30 episodes
The Righteousness of God that is Revealed in Romans - Our LORD Who Becomes the Righteousness of God (II) The New Life Mission-en
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- Religion & Spirituality
The righteousness of God is transparent and it is different from the righteousness of human beings. God's righteousness is revealed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which was completed by the baptism of Jesus by John and His blood on the Cross. We must return to the faith in God's righteousness before it is too late. Do you know why Jesus had to be baptized by John the Baptist? If John hadn't baptized Jesus, our sins wouldn't have been passed onto Him. John the Baptist was the greatest man of all, and the baptism that he gave to Jesus was the absolute requirement for God to pass our sins away from us and onto Jesus. Jesus was baptized to bear all the sins of the world on His shoulder, and bled on the Cross to pay their whole wages. All these things have completely changed my past understanding of what it is to be born again, when I knew only of the blood on the Cross. God has now taught you what His righteousness is so that we may fully know and believe in His righteousness. I thank the Lord for all these blessings.
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Ch07-1_Introduction to Chapter 7
Reflecting on the fact that before his redemption his flesh was condemned to death by the Law of God, the Apostle Paul made the confession of faith that he was, by believing in Jesus Christ, dead to sin. Before we met the righteousness of God—that is, before we were born again—those of us who believe in Christ used to live under the dominion and curse of the Law. Thus, the Law would have had dominion over us had we not been redeemed of our sins by encountering Jesus Christ, who brought us the righteousness of God. Paul spoke of spiritual matters that cannot easily be understood in the flesh—that is, those who are dead to sin are no longer under the dominion of sin, just as a woman whose husband has died is completely freed from her obligation to her husband. This passage may sound simple, but it is a spiritually crucial passage. It means that, whether they like it or not, those who have not met the righteousness of God are, as a matter of fact, fated to live under the curse of the Law. This is because they have not yet resolved the problem of their sins.
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Ch07-2_The Gist of Paul’s Faith：Unite with Christ after Being Dead to Sin (Romans 7:1-4)
Have you ever seen an entangled bundle of yarn? If you attempt to understand this chapter without knowing the truth of Jesus’ baptism in which Paul the Apostle believed, your faith would only be in a greater state of confusion than before.Paul says in this chapter that because everyone is utterly sinful before the Law of God, one can go to Jesus Christ and be born again only after dying a spiritual death.
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Ch07-3_The Reason Why We Can Praise the Lord (Romans 7:5-13)
I praise the Lord who has led me to meet you, the precious people of God again. I sincerely thank Him for having blessed me to live a happy life to this day. God has been always with me and had mercy on me, even though there have been times when I felt discouraged, experienced hardships, agony and weaknesses within myself on many different occasions. He has been alive and by my side throughout my life, in both my troubles and joys. There never was an instance when He left me alone, not even for a second.
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Ch07-4_Our Flesh That Serves Only the Flesh (Romans 7:14-25)
I had no power to prevent typhoon “Doug” when I heard about it in the news. All that I could do was pray. This Summer Bible Meeting had already been scheduled, we had already gathered, and there was nothing I could do about it. And I was worried that this chapel might not be strong enough to withstand the typhoon, given the fact that it was built with prefabricated materials. So I couldn’t help but rely on God. I prayed, “Help us God. Protect us. In Jesus’ name I ask, Amen.” And sure enough, God prevented typhoon Doug! I believe God knows everything. He leads us to safety because He understands our situations better than we do.
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Ch07-5_The Flesh Serves the Law of Sin (Romans 7:24-25)
How is your life of faith? “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41). Are you not like this?The Bible also tells us, “So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” And those are the laws that dominate us. Our hearts are made to love God and to love the truth, but it is only natural for the flesh to serve the law of sin. The Word of God tells us that the heart serves the gospel and His righteousness, while the flesh serves only sin.
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Ch07-6_Praise the Lord, the Savior of Sinners (Romans 7:14-8:2)
All human beings inherited sin from Adam and Eve and became the seeds of sin. We are thus originally born as the offspring of sin and inevitably become sinful beings. All the people in the world cannot help but become sinners due to one ancestor, Adam, though none of them wants to be a sinner.What is the origin of sin? It is inherited from our parents. We are born with sin in our hearts. This is the inherited nature of sinners. We have 12 kinds of sins that are inherited from Adam and Eve. These sins—adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness—are intrinsic in our hearts from the very time when we are born. The basic nature of man is sin.
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