This week’s message continues to look at the benefits and blessings we have as a result of our justification. Paul also uses these blessings as evidence of the assurance of salvation that we have. There is, therefore, assurance of salvation through trials, through God’s love for us and because we have been reconciled and justified.

Being declared to be right with God carries with it the privileges of sonship, of real peace, of access, and of the hope of glory. These are the fruit, the outcomes of being declared right with God. Have you experienced that peace? That acceptance? Do you know that you are a child of God – […]

What Paul is saying here is that faith and the law are opposites and if a person chooses one he or she has in actual fact rejected the other. It is impossible to be saved by both works and faith at the same time. Putting it another way. If you are depending on the law […]

Paul in this passage answer the likely objections of his readers who might point to their Father Abraham and ask how then was he saved? Surely by his works, his flesh? Without the law, which could not have saved him anyway and because Jesus had not come yet – how could he be saved? Paul […]

1. “R” stands for “Righteousness.” 2. “P” stands for “Propitiation”. 3. “F” stands for “faith”. 4. “B” stands for “Boasting”. • We human beings need “a righteousness” apart from the law. A righteousness that doesn’t depend on our flawed efforts. That is what is so wonderful about the salvation Paul is talking about it. It […]

Paul has spent the best part of chapters 1 and 2 building up a case of guilt, of sin against, first the gentiles and then the Jews. So that he can get to the key verse of chapter 3. Verse 9 says all are under sin. The weight of the realisation that this includes and […]

In this complex passage, Paul is debating with some first century Jewish people who are arguing that on the basis of the ritual of circumcision that they have their eternal security. Paul would seek to demolish this argument and urges everyone to put their hope and trust in the work of Jesus Christ our Lord. […]

Looking at the final chapter of Habakkuk, we find a very different man from the one we met at the beginning. A man complaining to God, wondering why God wouldn’t answer his prayers for the things he wanted God to do; a man who then wonders whether God really cares about his people and who […]