Law – Page 3 – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Christian Jewish Kosher: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 7:14-23)

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/ By Randall Johnson
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I have some friends who are Jewish, or Gentile converts to Judaism, who worship Jesus as the Messiah. They are Christians and they are Jews (or converts to Christian Judaism). They observe kosher,

Daily Thoughts from Mark: Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:23-28)

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/ By Randall Johnson

One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not

Daily Thoughts from Acts: Maintaining One’s Jewishness (Acts 21:17-26)

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/ By Randall Johnson

When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. After greeting them, he related one by one the things

Daily Thoughts from Romans: NO CONDEMNATION (8:1-8)

Daily Thoughts from Romans: NO CONDEMNATION There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of

Daily Thoughts from Romans: Learning to Be Wretched (7:14-25)

Daily Thoughts from Romans: Learning to Be Wretched For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but

Daily Thoughts from Romans: Killed by the Law (7:7-13)

Daily Thoughts from Romans: Killed by the Law What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it

Daily Thoughts from Romans: Released from the Law (7:1-6)

Daily Thoughts from Romans: Released from the Law Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Justice for All (23:1-9)

The poor deserve justice just like everyone else and those who pervert it will face God’s wrath.

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Taking Law into Our Own Hands (21:12-32)

We see, then, the justification for jurisprudence, the consideration of motives and guilt, as means of making sure that the law is applied correctly and justice is done in a society.

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Slavery (21:1-11)

Yahweh will determine how we conduct our lives and His concern of love for those who fall into this dilemma bodes the prospect that slavery may one day be abolished.

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Stealing (21:33-22:15)

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/ By Randall Johnson

Ownership of property and loving your neighbor by not envying it or stealing it, or if taken, making restitution for it, is God’s requirement of His people.

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: True Worship (20:22-26)

Our worship must be about honoring God in the way He describes rather than our own concoctions of worship.

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Tenth Command (20:17)

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/ By Randall Johnson

There is something distinctively different about the tenth commandment which sets it apart from all the rest. And this distinction gives a key to the interpretation of all the rest.

A Biblical Theology of Work – Part 2

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/ By Randall Johnson

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and

Lessons From the Old Testament: What is the purpose of the Law?

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves

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