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  • Foundations 7 What is the Price of Sin? Genesis 3:1-24

    Genesis 3:1-24 1. Background: When God created the world, He made it without sin or death.  He also gave man the responsibility to keep the garden He made for them.  Along with this responsibility…

  • Foundations 9 Jesus Is Our Propitiation — Romans 3

    Romans 3:19-28 1. Background: Paul is convincing Jewish Christians within the church there is not difference between them and gentiles.  All are sinners before God and all are saved through Jesus Christ through faith. …

  • Foundations 15 — Repentance Joel 2

    Background:   At the time of Joel’s writing, the land suffering from a great famine caused by a devastating plague of locust that devoured the vegetation. The cloud of locusts was so vast that it…

  • Foundations 16 Repentance 1 Samuel 4 “Ichabod”

    1 Samuel 4:19-22 19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father…

  • Foundations 3: God’s Revelation–Hebrews 1

     Hebrews 1:1-3 Hebrews was written to prepare the Jews for the destruction of the temple and animal sacrificial system. Many Jews in Palestine after believing in Christ still zealously worshipped at the temple and…

  • Foundations 8 : Who is Jesus? John 1

    Background: John, the apostle tells us more of what Jesus said in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Apostle John was the disciple of Jesus who witnessed all He said and did. His version of…

  • Foundations 6: What is Sin? Exodus 19-20

    Background: God has recused the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt.  He wants to meet with them personally.   Students of the Bible should ask why whenever God takes the initiative to do something.  Without…

  • Isaiah 55

    Background: Just after the description of Jehovah’s suffering servant (Chapter 53), we have His invitation into the covenant He will establish (v3). This invitation comes at time when Israel is being warned of a…

  • Foundations–Lesson 5 Part Two Who Is Man 1 Corinthians 15

    1 Corinthians 15:12-58 Background In a church Paul planted, he deals with a heresy that claimed Christ never truly resurrected from the dead. Paul argues for the case of a resurrected Christ. Most importantly,…