Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There are basically two main doctrinal opinions about man’s deliverance from sin. And then come a multitude of thoughts between those two key positions. There are those who lay most, if not all, of the responsibility for salvation on the sinner’s...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
This chapter has two designs: to lift up our hearts and to cast us to our knees. Paul wanted to lift up the hearts of the people of church in Rome in the midst of their trials. And this book still accomplishes that same goal over twenty centuries later. The second...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Have you ever seen the 40-year-old movie “Camelot?” It came out in 1967 back when some of you were still going to movies and before you gave up television. It began as a Broadway play starring Richard Burton and Canadian Robert Goulet as Sir Lancelot....
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Unless you’ve been cast away on a desert island for the last two weeks, you should have heard about the government’s $700 billion bail-out of America’s economy. Do you realize how much money that is? That’s the number 7 with 11 zero’s...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There are several reasons why most Baptist pastors never preach about sovereign election and predestination. Some of them firmly believe that man’s deliverance from sin is the responsibility of that sinner – period. They believe that Jesus died for sins...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
As we said last Sunday morning, love is one of the attributes of God. That means that love is a part of Him. By definition an attribute is something that is inherent or essential. It is something which cannot be taken away from the Lord without changing Him...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
As far as I can see at this moment, we will finish our study of this chapter today. In reviewing it earlier this week, there were just a couple of things which I thought needed amplification. So we return to the heart of the chapter, which is the heart of the book,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I won’t keep you long this afternoon. First, it wouldn’t do me much good to try, after that meal we just ate. Then second, I’m just doing a little house-keeping, thinking about a verse that we’ve basically skipped over. “As it is...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
The discipline of a child is a tremendous responsibility, not to be taken either lightly or angrily. Certainly that child needs to know that there are limits to what he should do. He needs to understand that doing some things are harmful to himself and to others....
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
It has been often said that the Bible doesn’t try to prove the existence of God – it is something just assumed. And that is quite natural, because, despite the depravity of the human heart, all men instinctively know that there is God. It is only through...
