As Christians we are under new management. We were under Adam and the covenant of works. Now, we are under Christ and the covenant of grace. We have new status, new life and we are a new person. But sin is lurking.
As Christians we are under new management. We were under Adam and the covenant of works. Now, we are under Christ and the covenant of grace. We have new status, new life and we are a new person. But sin is lurking.
There is a law and yet we are free. We live in tension between the two. Paul tells us we are wretched, but we are rescued. Some believe that the law saves them but Paul shows how this is not true.
Under what man are you living? Under Adam or Christ? The covenant of the law under Adam, resulting in death for everyone? Or the covenant of grace under Christ offering life to everyone who accepts Him?
Maybe we think the best thing in the world would be to be rich, have a good job, be a top athlete, have a great family. Justification is THE best thing in the world. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. God gives blessing after blessing – peace, access into God’s presence, hope, love, his […]
New year’s headlines may seem irrelevant. Here’s another one: ‘Abraham was justified by faith’. What does it mean? We could ask ‘how were people saved before Jesus came’? It’s not harking back to distant history; it applies today too. Why should we want to be ‘children of Abraham’?
We all love to hear good news. Over the last 3 studies in Romans we have been reading how we are bad, we live in a bad society. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’. In this passage we hear that a ‘righteousness from God has been revealed’. We look this […]
We have heard a lot in the papers about the ‘Paradise Papers’ and tax avoidance, Hollywood stars’ behaviour against young women, and in the UK Parliament too. In this passage we see the Jews do not practice what they preach either.
Today’s society is like this; inclined to breaking God’s Law and pretending that God doesn’t exist. In verse 18 of this passage of the Bible, it says that the wrath of God is being revealed.
Which do you find easier to read, a political biography or a textbook on politics? We read the gospels and Acts and see the explosion of the church after Jesus’ death. As we start our studies in Romans, we see a more theoretical approach to the gospel.