Getting Specific

Three Related Cases

Brotherly love

Hospitality to strangers

Solidarity with the believing prisoners/mistreated

Brotherly love—philadelphia

…deals with the brotherhood of believers, church family

Hospitality—philoxenia

Sharing of resources with strangers

Angels unawares—reference likely to Gen 18:1-8

Remembering those in prison—not a matter of social justice

…references those believers being persecuted; ref. 11:25, 27

We are all part of the same body…of Christ…one part hurts, we all suffer

Sexuality and Marriage

Sexuality belongs within the boundaries of marriage

Marriage is between one man and one woman—period

…anything else is contrary to the created order

Greediness

Contentment with what God gives

Not that we cannot work hard to advance ourselves; prosperity is OK

Trusting God for our needs is the bottom line

He is our helper.

We should not fear.

What can man do to us?

If God has given us greater things, He will not neglect the lesser things. If we have been purchased at so great a cost, can any man be so illogical to conclude that God is not also willing to give us all things?

Thomas Manton

Romans 8:32 ESV

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?