Salvation Depends on God’s Mercy – Romans 9:16
Salvation is only by God’s mercy and grace. There is nothing I can do to earn it. Nor will it come about through human desire.
Encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12 NIV)
Studies from the epistle of Paul to the church at Rome
Salvation is only by God’s mercy and grace. There is nothing I can do to earn it. Nor will it come about through human desire.
As a child of God I am his heir, so long as I am willing to suffer for Christ. But that suffering is nothing compared to the glory that awaits me as God’s heir.
The war within the believer between the old man and the new is a reality for all of us. But his Spirit enables us to have victory.
As a believer, I am in Christ, and participate in his death, burial, and resurrection. My life should reflect that , being dead to sin and alive in Christ.
How do you respond to the challenges of life? Paul, and others, tells us to glory in our suffering because of what it produces in our lives.
Abraham is the example of salvation by faith and not by works. Abraham believed God, and God credited it to him as righteousness.
It is by God’s grace that I have been freely justified through faith in Christ Jesus. A gift freely given and totally undeserved.
Believers are called to be in community, not to be Lone Rangers. We need to gather together to encourage one another and to provide avenues for service.
Paul tells us that all human governments have been established my God and we are to submit to them. Unless they violate the highest authority.
I have been called to be a part of the body of Christ. And as a body part, I have a part to play. And if I don’t, then I am hurting the body
How well does my life honor God. What kind of an impression do others form of God based on what they see in my life as his child?
The gospel message is at the heart of Romans. It is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe, bringing us his righteousness.