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03. Covenant and Command
To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice: What That Really Means
December 28, 2025
Unauthorized Fire: When God’s Silence Is Not Permission
December 30, 2025
To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice: When Partial Obedience Is Still Disobedience
December 30, 2025
Sincerity Is Not Authority: Uzzah and the Cost of Ignoring God’s Order
December 30, 2025
Obedience Tested: When God’s Instructions Seem Small—but Are Not
December 31, 2025
The Passover: Obedience When the Reason Was Not Explained
December 31, 2025
Naaman the Syrian: Cleansed After Obedience, Not Before
December 31, 2025
When God Defines the Moment: A Pattern of Obedience and Cleansing
December 31, 2025
Jericho: Obedience When God’s Command Defies Logic
December 31, 2025
Gideon’s Army: Obedience When God Removes Human Strength
December 31, 2025
Covenant and Command: When God Clearly Defines His Will
January 4, 2026
All That the LORD Has Spoken We Will Do”: Covenant Begins at Sinai
January 4, 2026
Written in Stone: When God Fixes His Will
January 4, 2026
“A Sign Between Me and You”: The Sabbath as a Covenant Marker
January 4, 2026
“Choose Life”: Blessing and Curse Written Into Covenant
January 4, 2026
Unauthorized Fire Under Covenant: When Clear Command Is Ignored
January 4, 2026
When God Has Spoken: Covenant Leaves No Room for Uncertainty
January 4, 2026
Hearing and Forgetting: Why God Sent the Prophets
January 4, 2026
Isaiah: Judgment, Salvation, and the Problem of Hearing
January 4, 2026
Jeremiah: When God’s Word Is Known but Not Obeyed
January 4, 2026
The Minor Prophets: One Voice, One Call—Return and Listen
January 4, 2026
When God Keeps Speaking: The Prophets and the Cost of Forgetting
January 4, 2026
Tradition vs. Command: When God’s Word Is Replaced
January 6, 2026
“You Leave the Commandment of God”: Jesus Confronts Tradition Directly
January 6, 2026
“In Vain They Worship Me”: When Teaching Becomes the Problem
January 6, 2026
“You Have Heard…But I Say”: Restoring God’s Intent, Not Rewriting God’s Law
January 6, 2026
Zealous, Sincere—and Wrong: Paul and the Power of Tradition
January 6, 2026
“Why Do You Call Me ‘Lord’?”: Confession Without Obedience
January 6, 2026
Teaching That Produces Obedience: Apostolic Continuity
January 6, 2026
When Tradition Competes with Obedience
January 6, 2026
Faith That Obeys: What Scripture Means by Response
January 6, 2026
“What Must We Do?”: The First Gospel Question and God’s Answer
January 6, 2026
Repentance: Turning, Not Feeling
January 6, 2026
Confession: Allegiance Declared
January 6, 2026
“He Who Believes and Is Baptized”: Belief That Responds in Action
January 6, 2026
“Arise and Be Baptized”: When Sins Are Washed Away
January 6, 2026
Faith, Grace, and Obedience: Not Works, but Trust in Action
January 6, 2026
Pattern, Not Exception: Conversions in the Book of Acts
January 6, 2026
When Faith Responds, God Acts
January 6, 2026
Words of Christ: Authority That Did Not Expire
January 7, 2026
“Why Do You Call Me ‘Lord’?”: Obedience as the Test of Discipleship
January 7, 2026
“If You Love Me, You Will Keep My Commandments”: Love Defined by Obedience
January 7, 2026
Counting the Cost: Discipleship That Is Chosen, Not Assumed
January 7, 2026
The Narrow Way: Few Find It Because Few Submit
January 7, 2026
Abiding in My Word: Faithfulness That Remains
January 7, 2026
Hearing and Doing: The Wise and Foolish Builders
January 7, 2026
When Christ Speaks, Disciples Listen
January 7, 2026
The Apostles’ Teaching: Not Innovation, but Preservation
January 7, 2026
“Teaching Them to Observe”: The Great Commission Continued
January 7, 2026
“Devoted to the Apostles’ Teaching”: Authority in the Early Church
January 7, 2026
“So Walk in Him”: Faith That Continues in Obedience
January 7, 2026
Delivered Once for All: Guarding the Faith, Not Redefining It
January 7, 2026
“Holding Fast the Pattern”: Sound Teaching and Sound Living
January 7, 2026
“Grace That Trains Us”: Apostolic Teaching on Godly Living
January 7, 2026
“Not Beyond What Is Written”: Limits on Authority and Teaching
January 7, 2026
One Lord, One Teaching
January 7, 2026
Warnings and Falling Away: Why Scripture Speaks So Seriously
January 10, 2026
“Take Care, Brothers”: Warnings Addressed to the Faithful
January 10, 2026
Drifting, Not Jumping: How Falling Away Begins
January 10, 2026
Once Enlightened—Then Falling Away: A Warning That Cannot Be Ignored
January 10, 2026
No Sacrifice for Sins Remains: Deliberate Sin After Knowing the Truth
January 10, 2026
Falling from Grace: What Paul Warned the Churches About
January 10, 2026
Turning Back: When Obedience Is Abandoned
January 10, 2026
Holding Fast Until the End: Endurance as a Condition of Life
January 10, 2026
Why Scripture Warns Those Who Believe
January 10, 2026
Unity in Truth: What Scripture Means by Oneness
January 10, 2026
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
January 10, 2026
Unity in the Faith, Not in Diversity of Doctrine
January 10, 2026
The Pattern of Sound Words: Unity Requires a Shared Teaching
January 10, 2026
Speaking the Truth in Love: How Unity Is Maintained Without Compromise
January 10, 2026
No Other Doctrine: Why False Teaching Divides
January 10, 2026
Walking Together Requires Agreement: Why Unity Demands Shared Obedience
January 10, 2026
Unity Without Truth Is Not Biblical Unity: Peace Versus Faithfulness
January 10, 2026
That They May Be One — As God Defines Oneness
January 10, 2026