Category: Daily Devotion

  For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. Romans 11:36 – In our chapter Paul speaks about the state of rejection of Jesus of the people of Israel. While certainly some Jews believed (Paul himself being evidence of that), the majority of the nation…

  Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9 – How gloriously simple yet how immensely powerful this passage is. Here we see the pathway spelled out for us on how to be saved…

  So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. ‭‭Romans‬ ‭9‬:‭18‬ ‭- Is what we are reading here what we think it’s saying? Is Paul saying that God chooses to show mercy to some people and to some He chooses not to? Yes, but let’s work through that.…

  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the…

  Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. Romans 7:13 – Imagine someone was eating a meal yet after…

  What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 6:1-2 – While a true teaching, Paul did drop a teaching that he knew could sadly be twisted to suit our fleshly desires. Paul…

  …for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. Romans 5:13-14…

  That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. Romans 4:16 – Paul in this…

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 Romans 3:20-21 – Understandably this would be a hard…

  Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. Romans 2:1 – After making a long list of sins in chapter one such as murder, inventors of evil, and gossiping, Paul redirects…