Pastor Josh continues preaching through the book of Romans:

“My professor says ‘the Law is like soil that always produces wrath, while faith is like soil that always produces righteousness and blessing.’ …Behind all this stands the expressed purpose of God: ‘That is why it depends on faith!!!’ (v.16)…It is imperative that the church resists all such efforts to enforce any distinctions between persons. Whoever you are, where ever you live, whatever land is your homeland, whatever your racial or ethnic background, if you place your trust for your standing before God in the work of Jesus Christ: Abraham is your father. You too are numbered among the people of God, those who believe and are justified by faith.”

Pastor Josh continues through his exposition of Romans:

“…There is one church in Christ, not two. Do you know what the messianic Jews in the first century were called? Christians. Or the gentile believers? Christians. The church was not seperated by culture or ethnicity. Paul is not only tackling that issue here in Romans, not only does he put Jews and Gentiles in the same boat, but he also forces us to see ourselves to in the same boat as unbelievers today. It forces us to see ourselves as no more deserving of God’s grace than all those ‘ungodly’ people around us, with sins and lifestyles we find most offensive. God is in the business of justifying the ungodly - because no one is righteous, no not one…”