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A Living, Holy, Acceptable Sacrifice (Part 2)
As Paul moves to his instructions for what a life shaped by the gospel looks like, he begins with an appeal. His appeal is that his readers would live as sacrifices to God. What kind of sacrifices are we to be? How does this define for us what true worship is? What would prevent us from becoming these sacrifices? What is the catalyst that leads us to this kind of gospel-shaped sacrifice? All this is answered in two really important verses of this book.
Romans 12:1-2 | As Paul moves to his instructions for what a life shaped by the gospel looks like, he begins with an appeal. His appeal is that his readers would live as sacrifices to God. What kind of sacrifices are we to be? How does this define for us what true worship is? What would prevent us from becoming these sacrifices? What is the catalyst that leads us to this kind of gospel-shaped sacrifice? All this is answered in two really important verses of this book.
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A Living, Holy, Acceptable Sacrifice
As Paul moves to his instructions for what a life shaped by the gospel looks like, he begins with an appeal. His appeal is that his readers would live as sacrifices to God. What kind of sacrifices are we to be? How does this define for us what true worship is? What would prevent us from becoming these sacrifices? What is the catalyst that leads us to this kind of gospel-shaped sacrifice? All this is answered in two really important verses of this book.
Romans 12:1-2 | As Paul moves to his instructions for what a life shaped by the gospel looks like, he begins with an appeal. His appeal is that his readers would live as sacrifices to God. What kind of sacrifices are we to be? How does this define for us what true worship is? What would prevent us from becoming these sacrifices? What is the catalyst that leads us to this kind of gospel-shaped sacrifice? All this is answered in two really important verses of this book.
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Wickedness, Rain, Wrath, and Grace
Noah's Ark. This remarkable story of a catastrophic, global flood where God's wrath is poured out on the utter depravity of the world. And yet, God's mercy and kindness is all over this story as he preserves some through an ark-shaped vessel of his mercy. As we look at this story, I pray we see both the fullness of God's wrath toward wickedness, and the riches of his grace and mercy. Most of all, may we see how this global flood points us to gospel glories!
Genesis 6:5-9:17 | Noah's Ark. This remarkable story of a catastrophic, global flood where God's wrath is poured out on the utter depravity of the world. And yet, God's mercy and kindness is all over this story as he preserves some through an ark-shaped vessel of his mercy. As we look at this story, I pray we see both the fullness of God's wrath toward wickedness, and the riches of his grace and mercy. Most of all, may we see how this global flood points us to gospel glories!
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A Heart-Turning Fire
It is time to come back to the Lord. There are times we run from God. Sometimes those are blatantly obvious by the outward expressions of our life. Other times everything looks good on the outside, but we are spiritually cold on the inside. In 1 Kings 18 we see a showdown between Elijah and the prophets of Baal that turns the people's hearts back to the Lord. As we walk through this story together, there are three things we need to see and act if we need to return wholeheartedly to the Lord as well.
1 Kings 18:20-40 | It is time to come back to the Lord. There are times we run from God. Sometimes those are blatantly obvious by the outward expressions of our life. Other times everything looks good on the outside, but we are spiritually cold on the inside. In 1 Kings 18 we see a showdown between Elijah and the prophets of Baal that turns the people's hearts back to the Lord. As we walk through this story together, there are three things we need to see and act if we need to return wholeheartedly to the Lord as well.
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God and Goliath
1 Samuel 17
1 Samuel 17 | We all love a good underdog story. Which has made David and Goliath such a household story even for those who have never read a Bible. But what if this isn't as much of an underdog story as many think? And what if the ultimate battle isn't even David vs. Goliath but God vs. Goliath? Let's walk through it together.
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A Grafting God
God's ways are not our ways. We see this throughout this section of Romans. God is doing a great work for maximum redemption of both Jew and Gentile, and he is carrying that out in a way he knows is best. Paul says a remnant of Israel has been chosen by grace, the rest have been hardened, but we see in this week's passage how God is using even that hardening for greater salvation for Jew and Gentile alike.
Romans 11:11-24 | God's ways are not our ways. We see this throughout this section of Romans. God is doing a great work for maximum redemption of both Jew and Gentile, and he is carrying that out in a way he knows is best. Paul says a remnant of Israel has been chosen by grace, the rest have been hardened, but we see in this week's passage how God is using even that hardening for greater salvation for Jew and Gentile alike.
