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Covenant and Commandment: Works, Obedience and Faithfulness in the Christian Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

The heirs of the Protestant Reformation have emphasized salvation by grace in general and sola fide (“by faith alone”) in particular. It was important for the church to recover the central biblical truth that we are justified by God, that this is an act of God’s grace, and that faith–apart from works–is the means by which we are justified. A related issue is the nature of works–obedience or...

Ezekiel, he is most certainly in the same conceptual world as the key passages we have looked at from those two prophets. When Paul speaks of an inward circumcision of the heart (2:28–29) linked with obedience from the heart, we are in the conceptual world of the weeping prophet and of Ezekiel. It is appropriate to glance forward to the end of Romans 3, where Paul explicitly raises a potential misunderstanding of his teaching: does faith ‘overthrow’ the law? Certainly not! Rather, Paul writes, ‘we
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