Understand the Bible

Have you ever listened to a sermon and thought "so what"? What difference does that make? Good preachers apply the Bible and help us to understand what we need to do. Paul, in this passage and onwards, helps us make the gospel that he has been explaining real to our lives.
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Pride is one of the most insidious sins - it can affect us in lots of different ways. In this passage Paul warns us not to be complacent but to be humble in the face of God's plans. He does this by warning the Gentile Christians not to feel superior to the Jews.

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Are all people equally in need of Jesus? In this chapter, Paul looks at the people of Israel and says that all are the same before Christ. What difference does that make to how we live and how we are as a church?

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If nothing can separate us from God's love, then what about those who do not Christian? And does that mean God is unfair to choose some and not others? In this passage Paul laments over his own people, the Jews, but shows that God is acting according to his word and promises.

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In our suffering we might think "is this a punishment?" or "am I on the wrong path?" In this passage we discover that nothing - absolutely nothing - can separate us from God's love. No circumstance, hardship, suffering, persecution - anything.

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Suffering is the hardest thing to cope with in life - especially long-term or chronic suffering. The only thing that keeps us going is hope - hope that one day things will change. In this passage, Paul shows us how God gives us hope through Jesus Christ, and how that changes the way that we suffer.

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Last week we thought about how and why we struggle with sin. This week we are looking at the solution to those problems: the Holy Spirit. Christians now have an obligation - not to the flesh, to our sinful nature, but to the Spirit.

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Do you find yourself struggling with sin in your life? Why is it that we seem to struggle with sin so much? In this passage, Paul illustrates the teaching of the previous section of Romans with some autobiographical information. Paul also found sin to be a struggle - but there is a reason, and a solution.

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In this passage, Paul talks about how great the change is for those who are in Christ. We are no longer slaves to sin but slaves of righteousness; we died with Christ and are raised to serve him in a new way.

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In this passage, Paul starts to turn his attention to the Christian life. If we are forgiven by grace through faith, does that mean we can sin as much as we like? And if not, how do we live the Christian life?

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