Faith Bible Fellowship Church of York

Paul confronts the person who thinks that because they have the Law they are right with God. In fact, they break the Law and bring condemnation upon themselves. He then argues that the Christian Gentile who fulfills the Law through the Holy Spirit is the true spiritual "circumcised" person not the one who obeys the outward commands.

Paul gives us the principle of judgment: God judges us according to our works. We are saved only through faith in Christ. But how we lived this life will be judged. There are only two outcomes to the judgment: eternal life or condemnation. According to Paul's gospel God will judge the earth in Jesus Christ.

In this passage, Paul turns his attention to the sin of being judgmental. He rebukes those who judge sins in other people but are doing the very same things in their lives. If God has brought you to understand what sin is, His kindness was to lead you to repentance not to cause you to stand in judgment over others.

Having exchanged the truth of God for a lie, the Bible describes God has handing us over to sin. Sin grows and abounds as we suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

The Bible describes God's wrath against sin in handing us over to the sinful things we want. In our sin, we suppress the knowledge of God in unrighteousness. The knowledge of God is plain because God has made it plain but we reject it.

Paul is not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God. As the church, we need to believe that the gospel is the power of God. Only in the gospel is the sinner saved, God's righteousness revealed, and the believer declared righteous. I can stand before God because of Jesus Christ and His righteousness.

Paul prays faithfully for the church in Rome. He also longs to come to them and impart a spiritual gift. When he visits Rome, he plans to preach the gospel to the church and all who live in Rome. We need to learn to pray for the church and serve in it.

Jesus is Lord. The message of the gospel centers on Jesus Christ. As Paul tells us, the gospel was promised beforehand, it concerns God's Son who was born of the line of David, and has been raised up in power being set as King over all things. This gospel is to go to all the nations.

The Bible is God's Word and breathed-out by God. It is profitable for us for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. We need to be challenged to spend time in God's Word.

Jesus is born, the firstborn of Mary. But he has come into the world to be the Lord of all things. The angels tell the shepherds that the baby in the manager is the Savior, Christ the Lord. He will reign over all of God's creation.