Running Through Romans

For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  Romans 7:13-25 For the Audio Version on SoundCloud, click here -  Romans 7:13-25 Romans 7:13-17 13  Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.  14  For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.  15  For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.  16  If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that  it is  good.  17  But now,  it is  no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.  Paul had just established the fact that the law is holy, just and good. Now he asks a question that can certainly be on the minds of his readers – and perhaps our minds as well. “Has then what is good become death to me?” In effect he’s asking, “If the law is good, how does it produ

For the Audio Version on Sound Cloud, click here -  Romans 7:1-12 For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  Romans 7:1-12 Romans 7:1-6 1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?  2  For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to  her  husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of  her  husband.  3  So then if, while  her  husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.  4  Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.  5  For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.  6  B

For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  Romans 6:15-23 For the Audio Version on SoundCloud, click here -  Romans 6:15-23 Romans 6:15-18 15 ” What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!  16  Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin  leading  to death, or of obedience  leading  to righteousness?  17  But God be thanked that  though  you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.  18  And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.    Paul had just mentioned that sin shall not have dominion over us since we are not under law but under grace. He goes on to ask whether this means that since we are no longer under the law, but under grace, that can we can continue to sin. And he answers his question with an emphatic, “Certainly not!” In case one is wondering, “Why not?” he r

For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  Romans 6:1-14 For the Audio Version on SoundCloud, click here -  Romans 6:1-14 Romans 6:1-4 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  2  Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?  3  Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?  4  Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Paul had just said that where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more, and further, as sin reigned, resulting in death, so also grace now reigns, resulting in righteousness. Paul then asks a very pertinent question – one that perhaps is playing on the minds of his readers, as well as ours. “Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?” I guess if Paul was speaking, he would have waited for a response, but sinc

    For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  Romans 5:12-21  For the Audio Version on SoundCloud, click here -  Romans 5:12-21 Romans 5:12-14 12  Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—  13  (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.  14  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.    Sin began with Adam Paul goes back to the time when sin entered the world, which then resulted in death coming to all humans. This happened on account of the disobedience of Adam. He says that one man was responsible for sin entering the world and thereby causing all men who were born thereafter, to be born sinful, and to be enslaved to sin as well. As a result, all humans have had to experience the consequence of death as

For the Audio Version on SoundCloud, click here -  Romans 5:1-11 For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  Romans 5:1-11   Romans 5:1-5 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,  2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  3 And not only  that,  but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produce perseverance;  4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.  5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ After Paul explained in detail how all the world, (Jews and Non-Jews) were in need of Salvation, and could be saved through faith in the work of Christ, he uses the word, ‘therefore,’ meaning that there is something more that his readers need to take note of. He goes on to say that since we ha

For the Audio Version on SoundCloud, click here -  Romans 4:16-25 For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -    Romans 4:16-25 Romans 4:16-18 16  Therefore  it is  of faith that  it might be  according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all  17  (as it is written, “ I have made you a father of many nations” ) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;  18  who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken,  “So shall your descendants be.”   The Unmerited Promise The promise that God made to Abraham, that he would be heir of the world was fulfilled, because he believed that God would do what he promised. He knew that he didn’t deserve it in any way, and that it was God’s gift to him.