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You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you Isa 26:3 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Overview of the New Testament: The Epistles Bible Verse:Romans 3:20-26, 5:18-21 (ESV) "For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it — the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. * * * Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. " Message:
In the decades after Christ's ascension, fake books (usually with the forged signature of an apostle) and false teachers with forged credentials began to spring up, claiming knowledge or credentials they did not have, and teaching fabricated nonsense.
The authentic epistles, those that were eventually included in the Biblical canon, were letters written by apostles who were directly inspired by the Holy Spirit. These were carried to mission churches established in the crescent between Judea and Rome (primarily in Syria, Turkey, and Greece), to help them know the true Christian faith and keep them from being misled by false prophets.
Paul, by Giotto
Paul, by Giotto
Paul wrote his letter to the Roman church around 58 A.D., while he was in Corinth on his third missionary journey. He had never been to Rome and was concerned that the Christians there have a reliable guide, to help them understand the true doctrine of Christ. What he wrote became the pre-eminent statement of Christian theology, a document against which errant teaching has been tested for 2000 years.
Most scholars divide Romans into three sections. In Ch. 1-8, Paul explains the fundamentals and foundations of the Christian faith. All people are sinful by nature, a state that separates them from God and leads to the death of the soul. The law of Moses could not bridge this separation, because humanity will always fall short of perfect compliance, and God requires absolute purity to admit anyone into His presence. In fact, God knew that men could not follow the Law; it was not given that it should be sufficient for salvation, but so that we could understand what God required and see, by holding our lives up to the standard of the Law, how sinful we really are.
The fulfillment of the Law's purpose was Christ. Knowing our sinfulness, we were prepared to realize that we could not be saved by our actions; only God could overcome sin. But sin cannot simply be forgotten; it requires redemption by blood, a sacrifice. And the only sacrifice that might be sufficient for all time was for God to come in person, in the form of a man, to shed His own blood for us.
Jesus calms the storm
To benefit from God's gift, however, we must have faith in Christ. Thus, only if we repent of our sin and have confidence that Christ's sacrifice will justify us before God, and confidence in His power over death as shown by His resurrection, may we be forgiven for our sins and find eternal life. We must have faith in God's power and love, His grace as embodied by Christ; our own works, no matter how “good” we are in human terms, cannot justify us before God. This is called “justification by faith” and is a primary tenet of Christianity.
Chapters 9-11 deal specifically with the failure of Judaism. The new covenant God created between himself and humanity fulfilled the old covenant. Both Jews and Gentiles could find salvation in Christ and only in Christ.
Chapters 12-16 show us how to live under this new covenant. It might be summed up by Romans 12:9, “Let us have no imitation Christian love. Let us have a genuine break with evil and a real devotion to good.” Much of these chapters are reminders of Christ's teachings about how God wants us to live in relation to this world and one another.
And for those who were wondering about the passage that transformed Augustine, it comes from this third section: “Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” (Romans 13:13-14)
Meditation : “Never be wise in your own sight.” ~ Romans 12:16 Prayer : Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build up myself, and all Christians, in faith and truth, and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.....Amen. |
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