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“But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” Romans 7:6

 

IN chapter seven of Romans Paul teaches the believer’s deliverance from the law, and the effect of the law experimentally upon the awakened [...]

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“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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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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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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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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“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God, by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement [substitution].” Romans 5:10-11
 
PEACE with God. [...]

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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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