“Likewise, David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: Blessed are those whose lawless acts are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the person the Lord will never charge with sin.” (CSB – Read the chapter)
History builds on itself. You can’t make proper sense out of the present without understanding the past. History is linear like that. It is always going somewhere. Sometimes it winds this way and that and even doubles back a bit, but forward is always, ultimately where it is going. This is because it is being guided along by a God who has a plan. It is a plan He has been slowly revealing for a very long time. And He also leaves clues ahead of time for those with eyes to see. A bit of an excursus today as we pause to ponder an accessory point in Paul’s argument. Let’s talk about God’s plans and how we know them.
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The Nexus 