What does the Bible say about the nature of humanity? Is the human condition making progress? Are we getting closer and closer to perfection? What measure is used to determine the state of humanity? Are all really guilty of sin? What is the sinner’s only hope? How can we understand the concepts of righteousness, sin, faith, and the gospel? Why do we need salvation? What happens when people reject the gospel and try to live without God?
Topic: Grace
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What controversy broke out in the early church between Gentiles and Jewish believers? How was it resolved? What did it mean for followers of Jesus? Do believers still have to keep the law? What does this have to do with why Paul wrote the epistle to the Romans? How do these themes impact Christianity today? What made the New Covenant better? What was done away?
What made Paul write a letter to the church in Rome? When would this church have been established? Why did Paul desire to visit Rome? What were the circumstances behind his final arrival in Rome? What can we learn from this about how to evangelize new territories and expand ministries?
Why is the cross so central to Paul’s message to the Galatians? Why does he write with such large letters? How does Paul conclude his main point to the Galatian church? What does it mean to be dead to the world and to be a new creation? Is the change to be inward or outward?
What does walking in the Spirit mean for Christians in the Church? How can we carry one another’s burdens? What burdens can individuals only carry themselves? How do we fulfill the law of Christ in helping one another? Is the law of Christ different from God’s law? What does Paul mean by his metaphor of sowing and reaping?
Elder John Spellman of the Babylon SDA Church preaches on Jesus message to Peter in Luke 22. Jesus warned that Satan desired Peter to sift him as wheat. In the same way the devil is desiring to sift people in the church today. But Jesus still intercedes and we must strengthen one another when we've been converted.
What does it mean to live and walk by the Spirit? Is walking by the Spirit contrary to the law of God? What happens in the life of one who lives under the guidance of the Holy Spirit? Why is there a spiritual war between the flesh and the Spirit within every believer? Can we be victorious in that war? What does it mean to be convicted and converted?
What does Paul mean by freedom in Christ? In what way are we free? What are we freed from? Does freedom in Christ mean we disregard the law? Can legalism or indulgence in sin be true freedom? Why would circumcision cause one to fall from grace and lose Christ?
Why does Paul uses the analogy of a guardian slave and a master’s son to describe the relationship between the law and the believer? Why does Paul also use the analogy of a son and his inheritance as a minor? What happens when the faith of Christ enters the picture? What were the days, months, seasons, and years mentioned in Galatians 4:10? Why did Paul warn the Galatians about going back to slavery?
What is the relationship between the law and the promises of God? If the law is not a means of salvation, what purpose does it serve? How does the law point us to Christ? What does the law reveal to us? What are its limitations? How does faith in Jesus accomplish what the limitations of the law could not?
What is the relationship between the law and the promises of God? If the law doesn’t save us, why did God give the law? What does Paul mean by law in Galatians 3? Why does Paul use the analogy of a will and testament to describe God’s promises? What is the purpose of the law and is that purpose still needed today?
What does the Old Testament tell us about justification by faith? Were believers ever saved by works in the old system? Why does Paul refer to Abraham to demonstrate why justification is always by faith? What evidence of faith based salvation does Paul appeal to? Are we truly saved by faith alone?