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John Piper · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Piper - “Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.” The grace of God is described as…Glorious (Ep 1:6+) Abundant (Acts 4:33+) Rich (Ep 1:7+) Manifold (many-sided, multi-colored, variegated) (1Pe 4:10+) Sufficient (sufficing, enough, adequate - there is never a shortage) (2Cor 12:9+) James and Cephas and John - James, Cephas, and John are the subjects in Galatians 2:6-10 and in this passage they are specifically named.
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Piper observes that impartiality "is such a major truth about God that the New Testament seems to invent a word for it—several words. Before the New Testament there are no instances of the word used here for “partiality” or “respecter of persons.” The idea was there in the Old Testament: God does not “receive face,” they would say, that is, he is “impartial”—he is not moved by irrelevant external appearances. He sees through them and goes to the heart of the matter and is not partial to appearance and circumstance. Nobody breaks the rules and gets away with it, no matter how powerful or clever or wealthy or networked. All are judged by the same measure.In the New Testament this was so important to make clear that the writers took these two words, “receive face” and combined them into a new verb in James 2:9—“be-a-face-receiver” (prospolempteo)—and two new nouns—“a-face-receiver” (prosopolemptes, Acts 10:34+) and “face-receiving” (prosopolempsia, Romans 2:11; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 3:25, James 2:1+). There is no “face-receiving” with God, Paul says." (There Is No Partiality With God, Part 1)