"My hope lives, not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died. My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, Christ is my righteousness. My faith does not rest on what I am or will be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done!" CH Spurgeon
This verse promises ‘the fruit of righteousness’, as the reward ‘for those who make peace’. Peacemakers produce! In the atmosphere of peace, peacemakers create, the harvest of righteousness. eirēnikē, i·ray·nee·kos…
The central message of Christianity is not a worldview, a way of life, or a program for personal and societal change; it is a gospel. From the Greek word for…
The believer, in himself, will always deserve God’s judgment: our conformity to the ‘royal law’ is never perfect, as it must be (vv. 10–11). As Hort describes the image, ‘krisis…