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...