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A Remnant of Grace
Romans 10 ends a bit heavy with these words Paul quotes describing Israel's heart, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people." This leads him to begin chapter 11 with a really important question: Has God rejected his people? The answer to that is an emphatic no. God is redeeming a remnant of grace from within Israel while he is hardening the rest. But even God's hardening has redemptive purposes of which we will uncover as we make our way through Romans 11. This Sunday we sit in the glorious realities of grace and, Lord willing, will leave with deeper gratitude for the grace of God.
Romans 11:1-10 | Romans 10 ends a bit heavy with these words Paul quotes describing Israel's heart, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people." This leads him to begin chapter 11 with a really important question: Has God rejected his people? The answer to that is an emphatic no. God is redeeming a remnant of grace from within Israel while he is hardening the rest. But even God's hardening has redemptive purposes of which we will uncover as we make our way through Romans 11. This Sunday we sit in the glorious realities of grace and, Lord willing, will leave with deeper gratitude for the grace of God.
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God's Righteousness or Self-Righteousness?
The anthem over all of Romans is that the gospel is the power of God to save all who believe, both Jew and Gentile. As we come to Romans 9, we see Paul's burden for the Jewish people who are still lost and have not believed the gospel. He raises an important question: Has God's word somehow failed? Is God's promise to save not powerful enough to save so many Jews still lost? Paul's answer to this is massive as it teaches us in some of the clearest language in all the Bible of the power and beauty of God's providence to save those he is calling to himself.
Romans 9:30-10:13 | What is one of the quietest yet deadliest hindrances to people believing the gospel and receiving God's righteousness in Christ? Self-righteousness. When we are seeking to establish a righteousness of our own, on our own, we are denying the work of Christ and the righteousness of God that is found only in him. In this passage we will be warned of the deadly work self-righteousness does to get us to reject the gospel, and also the good news of how we receive God's righteousness by believing on Christ as Lord.
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God's Promise Keeping Providence (Part 2)
The anthem over all of Romans is that the gospel is the power of God to save all who believe, both Jew and Gentile. As we come to Romans 9, we see Paul's burden for the Jewish people who are still lost and have not believed the gospel. He raises an important question: Has God's word somehow failed? Is God's promise to save not powerful enough to save so many Jews still lost? Paul's answer to this is massive as it teaches us in some of the clearest language in all the Bible of the power and beauty of God's providence to save those he is calling to himself.
Romans 9:1-29 | The anthem over all of Romans is that the gospel is the power of God to save all who believe, both Jew and Gentile. As we come to Romans 9, we see Paul's burden for the Jewish people who are still lost and have not believed the gospel. He raises an important question: Has God's word somehow failed? Is God's promise to save not powerful enough to save so many Jews still lost? Paul's answer to this is massive as it teaches us in some of the clearest language in all the Bible of the power and beauty of God's providence to save those he is calling to himself.
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God's Promise Keeping Providence
The anthem over all of Romans is that the gospel is the power of God to save all who believe, both Jew and Gentile. As we come to Romans 9, we see Paul's burden for the Jewish people who are still lost and have not believed the gospel. He raises an important question: Has God's word somehow failed? Is God's promise to save not powerful enough to save so many Jews still lost? Paul's answer to this is massive as it teaches us in some of the clearest language in all the Bible of the power and beauty of God's providence to save those he is calling to himself.
Romans 9:1-29 | The anthem over all of Romans is that the gospel is the power of God to save all who believe, both Jew and Gentile. As we come to Romans 9, we see Paul's burden for the Jewish people who are still lost and have not believed the gospel. He raises an important question: Has God's word somehow failed? Is God's promise to save not powerful enough to save so many Jews still lost? Paul's answer to this is massive as it teaches us in some of the clearest language in all the Bible of the power and beauty of God's providence to save those he is calling to himself.
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God's Help in Our Present Groaning
There is no denying that this world is filled with heartaches that give us a heavenly homesickness. Last week we saw that in the groaning of our heartaches, the Lord lifts our eyes to the splendor of future glory. This week we see that not only does the Lord lift our eyes to future glory in our present groanings, but he is also so kind and good to give us very tangible help in our present sufferings. What are these helps and assurances that the Lord gives his people in the present groaning of life? Let's look at these together in Romans 8:26-30.
