Posted: March 18, 2023
Why did the “old man” have to die? “For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.” Romans 6:12, NET. Here the Apostle Paul presents the good news in a nutshell. Unfortunately, many of the first-century believers misunderstood what Paul was saying. Accordingly, Paul endured much grief
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Posted: March 10, 2023
The solution to the human sin problem. “We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.” Romans 6:6, NET. The human spirit God put into humankind on the day Adam was created sinned
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Posted: March 3, 2023
Freed from sin’s dominion. An overview. “What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” Romans 6:1 -2, NET. How did the sinful humankind fie to sin? Some first-century Christians maintained that sin was justifiable.
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Posted: February 24, 2023
Freed from sin’s dominion. An overview. We understand from the previous blogs that because of disobedience by one man Adam, the whole of humankind became helpless slaves to sin. Sin was the lord over humanity until the cross at Golgotha. However, God destroyed sin and the sinful human spirit on the cross at Golgotha forever.
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Posted: February 17, 2023
The amplification of the concept of justification. The earlier blogs presented Paul’s forceful assertion that the justification of sinful humankind was because of God’s love and the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. God loves humankind so much that he delayed the punishment for sin in the garden of Eden. He delayed his wrath against sin to
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Posted: February 10, 2023
The benefit of justification by the faithfulness of Jesus. “Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.” Romans 5:1 –
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Posted: February 3, 2023
Did all people sin in Adam or like Adam? “Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.” Romans 5:18. God created humankind (all its members) in one Man, Adam, on the sixth day of creation. God breathed
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Posted: January 28, 2023
The illustration of justification continued. Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.” Romans 5:18, NET. The Greek text also reads that just as one transgression that applied to all people came condemnation of all people came
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Posted: January 20, 2023
The illustration of justification continued. “But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness. Romans 4:5, NET. Jews could not accept that legal justification could be granted to those who did not obey the law of Moses. The Jewish law
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Posted: January 14, 2023
The illustration of justification continued. In Paul’s time, the Jewish Christians insisted that non-Jewish Christians must obey the requirements of the law of Moses, including circumcision. They insisted that obedience to the law of Moses was required to justify sinners. Paul counteracts this claim with a logical argument. “Now to the one who works, his
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