The progression of the Gospel (Good News) handout We were able to complete our overview of Romans 9 – 11, adding a few more verses to our chart on the Progression of the Gospel, as laid out in the New Testament.  The gospel (good news) began as call to the nation of Israel to repent … Read more

In preparation for our overview of Romans 9 – 11, those three chapters dealing with the nation of Israel, we used the attached chart to help us understand how God uses progressive revelation throughout scripture to teach us how the message of the gospel / the good news changed from the ministry of Christ and … Read more

Romans 8 is one of the great books of church doctrine in our Bible.  Everything is written to us, for our encouragement in our journey into Christlikeness.  Today, we divided the chapter into 4 main thoughts, and I encourage you to read each of these sections over the next four days, and read the entire … Read more

Romans chapters 6-7 give us clear teaching concerning our relationship to sin after we have been saved by grace through faith as laid out in chapters 4-5.  We learn an important principle: Before you are saved, you are alive to the world, but dead to God, After you are saved you are alive to God, … Read more

Just as we saw in chapters 1 – 3, that all the world is guilty before God, regardless of whether it is pagan man, moral man, or religious man, chapters 4 and 5 reveal that faith is essence of being justified by God: Romans 5:1-5: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through … Read more

What a wonderful class yesterday!  Contrasting Paul’s teaching concerning justification by grace alone, to James’s teaching of justification by works, helps us to realize that rightly dividing the Word is critical to keeping us from bad doctrine.  We know that Paul’s teaching is to us, in this mystery period of the dispensation of grace, while … Read more