
What does a life built on the truths of Romans look like?
• John Piper >> If you build your life on these verses- if the truth of these…verses becomes the foundation of your life - you will be unshakable in a hundred crises…There are some truths that are so foundational and so central that you should memorize them, meditate on them, bind them to your mind and heart with chains and ropes and every kind of adhesive you can find. Many professing Christians are very weak, and ramble through their days pretty much like unbelievers, because they don’t hold on to these verses the way a drowning man takes hold of his rescuer’s arm.
• Sydney McLaughlin quote (after breaking her own world record in the women’s 400m hurdles) >> I no longer run for self recognition, but to reflect His perfect will that is already set in stone. I don’t deserve anything. But by grace, through faith, Jesus has given me everything. Records come and go. The glory of God is eternal.
• It is refreshing to hear decriptions of those who truly know the God of the Bible. Today, we want to see a definitive answer to that question from Romans 3:25-26.
God is
• Since Romans 1, we have put together the puzzle piece concepts of how the
• Romans 3:25-26 is the clearest picture of what was going on at the
• “propitiation” >> this word speaks to the appeasement of wrath, so much so that the wrath is removed, all because of sacrifice that makes atonement. The wrath of God is the result of our sin. Only the
• In putting forward His own Son, God puts His
• But there is a problem: As a
God is
• How can a
• The Cross answers the question of God’s righteousness. He
• But this is not all that is happening. God is mercifully righteous, but He is also sovereignly strategic. Since the Garden of Eden, unrighteousness has been the problem. God desires to show mercy, but eventually the
• On the Cross where Jesus is publicly displayed as our sin-bearer, all of Creation sees the character of the God of the Bible – He is both just & the justifier of sinners. He is both righteous & the maker of righteous people out of unrighteous people.
The God of the Bible is the God who has made a
for us.
• Tim Keller >> Here’s the gospel: you’re more sinful than you ever dared believe; you’re more loved than you ever dared hope.
• Jesus came to put away that wrath so that you could experience God’s mercy. Jesus came to make you righteous!
• John 3:16-18 | “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.