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The Message of the New Testament: Promises Kept is unavailable, but you can change that!

The New Testament is the story of how all the promises made by God in the Old Testament were kept-and what that means for us today. The nation of Israel had many hopes: hope for a deliverer, hope for restored fellowship with God, and hope for the world to be put right. The New Testament explains how those promises were kept and how, if we are Christians, they are kept in us as well. Mark Dever...

and healthy before God, then in a funny way you are not his immediate concern. No, Jesus has come for the sinners. Who were the sinners in the room that day? Were they only those tax collectors? I wonder, when Jesus said to the Pharisees, “It’s not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick … I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners,” did these Pharisees consider, just for a moment, that they might be sick, that they might be sinners? Or did they simply think, “Good answer, Rabbi. Those
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