Romans 6:1-23
Louis Tamburro

If you put your faith in Jesus, then you’re no longer a slave to sin. Jesus is now your greater master who did what you and I can’t do. He never sinned, he was never controlled by sin, and died on the cross for our sins. He’s the greater master who conquered sin and death, which means he’s the only one who has the power to break the chains of sin in your life. He’s the only one who can set you free from sin, give you a new life today, a sanctifying life tomorrow, and eternal life in heaven. It isn’t a perfect life, but it is a progressing life. It isn’t a perfect life, but it is greater life with a greater loving master than our sin.

Romans 5:12-21
Louis Tamburro

Original sin was the worst tragedy in history, but Jesus came to offer a better future for humanity. We can’t evolve into having a better life with a better future, but we can rely on Jesus to give us a better life with a better future. 

Romans 5:1-11
Louis Tamburro

You can have peace, hope, and love in life, through faith in Christ.

Romans 4:1-25
Louis Tamburro

The Christian faith isn’t about living a flawless life. It’s about trusting your flawed life, in the hands of a forgiving God. It’s about trusting your flawed life in the forgiving hands of Jesus. What Paul’s saying in these first 4 chapters of Romans is there’s one problem, it’s our sinful depravity. There’s one savior; it’s Jesus Christ. There’s one solution, it’s salvation and justification through faith in Jesus. If you trust him with your life, he’ll give you eternal life. He’ll give you an eternal relationship with him where you can pray to him, share your burdens with him, receive daily guidance from him, walk in daily friendship with him. If you’re a skeptic, are you willing to put your faith in him and take his hand of friendship? If you give him your faith and trust today, he’ll immediately give you his salvation, justification, righteousness, a hand of eternal friendship. If you’re a believer, are you trusting him with whatever you’re going through in life? Are you putting your faith in him, taking his hand daily, walking in friendship with him?

Romans 3:23-31
Zack Casey

The cross allowed God to be both just and the justifier, punishing your sin and counting you as righteous.

Romans 3:1-22
Louis Tamburro

You need a greater power to help you, fix the sin problem within you, and Jesus is that greater savior with the greater power than your willpower. In these first 3 chapters Paul is challenging the many excuses we have for sinning against God’s moral laws. “Well I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong?” Yeah you did, because you aren’t ignorant to breaking the moral laws in your conscience. “Well I’m religious, I go to church, I read my bible.” That’s a great, but it doesn’t make you better than the person who hasn’t since you break moral laws too. Paul’s point is we all sin, we all deserve God’s judgement, we all need Jesus to save and change us.

The sinful depravity of humanity makes God’s judgment necessary. Paul’s point is you can’t turn your sinful depravity around, without turning to Jesus. You can keep trying to be your own god, keep trying to save and transform your heart, but you can’t turn your sin natured heart around, without turning to Jesus for the salvation and transformation of your heart. Jesus is our God who came to save us from the darkness of the sinful depravity we’re in. He loves us so much he couldn’t just sit back and watch our sins take us into eternal hell, but he also couldn’t just ignore our sins. So he came to bring his love and righteous judgement together on the cross, by dying the death we deserved to die for our sins. 1st John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Romans 1:18-25
Louis Tamburro

The fingerprints of God are all around us, and the good news of the gospel is we don’t just have a chance to seek the truth of God’s existence. We have a chance to have a personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus. Jesus came into the world to show us he’s our God who created us, who breathed life into us, who put eternity in our hearts. He died on the cross for our sins because he loves us and still desires to have a loving relationship with us. You can know the power, creativity, intelligence of Jesus, by looking at his creation. You can know his purpose for your life, his plans for your life, even hear him speaking personally to help guide your life, by reading the bible. But the only way you can know he truly loves you, is by looking at the love he poured out for you on the cross.

Romans 1:1-17
Louis Tamburro

The Gospel has and is the power to save and transform your life. If you’re a skeptic who doesn’t believe in all this, you need to remember Paul was a skeptic and didn’t believe in all this either. But after seeing the resurrected Jesus and experiencing his life transforming power, this highly respected, highly educated man couldn’t deny Jesus anymore. He became a follower of Jesus, a servant and apostle of Jesus, faced persecution and death to eagerly and unashamedly spread this very gospel message of Jesus. It’s that Jesus is our loving God who died for our sins on the cross to save and transform our lives. Do you want to reset your life in 2023? Both skeptics and believers, do you want to reset your life in 2023? Do you want to reset your life, have a new life, have salvation and transformation in 2023? If that’s what you truly want, then rely on the power of Jesus to save your life, and rely on the transforming power of Jesus in your everyday life.

Revelation 21:1-7
Louis Tamburro

The hands that wiped away our sins, will wipe away our tears. The Christmas season is a time where we celebrate Jesus as our Emmanuel, our God who came into this world to die for our sins on the cross, and turn our tears into dancing again.