“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23:
Chapter six and the next two chapters are closely related to each other and should ideally be studied together.
Romans is not an easy book to study. This is true even for believers. Starting[……]
In chapter 5 of Romans, Paul further unfolds the reality of the gospel:
“Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”
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Why is sin a recurring subject during a Bible study? If gospel is all good news, why this preoccupation with the concept of sin?
The truth is, being ignorant of one’s sinful condition is part of what separates a person from salvation. The fallacy of every human philosophy more or less relates to ig[……]
“[Abraham was] fully convinced that what He (God) had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore “IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” Rom 4:21-22
In Chapter 4 of the book of Romans, the author (Paul) reaches out further to the Jews to tell them that the entire dealing of God with t[……]
Chapter 3 of the book of Romans is a shorter Chapter, but an important one nonetheless.
Having concluded that no one in the world may be declared righteous in God’s sight by virtual of observing the law or following his conscience, the book of Romans once again brings us face to face with the gospe[……]
One day, as we were chatting over the latest depressing news, a sister in the Lord sighed and said: “as one gets older, you start to see that life on earth is nothing but corruption and sadness.”
The sister who said that wasn’t casually nagging about something negative. I can sense the kind of pai[……]
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith.'” Romans 1:16-17
The autho[……]
God’s elect, His Church, is part of God’s eternal purpose. We are directly related to God’s kingdom, power, and glory.
Ephesians 3:9-11 “…and to bring to light what is the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ; so that now to the[……]
To begin to study a book in the New Testament, we should pay attention to a few essential matters which are covered in An essential introduction to Bible study of the New Testament.
With a correct understanding that salvation was accomplished by Jesus alone as recorded in the Gospels, and explained[……]
The Bible has a total of 66 books (39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament), authored by different individuals at different times. The New Testament itself has Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Revelation.
When more broadly defined, the book of Acts belongs to Gospels, while Revelation, th[……]