Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
If I made the statement, “it is good to be a democrat,” you might be a little shocked and angered. But that statement could mean several different things. It could mean that I was a welfare recipient, being paid by the government to sit at home and watch...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Secular literature abounds with stories about kidnapings and unjust imprisonments. Perhaps the story was about a child who was being held for ransom and how his parents got him back. Perhaps it was an imprisonment something like “The Count of Monte...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Banff National Park, in the province of Alberta, is one of my favorite places. In driving from Post Falls, to Calgary, the southern route is a little shorter, but I prefer the road that passes north through Banff. Not only are the mountains and rivers spectacular,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Let’s pretend that someone has brought a man to America from the most remote corner of the world. Let’s pretend that his profession back home was murdering other men. He killed people at the command of his tribal chief, or his king, or the leader of the...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
It is so far back in my memory, that I can’t remember if I was the subject or if it was my sister. For the sake of the story, let’s say that it was me. Some time after our family moved from Calgary to Omaha, Nebraska, we were in a store, and I wanted to...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Let’s start with a sad, but totally fictitious story. There is absolutely no truth in this story whatsoever. But I have made up the names in order to protect the guilty. Mr. and Mrs. Dog, had a new puppy born into their family. Their master was as delighted as...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
At this point, I feel that this will be our last message from Romans 1. The only way that I will come back here next week, is if the Lord twists my arm, and I can’t move on. And yet, despite what I said this morning about the delicate nature of this material, I...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Can you imagine what our world would be like, if there were no judges? What if there was no Supreme court, no traffic court, no county court or appellate court? I think that since the heart of man is so corrupt and evil, you can be sure that the majority of our...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
After I fixed in my mind that I wanted to speak from this verse, I started to do my usual research and study. In that process I discovered one of the messages of C.H. Spurgeon. After listening to him preach for a few minutes, I decided to invite him to speak to you...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
How happy would you be, if I told you your favorite author or preacher was scheduled to come to our church? I would hope that you’d be pretty excited. But what if I didn’t tell you the day that he’d be here, just that it would be sometime in the...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
As our Lord Jesus was going about and ministering one day, a certain young man came running up to him. He threw himself on the ground before the Lord and asked a most important and earnest question: “Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Bro. Asmundson called me Thursday morning as he was driving past Ellensburg toward Seattle. He asked, “To whom was the Book of Romans written?” My answer was that Paul was writing to the church in Rome – or perhaps “a” church in Rome....
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I don’t know about you, but I have internet accounts of all kinds by the dozens. I have access to my bank account through the internet. I have an eBay account and a PayPal account, with different passwords. I have an account to buy my vitamins, books, shoes,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
When I was in Bible school, I bought and read a book called “You Can Lead Roman Catholics to Christ.” It was written by a Canadian missionary who claimed that Quebec was the most rabidly Catholic place in all the world. Since then I have heard that same...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I have hesitated on several occasions, thinking about whether or not to continue our study of Romans. My problem has been that this is not only deep and heavy, but it is dark and heavy. Even though there are some positive points in these first three chapters, their...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There is nothing harder than trying to get an really religious man to admit to his need of God’s saving grace. The man who goes to church, and who gave-up a handful of vices like smoking and cursing… The man who was immoral before his marriage, but who...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Paul has just lambasted the Jews for their hypocrisy and heresy. He knew from experience how they highly esteemed their rites and ceremonies. But for the most part, they were empty husks when it came to spiritual realities. So does that mean that there were no...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Just like the Apostle Paul, our Lord Jesus didn’t confine His ministry to the Jews only. Paul begins this book by referring primarily to Gentile people, condemning them for their unbelief. Then in chapter 2 he turns his attention primarily to the Jews and...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
The unbeliever has lots and lots of reasons to hate Bible Christianity. There is the law – which he interprets to be a bunch of rules that he doesn’t want to obey. There is a God Whom he doesn’t want to acknowledge as his King, but Who demands...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I have been debating with myself on how to approach the next paragraph in our study. As I pointed out last week, I consider it to be the Bible’s definitive statement about sin. Although rebellion against God – sin – is seen from Genesis 3 to...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
You cannot read the Bible too much. We’ve been told that it’s possible to drink too much coffee, too much soda and too much carrot juice, and I’ve been told that it’s even possible to drink too much water. But it’s impossible to drink in...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
You might be relieved to know that I don’t intend to examine every point in this list of sin’s characteristics. We summarized them last Sunday by looking at their destructiveness. And tonight we will move on with no deliberate plans to return. But I do...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I am not unaware that from time to time most of you attend other churches. Sometimes you are on vacation and your love for the Lord makes you seek out a congregation of believers. Sometimes a funeral, a wedding or some special event takes you to another church. Some...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I was ordained to the Gospel Ministry thirty-five years ago last Thanksgiving Day. Victory Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas was the ordaining church, and nine men sat on the council. I was as nervous as I had ever been in my life, partially because I didn’t...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
A couple of weeks ago, in our message entitled “None,” we said that there is “none righteous.” We made that statement because that is expressly what the Lord said through Paul in Romans 3:10. In the first point of that message I tried to...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Almost from the beginning of my ministry I have been involved in the printing industry in some fashion or other. Today our church “publishes” all our messages onto the internet. We have anywhere from 75 to a hundred people every day visit our website for...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Let’s say that a man was worried about robberies in his neighborhood, so he sets up a surveillance camera. It is rigged to a digital recorder, making a constant video of everything that takes place on his property. One copy of the recording is collected on the...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
The gospel is the wonderful, miraculous story of God’s remedy for our sin. Elsewhere Paul wrote: “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand. By which also ye are saved,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
This is the fifth or sixth time that we have used these verses as our text. I hope that this doesn’t bother you, because it doesn’t bother me at all. It would be to our eternal benefit if we read these words so often that they were permanently burned...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Salvation can be likened to a book. It’s not fiction, but absolute truth, and yet in some ways more it is astounding and unbelievable than any human fiction. It has a Divine Author – Christ Jesus is the Author and Finisher of this book. It has a great...
