It is not a hopeless struggle in which the believer is engaged, but one in which victory is certain. Because God dwells outside of time, He often speaks to us in His written Word as if we have already been perfected. Now in His infinite view, that is exactly what the Gospel [...]
Beginning in Chapter 6, Paul now begins to move from justification to sanctification. And he tells us here that the very first critical step to living the victorious Christian life, is that of acquiring the correct knowledge. And so sound doctrine is the launching pad for Paul’s teaching on sanctification, and he [...]
Unlike any other religious system or worldly philosophy, Christians have a historical archeological empirical basis upon which to stand concerning His love for us. Though there is nothing wrong with feelings and emotions, God has seen fit to give us great evidence in the death and resurrection of His Son, that we [...]
After taking 4 Chapters to explain to us the NEED for justification, Paul now turns in Chapter 5 to teach us of the BENEFITS of justification, and they are spectacular. Paul explains to the believers in ancient Rome and indeed believers everywhere - that our being justified by faith alone brings great [...]
The reason Jewish Christians in the early Church were still under bondage to the Law, was because 1st century Jews were more captivated by what their famous Rabbis taught than they were with the Scriptures. 2000 years we later we suffer from the same ill, as the American Church pays more attention [...]
In Romans Chapter 4, the Apostle Paul brings two witnesses to the stand in Abraham and David, to show the religious Jew and indeed all of us, that God has always justified a person by faith alone. Now this is something organized religion doesn’t want you to know, because it’s far easier [...]
The Apostle Paul rolls out the remarkable doctrine of justification by faith, as the solution to human depravity he spent the last 2 Chapters making a case for. What is stunning concerning the doctrine of justification for those in Christ, is that any and every record of our wrong doing before the [...]
The Apostle Paul takes the righteousness of the human heart into the courtroom for our final study in the doctrine of depravity in Romans Chapter 3. Before making his closing arguments, he allows an imaginary Jewish debater to cross examine the case he has been making since Chapter 1. The only way [...]
Paul continues his diatribe in Romans Chapter 2, trying to bring every one of his readers to understand their desperate need for the Gospel. Now the great Apostle is not trying to get his hearers to straighten up and fly right, but rather he is seeking to systematically strip them of any [...]
