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NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY By Dr. Robert R Seyda PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER THREE (Lesson XLII) Paul shows clearly that the Promise given to Abraham and the Law given to Moses are not competing for attention, they are … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY By Dr. Robert R Seyda PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER THREE (Lesson XLI) 3:22 Doesn’t the Scriptures teach that we are all prisoners of sin?  Therefore, the only way to become an heir to God’s … Continue reading →

Steven Jacobs, a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago, submitted his dissertation that included his findings after interviewing 2,899 American adults whose background and training made the excellent candidates to answer the question: When does human life begin. Even … Continue reading →

SOMETIMES ANGELS LOOK DIFFERENT THAN WE IMAGINED A well-known evangelist from India named Ravi Zacharias, tells this story in his book “Deliver Us From Evil.”  When Ravi went to Vietnam in 1971, his interpreter was a fine Christian young man … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY By Dr. Robert R Seyda PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER THREE (Lesson XL) Here Paul is trying his best to point out to the Judaizers and the Galatian church the impossibility of the Mosaic Law, … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY By Dr. Robert R Seyda PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER THREE (Lesson XXXIX) I like the way one translation renders verse twenty: “When the promise was given to Abraham, God gave it without anyone standing … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY By Dr. Robert R Seyda PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER THREE (Lesson XXXVIII) As we know, Luke the physician, who wrote his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, spent quite a bit of time … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY By Dr. Robert R Seyda PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER THREE (Lesson XXXVII) Alvah Hovey (1820-1903) enlightens us on what Paul was driving at when he asks in verse nineteen, why was the Law even … Continue reading →

  NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY By Dr. Robert R Seyda PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER THREE (Lesson XXXVI) Paul, like Jesus with the Jews, was feeling the same sense of rejection by the Galatians. All he preached to them … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY By Dr. Robert R Seyda PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS  CHAPTER THREE (Lesson VI) Philip Ryken mentioned that when people visit the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia where he serves as senior pastor, they often wonder … Continue reading →