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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 to the condemnation of God, and they need redemption according to God provided to them freely. They can’t save themselves. But in Romans, chapter 2, he goes on to make it very clear that the Jews, too, apart from Christ stand in need of redemption. Now there’s a message for us today. That not…

God Gave Them Over (2)

Romans 1:26-27 God Gave Them Over (2) If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, Chapter 1. The first seventeen verses of Romans are shot through with the gospel, even though to a large extent they are introductory. In the first seven verses Paul is giving greetings to the Roman churches. Even in the context of those verses he draws attention to the gospel in verses 11 through 15. He’s basically sharing the shape of his desire for coming to minister at Rome, and even in those words the gospel is present. In verses 16 and 17 he gives you a summarization of the gospel, the theme of the whole of the rest of his book; and he tells why he’s so excited about the gospel. Why the gospel just leaves him in wonder and bafflement when he thinks about it. And it’s almost…

The Shame of Judah

Genesis 38:1-30The Shame of Judah If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 38. The last couple of weeks we have been launching into a study of the final section of the book of Genesis, chapters 37 through 50, and the story of the life of Joseph. And as we have said several times, it's important to note a couple of things about this section of the book. First, the story of Joseph tells us how Israel wound up in Egypt. That's so important to the fulfillment of God's promises and he had already told Abraham in Genesis 15, verses 13 and 14 that his descendants would be strangers in a strange land and they would be oppressed for a number of years. And the story of Joseph tells us how the children of Israel got to Egypt. Secondly, the story of Joseph…

From Jacob to Israel

Genesis 35:1-9From Jacob to Israel If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 35. Tonight we come to a portion of the life of Jacob in which we are drawing towards the close of Moses’ focus on him as one of the patriarchs. It's interesting, for most of his adult life Isaac, his father, has continued to live, and in some senses to be the lead patriarch in the family which God is building. And as we have said many times in our studies from Genesis 30 on,…

Peter’s Denial

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 26, the 69th verse of that chapter, as we come now to the end of this passage, which we have said all along is preparatory to the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every event recorded by Matthew, in Matthew, chapter 26 prepares us for what we are going to see in Matthew, chapter 27 on the day of our Lord’s crucifixion. It sets the stage and such is the case with the passage we are studying today. Let me just say as…

A Stormy Walk-Clinging to God

Genesis 32:24-32A Stormy Walk — Clinging to God If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 32 as we continue our study in the life of Jacob. As we have worked through Genesis 30 and 31 and the first part of Genesis 32 we have said over and over that God is teaching Jacob to trust Him and to acknowledge Him alone. And that's the lesson that continues tonight in this very well-known passage. As well known as this passage is, it's a mysterious passage.…

The Sons of Jacob

Genesis 30:1-24 The Sons of Jacob If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 30. We've been working through the life of Jacob for several weeks now, and we've seen that the consequences of Rebekah and Jacob's schemes, their sins, though they first became apparent in Genesis 27, verses 30 through 46 and though they were in the background in Genesis, chapter 28, and in the first part of Genesis, chapter 29. Genesis 29, verses 1 through 20. They…

The Establishment of a Covenant People: The Covenant…

Genesis 25:1-11 The Death of Abraham If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 25. For All the Saints, a great hymn to sing, as we come to this place in Moses’ Book where he tells of the death of that great father of the faithful, Abraham. We've been studying in Genesis for the last few times in the life of Isaac. We've said that as Genesis 24 opens, Abraham is still alive, but the focus is now on Isaac and his establishment as the future head of the…

The Establishment of a Covenant People: The Promises of…

Genesis 20:1-18 Sarah Protected Well, for the last two weeks we have dwelt in the abyss of sin and judgment in Genesis 19 and tonight we climb out. But the view that greets us in Genesis 20 is hard. The father of the faithful when last we saw him was fervently interceding for those who were under judgment and condemnation and then was silently watching in the aftermath of God's judgment against Sodom. But here we find him stumbling again. By way of qualification we should point out that a…

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