Hello Sweet Friends,
Today’s Reading … Romans 4-16
Paul’s letter to the Romans presents his core teachings of faith in Christ: the universality of sin; the powerlessness of the law to make us right before God; the power of God’s saving act in Christ’s death and resurrection; and believers receiving that power and forgiveness of sins by faith in Christ. The first 3 chapters describe the hell of sin. The last 5 chapters describe the heaven of holiness. The intervening chapters describe Christ, the Way to relationship with God.
The message of Romans is found in chapter 1, verses 16-17.
-The person of the Gospel – Christ
-The power of the Gospel – God
-The purpose of the Gospel – salvation
-The people to whom the Gospel is sent – everyone
-The plan of acceptance- believe
-The particular result – the righteous will live by faith
-Through Christ, by the power of God, everyone who believes receives salvation and will be made righteous in order to live a life of faith.
What does it mean to live a life of faith? We find the answer in Chapters 6 – Know, Count, Offer:
1. “Know” that Christ died for you (Romans 6:3,5,10).
“Know” that you died with Christ (Romans 6:8).
2. “Count” on this: “You are dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:11).
3. “Offer” yourself(Romans 6:13): “Offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life…”
(What the Bible is All About).
That is our mission: Know, Count, Offer.
We have been redeemed for a purpose. We have a calling. We tend to over complicate things but there is no guesswork here. We know that our salvation is secure, we count on our future being secure and we offer ourselves to a purpose that is secure. We can move forward confidently today in clarity, security and the power of God.
Love you all,
Kinsee
“so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return empty, but accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:11).
