If you're new here to Servants of Grace, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A study put together using notes from the classic Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary. “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the...

Explanation Hebrews 2:17-18             Several of the earliest controversies and key battles in Church History were over Christ’s divine and human natures. One of the classic texts to explain why Jesus Christ had to become fully man, so that He might perform priestly service before God on man’s behalf is Hebrews 2:17-18. Christ’s priestly ministry propitiated or turned aside—God’s wrath against man’s sin. The...

Justification in 2nd Corinthians Paul in 2nd Corinthians 5:11-6:2 explains the new covenant ministry of reconciliation. Paul offers one of his most extensive descriptions of the motivation (5:11-15), content (5:16-19), and call of the new covenant ministry. 2nd Corinthians 5:21 is one of the most important in all of Scripture for understanding the meaning of the atonement. This is one of the epistle’s outstanding verses that summarizes...

Romans 1:17 says, “For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” The righteousness of God is a crucial phrase which has been the subject of intense debate recently. Its primary meaning is the “righteousness from God,” which denotes right standing before God (a legal status) that is given to people by God. A similar expression in Greek clearly has this...

Introduction Recently I have been doing some thinking about lessons I have learned in Bible College and Seminary. This Fall will mark four years I have been in Bible College and Seminary at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. These four years have been spent in the undergraduate and graduate level classes via distance education. Through these four years I’ve learned a number of lessons that I believe apply to all believers and some may...

Introduction Yesterday June 24th, 2011, the state of New York became the sixth state in the United States to legalize gay marriage. The New York Senate passed the bill earlier yesterday evening (June 24th, 2011) and then Governor Andrew Cumo signed it into law. New York joins Vermont and New Hampshire as the only states to legalize gay marriage through state legislatures. In every other state it has happened through the courts. This bill...