Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 10. In this chapter, Paul continued discussing the unbelief of his people Israel. He spoke directly about his desire and prayer for the salvation of his countrymen (v. 1). Then he reflected on his own experience and concluded, “Yes, we Jews are very […]
Romans 9
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 9. For a letter written to the church at Rome, the book of Romans has a lot of Jewish themes in it. The chapters we’ve already read talked about Jews and Gentiles explicitly, as well as discussing the Law of Moses repeatedly. Scholars […]
Romans 8
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 8. In the previous chapters we were taught much about the Law and its relationship to humanity. In chapter 7, we learned that God’s Law is great and holy; our problems with it are not with IT but with ourselves: “…the Law is spiritual […]
Romans 7
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 7. Woven throughout this letter to the Romans have been some significant teaching passages about the law. In the past couple of days, we’ve read that the law increases sin (5:20) but that, in Christ, we’re no longer under the law (6:14, 15). […]
Romans 6
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 6. In Romans 5, which we read yesterday, the Scriptures taught that the law produced sin and sin produced death (5:12-14). Sin was, in fact, multiplied by the law (v. 20) but the grace of Jesus also became more abundant where sin increased (vv. […]
Romans 5
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 5 Romans 4 told us that people are declared righteous by faith and that righteousness was secured by Jesus Christ. Today in chapter 5, verse 1 told us that the result of being declared righteous by faith is that “we have peace with […]
Romans 4
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 4. Romans 3, which we read yesterday, considered the central idea of Christianity–that reconciliation with God comes as a gift from God. It is not earned by those who work for it or deserved by living a righteous life. It is a gift […]
Romans 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 3. Romans 3 is an essential passage for understanding God’s saving grace to us in Christ. I cannot say this emphatically enough: Romans 3 is crucial for understanding our salvation, especially verses 9-31. But, for this devotional, I want to focus on verses […]
Romans 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 2. At the end of chapter 1 we read, “Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them” (v. 32). That […]
Romans 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Today we begin reading the book of Romans, so read Romans 1 today. As we’ve read the book of Acts, we have stopped here and there to read Paul’s letters around the points chronologically where scholars think they were written. In other words, Acts 19 […]