Posted in Assurance, Election, Faith, Free Grace, Gospel, Grace, Justification, Love of God, Reconciliation, Redemption, Romans 8, Salvation, Sovereignty, tagged Assurance, Conversion, Faith, Gospel, Hope, New Birth, Quickening, Repentance, Romans 8, Salvation on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” Romans 8:1.
So opens the eighth chapter of Romans - one of the most glorious and assuring passages of scripture for the believer. Here faith’s victory over all its foes is assured because [...]
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Posted in Faith, Free Grace, Gospel, Grace, Justification, Preaching, Reconciliation, Redemption, Romans 15, Salvation, The Church on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
In chapter 15 of Romans Paul first concludes his thoughts from chapter 14 by encouraging the brethren to serve one another in love, to encourage one another, to edify one another. By pointing them to Christ and His example Paul encourages that unity of the brethren in their love for Christ and one another that [...]
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Posted in Death, Faith, Faith of Christ, Free Grace, Gospel, Grace, Justification, Reconciliation, Redemption, Righteousness, Romans 3, Salvation, Sin, Sovereignty, Substitution on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
“But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference” Romans 3:21-22
The man who has heard the sound of God’s alarm [...]
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Posted in Assurance, Death, Faith, Gospel, Grace, Justification, Love of God, Righteousness, Romans 6, Romans 7, Romans 8, Salvation, Sin on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
What shall we say then? - Romans 6:1
Paul, having set forth the doctrine of Christ in the Gospel from chapters 1 to 5 in Romans, then begins to show its consequences in the next three chapters. He commences by asking a question: What shall we say then? … In the light of all that has [...]
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Posted in Election, Faith, Faith of Christ, Free Grace, Gospel, Grace, Justification, Redemption, Righteousness, Romans 3, Romans 4, Salvation, Sin, Sovereignty on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Abraham Believed God
“For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for rightesouness” Romans 4:3
HAVING presented the work of God in justifying sinners “freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus”, Paul goes on at the close of chapter 3 to present three hypothetical questions which [...]
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Posted in Faith, Faith of Christ, Free Grace, Gospel, Grace, Justification, Redemption, Righteousness, Romans 3, Salvation, Sin, Substitution on November 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In Romans 3:21 we read of the revelation or manifestation of the righteousness of God in the Gospel - the glorious ‘but now’ of Romans 3. This wonderful, foundational, truth of the Gospel through which the sinner is justified by having the very righteousness of God imputed to him as a result of the death [...]
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