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  • "The Righteousness of God Is Revealed" (Sermon on Romans 1:8-17)

    03/30/2011 11:18:00 AM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 2 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | March 30, 2011 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “The Righteousness of God Is Revealed” (Romans 1:8-17)When I decided to do a whole series of sermons based on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, for all of our services this Lent and on through Easter Day, I thought about what to use as a title for this series--something short, catchy, concise, something that could serve as an overarching theme connecting all the sermons. And the theme I came up with was “Readings in Romans: Righteousness Revealed.” But lest you think this took a lot of ingenuity or originality to arrive at such a title--no, it wasn’t like that. I...
  • "We Rejoice in Hope" (Sermon for the Third Sunday in Lent, on Romans 5:1-8)

    03/26/2011 8:52:40 PM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 2 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | March 26, 2011 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “We Rejoice in Hope” (Romans 5:1-8)How has your life changed, now that you have been justified? What is different about your life, now that you have been declared righteous? What are the effects, the results, the new situation in your life, because of justification? This is what St. Paul addresses in our text for today, the opening verses of Romans chapter 5. “We Rejoice in Hope,” Paul says. That’s one of the blessed effects of justification, but there’s a whole lot more here as well. “One Thing Leads to Another,” you might call this passage, for in it Paul moves...
  • "The Gospel of God . . . Concerning His Son" (Sermon on Romans 1:1-7)

    03/23/2011 7:24:40 PM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 19 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | March 23, 2011 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “The Gospel of God . . . Concerning His Son” (Romans 1:1-7)During this Lent, and on through Easter Day, we’re doing a series of sermons based on texts from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. “Readings in Romans: Righteousness Revealed” is our theme, and tonight we come to the fifth of sixteen messages in this series. So far we’ve had texts from Romans 6, Romans 5, Romans 10, and Romans 4, but tonight we finally get around to going where the epistle begins, in Romans 1. This is St. Paul’s formal introduction to his letter, and it follows the familiar...
  • "His Faith Is Counted as Righteousness" (Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent, on Romans 4)

    03/19/2011 11:13:19 PM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 5 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | March 20, 2011 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “His Faith Is Counted as Righteousness” (Romans 4:1-8, 13-17)Do you know how much you have in your bank account? It’s good to have at least a general idea, to know that you are on the positive side of the ledger and not about to overdraw your account. Because if you write a check and you don’t have enough money in your account to cover it, your bank will then hit you with an overdraft charge. There is a penalty for falling into a negative balance. So you want to know how much is in your account and to make sure...
  • "The Word Is Near You" (Sermon on Romans 10:5-13)

    03/16/2011 2:36:39 PM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 2 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | March 16, 2011 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “The Word Is Near You” (Romans 10:5-13)Imagine you are young and healthy--well, wait, right off the bat, that may hard for some of us to imagine, being young and healthy again! But for now, try to imagine that you are young and healthy, with all your life ahead of you. You’re married, you’ve got a couple of little children who need you--you’ve got a lot to live for. However, your doctor has just informed you that you have an extremely rare and deadly disease. It isn’t affecting you just yet, and it won’t for some months still, but within two...
  • "Reign in Life through the One Man Jesus Christ" (Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent, on Romans 5)

    03/12/2011 7:48:10 PM PST · by Charles Henrickson · 3 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | March 13, 2011 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “Reign in Life through the One Man Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:12-19)During this season of Lent, going on through Holy Week, and even on to Easter Day, we’re doing a series of sermons based on “Readings in Romans”: fifteen straight services in which our sermon texts are all from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, under the overall theme, “Righteousness Revealed.” Our text today comes from Romans 5, and I think we can get at the point of the passage as a whole by way of verse 17: “For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man,...
  • Book Review: Opinion: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

    02/06/2011 9:42:22 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Associated Baptist Press ^ | Christmas Week 2009 | David Gushee
    My Christmas week reflections are inspired by a brilliant 25-year-old book by historian Robert L. Wilken. I picked up The Christians as the Romans Saw Them in hopes of finding resources for my research on the sanctity of life. I thought that Wilken might reveal the extent to which the Romans noticed the unique early Christian commitment to protecting human life. Instead, the book focuses on five pagan observers who offered a barrage of criticisms of the young religion. The five critics in chronological order were Pliny, Galen, Celsus, Porphyry and Julian, and each critic was more sophisticated and devastating...
  • All Things Work Together...Romans 8

    And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.(Romans 8:28)Though we are Sons of God and heirs of a new heaven and a new earth, our time has not yet come.We await the time when our inheritance will be realized, when our true Son ship will be manifested. We are groaning with creation, for a new creation and for the final release from sin and corruption. But the present is not merely an interim time of waiting, nor is it a painful but meaningless...
  • Heirs Of God...Romans 8

    12/30/2010 4:03:24 PM PST · by pastorbillrandles · 17 replies · 24+ views
    The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.(Romans 8:14-17)Christians are Sons of God. Not naturally, but by adoption, God has brought us into his own family,and given us the status of sons. Also by virtue of a new birth, having been born from above, we share in the Divine nature,and are Sons of God. John 1:12-13 brings out this twofold truth powerfully when he proclaims , *adoption,“As...
  • Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans

    12/13/2010 1:54:43 AM PST · by Islander7 · 5 replies
    Guardian ^ | Dec 12, 2010 | Maev Kennedy
    Dave Crisp found treasure on a soggy ridge outside the Somerset town of Frome last April, and helped rewrite history. On a bitter winter afternoon, as he walks the frosty field again, he recalls one of the most heart-stoppingly exciting moments of his life. The 63-year-old ex-army man had discovered a scattering of Roman silver coins in the field. He came back a few days later with his detector, bought secondhand on eBay, to round up any remaining broken pieces. The signals were faint and confusing.
  • Spirit of Adoption ...Romans 8

    12/05/2010 4:23:04 PM PST · by pastorbillrandles · 3 replies
    http://billrandles.wordpress.com/ ^ | 12-05-10 | Bill Randles
    For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (Romans 8:14-16)Romans 8 is all about the assurance of salvation. The apostle asserts in the first verse that “there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus…”, and the rest of the chapter teaches why this is so. There is no...
  • Living By The Spirit... Romans 8

    But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:11-13) What is the current state of the Christian? How can it be that there is no condemnation for us, when we know...
  • You Are In The Spirit...Romans 8

    11/23/2010 5:30:02 PM PST · by pastorbillrandles · 18 replies · 1+ views
    But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Romans 8:9-11) One of the...
  • The Mind Set on The Spirit...Romans 8

    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.(Romans 8:5-6)Why is it that “there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus”? One of the reasons is that those in Christ Jesus are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and live their lives by the Spirit of God. In the last article we looked at Paul’s expression, “They that are after the flesh“, that is those who...
  • The Carnal Mond is God Enmity...Romans 8

    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.(Romans 8:5-8)Romans 8 is the great teaching of God about the assurance of salvation. There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus…Why not? That is...
  • The Carnal Mind is God Enmity...Romans 1

    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.(Romans 8:5-8)Romans 8 is the great teaching of God about the assurance of salvation. There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus…Why not? That is...
  • No Condemnation...Romans 8

    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.(Romans 8:1-4)One thing I...
  • Flesh and Spirit ...Romans 8

    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.(Romans 8:1-4)Many translations of...
  • In The Likeness of Sinful Flesh...Romans 8

    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.(Romans 4:1-4)Romans 8 is...
  • No Condemnation...Romans 8

    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.(Romans 8:1-4)One thing I...