Romans 8:26-30 | There is no denying that this world is filled with heartaches that give us a heavenly homesickness. Last week we saw that in the groaning of our heartaches, the Lord lifts our eyes to the splendor of future glory. This week we see that not only does the Lord lift our eyes to future glory in our present groanings, but he is also so kind and good to give us very tangible help in our present sufferings. What are these helps and assurances that the Lord gives his people in the present groaning of life? Let's look at these together in Romans 8:26-30.
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The Holy Spirit, Life, and Adoption
Romans 8:9-17 | "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Those words hang as the headline of hope over Romans 8. The rest of the chapter unpacks this reality leaving us with a deep abiding assurance that those words are true. As we turn to verses 9-17 this week we see that now free from condemnation, we have life in the Spirit and our adoption as children of God is sealed by the Spirit. You never have to wonder again how deep the Father's love is for you!
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A Mind Set On The Spirit
Romans 8:5-8 | The joy Romans 8 evokes in the heart of a believer is through the roof. There is now no condemnation in Christ. This means Jesus has removed all of the curse and penalty, and this includes the curse over our minds. We now walk in the Spirit with our minds set on the things of the Spirit. So what does it mean that our minds are now set on the things of the Spirit? How do we cooperate with the Spirit in the setting of our minds? What is the amazing fruit that will be born in our thinking with our minds set on the Spirit? We will talk through all of those from Romans 8:5-8 this week.
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No Condemnation In Christ
Romans 8:1-4 | The 20th-century London preacher Martyn Lloyd-Jones said, "Someone has said that in the whole of the Scriptures the brightest and the most lustrous and flashing stone, or collection of stones, is this Epistle to the Romans, and that chapter 8 is the brightest gem in the cluster. The most moving chapter in Romans is this chapter 8." How fitting that we begin Romans 8 on Resurrection Sunday. This week we will worship deeply over this great truth: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
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Good Law, Bad Sin, Great Savior
In Romans 7 Paul announces that we have died to the law through Christ, have now been joined to Christ, and thus now have power to bear fruit for God. This is good news because the law instead of remedying sin has actually aroused sin. But this raises a really important question: Does this mean the law is bad or sinful? Paul sets out to answer that question in this paragraph and as he does here is what we will see: God's law is good, our sin is bad, and our Savior is great.
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Dead to Law & Wedded to Christ
Romans 7:1-6 | We have died to the law through Christ. But won't that kind of thinking lead us to more and more sin? No, quite the opposite. To be dead to the law is to be wedded to Christ, and to be wedded to Christ is to bear fruit for God. How does all this work together? Paul tells us as Romans 7 begins.
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Slaves To Righteousness
Romans 6:15-23 | We are dead to sin! The good news of the gospel is that we have died with Christ and in dying with Christ we are dead to sin. But we have been raised with Christ as well! And in being raised, there are some beautiful things we are now alive to. One of these things we are now alive to is righteousness. We are no longer slaves to sin, but slaves to righteousness. How do we know what we are truly slaves to? What characterizes someone who is now a slave to righteousness? What does slavery to righteousness lead to? These questions get answered as we finish Romans 6 together today.
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Dead To Sin, Alive to God
If we are in Christ, we are dead to sin. What does it look like to lay hold of this reality and live in light of it? This week, as we continue in Romans 6, we will look at the promise, the perspective, and the practical instruction to live in light of the reality that we are dead to sin and alive to God in Christ.
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Death in Adam, Life in Christ
Romans 5:12-21 | Only two options can be true of our lives. We are either still in Adam or we are now in Christ. We are either still in sin or have been made righteous by Christ. We are either dead in that sin or have been made alive in Christ. In this section of Romans, Paul brings to bear the cancerous reality that in Adam sin has spread, infecting all of us, leaving all of us under its terminal death sentence. But a Greater Adam has come...and this Greater Adam has reversed the curse. And once we are in Him we move from sin to righteousness, from bondage to grace, from death to life. Are you still in Adam, in your sin, and subject to death-OR- are you in Christ, made righteous, enjoying his everlasting life?
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Three Blessings For Those Justified By Faith | Part 2
In the last section of the letter to the Romans, Paul has been hammering this reality that we are justified (or declared righteous) by faith. Chapter five starts with this really important word, "Therefore..." With this word, Paul now will begin to unpack the blessings that flow from the fact that we have been justified by faith. In Romans 5:1-5 we are going to see, understand, and worship over three blessings for those justified by faith. Last week we looked at the first two blessings, this week we look at the third blessing for those justified by faith.
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