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Repentance is going from leaning on our own understanding of right and wrong by doing what is right in our own eyes to trusting in God with all of our heart to make our way straight by correctly dividing between right and wrong through His law (Proverbs 3:1-7), which is what it means to have faith.

Paul spoke about multiple categories of law other than the Law of God, such as with saying that he served the Law of God with his mind in contrast with serving the law of sin with his flesh and with saying that the Law of the Spirit has freed us from the law of sin and death (Romans 7:25-8:2)...

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Law of Moses was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel...

Repentance is the way to believe in Jesus.

The Law of God was never given as a way of earning our righteousness even as the result of perfect obedience (Romans 4:1-5), but rather it was given to describe the life of someone who is righteous as it describes the life of Christ. In Romans 3:21-22, it does not say that the Law and the...

The Hebrew word “yada” refers to intimate knowledge gained by experience, such as with Genesis 4:1 where Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. God’s way is the way to know (yada) Him and Jesus by experiencing being in His likeness through embodying His character traits...

In Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to them by teaching them to obey the Law of Moses, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. Jesus saves us from...

Paul described the Law of Moses as being the good that he wanted to do and the law of sin as being what was causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do. The law where sin had dominion or mastery over us is clearly referring to the law of sin that is causing us not to do the good that we...

Everything in the Law of Moses is either in regard to how to love God our how to love our neighbor, which is why Jesus said in Matthew 22:36-40 that these are the greater two commandments and that all of the other commandments hang on them, so the position that we should obey the greatest two...

In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Law of Moses was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel...

In Matthew 4:4, Christ said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God, so the Law of Christ is in perfect accordance with every word that comes from the mouth of God (Deuteronomy 5:31-33).

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Law of God was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of...

The content of a gift can be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to experience driving a Ferrari, where the gift intrinsically requires them to do the work of driving it in order to experience driving it, but where doing that work contributes nothing towards...

God's character traits are eternal, therefore any instructions that God has given for how to embody His character traits are also eternal. For example, God's righteousness is eternal (Psalm 119:142), therefore all of God's righteous laws are also eternal (Psalm 119:160), but if the way to...

It is important the recognize that a servant of God can speak against obeying God for an incorrect reason without speaking against obeying God. In Isaiah 45:17, it says that all Israel shall be be saved, which has led some to hold the position that the way that a Gentile become saves is by...

The Israelites received a double portion of Manna for the 7th day for 40 years in the wilderness, so they knew on which day God rested, they have been keeping it ever since, and the period of time that they have been keeping as the 7th Day corresponds to between Friday and Saturday night at sundown.

In Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far form him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Law of Moses, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only away of salvation by grace through faith. In Matthew 4:15-23...

All Christians agree that we should follow Jesus but the problem is that we can widely different ideas about what it means to follow Jesus and different sects are just ways of grouping people who have similar ideas about what it means to follow Jesus. For example, Jesus set a sinless example...

According to the Bible, it is righteous to be a doer charity and the point remains that the way to become righteous is not the same as what it means to become righteous.

In Galatians 5:14, Paul spoke in favor of loving our neighbor as ourselves in obedience to the Law of Moses. In Galatians 5:15-23, Paul and he contrasted the desires of the flesh with the desires of the Spirit and everything that he listed as works of the flesh that are against the Spirit are...