For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. I had no peace (Romans 5:1) when I was an unsaved man, I was at war with God, I was His enemy! Colossians 1:21. I wanted all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life 1 John 2:16 I didn’t want…
Romans 6 is now complete, we finished up Romans 6:21-23 this past Sunday and it was truly a wonderful time in the word of God. This is not an exhausted study, but a brief overview in what we learned. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to…
Paul says in the very first words Romans 6:3 Or do you not know? (Know what?) …. that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. We learned last week that Paul anticipated…
We had a great time in the word of God in our Romans class, I ended my teaching section of Romans with Romans 6:1, 2. I remember writing a post on this last January, but its an important enough issue to revisit, first here is the text we learned in Church this past Lord’s day. so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus…
Birth is both the cause and the cure, when I read that recently in preparing my lesson for Sunday school, I thought to myself it’s as easy as that. Jesus said it Himself in John 3:3 “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” But really is it that easy to be born again? How are we born again after being born in such sin,…
I’m preparing to teach on Adams fall in Romans 5:12 which says Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— I came across this from Thomas Brooks…… Adam’s first estate was a state of perfect knowledge, wisdom and understanding. It was a perfect state of holiness, righteousness and happiness. There was nothing within him, but what was desirable…
The war is over we are no longer threatened by God’s wrath so Paul can write in Romans 5:1 “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”, therefore having been saved by grace through faith not of ourselves Ephesians 2:8, 9 we are no longer at war with God… You might be saying I was never at war with God and I would say yes you…
I have a lot I want to tell you about Church this past Lord’s day, but know that is impossible, I would love to share with you the continued sermon series in Galatians that My Pastor is preaching, how he explained to us in Galatians 4:21-31 what it means to be a slave or free. I would love to share with you Sunday evening when we met to share in the baptism of fourteen…
We were talking in Sunday school about the faith of Abraham, how he didn’t waver in his unbelief, but grew stronger in his faith Romans 4:20. We have all heard and read the definition of faith, faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen Hebrews 11:1… That’s Abraham! I love in Romans 4:19 where it says he was contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was…
It is always instructive, it is always enlightening, it is sometimes literally scintillating to turn to the pages of God and see what it has to say and how relevantly it speaks to our time and to our lives. That will be true tonight as we turn in our Bibles to the first chapter of Romans. Romans chapter 1 and we’re going to be looking at a somewhat familiar portion of Scripture to anyone…
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