Romans 11 – Israel’s Temporary Setting Aside and Future Restoration
Even though Israel as a nation has been set aside for a time, it has not been rejected forever. Some Gentiles in Paul’s day, proud of their…
Commentary Articles
Romans 10 – Israel’s Responsibility and Unbelief
This leads the apostle, in the first part of chapter 10, to contrast the righteousness of the law with the righteousness of faith, and once again…
Romans 9 – God’s Sovereignty in Israel’s History
Chapter 9 opens a new, clearly defined section of the epistle. In Romans 1–8, the apostle has unfolded his Gospel, in which all distinction between…
Romans 8 – Life in the Spirit and Final Glory
But how does this deliverance work? How is it actually carried out? We get the answer as we begin reading chapter 8. At the end of chapter…
Romans 7 – Freedom From the Law
The opening words of chapter 7 take us back to verses 14 and 15 of the previous chapter, where the apostle clearly stated that the…
Romans 6 – Freedom From Sin’s Dominion
What we have learned so far in this epistle about the Gospel has to do with what God has declared Himself to be on our…
Romans 5 – The Fruits of Justification
We can use the words “justified by faith” in two senses. First, by simple faith in Christ and in God who raised Him from the…
Romans 4 – Faith Illustrated in Abraham and David
The fourth chapter is essentially a parenthesis. In verse 28 of chapter 3, the conclusion is reached that a person is justified by faith apart…
Romans 3 – Universal Guilt; God’s Righteousness Revealed
Paul knew well that everything he had said would be highly offensive to Jewish ears, and that they would indignantly accuse him of belittling and…
Romans 2 – The World’s Guilt (Moralists & Jews)
The heathen world of nineteen centuries ago included, however, a number of highly civilized peoples. The apostle Paul knew that, with regard to the Gospel,…
Romans 1 – Introduction & The World’s Guilt (Gentiles)
It is very fitting that the opening words of the epistle give us a summary of the Gospel. Jesus the Christ—God’s Son and our Lord—is…
Exposition of the letter to the Romans
Introduction to the Epistle to the Romans Paul’s Letter to the Romans is the most whole and most orderly explanation of the Gospel and of…
The unclean Spirit (Mt 12:43-45)
The parable of the “unclean spirit” seems to refer, like the previous one (the “house of the strong man”), to the healing of someone possessed…
The House of the Strong (Mt 12:29)
The short parable in Matthew 12 about the “house of the strong” follows the miracle of Jesus healing a blind and mute demon-possessed man (Matthew…
The Sheep in the Pit (Mt 12:9-14)
Overview In the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, we encounter several short parables that relate to the state of the Jewish nation. This…
The Parable of the Cloth and the Wineskins (Mt 9:16.17)
The Lord continues the train of thought He had begun with the parable of the “present bridegroom” with a small double parable. The two following…
The Present Bridegroom (Mt 9:15)
In the life of the Lord Jesus on earth, some things offended people and were a particular stumbling block to the Jews. The root of…
The Two Houses (Mt 7:24-27)
A new contrast In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus concludes His teachings to His disciples with an important parable, that of the “two houses”…
The Narrow Gate (Mt 7:13.14)
The parable of the “narrow gate” is, like the previous parables, part of the Sermon on the Mount, as recorded by Matthew. Luke gives us…
The Adverse Party (Mt 5:25.26)
After speaking of the need of reconciliation between brothers in the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord develops this fundamental idea and expands on it…