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Now the question is, can we take Old Testament promises to Israel and apply them to ourselves today? I believe we can. ‘For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we, through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope’ (Rom 15:4. cf. 1 Cor...

2 Chron 7:14. ‘If My people, called by My name will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways…….’. The final command from God is for us to turn from our wicked ways. Perhaps it is as well to remind ourselves that this instruction is not made to atheists or...

Your rebuke is entirely justified. I will do my best to heed it.

Yes! The idea of the 'Great Exchange' comes from Luther. Our sins are laid upon the sinless Christ, and He pays the penalty for them, so that God's outraged justice is satisfied. But also, His perfect righteousness is credited to us, so that we become, 'The righteousness of God in Him' (2...

Let us turn to 2 Chron 34:1-3 for a moment. We learn that King Josiah began to seek God when he was 16. Notice that he didn’t just become interested in religion; he sought ‘the God of his father, David’– not just any god, but David’s God: Jehovah, the LORD. And he wanted to know God the way...

2Chron 7:14. ‘If My people, called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face…’ Psalm 27:8. ‘When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”’ The third matter to which God calls us is to seek His face. But what does it mean to seek...

Nehemiah’s was a solitary prayer, but the Bible makes it clear that God looks for His people to come together in corporate prayer at times of emergency. In 2Chronicles 20, when Judah was threatened by a great invasion, King Jehoshaphat did two things (v3f). He ‘set himself to seek the LORD’...

2Chron 7:14. “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray……...” Isaiah 64:6-7. ‘But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is no...

I believe that pride is a particular danger for Reformed folk. After all, we have our theology sorted out, haven’t we? Unlike those poor benighted charismatics and dispensationalists, we understand God’s purposes in history; we have proper Bible versions; we have expository preaching; we do...

‘If My people called by My name will humble themselves……’ (2 Chron 7:14). So our first call is to humble ourselves. Humility has a rather bad press in Britain. People think instinctively of Uriah Heap, the repulsive character in the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield, who claimed to be...

I wrote this series of five articles about 16 years ago, so some of the events mentioned may appear a bit anachronistic. However, I think the subject needs to be revisited, especially in the light of comments made on this board that God's judgments are reserved for after our Lord's Return...

Leviticus 1:3. 'If his [the Israelite's] offering is a burnt offering of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tanernacle of meeting before the LORD. Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be...

I had hoped to avoid getting bogged down in discussions of what happened in the sacrifices and what the pecise meanings might be. But Heigh-ho! Leviticus 1:3. 'If his [the Israelite's] offering is a burnt offering of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own...

It often does. E.g. Matthew 2:22. You mean the verse you are trying (and failing) to misrepresent. Why not?

No quotations available. You just make stuff up as you go along.

It very frequently does, as I have shown. Yes. It very frequently is. You are obsessed with red pickup trucks. I think you should buy one. We, and he were under the curse of the law - not the Mosaic law, but neither we nor Abraham can/could keep God's righteous laws in our own strength...

You do not quote anything that I have written. I don't recognize any of this. Quotation, please.

Did you really study Greek? I find it increasingly hard to believe. No, lutron does not mean 'in the place of,' but anti does, as I very clearly indicated to you in post #46.

'On behalf of' does not have to mean 'instead of,' but very often it does, as I have shown elsewhere. For example in Galatians 3:13. Entirely aside of the meaning of huper, the verse very clearly teaches that 1. We were under the curse of the law. 2. We are now no longer under the curse of...

No I didn't, and no I don't.