Question There are a couple passages in the gospels where Jesus refers to doing His Father’s will instead of His own (John 6:38 and Luke 22:42). Why (or in what sense) would Jesus’ will have differed from the Father’s? Answer Thanks for this great question. Two things are going on here, both related to the […]
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Chapter five returns to instructions about certain groups in the church, specifically widows and elders. The church is to be a family of families, meaning that we should relate to each other as fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters (1 Timothy 5:1-16). Like one would take care of an aging grandparent, Paul said that the congregation
Chapter twelve begins the final message of the ultimate deliverance and restoration God would bring to Israel. At least 17 times these last three chapters contain the phrase “in/on that day,” showing the end times nature of this message. Zechariah 12:1 points back to God as Creator, declaring that, if he could create the heavens,
