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 Apostasy, Election, Faith, Free Grace, Gospel, Grace, Preaching, Romans 11, Salvation, Sin, Sovereignty on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
In Romans 11:26, in concluding his consideration of just who the true Israel of God is - that people chosen by God from amongst both Jews and Gentiles, that people called out from every tribe and kindred, from the four corners of the earth, all who are brought to faith in Christ, the election of [...]
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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, Free Grace, Gospel, Grace, Law, Righteousness, Romans 7, Salvation, Sin on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“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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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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“…We, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another” Romans 12:5
“And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence” Colossians 1:18
Having considered in chapter 9 to 11 of Romans just [...]
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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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In the closing chapter of Romans Paul concludes his epistle by sending greetings to the brothers and sisters gathered in the church at Rome and reaffirms his confidence in the message of the Gospel delivered to the saints.
Having addressed the saints in chapter 1 and commended their unity in Jesus Christ, in whom they were called through the [...]
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