Romans 11 (NIV) TAKEAWAYS 1. God did not reject His People. 2. There is always Remnant by Grace. 3. Israel has today largely fallen away. 4. The Gentile mission help will save Israel. 5. Gentiles are ingrafted into the Israel story so that no one can boast. 6. Israel is hardened to the gospel, but will be saved, by the gospel. 7. Jesus alone can ta…

Patience is something that is desperately needed as we deal with others. Yet at the same time, it is something that many people desperately need more of. Today, we are going to be challenged to walk in a manner worthy of our calling.저자 Jeff Braddock

Romans 10 (NIV) 1) Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2) For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3) Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righte…

Romans 9:16-33 (NIV) 16) It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17) For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18) Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom…

Anxiety is not a fruit of the Spirit. Peace is. Peace should permeate every pore of the Christian's life.저자 Jeff Braddock

Romans 9:1-15 (NIV) 1) I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— 2) I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3) For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, 4) the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sons…

Today we will look at the invaluable virtue of joy.저자 Jeff Braddock

Romans 8:31-39 (NIV) 31) What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32) He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33) Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34) Wh…

Today, we are finishing our look at the actions of love as Paul lays them out in 1 Corinthians 13.저자 Jeff Braddock

Romans 8:28-30 (NIV) 28) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29) For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30) And those he predestined, he also called; tho…

Romans 8:26-27 (NIV) 26) In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27) And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. TAKEAWAYS 1. Th…

In our continuing series on Christian virtues, we are again looking at love. In particular, how love looks and sounds in our daily lives as we interact with others.저자 Jeff Braddock

Romans 8:19-25 (NIV) 19) For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20) For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21) that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of…

In our continuation of Christian virtues, today we turn our attention to love. Love is to be the defining characteristic of the Christian's life. Today, we will focus on its necessity.저자 Jeff Braddock

Romans 8:18 (NIV) 18) I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. TAKEAWAYS 1. Have a hopeful perspective on suffering 2. Have an eternal perspective on suffering 3. Allow suffering to deepen our relationship with Jesus 4. Understand that there is a time-limit on suffering…

Romans 8:12 -17 (NIV) 12) Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13) For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 14) For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15) The…

What are the purposes of trials? According to Scripture, God uses trials to work in us perseverance.저자 Jeff Braddock

Romans 8:5-11 (NIV) 5) Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6) The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7) The mind governed by the flesh is hostile…

One of the defining marks of those who follow Christ should be generosity. Unfortunately, for many of us, this quality is lacking. In our text today, Paul is going to show this is the way God has always desired His people to live.저자 Jeff Braddock

Romans 8:1-4 (NIV) 1) Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2) because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3) For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful f…

Romans 7:1-25 (NIV) 1) Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2) For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. 3) So …