Earl Adams's Blog – April 2010 Archive (10)

Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats?

by Charles Spurgeon (edited)

An evil is in the 'professed' camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted Christian can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years this evil has developed at an alarming rate. It has worked like leaven until the whole lump ferments!

The devil has seldom done a more clever thing, than hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a… Continue

Lesson 7 Exercises

Your Name:

1. When the Apostle Paul became a Christian and began to learn the doctrines of grace, he rejected entirely the whole Mosaic Law. [True/False]

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2. According to the Law, what must occur in order for a divorced woman to remarry without being guilty of adultery?

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3. “...we have been buried with Him through baptism ... so we too might ____________.”

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4. Romans 7:4 says that we have been joined to another. Who… Continue

Chapter 7

The struggle we read of in Romans 7 is a necessary link between the position and potentials we have as explained in Romans 6 and the reality of the Christian Life lived depending on the Holy Spirit, as described in Romans Eight.

We should remember as we progress through this chapter that Paul is looking at a progression. He really set us up for this in Romans 5 where he spoke of the much more things that we have. His goal is much more grace, much more liberty, much more… Continue

ROMANS CHAPTER SIX

Lesson 6 Exercises

Your Name:

1. The reason that Christian still have a sin nature after they are saved, that they commit personal sins, is that “grace might increase.” [True/False]

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2. Being baptized into Jesus Christ is equivalent to being identified with His _____________.

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3. If we have become united with Christ in His death, in what other way will we be in Christ’s likeness?

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4. What is required on a… Continue

Chapter 6

Romans 6:1

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase?

Remember what he stated as a historical and logical fact back in Romans 5:20, "And the Law came in that the transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."

Now if grace abounded where sin increased, why not continue in sin so there can more grace?

But the one who would come to this conclusion is doing so on a personal level where the… Continue

Dearly Beloved,



It is my Prayer that you are still with me in the roman’s bible study.

I hope you are being blessed by it, we are getting into some really important doctrine now in chapter 5 that I will be posting this week and if you have any questions or comments don’t fail to write me.



I would like to know how many of you are studying with me so I will be able to have enough certificates to give you all.







Father, we thank you for loving us… Continue

FAITH FACES LIFE

by Ray C. Stedman



This is graduation time, as is evidenced by the many young people who are home from school now -- just out of high school and college. It is a very appropriate time to come to the fifth chapter of Romans, because Romans 5 is a graduation exercise. It takes us from the elementary grades of Christian life into high school. Up to this point in the book of Romans, we have been dealing with birth truths -- the elementary, introductory truths of the… Continue

Answers to Lesson 3 Quiz 1. False 2. "Who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is…

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Chapter 4

INTRODUCTION

Paul has presented the doctrine of Justification in Romans 3:19-31. As he continues to address the religious Jews of Rome he uses an illustration of justification that p[re-dates the OT Law. He presents the case of Abraham.…

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Life after Easter: Bewildered or Bewondered?



Luke 24:13-24:35



Opener: I hope you had a bad Easter….I know you think I should be saying “I hope you had a good Easter”…but for today’s sermon, it might be better for you if you had a bad Easter. Because when you think back to the first Easter, the disciples weren’t gathering together early on Sunday, excited about a sunrise service at the local park and looking forward to singing “Christ the Lord is Ris’n Today” and then… Continue