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David Understood Justification by Faith

Romans 4:4-8 David Understood Justification by Faith If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 4. We’ve been looking at this great theme of justification for a number of weeks now, especially as we’ve worked through Romans, chapter 3. Paul there has been explaining justification. Justification simply refers to God’s declaring us to be righteous. And he’s been explaining in Romans 3 exactly how it is that God goes about declaring us to be righteous. One thing that he has been stressing is that it is not our own righteousness that leads God to declare us to be righteous. It is Christ’s righteousness that leads God to declare us to be righteous. How is it that we then take benefit, how do we gain benefit from Christ’s righteousness through faith,…

Faith Alone

Romans 3:27-31 (2) Faith Alone If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3. We’re going to be looking again at that same section that we’ve been pondering for the last couple of weeks beginning in verse 27. Romans 3:27-31. As we do so, we’re going to concentrate especially on Paul’s statement in verse 28 and two parts of that statement. This sermon is sort of a spill over from what was supposed to be a three-point sermon. So you’re going to get two points today. I’m going to be looking at two questions. Two simple questions. What’s so important about being justified by faith alone? Isn’t it a little nit picky to just insist that it’s got to be by faith alone? Paul, aren’t you being a little unreasonable? Martin Luther, aren’t you…

The Instrument by Which We Receive the Righteousness of…

Romans 3:27-31 Faith: The Instrument by Which We Receive the Righteousness of God If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3. We’ve been in Romans 3:21 through 26 for the last few weeks as we have meditated upon this glorious doctrine of justification by grace through faith. And just as Isaiah, before he gives us that beautiful presentation of the gospel of grace which he begins to unfold for us in the 30’s and especially in Isaiah 40 and on. He gives us first the bad news of God’s judgment, warning and woe. So also Paul in Romans, and especially chapters 1 and 2, and the first part of chapter 3 prepares us for the good news with the bad news. The good news makes no sense if we don’t understand the bad news, and if we do not embrace the delivery…

Justification by Grace Through Faith (2)

Romans 3:21-26 (4) Justification by Grace Through Faith If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3, verse 21. We’ll look at this section of Romans one more time. We’ve been working our way through the whole gospel, and we’ve paused, and we have tarried for three weeks, breaking apart Romans 3:21 through 26 into three parts. And today I’d like to perhaps pull it back together, summarize, focus on especially some of the terms which are unfamiliar to us to…

Justification by Grace Through Faith

Romans 3:21-26 (2) Justification by Grace Through Faith If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3, beginning in verse 21. Just to remind you of a couple of things before we look at this great passage today. We’re going to focus on the very end of verse 22, and then verses 23 and 24. But Paul, for more than two chapters, has been telling us the bad news. We’ve said over and over and Romans 1 makes it clear that the Gentiles are under bondage to the law and…

The Prophecy of Israel

Genesis 49:1-33The Prophecy of Israel It seemed appropriate as we come to the passage in Genesis 49, where we hear God's account of the death of His servant, Jacob that we sing for all the saints and we anticipate that day of resurrection, ourselves. If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Genesis 49. Tonight we come to the last words of Jacob, and they are a lasting testimony to the theme of God's providence and to the faith of the Patriarchs in the promises that…

The Land of Goshen

Genesis 47:1-31The Land of Goshen If you have your Bibles, I would ask you to turn to Genesis 47, as we continue to work through this glorious book of Moses. We are really coming to a section which is the beginning of the end. The last couple of weeks, we have exalted in this providential reunion engineered by God, in this family which had been fractured by distrust and mutual loathing. A family which had been plagued by favoritism on the part of Jacob toward some of his sons and over against…

The Reunion

Genesis 45:1-28 The Reunion If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 45. All along as we've studied the life of Joseph, we've said the overarching theme of God's providence is apparent, though Joseph may be the principal human actor, the whole of the story shows God as the one who is the prime mover in the life of Joseph. The story tells us how Joseph's family wound up in Egypt. The story tells us how in God's providence He would make His people…

The Brothers Return to Egypt

Genesis 43:1-34 The Brothers Return to Egypt If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Genesis 43. We have said several times as we have worked through the life of Joseph together that two over-arching purposes in God's providence are apparent as we read the history of Joseph. First of all, the story of Joseph tells us how Israel would up in Egypt in the first place. So that Genesis 15, verses 13 and 14 could be fulfilled. And secondly, it explains how the promise of God…

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