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The End Times

The NEXT 2010 conference this past weekend was characteristically outstanding. Jeff Purswell’s message on eschatology was a fitting close to the conference (amil-). Teaching from 1 Thessalonians...

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Resurrection and Eschatology

Gordon Fee, God’s Empowering Presence (Hendrickson, 1994), pages 803 and 805: Probably the one feature that distances the New Testament church the most from its contemporary counterpart is its...

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Justification, The Future Become Present

George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament (Eerdmans, 1993), pages 483–484: Justification, which primarily means acquittal at the final judgment, has already taken place in the present. The...

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Where The New Creation Has Come To Light

From Herman Ridderbos’s classic book Paul: An Outline of His Theology, page 57: Paul’s kerygma [message] of the great time of salvation that has dawned in Christ is above all determined by Christ’s...

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The Gospel and Eschatology

Too often we don’t equate the gospel and justification with the theme of eschatology. These themes can get separated in our minds, and each individual doctrine suffers for the disconnect, and our souls...

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Letting Go of Self-Righteousness

Paul in Galatians 6:12–15: 12 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ....

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Ethics and New Creation

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NRSV) So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! Richard Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A...

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The Cataclysmic Cross

Galatians 6:14–­15: But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision counts for...

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How Many?

Richard Gaffin, WTJ 38.3 (1975), 299: How many believers today understand themselves with the apostle as those “upon whom the ends of the ages have come” (1 Cor 10:11)? How many experience that they...

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Inaugurated eschatology: What it is and why it matters

On this blog I spend quite a lot of time discussing “inaugurated eschatology,” especially when it comes to understanding how Christ’s resurrection marks the dawn of the new creation. But, you may be...

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The Deepest Motive for Holiness and Charity

Richard B. Gaffin, By Faith, Not by Sight (Paternoster, 2006), page 78: Ultimately, in the deepest sense, for Paul “our good works” are not ours, but God’s. They are his work begun and continuing in...

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Dying and Rising with Christ

One of the more stimulating reads from 2012 was for me a short 130-page book written 45 years ago by Robert Tannehill, Dying and Rising with Christ. For its brevity the book punches hard and achieves a...

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Eschatological Joy, Daily Joy, and Spirit Indwelling

So often in Scripture the presence of joy comes along with the presence of the Holy Spirit (Acts 13:52; 1 Thess 1:6; Gal 5:22; Rom 14:17; 15:13). Jonathan Edwards picks up and develops this link...

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