“For as many as are being constantly led by God’s Spirit, these are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again with resulting fear, but you received the Spirit who places you as adult sons, by whom we cry out with deep emotion, Abba, [namely] Father. The Spirit himself is constantly bearing joint-testimony with our [human] spirit that we are God’s children, and since children, also heirs; on the one hand, heirs of God, on the other, joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we are suffering with Him in order that we also may be glorified together, for I have come to a reasoned conclusion that the sufferings of the present season are of no weight in comparison to the glory which is about to be revealed upon us.” Romans 8
Romans 5
“But God is constantly proving His own love to us, because while we were yet sinners, Christ in behalf of us died.”
Romans 4:11
“Spiritually prosperous are those whose lawlessnesses were put away and whose sins were covered. Spiritually prosperous is the man to whose account the Lord does not in any case put sin.”
Amen! Thank you Jesus for covering my sin!
“for our reasoned conclusion is that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law” Romans 3
Here’s Romans 1:29–32
“They are filled with. . .
- Unrighteousness
- Sexual immorality
- Wickedness
- Covetousness (greed)
- Maliciousness (desire to harm others)
- Envy
- Murder
- Strife (quarreling, fighting)
- Deceit
- Evil-mindedness
- Whisperers (gossips)
- Backbiters (slanderers)
- Haters of God
- Violent
- Proud
- Boasters
- Inventors of evil things
- Disobedient to parents
- Undiscerning (without understanding)
- Untrustworthy (break promises)
- Unloving (no natural affection)
- Unforgiving
- Unmerciful
- They know God’s righteous judgment — that people who do these things deserve death — yet they not only keep doing them but also approve of and encourage others who do them.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting”
Romans 1:28
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. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.
The opening paragraph of the greatest letter ever written:
“1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God 2 which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. 5 Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name, 6 among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ;”
ROMANS
“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24
Going back to Christianity is the only way our society will survive.