martha Opinion, Expectation, Purpose, Division Judgement Already Happened In Part Mustard Trees, Leaven, Hate What You Have The Dishonest Steward Priceless Articles Of Faith, Marriage And Resurrection Matthew 24’s Companion In Luke, - Confirmation With Mark The Gospel According To John Introduction Born Of The Spirit, Where The Wind Blows, You See? Samaritan Woman – We Know What We Worship – Contrasts The Son Is Revealed As God – and Glorified In The Father Bread From Heaven, Flesh And Blood: Consumed Whole The Identity Of The Son Of God – Appearances Not Deceptive Those That See, Sheep Hear The Shepherd’s Voice Cryptic; Any Connection With Anselm? – the Holy Trinity Was Paul Truly A Christian? Introduction The Mystery Religions In the Days Of These Kings Why Christianity Won Saul, Part Of The Problem? Were Paul Not In Christ, Why Would He Risk It All? Conclusion New Testament In Christ Introduction Doctrinal Fundamentals The Sealing – Hit The Ceiling! The Right Hand Of Power Coming On The Clouds Of Heaven You've Got It Totally Upside Down! The Dumbest Thing I Ever Heard Introduction Many Paths To God - What Utter Bullshit Blood Of Christ Man, That’s Dumb! Should Have Been More Careful Paying For Yourself There? These Three Agree In One The Head Of The Corner No Marriage In Heaven Ye Do Therefore Greatly Err Strength In Numbers, Ha! Jesus Paid The Price, (And Gave Me Credit) My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? Shortcomings And Stumbling Blocks Introduction Gay Marriage A Stumbling-Block Trouble Dividing The Sexes Is There Freedom Of Religion? The Power Of The Cross Introduction Christ Obedient To The Cross Grace The Gift Of God Shadows And Substance Propitiation For Sins The Suffering Servant The Urim And Thummim Acts and Epistles I Introduction The Book Of Acts I The Book Of Acts II Moving On To Romans	Introduction It is commonly held that Jesus paid the price for our sins, that somehow the punishment due us for our faults was suffered by Him on the cross. This is a great injustice as God would be most unjust to punish the innocent for the crimes of the wicked. Indeed were this the case the New Testament would be a great deal shorter than it is,.. and likewise merely because this appeared to be the pattern of the old testament system of offerings this has been carried over into the new testament by those that would oversimplify a wealth of teaching and doctrine. Jesus said Himself that new wine does not go into old bottles and that the gospel as a piece from a new garment is not put into the old garment of the OT without diminishing both new and old. However, we are taught that a scribe educated in the law is like to a man bringing forth treasures both new and old. The new testament unlocks the old and reveals the mistakes of Israel. In fact the NT teaches propitiation without transference of guilt from us to Christ. Christ Obedient To The Cross The New Testament sequentially reveals more of the truth of the work of the ministry of Jesus Christ that concluded with the cross. From beginning with the supreme example of obedience through His suffering on the cross to His continuing ministration beyond the veil Jesus shows us the perfected faith the Father requires from us - the answer we should give the cross is to offer up our faith on Christ's example. Grace The Gift Of God How should we say that Christ was punsished for us? If one man were to blame for the sins of all He would be the recipient of God's wrath, not the vessel to show God's forgiveness. As also Christ's obedence was completed, we should strive that ours should be so also. The gift of God is His grace by which we are saved, not by suffering as of Christs death. Paul writes to show the kindness of God given through His testament - and not given in His anger. Shadows And Substance The Old Testament failed to be kept whole by Israel because they did not approach the table of God with faith, trusting rather in the works of the law. We see in completeness now that the requirements of the law of God were to point towards the faith of Jesus Christ as shown to us. His former people Israel rejected Christ because of their lack of faith, causing God to redefine Israel to His elect only. Abraham showed that before the law was, Christ was also - through the display of faith Abraham showed us. Propitiation For Sins We are most fortunate to have atonement in Christ, that we are brought into good standing with God as if we truly were without sin. However this is under the rule of grace by the law of faith, and not by a payment in suffering, due the recompense of God to the guilt that would be upon His Son were it otherwise. The Suffering Servant The famous prophecy of Isaiah on "the suffering Christ" must needs be looked at again. Bear in mind that the Old Testament speaks of the shadows of the newer spiritual truth of the works of God and words used by Christ Himself. The shadows of the physical old covenant's ordinances of sacrifices and offerings are the means of explaining the new in the old. We find that new testament doctrine is also given in this passage - that the translation of Israel is the key to unlocking it. The Urim And Thummim The Urim and Thummim were two tokens by which the old testament priesthood could divine the will of God. In respect they are the "oracular light" and "perfections" by literal meaning,.. we see that these align very nicely with the metaphysics section - that in knowing the perfection of God and His desire in His foreknowledge we may divine His will, in the NT it is through the ministrations of His Spirit, in the OT it was merely the reserve of the priests to direct His people. Continue To Next Section Continue To Next Page Return To Previous Section