SPECIAL TOPIC: STAND (histemi)

This common term is used in several theological senses in the New Testament

  1. to establish
    1. the OT Law, Rom. 3:31
    2. one's own righteousness, Rom. 10:3
    3. the new covenant, Heb. 10:9
    4. a charge, 2 Cor. 13:1
    5. God's truth, 2 Tim. 2:19
  2. to resist spiritually
    1. the devil, Eph. 6:11
    2. in the day of judgment, Rev. 6:17
  3. to resist by standing one's ground
    1. military imagery, Eph. 6:14
    2. civil imagery, Rom. 14:4
  4. a position in truth, John 8:44
  5. a position in grace
    1. Rom. 5:2
    2. 1 Cor. 15:1
    3. 1 Pet. 5:12
  6. a position in faith
    1. Rom. 11:20
    2. 1 Cor. 7:37
    3. 1 Cor. 15:1; 16:13
    4. 2 Cor. 1:24
  7. a position of arrogance, 1 Cor. 10:12

This term expresses both the covenantal grace and mercy of a sovereign God and the fact that believers need to respond to it and cling to it by faith!  Both are biblical truths. They must be held together!

SPECIAL TOPIC: PARADOX IN SCRIPTURE

SPECIAL TOPIC: COVENANT

SPECIAL TOPIC: ELECTION

 

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