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 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 Election, Faith, Free Grace, Gospel, Grace, Reconciliation, Redemption, Romans 10, Romans 9, Salvation, Sovereignty on December 3, 2007 | No Comments »
From Romans chapter 9 through to 11 the apostle Paul considers that people whom God has chosen to save. This is a people chosen not according to their birth in the flesh, but chosen in Christ from before the foundation of the world, who in time are born again of the Holy Spirit. They are [...]
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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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“THAT GRACE MIGHT REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS” Romans 5:21
“That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:21
Grace Reigns…
This verse sets before us, in stark contrast, two reigns - two rules, two dominions, two powers - and the effects of their [...]
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ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL?
In the epistle to the Romans the Apostle Paul declares boldly that:- “…I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed [...]
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