Title: Faith Alone (3)
Series: The Five Solas
Author: Josh Malone
Text: Rom. 1:16-17
- How is the Christian to live? By faith. In fact the Bible says w/o faith it is impossible to please God. Faith it has been described is the "funnel through which God pours His blessings."
- Today we are on Sola Fide, Faith Alone. We are saved by grace through works ... but by grace ... through faith.
- Salvation is God's work not ours. We are to rest in Christ. We are trust. We are to believe. Then, we are to walk, to live, by faith.
- Today let's look at Romans 1:16-17, it contains a passage that is key to the history of the Reformation. ?
- Let's be reminded today ... no one come to Christ and receives His salvation but by faith ... and every believer who has come to Christ is to continue to live by faith.
Rom. 1:16-17 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
- One of the most significant verses in the history of the Reformation is Romans 1:17.
- James Kittleson notes that Luther wrote about Rom. 1:17 about a year before he died, "I hated that word (at Rom. 1:17), 'the righteousness of God,' ..."
- Luther struggled with the idea of how a sinner can satisfy a righteous God. He knew he was a sinner. He knew he was unrighteous. He grew angry at God.
- But at some point Luther begin to realize God gives His righteousness away. It's not earned. He makes sinners righteous. He wrote, "When I discovered that, I was born again of the Holy Ghost. And the doors of paradise swung open, and I walked through." (https://www.ligonier.org/posts/justification-faith-alone-martin-luther-and-romans-117?srsltid=AfmBOoqHuVCXN3vDee5yEnaI3NIU-At3jkGMAanb6oAzV3Y7BqccHt7h)
- H.A Ironside wrote of Rom. 1:17, "It was the key that opene ...
Series: The Five Solas
Author: Josh Malone
Text: Rom. 1:16-17
- How is the Christian to live? By faith. In fact the Bible says w/o faith it is impossible to please God. Faith it has been described is the "funnel through which God pours His blessings."
- Today we are on Sola Fide, Faith Alone. We are saved by grace through works ... but by grace ... through faith.
- Salvation is God's work not ours. We are to rest in Christ. We are trust. We are to believe. Then, we are to walk, to live, by faith.
- Today let's look at Romans 1:16-17, it contains a passage that is key to the history of the Reformation. ?
- Let's be reminded today ... no one come to Christ and receives His salvation but by faith ... and every believer who has come to Christ is to continue to live by faith.
Rom. 1:16-17 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
- One of the most significant verses in the history of the Reformation is Romans 1:17.
- James Kittleson notes that Luther wrote about Rom. 1:17 about a year before he died, "I hated that word (at Rom. 1:17), 'the righteousness of God,' ..."
- Luther struggled with the idea of how a sinner can satisfy a righteous God. He knew he was a sinner. He knew he was unrighteous. He grew angry at God.
- But at some point Luther begin to realize God gives His righteousness away. It's not earned. He makes sinners righteous. He wrote, "When I discovered that, I was born again of the Holy Ghost. And the doors of paradise swung open, and I walked through." (https://www.ligonier.org/posts/justification-faith-alone-martin-luther-and-romans-117?srsltid=AfmBOoqHuVCXN3vDee5yEnaI3NIU-At3jkGMAanb6oAzV3Y7BqccHt7h)
- H.A Ironside wrote of Rom. 1:17, "It was the key that opene ...
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