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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