Episodes
Wednesday Jul 30, 2014
THE MORAL HYPOCRITE (Romans 2:1-6)
Wednesday Jul 30, 2014
Wednesday Jul 30, 2014
We live in a world where man does not like to admit that his sinfulness and rebellion against God are at the heart of the problems of society. We talk easily about how men are naturally good and that it is society that makes them bad. We have a hard time taking responsibility for our actions in our society. We are much more comfortable discussing imperfections, weaknesses, mistakes, and errors in judgment as the cause for our faults. These terms are more socially acceptable, and almost everyone identifies with them, for we all have weaknesses.
But an outright acknowledgment of guilt before a holy God, a 100 percent acceptance of responsibility for wrongdoing, is difficult for most people to do. Yet, it is this kind of honesty that is the first step to the freedom from sin and guilt that God longs to give us and has provided for us in the death of Jesus Christ.
It is easy to see the fault in others, to consider yourself as better than the other person. It is even easier to praise the punishment of somebody else, but we become horrified when we are the subject of the punishment for doing the exact same thing. When we judge others, there is no excuse for doing something wrong, but when we are judged ourselves our excuses are intended to exempt us, to explain our sins.
God sees through our excuses and sees the sin.
Listen to this podcast and learn how God condemns the moral hypocrite.
Wednesday Jul 23, 2014
THE PATH TO REJECTING GOD (Romans 1:21-32)
Wednesday Jul 23, 2014
Wednesday Jul 23, 2014
As a believer, the fact that there is a God, that He is my Creator, and that He alone determines the absolute truths about right and wrong, are so clear and so obvious to me that I have a hard time understanding how someone could not see the same thing. Forget about all of the theology, the religious ordinances, I am just talking about the fact that God exists and that I have an obligation to recognize that.
The simple fact that we exist screams out to me that there is a Creator. To believe otherwise requires so much faith in the feeble knowledge of man that it becomes a religion of its own. It is a religion born out of the desire to feel good about living a life that you know is against the will of God. There can be no other reason for rejecting what is so obvious. It certainly is not based on objective science.
So how did man fall so far from worshiping God and what are the consequences of that rejection? That is the topic of our lesson today.
Saturday Jul 19, 2014
HOW GOD IS REVEALED (Romans 1:17-20)
Saturday Jul 19, 2014
Saturday Jul 19, 2014
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
I don’t know how anyone could look at the rings of Saturn, or the moons of Jupiter, and not feel in awe of the power of God to create these things for us. The idea that all of these stars, all of these individual galaxies, black holes, quasars, and the sheer unfathomable distances of space, could be in existence just by happenstance, is the epitome of man’s ideological arrogance.
It takes an incredible amount of assumptions based on theories that are derived from the miniscule amount of knowledge that man has about the universe and how it works for us to deny the existence of an all powerful Creator. Yet, man makes these assumptions, calls them facts, and then proudly proclaims that there is no God.
Romans 1:20 declares For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Listen to this podcast to learn how God continuously reveals Himself to man, and how man has intentionally, with forethought and deliberate effort, walked away from that revelation and began to worship pagan idols and his own greatness.
We will discuss that man is lost in sin, that he needs a Savior, and that God has revealed Himself to man so that there can be no excuse for man to turn away from God.
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
THE POWER OF SALVATION (Romans 1:8-16)
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
If you believed someone was about to go into a dangerous situation, what would you do to help them?
Would you tell them about the danger? Would you try to stop them if you knew the danger was imminent and very real? What if they still wanted to go, would you ask others for help in stopping them? Would it depend on if it was a loved one, or a stranger?
Most of us would go to great lengths to keep someone, even a stranger, from walking into a dangerous situation like a fire, or stepping in front of a train, or stopping a robbery in progress. Much of our reaction would depend on how serious we believed the danger to be and how well we knew the person.
As a believer in Jesus Christ, you know of the imminent danger that much of the world faces once they die. If you truly believe that heaven and hell are real, and that the only way to avoid spending eternity in hell is to find Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, then what are you willing to do to save the people you know, or even a stranger, from that certain danger?
Listen to this podcast to learn the power of the salvation provided by God for those that call upon His name. Listen to the words of the apostle Paul as he tells us that believers are indebted to the whole world because of the grace of God and what Jesus did for us on the cross.
Saturday Jul 05, 2014
THE GOSPEL MESSAGE OF GOD (Romans 1:2-7)
Saturday Jul 05, 2014
Saturday Jul 05, 2014
Each of us make important decisions that will have an impact on the direction that our lives take. For example, the career path that you choose determines what kind of training, education, and work that you will do.
Your choice of career determines your financial position in society, how you will spend your work day, whether it is on a construction site, in a hospital, or in an office for the next 40 years of your life.
Choosing the person whom you will spend the rest of your life married to is an important decision as well. Choosing the mate that God has for you will lead to a relationship that is only excelled by our relationship with Jesus.
On the other hand, choosing the mate that satisfies your earthly desires will lead to a life full of sorrow and pain. When you are ready to dedicate the rest of your life to being one with another person, you must consider that choice very carefully.
But the single most important decision that each one of us will make is what we will do about Jesus Christ. All of the other decisions that you make, career, marriage, or education, will have an impact on your life here on earth, that brief period of about 70 years that you live.
The decision you make about what to do with Jesus Christ will impact your life for all of eternity. It will decide where you will spend eternity, either heaven or hell. It will decide whether you will spend eternity either with God, or separated from God.
The decision of whether you will spend eternity in heaven or hell has nothing to do with how good or bad you are. It rests solely on your acceptance or rejection of Jesus Christ as your Savior. The penalty of sin is death. We are all sinners and we are all going to die, unless the Lord comes first. However, not all of us are going to heaven. In fact, many more are going to hell.
Jesus tells us
Matt 7:13-14
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
KJV
The critical decision that determines which gate you will go through, and therefore, where you will spend eternity must be made while you are still alive. God has given you a finite time to make your choice about Jesus Christ.
This is the gospel message of God. It tells you that you must make a decision about Jesus Christ.
Tuesday Jul 01, 2014
INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS (Romans 1:1)
Tuesday Jul 01, 2014
Tuesday Jul 01, 2014
The Book of Romans is the most complete exposition in the New Testament of the central truths of Christianity. The theme of this book is the righteousness of God, and in it the apostle Paul reveals the mystery of Cross.
The only remedy for man’s sin is the perfect remedy that we have in Christ. This is the great message of Romans.
God takes lost sinners, like I am and like you are, and He brings them into the family of God and He adopts them as joint heirs of Jesus Christ. And He does it because of Christ’s death upon the Cross, not because there is any merit in us whatsoever. This is the great message of Romans.
Listen to this podcast as we begin a new Bible study of the Book of Romans. Every great Christian spiritual revival has been linked to the truths that are found in the book of Romans. Join us each week as we gain a better understanding of the foundations of our faith.
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