Category: Studies in Romans

Think of the dimensions of God’s love, dying for us while we were still sinners.  Think of the fact that enemies have brought into the very family of God and have a spectacular resurrection to look forward to.  Let’s rejoice in God for what he has done, for what he is doing, even in our suffering, and what he will do on the Last Day.

There are many blessings of justification: we have peace with God, we stand each day in his generous grace, and we have something quite awesome to look forward to, the display of God’s glory in the earth, in us, and in Christ.

You don’t want to miss out on these things. Why not come to Jesus in prayer, admitting your need of forgiveness, and placing your confidence in Jesus and his work? You will never regret doing so.

Just as Abraham was justified in God’s sight by believing God, rather than by stacking up credits by our feeble efforts at obeying God’s Law, we can be justified by believing that we are justified in God’s sight in exactly the same way – by faith in the Gospel!

Friends, the way of faith is the only way. And in that it does a number of key things:
• It leads to our boasting and pride being squashed.
• It leads us to radically God-centred lives
• It leads us to the path of great blessing, of sins forgiven, of conscience cleansed, of restored fellowship with our God.

If we are Christians, how much of God’s wrath can we receive on the Day of Judgement? The answer is none! Jesus has already absorbed all the anger of cross when he experienced Hell in our place. There is no wrath left for us. Hallelujah!

Sermon: Sunday, 29th September, 2024 Speaker: John Johnstone Scripture: Romans 2:1 – 3:8 It can be heart-breaking when people trust in the wrong things or

Why is the gospel such good news? Because all people need to be saved. None of us is righteous. Pagans aren’t righteous and respectable and moral people aren’t righteous. How much we all need God’s righteousness! Why then will you not come to Jesus and ask for it?

We often think of God’s love, sending his own Son to die to pay the price for our sin and to gift us his goodness. But there’s also a more unpopular truth – the wrath of God. God will not be mocked. When God is rejected, what happens? Society starts to unravel.

What makes the gospel powerful for all who believe? It drives us to the lowest place as it reveals a righteousness we don’t have and then it lifts us to the glorious heights of God providing it for us on the basis of faith in Jesus Christ. Place your faith in him and in him receive the righteousness that is by faith.

Paul’s letter to the Romans is a wonderful book; it tells us of God’s good news – the gospel – and our need to be made clean and whole by coming in faith to Jesus Christ.