Thomas R. Schreiner

Yeah.

Tom Schreiner.

Tom's the best.

I did his, uh-

I think the implications are big.

So what are people saying now about agape? Well, Thomas Schreiner, agape is fundamentally an action, a self-giving commitment that seeks the good of others.

It is not dependent upon transient feelings.

Now, please, please note this as a backdrop to this.

So I think that serves as the backdrop.

We do receive the command to phileo, Philadelphia love one another.

But Thomas Schreiner is saying that agape love, it's not dependent on feelings, right? Having said that, he writes, at the same time, Paul's understanding of love is not cold or detached.

The Spirit transformed the heart so that believers genuinely desire the good of others.

Something she's not heard.

I remember asking Tom Schreiner once how many of his books Diane had read.

He's like,

oh, I don't think any of them.

Yeah.

So commentary-wise, I've been using a combination of Tom Schreiner and Cruz.

Is it John Cruz? I can't remember his first name.

Oh,

And then, yeah, Lord drops it in my

lap.

I'm a big Tom Schreiner fan.

So I've been using his as my main reference and then also bits of N.T. Wright and then Kaisman.

There are other ways to read it, and I want to acknowledge that, and there is legitimate rationale for why other scholars, biblical theologians and scholars, would read it different.

In the famous words of Dr. Tom Schreiner in the introduction to his book, or the book on the different views of women in ministry, Tom said, you know, I'm a better scholar for the writing of my colleagues in this book, and yet I'm still unconvinced.

Oh, I love it.

Yeah, I just love that.

They also are competing for territory and for land.

I read a fascinating book about the 800-year war between Persia and Rome.

It was recommended by Tom Holland, the historian, not the Spider-Man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So when I'm reading, you know, Jim Hamilton's God's Glory and Salvation Through Judgment, I- I'm saying, "How can we sing these themes and, and these specific words?" Or when I'm thinking about, you know, Tom Schreiner's, uh, BT, The King in His Beauty, that's where I'm, I'm reading that with my...

Already that's a title we can work with.

Yeah.

Isn't that a stunning thought? The way that Jesus addresses the Father is now what the Spirit comes into our hearts, that we might experience the joy and the gladness and the security and the comfort of talking to God the way God's Son spoke to God, the Father.

Tom Schreiner says that Abba, the word Abba, in contemporary language, the believer who cries out, Abba, Father, with great reverence, is confessing, essentially, the Father is my Father.

Is that good? That's assurance.

That's what assurance means, essentially it means.

So when we look at the historic interpretations of people like Calvin, Christendom, Grudem, which I disagree on something, Piper, I disagree on something.

Schreiner, Kossenberger, I studied him.

Moo, I studied him.

So these are held texts by distinguished scholars, distinguishing the prophecy as a private instruction, a deconal service, or a patronage from the overseer of the public teaching of the office.

You're missing it there.

It wasn't a local custom.

Thomas Schreiner, if you lack education to the issue, Paul would have said so.

And if you, I got a couple of his, he wrote some old, old stuff.