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The Main message of Acts
the spread of the gospel by the power of the Holy Spirit despite persecution
What is the difference between prescription and description?
Description communicates what has been done, and prescription tells us what to do
Argument for seeing Pentecost as descriptive
Luke’s intent at the beginning of the gospel, Paul’s statements about tongues in verse 12, evidence of it being unique.
The theological purpose of Pentecost
To show the age of the spirit
Purpose of the mini Pentecosts
Show continuity of the church, and authority
Acts and the church
Bringing the jew and the gentile together, all churches should have elders, sets a precedent that there is a 2 level structure in the church
the righteousness of God in Roman 1:17
That it is from God, forensic righteousness, alien righteousness
Why does Paul mention the Jews and Gentiles in Romans 1?
To pastorally help them to respect each other.
Why Paul brings up a doer of the law
To address the presumption that you only need to follow the law to be saved
The gentile in Romans 2
A Christian
The nature of inerrancy
It compels you to revisit those tensions between texts
The identity of the “I” in Romans 7
A non-christian
Can Christians obey the law?
Yes, but not perfectly
The purpose of the law in the Christian life
To expose our sin
The dilemma Paul is trying to solve in Romans 9
The tensions between God’s unbreakable love and the current state of Israel
The nature of his answer to the dilemma in Romans 9
What makes someone Israel is God’s choice
The key theme of 1 Corinthians
Unity
The key principles of unity
Respect your leaders, prioritize the gospel, prioritize holiness, love is all you need or prioritize love
The purpose of 1 Corinthians 13
To prioritize love over gifting
Main message of 2 Corinthians
suffering magnifies the gospel
The textual unity of 2 Corinthians
There is a tonal change in chapter 9 without evidence of writing a different letter
Paul’s thorn in his flesh
He is being intentionally vague
Main message of Galatians
Salvation is by faith alone
The role of Paul’s story in defense of the gospel
Uses his story to defend that his gospel is from God
The two questions in Galatians
Who are the people of God? And how are we made right with God?
The logic of the Spirit in Galatians
The Spirit was promised to Israel, and yet by faith the Gentiles received the spirt. They must already be part of the team, so they do not need to submit to the law
Paul’s argument in Galatians 4
His allegory that if circumcision made Abraham the son of Israel, what about Ishmael?
Paul’s argument from the story of Abraham
He was declared righteous when he believed before he was circumcised
Authorship of Ephesians
The style and content is different than other paulian letters, it is a copy of his other letters.
Main message of Ephesians
God saved you, so act like it
The purpose of predestination in Ephesians 1
To glorify God, its an act of love
The possible rhetorical point of Ephesians 5
It possibly could be pushing against Greco-Roman patriarchy.
The Christology of Philippians 2
To communicate that Jesus is divine and human
The purpose of Philippians 2 in the flow of Philippians
To foster humility in us
The three pieces of a word
Sign, sense, referent
The meaning of “firstborn” in Colossians 1
That jesus is preeminent over everything
The purpose of mentioning the second coming of Jesus
To give you hope, and to help you stay awake and diligent
The pieces of conversion
Repentance, faith, perseverance
What it means to be a one-woman man
It does not mean you cannot be single, but it goes against polygamy
How Paul argues for complementarianism in 1 Timothy 2
An appeal to the created order, and the nature of the fall