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The Power of the Gospel
Let us walk in humble reliance on the Spirit every day as faithful servants in our freedom from sin.
R.C. Sproul • The Power of the Gospel
As you pray today, praise God for His holy and righteous wrath against evil and for His goodness in delivering you from His wrath. Believing on Christ, you can know that He died on the cross as an acceptable sacrifice for your sins. In our justification, He has given us His righteousness—even we who once suppressed the truth in unrighteousness. Let
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Consider the significance of what it means to have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Is this peace something that you experience even when confessing your sin to our loving heavenly Father? Just as Paul extended his greeting of “grace and peace” to the Romans, may our experience of this grace and peace create in us a longing for it to
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Abide in Christ and know the peace that comes only from Him. True rest, true peace. There is nowhere else to abide that provides anything close to that.
The word for saint in the New Testament is the word that means “sanctified one,” one who has been set apart by the Holy Spirit and called inwardly by Christ to Himself.
R.C. Sproul • The Power of the Gospel
There is also irony here: when Christ sets us free from slavery to the flesh, He calls us to the royal liberty of slavery to Him. That is why we call Him Master. We acknowledge that it is from Him that we get our marching orders. He is the Lord of our lives. We are not our own. We are not autonomous or independent. Unless people understand their
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Abide in Christ. Submission to Christ. A laying down of myself for Him.
What are you called to be? To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints (v. 7a). That is your vocation.
R.C. Sproul • The Power of the Gospel
In what ways have you seen the gospel attacked in the church or in society? Is the objective or subjective dimension of the gospel attacked more frequently? Now consider your role in the kingdom to defend the gospel and take some time to reflect on these two dimensions. Rehearse a succinct gospel presentation that incorporates both aspects and
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Crazy: Stat(s) I Found Fascinating [Or Alarming] This WeekThese stats are worth repeating as we make are way into 2025…In 1900, 18% of the world's Christians lived in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania...Today that figure is 67%, and by 2050, it is projected to be 77%.Africa is home to 27% of the world's Christians, the largest share in the world, and by 2050, that figure will likely be 39%.For comparison, the United States and Canada were home to just 11% of all Christians in the world in 2020 and will likely drop to 8% by 2050.If these projections play out, and many believe they will, we have a problem.Source: Gina Zurlo, Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary https://charper.substack.com/p/the-week-in-review-f93?publication_id=1235283&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=1w28vw&utm_medium=email The Gospel is attacked in many ways in America now. To say we are a post-Christian nation seems to be an understatement. This especially poignant as I studied Psalms 1 and 2 this morning. It is amazing how big and puffed up we get as humans. We are such ignorant sheep for being as intelligent as we are.
As we will see later in Romans 1, Paul labors the point that God has manifested Himself so clearly to every human being that nobody has an excuse for denying Him. When Jesus is declared to be God’s Son through the power of the resurrection, that declaration may be all that we ever get. We might be like Thomas and say, “Unless I see in His hands the
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There is yet a middle usage of the term kurios in the New Testament. It is used to describe a slave owner, which is an apt description of Jesus, and it is from this that Paul describes himself. He is not just a servant but a slave.