UNFOLDING THE WORD With Dr. Gary Kuhne

Abraham believed God’s promise of a son, a nation, the world although he had no son, nation, or world at the time of the promise. Like Abraham, we are called to trust God’s promise in the Gospel even though we are obviously not righteous in ourselves, nor deserving of salvation. But in the Gospel, God “Calls Into Existence The Things That Do Not Exist” and offers us a “credited righteousness” in Christ!

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is I Peter. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

The issue of circumcision in the New Testament church reflected the broader question of the relationship between religious sacraments and justification. The clear answer from the Word is that justification comes from faith, not religious sacraments.

Both Abraham and King David demonstrated the difference between trying to earn their salvation through establishing their own righteousness or trusting in the promises of God and finding the credited righteousness that comes from such faith.

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is I Peter. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is I Peter. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.

Three core questions are discussed: Can I contribute anything to salvation? Does the Gospel apply to everybody? Does the Gospel make the law of God no longer important?

Due to sin, we all needed rescued from the penalty of our sin. This rescue was found in the shed blood of Christ, who made “propitiation” for our sins on the cross. While the Gospel tells us of God promised solution to sin accountability through the cross, it also tells us that we must decide to personally trust in this Divine solution.

“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is I Peter. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week. This week I will take a break in the I Peter study because the teaching time was given by a missionary friend I will call “Timothy” because his actual name can’t be used. He works in a part of the world where he must not be known to the authorities as a Christian missionary. I hope you enjoy his thoughts on James 5:7-11.

God promises to credit Christ’s righteousness to those who repent and believe in the Gospel – an unmerited, undeserved gift, but a gift that ultimately solves our impossible problem of sin’s accountability!