Category: Romans
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It Is Not the Hearers of The Law Who Are Righteous
(Romans 2:12-16) If there is one thing that defines what civilisation is, it is the rule and structure of law. The establishment of a society based upon a set of agreed and accepted laws is what enabled societies to build, grow and prosper. And even today the rule of law is seen to be a…
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God Shows No Partiality
(Romans 2:6-11) People talk about the two great inevitabilities being death and taxes. However neither of those is inevitable as we can be set free from death in Jesus Christ and if you know how you can legally avoid taxes. But there is one thing that truly is an inevitability, and that is the God…
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Judgement
(Romans 2:1-5) Judgement is such an important issue in the church and for every person in the world, not just the Christians. Paul writes about judgement and hypocrisy in this section of scripture for they are connected in some ways and some cases. If I were to summarise this section using a modern saying it…
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When God Gave Up
(Romans 1:24-32) Can you imagine the possibility where God gives up? How bad must a situation become if God gives up? Well it has happened! In this section of scripture Paul writes and describes not once but three times where God gave up. Three times in this section we see that God gave up on…
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Seeing But Not Believing
(Romans 1:18-23) They say there are none so blind as they who will not see. And this is an apt and accurate description for those who choose to reject a God and seek to understand the world around us without accepting His sovereign power. They also say that seeing is believing and many reject God…
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The Gospel Message
(Romans 1:16-17) There are a few scriptures in the bible that succinctly and clearly sum up key or critical messages of the gospel of Christianity. These few verses are one of those examples and thy tell us much in a very few words. In these few words we see what the function of the gospel…
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Romans
(Romans 1:1-15) Today we commence looking at the letter of Paul to the Romans and even in the introductory sentences we see some insights that help us to understand what this letter was about and why it was written the way it was. For some reason I often thought that this letter was written after…