Heaping Coals

Due Respect

Romans 13:1-7 How can this be applied to despotic governments? What is our relationship to governments as members of a heavenly kingdom? Must we always be in subjection to human governments since they are all appointed by God? What actually is our duty to our nation?

Heaping Coals

God alone has the perfect knowledge of the conditions that bring about people's evil actions, the motives that drive those actions, and the far-reaching impact of those actions upon others. This perfect knowledge is necessary for God to act with perfect justice. We, on the other hand, do not know these things and so we leave judgement and the execution of justice to God. And yet we have a part in his justice when with goodness we heap coals upon the heads of our enemies.

Thinking of One Another Part 2

These are the thoughts we are to have of ourselves and we are to think towards others. We see them and think to ourselves: They are important to God. They have their unique battles and struggles with sin and with this sin riddled world. They are receiving grace and mercy from God... they need daily mercy and grace. Now that we are to think this way we must discipline our thought life against what would hindered us in growing in our love for them...

Thinking of One Another

Romans 12:16 which in the King James tells us to "be of the same mind toward one another" and in the ESV says "Live in harmony with one another" more letterally reads, "think the same things toward one another." This means that what we think both of ourselves and our fellow Christians will produce a harmony or sympathy with one another. But what is that thing we are to think of us both?

The Passover of God

From Exodus 12 consider the purpose and practice of the first passover and its revealing of God, his judgment, his mercy, his salvation.