Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000403
00:16 Hi, and welcome again to His Words are Life.
00:18 I'm Kelly Mowrer. And today we will be reading from the book 00:21 of Romans. But before we begin, let's pray together. 00:24 Dear Jesus, thank you so much for your love and for your grace 00:30 and thank you for your law. And write that on our hearts. 00:35 As we read today, the words of Paul about law and grace, 00:40 give us a deeper understanding. We know without your mercy, 00:44 none of us would even be here. We know that without your grace, 00:47 we would never see you. But we don't want to make the mistake 00:52 of thinking that what your grace started we can somehow finish 00:55 but nor do we want to scorn the need to be obedient 01:00 to what you've told us. So give us an understanding as we read 01:03 today that we might server you better. We love you so much. 01:07 Amen. Again, I am reading today from the King James version 01:12 in the book of Romans, chapter 2 and starting with verse 13. 01:16 For not the hearers of the law are just before God; 01:21 but the doers of the law shall be justified. 01:25 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature 01:30 the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, 01:34 are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written 01:39 in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, 01:42 and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing 01:47 one another; - In the day when God shall judge the secrets 01:52 of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. 01:55 Behold, thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, 01:59 and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest 02:04 the things that are more excellent, being instructed 02:07 out of the law and art confident that thou thyself art a guide 02:12 of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 02:15 and instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, 02:18 which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth 02:22 in the law. Thou therefore which teachest another, 02:26 teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not 02:32 steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not 02:39 commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? 02:42 thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? 02:46 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking 02:50 the law dishonourest thou God? For the name of God 02:54 is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, 02:57 as it is written. For circumcision verily profiteth, 03:02 if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, 03:06 thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 03:08 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of 03:13 the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted 03:17 for circumcision? And shall not uncircumcision 03:21 which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, 03:25 who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress 03:28 the law? for he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; 03:33 neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 03:37 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision 03:43 is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; 03:47 whose praise is not of men, but of God. 03:51 We're reading today from the book of Romans, 03:54 the King James version, beginning now in chapter three 03:57 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of 04:02 circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them 04:08 were committed the oracles of God. 04:10 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief 04:15 make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: 04:18 Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, 04:24 That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, 04:28 and mightest overcome when thou art judged. 04:30 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God 04:35 what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance 04:40 - I speak as a man - God forbid: for then how shall God judge 04:46 the world? For if the truth of God hath more abounded through 04:50 my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 04:56 And not rather - as we be slanderously reported 05:00 and as some affirm that we say - Let us do evil, that good 05:04 may come? whose damnation is just. What then? 05:08 Are we better than they? No in no wise: for we have before 05:14 proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 05:19 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 05:24 There is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after 05:30 God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together 05:35 become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no not one 05:41 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues 05:44 they have used deceit; the poison of asps 05:48 is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing 05:51 and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: 05:55 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 05:58 And the way of peace have they not known: 06:01 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 06:04 Now we know that what things so ever the law saith, 06:08 it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth 06:12 may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty 06:15 before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law 06:19 there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: 06:23 for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 06:27 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, 06:33 being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 06:35 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of 06:39 Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: 06:44 for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short 06:48 of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace 06:53 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath 06:57 set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, 07:02 to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins 07:05 that are past, through the forbearance of God; 07:09 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: 07:13 that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth 07:18 in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. 07:22 By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 07:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith 07:33 without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? 07:37 Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 07:42 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision 07:47 by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 07:50 Do we then make void the law through faith? 07:53 God forbid: yea, we establish the law. 07:58 We're reading again from the book of Romans, 08:01 beginning now in chapter 4. What shall we say then 08:05 that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, 08:08 hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, 08:11 he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 08:15 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, 08:20 and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 08:23 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, 08:28 but of debt. But to him that worketh not, 08:32 but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, 08:35 his faith is counted for righteousness. 08:38 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, 08:43 unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 08:47 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, 08:50 and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man 08:53 to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 08:56 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, 09:01 or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith 09:05 was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 09:07 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, 09:12 or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, 09:16 but in uncircumcision. 09:18 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the 09:23 righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: 09:27 that he might be the father of all them that believe, 09:32 though they be not circumcised; that righteousness 09:37 might be imputed unto them also: And the father of circumcision 09:41 to them who are not of the circumcision only, 09:44 but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father 09:48 Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. 09:52 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, 09:56 was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, 10:00 but through the righteousness of faith. 10:04 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, 10:08 and the promise made of none effect: Because the law 10:12 worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. 10:17 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; 10:22 to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; 10:26 not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is 10:31 of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 10:34 - As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, - 10:39 before him whom he believed, even God, 10:43 who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things 10:46 which be not as though they were. 10:49 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the 10:54 father of many nations according to that which was spoken, 10:58 so shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered 11:04 not his own body, now dead, when he was about 100 years old, 11:08 neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: 11:11 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; 11:15 but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. 11:19 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, 11:24 he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him 11:31 for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, 11:35 that it was imputed to him; but for us also, 11:38 to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up 11:44 Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered 11:47 for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. 11:51 Reading again, the book of Romans, chapter 5 11:55 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God 12:01 through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access 12:06 by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope 12:11 of the glory of God. And not only so, 12:14 but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that 12:18 tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; 12:22 and experience, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed; 12:27 because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts 12:31 by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 12:33 For when we were yet without strength, in due time 12:37 Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man 12:42 will one die: yet peradventure for a good man 12:45 some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love 12:50 toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, 12:54 Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified 12:59 by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 13:03 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God 13:07 by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, 13:11 we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy 13:17 in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now 13:21 received the atonement. Wherefore, as by one man 13:25 sin entered into the world, and death by sin; 13:27 and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned; 13:31 - For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is 13:34 not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned 13:38 from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned 13:43 after the similitude of Adam's transgression, 13:45 who is the figure of him that was to come. 13:47 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. 13:52 For is through the offence of one, many be dead, 13:56 much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, 14:00 which is by one man, Jesus Christ, 14:02 hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned 14:08 so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, 14:12 but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 14:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; 14:21 much more they which receive abundance of grace 14:24 and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, 14:28 Jesus Christ. - Until we come together again 14:32 may you know the joy of his grace. Goodbye. |
Revised 2014-12-17