Christmas was and is troubling to the routine of life. No one apart from the interruption of the angels would have known of this birth of the Christ Child.

The contrast is who governs or controls your life and the constant conflict is between those two competing

Because of the Holy Spirit you have an option of who you send to answer the door when temptation comes knocking at your door.

Gratitude is the greatest virtue of the Christian life. Without gratitude all other vitues are tarnished if not missing altogether.

Paul transitions from justification to sanctification. We are fully identified with the resurrection of Jesus. Many believers are trying to live wrapped in the comfort of their grave clothes.

The blessing and basis of our salvation/justification. As in Adam we are condemned, in Christ we are justified. Just-as-if-i'd never sinner. Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul now illustrates salvation by faith alone by two famous men, Abraham who lived before the law and David who broke the law, neither could have possibly been justified by the law.

The righteousness of God is by faith alone and don't even make the mistake of considering faith an effort on your part. Works limit Christ for the Jews or else keep him on the cross. Our faith relies completely on a risen savior.

The importance of finishing well the race before us and principles for living in victory.

By virtue of our own conscience we are condemned. Paul gives seven great principles of God's judgment.