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Appendix A: Commentary on the ninth command

• Introduction

Appendix A, on truth-telling: Commentary on the ninth command, Alden Thompson, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor,” Signs of the Times, November 1988, 20-22. Published as “When the Truth Is a Lie,”...

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Story and History

• Lesson 1 for the week of September 25 to October 2

Leading Question: “Do stories make truth more believable?” Key Passages: Genesis 39:6-12, Joseph and Potipher’s wife 1 Samuel 24:1-6, David allows Saul to escape from the cave Job 1-2, God and Satan in dialogue over righteous...

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All the Rest Is Commentary

• Lesson 13 for the week of September 18 to September 18

What should Christians do when they don’t agree? Having emphasized the supremacy of love in the Christian life (Rom 12:9-10; Rom 13:8-10), Paul now begins to wrap up his letter by providing examples of how...

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Love and Law

• Lesson 12 for the week of September 11 to September 18

How should the Christian live be lived? Now that Paul has finished his explanation of the gospel, he turns his attention more fully to the way life should be lived in light of it. Paul...

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The Election of Grace

• Lesson 11 for the week of September 4 to September 11

Did God reject the Jewish nation? Today’s lesson focuses on Romans 10 and 11 and is a continuation of Paul’s discussion in chapter 9 dealing with fact that so many Jews failed to accept Jesus...

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Freedom in Christ

• Lesson 9 for the week of September 4 to August 28

What role does the Holy Spirit play in the Christian life? In contrast to the discouraging picture painted in Romans 7 of the person struggling to overcome sin, but failing miserable, Romans 8 offers a...

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Redemption for Jew and Gentile

• Lesson 10 for the week of August 28 to September 4

What qualities is God looking for in the lives of his followers today? I suspect that Romans 9-11 is probably the least liked section in Romans. The first eight chapters of Romans provide a stunning...

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The Man of Romans 7

• Lesson 8 for the week of August 14 to August 21

Who is the man in Romans 7? Today”s lesson deals with one of the most controversial passages in Paul”s epistle: the identity of the man in Romans 7 struggling ineffectively against the power sin in...

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Victory Over Sin

• Lesson 7 for the week of August 7 to August 14

Is freedom from sin a reality in your life? Paul”s insistence that a person is saved by faith apart from works of the law (Rom 3:28) was troubling for some Christians—particularly those who were Jewish...

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Expounding the Faith

• Lesson 6 for the week of July 31 to August 7

What difference does justification by faith really make in a person”s life? Although Paul has explained the details of what it means to be justified by faith and has illustrated that experience in the life...

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Justified by Faith

• Lesson 4 for the week of July 17 to July 24

What does it mean to be justified by faith? Of all the passages in Paul”s writings, no single passage is packed with more theologically significant terms than Romans 3:21-31: Justification, redemption, propitiation, grace, justification by...

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All Have Sinned

• Lesson 3 for the week of July 10 to July 17

Are you ashamed of the Gospel? While some people in Paul”s day may have been ashamed of the gospel, Paul was not. The gospel for Paul was something to boast about? Why? Because the gospel...

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Jew and Gentile

• Lesson 2 for the week of July 3 to July 10

Why was circumcision such a controversial point in the early church? And why should believers even care about it today? Outside of a few recent high profile court cases involving divorced couples fighting over whether...

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Paul and Rome

• Lesson 1 for the week of June 26 to July 3

What is it about Paul”s letter to the Romans that has made it the source of spiritual revival and reformation in the church down through the centuries? The Sabbath School lessons for this quarter focus...

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