What is eternal security?
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is eternal security? Can we lose our salvation? No! is the emphatic answer.
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What must I do to be saved?
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 07999 There is no more important question anyone can ever ask. It is the question the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas in Acts 16:30, and Scripture gives a clear answer that cuts through confusion and offers genuine hope to anyone willing to hear it. The Biblical Answer The jailer’s question and Paul’s response…
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Should Christians obey the Levitical law?
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 07109 The book of Leviticus contains some of the most detailed legislation in the Hebrew Bible, covering sacrifices, priesthood, ritual purity, dietary regulations, festivals, and civil ordinances. Christians have struggled across the centuries with how to relate this material to their own discipleship. Some treat the moral provisions as still binding, others extract a…
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What is the law of the Spirit?
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 04122 Romans 8:2 introduces a phrase that captures the heart of the New Testament’s understanding of how the believer relates to God’s moral expectations. Paul writes, “For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.” This law of the Spirit is…
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How do human responsibility and divine enablement work together in sanctification — and what is wrong with “Let go and let God”?
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 04067 Sanctification raises one of the most practically important questions in the Christian life. How much is God’s work and how much is mine? The popular slogan “Let go and let God” has shaped a generation of devotional thinking and remains influential in some circles, but careful reading of Scripture suggests this framing distorts…
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What are the ‘works of the flesh’ vs ‘fruit of the Spirit’?
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 04043 Galatians 5 sets out one of the most direct contrasts in Scripture. Paul lists the works of the flesh, then the fruit of the Spirit, and the comparison reveals something fundamental about how the believer lives. These are not just two lists of behaviours. They represent two opposing sources of life and two…
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What is the difference between the Spirit’s work in the OT vs NT?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04030 The ministry of the Holy Spirit changes significantly between the Old Testament and the New Testament era. This is not a change in the Spirit Himself, who is eternally God and eternally the same, but a change in the manner and scope of His operation. Understanding this distinction matters for reading the Bible…
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How does the Spirit sanctify us?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04021 Sanctification is the lifelong process by which the believer is progressively conformed to the image of Christ. It is not optional, it is not automatic, and it does not happen apart from the Holy Spirit. Understanding how the Spirit sanctifies matters for every aspect of the Christian life, from the daily struggle against…
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What does it mean that Jesus is our High Priest?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 03047 The book of Hebrews develops the high-priestly ministry of Christ more fully than any other portion of Scripture, yet many Christians have only a vague sense of what it means that Jesus is our High Priest. The doctrine is not peripheral devotional language. It is one of the great explanations of how the…
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Why does God seem different in the Old and New Testaments?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02061 Many readers come to the Bible with the impression that the God of the Old Testament is harsh and judgemental while the God of the New Testament is loving and gentle. This perception has fuelled everything from second-century Marcionism to modern dismissals of the Old Testament as sub-Christian. The reality is that the…
