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Submitted by Brian on Fri, 13/03/2009 - 16:24

Romans - Week 11 –Chapter 7 - The Triumph of Grace over the Power of the Law

Rom 7:1-25

Or do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to those who know the law--that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

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Submitted by Brian on Fri, 06/03/2009 - 15:04

Weeks 9 & 10 – Romans 5 – Holy Living!

Rom 6:1-23 Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? Rom 6:2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Rom 6:3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Rom 6:4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. Rom 6:5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. Rom 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
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Submitted by Brian on Thu, 12/02/2009 - 14:08

Week 8 Chapter 5 continuing TRIUMPH!

You may or may not be aware that I love some of the old Greek words used in our Bible. I have a program on the computer that gives me a new word for every day, on Thursday as I was beginning to put my thoughts together, when I saw my word for the day, I thought this is not a good start for the day! My word for Thursday was ‘nekros’  which means dead, it’s the word used in our New Testaments for being spiritually dead – unsaved –lost. And then I read verse 12 to 21 of Romans chapter 5 and thought, it’s not a bad word after all. Because you have to be spiritually dead to appreciate grace and justification!

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Submitted by Brian on Sat, 07/02/2009 - 18:11

Week 7 The Blessings of Justification - Living like a King!

Our justification is not simply a guarantee of heaven, as thrilling as that is, but it is also a source of wonderful blessing that we enjoy in the here and now.

 

So let us read the first 11 verses of chapter 5

 

I think this is exciting stuff…

 

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Submitted by Brian on Sun, 25/01/2009 - 09:43

Week 6 Romans Chapter 4 Justified!

Week 6     Romans Chapter 4    Justified!

 

This is one of those chapters that as a Christian, we should seek to master, because it explains how God justifies (declares righteous) ungodly people – you and me, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Submitted by Brian on Sat, 17/01/2009 - 13:37

Romans Week 5 Chapter 3 - Good News - Bad News

After wondering whether God had made a big mistake and realising that it was man who had made the big mistake and gone awfully wrong, we now come to the chapter that is effectively the ‘Bridge of Grace’…

 

Rom 3:1  Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Rom 3:2  Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

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