Epistles

{IN THE EPISTLES}

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{ESPAÑOL}
  1. El Corazón Circuncidado - (El Don del Espíritu es esencial para el Nuevo Pacto prometido por Dios en la Biblia Hebrea para Su pueblo) - {PDF}
  2. La Purificación de los Pecados - (Habiendo logrado la purificación de los pecados, Jesús se sentó a la diestra de Dios donde intercede por su pueblo como su Sumo Sacerdote) - {PDF Copy}
  3. UNO Hombre Nuevo - (Por su Muerte y Resurrección, Jesús formó una comunidad del nuevo pacto - Uno Nuevo Hombre-basada en la fe en él - Efesios 2: 11-22) - {PDF Copy}
  4. Nuestro Gran Sumo Sacerdote - (Jesús es el Sumo Sacerdote del santuario mayor "hecho sin manos" prefigurado por el Antiguo Tabernáculo) - {PDF Copy}
  5. La Garantía de la Resurrección - (El Don del Espíritu es las primeros frutos de la resurrección corporal y la Garantía de nuestra participación en la Nueva Creación venidera) - {PDF}

{ENGLISH}
  1. Resurrection Power - (In Philippians, Paul expresses his goal of going on to perfection, a process that will culminate in the resurrection when Jesus arrives) - {PDF Copy}
  2. The Dead in Christ - (Foundational to our future hope is bodily resurrection when Jesus arrives in glory to gather and meet his saints - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - {PDF Copy}
  3. The New Covenant - (The Gift of the Spirit is essential to the New Covenant promised by God in the Hebrew Bible for His people) - {PDF  Copy}
  4. The Incommunicable Name - (The Incommunicable Name of God, its meaning and significance, according to Joseph Bryant Rotherham) - {PDF Copy}
  5. Identified by Resurrection - (Paul introduces his ministry to the Assembly in Rome and begins his exposition of the Gospel by identifying Christ’s qualifications as Messiah) - {PDF Copy}
  6. Power and Wisdom - (The power and wisdom of God are found in the proclamation of a Christ who was crucified on a Roman Cross) - {PDF Copy}
  7. Spirituality - (The spiritually-minded man understands that the gospel of Christ Crucified is God’s true power and wisdom - 1 Corinthians 2:14) - {PDF Copy}
  8. The Imperative of the Cross - (Christ Crucified is the example we are summoned to follow daily, and it is the test of the genuine Apostolic Faith and true spirituality) - {PDF Copy}
  9. The New Age Dawns - (The era of the Levitical priesthood terminated with the arrival of the word in God’s Son, Jesus Christ, our High Priest forever) - {PDF Copy}
  10. High Priest Forever - (The inability of the Levitical system to cleanse sins necessitated the new priesthood inaugurated by the death and resurrection of Jesus) - {PDF Copy}
  11. God is Speaking - (God has spoken His definitive word in His Son. All previous words given by the prophets were preparatory, promissory, and partial) - {PDF Copy}
  12. Our Sympathetic High Priest - (Jesus qualified as our high priest by participating fully in human sufferings, mortality, and especially, death) - {PDF Copy}
  13. Once For All - (The promise a New Covenant finds its fulfillment in the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus and the superior priesthood he now holds) - {PDF Copy}
  14. Beginning and Firstborn - (To the Colossians, Paul emphasizes the exalted position of Jesus that he attained following his death and resurrection – Colossians 1:18-19) - {PDF Copy}
  15. Appointed High Priest - (Jesus is the Son God appointed as our merciful and faithful High Priest because of his Death and Resurrection) - {PDF Copy}
  16. Purification of Sins - (Having achieved the purification of sins, Jesus sat down at the right hand of God where he now intercedes for his people as their High Priest) - {PDF Copy}
  17. One Sacrifice - One New Priest - (With his one-time sacrifice, the Levitical priesthood ceased, and God appointed Jesus as the new High Priest after the order of Melchizedek) - {PDF Copy}
  18. His Everlasting Covenant - (Jesus inaugurated the superior New Covenant through his Death and Resurrection, rendering the old covenant obsolete – Hebrews 8:6-13) - {PDF Copy}
  19. Our Great High Priest - (Jesus is the High Priest of the greater sanctuary “made without hands” foreshadowed by the Ancient Tabernacle) - {PDF Copy}
  20. He Humbled Himself - (Paul summoned believers to adopt the same mind that Jesus had when he poured out his life unto death for others – Philippians 2:5-11) - {PDF Copy}
  21. The End of Death - (The arrival of Jesus at the end of the age will mean the end of the Last Enemy, namely, Death - 1 Corinthians 15:24-28) - {PDF Copy}
  22. Salvation, Gentiles and Jews - (The equality of Jews and Gentiles before God is pivotal to Romans. Members of either group stand or fall before Him on the same basis) - {PDF Copy}
  23. The First Fruits of the Spirit - (The Gift of the Spirit is the First Fruits of the bodily resurrection and the Guarantee of our participation in the coming New Creation) - {PDF Copy}
  24. Resurrection Life - (Paul describes his gospel in Romans from humanity's plight due to sin to the resurrection of the dead through Jesus of Nazareth) - {PDF Copy}
  25. The End - (The arrival of Jesus “on the clouds” will be an event of great victory and finality that will result in the resurrection and the New Creation) - {PDF Copy}
  26. The Ends of the Ages - (The Apostle Paul linked the commencement of the Last Days to the death and resurrection of Jesus, the hinge on which History has turned) - {PDF Copy}
  27. Defeating Death - (Paul reminds Timothy of Christ’s resurrection and victory over death since false teachers are denying the resurrection of believers) - {PDF Copy}
  28. One New Man - (By his death, Jesus formed one covenant community - One New Man - based on faith in him, not ethnicity or nationality – Ephesians 2:11-22) - {PDF Copy}
  29. Let this mind be in you - (The submission of Jesus to an unjust death is the pattern of the love and service to others that his disciples are called to imitate) - {PDF Copy}
  30. The Sign of the Covenant - (The Gift of the Spirit demonstrates beyond question who belongs to the Holy Covenant Community of Jesus, and who does not) - {PDF Copy}

A special song celebrating the Resurrection by Orthodox Christian Chants.


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