Tag: Righteousness by Faith
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What is the Hope of Righteousness, and How do I receive it?
(Galatians 5:5-6) How do you receive the hope of righteousness? Isn’t righteousness all about doing good, so can you receive the hope of righteousness just by being and doing good? The answer to this is both yes and no. We do need to do and be good, but it is not because of the hope…
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Righteous By Faith
(Galatians 3:11-12) In the time before the coming of Christ, the Israelites were God’s chosen people. He gave them the law to follow for the purpose of understanding His will and to rein in the tendencies of man towards sin and sinfulness. But man failed. Man could not keep the law, and so their righteousness…
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Blessings of Faith
(Galatians 3:4-9) We see today so many Christians and so many churches who are bound up under the confines of the law. They believe that they MUST keep the law and worship under the law to be saved. This is in spite of the fact that most of them also give praise to God and…
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Why Christ Died
(Galatians 2:21) A question that is often raised is why it was necessary that Jesus Christ died. We know and understand that He did die to save us from sin and to set us free from the law, but this last verse of Galatians chapter 3 gives us an amazing insight into why Christ died.…
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No Justification By Works Of Law
(Galatians 2:11-16) This section of scripture is an eye-opener for anyone who thinks that they can be righteous in the sight of God by keeping the works of the law. In this section it is made evident that there is no justification by works of law, and in fact in some cases the works of…
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The Spirit As Guarantee
(2 Corinthians 5:1-5) In my last post I wrote about why Christians get sick. The key to understanding that is knowing that this Christian walk is not about the flesh but about the spirit. The work that is going on in us is a spiritual work. The flesh is of no avail. In this section…
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Simplicity of Righteousness by Faith
(Romans 10:5-13) Righteousness by faith is a very simple process. And it is not a new process because it existed even prior to Jesus coming. Parts of this section of scripture show the pre-existence of righteousness by faith even under the law for even then there was a requirement of faith. More importantly though is…
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Righteousness By Faith
(Romans 10:1-4) One of the key differences between the old and the new covenants is the process and methods of righteousness. In these few verses we see this contrast described from the perspective of where the nation of Israel, and in particular the Jews went wrong. The important point to note is this. There is…
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Faith Is The Key
(Romans 9:30-33) There is no other way to come to God and be accepted by Him except on the grounds of faith. That is the focus of these few scriptures at the end of Romans 9. In These few words we see the situation both in Jesus Christ and also before He came to the…
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No Condemnation when God Justifies
(Romans 8:33-34) This is perhaps one of the most powerful messages of the new covenant and yet so often either not known, not employed or forgotten by Christians. This is a message we need to remember and employ as we walk with the Lord day by day. Listen to this. Romans 8 opens with the…
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Essence of the New Covenant
(Romans 4:22-25) If ever there were just a few verses that summed up the essence of the new covenant and how both it works and what we are to believe and accept in Jesus Christ, these are those few verses. The new covenant is deliberately simple to grasp and take hold of. It had to…
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Faith Like Abraham
(Romans 4:16-21) When it comes to the old prophets, teachers and patriarchs of the bible, Abraham stands out as being THE man of the faith. All of us today along with those spoken of in bible times and everyone in between look to Abraham as our father, either as a direct descendant in the case…
