20240630 Romans 1:18 - What are You Saved From?
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42 And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.
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Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone
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Call to Worship - Psalm 146
1 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, O my soul! 2 I will praise Yahweh throughout my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Do not trust in nobles, In merely a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; In that very day his plans perish. 5 How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in Yahweh his God,
6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever; 7 Who does justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh sets the prisoners free. 8 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind; Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down; Yahweh loves the righteous; 9 Yahweh keeps the sojourners; He helps up the orphan and the widow, But He bends the way of the wicked. 10 Yahweh will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Praise Yah!
Scripture Reading - Matthew 3:1-7
1 Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 3 For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight!’” 4 Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea, and all the district around the Jordan; 6 and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins. 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Romans 1:18 - What are You Saved From?
The doctor with no bedside manner but an exceptional skillset for healing
A doctor with great bedside manor but who admits he has never done this procedure before
A doctor who has great bedside manor, who lays out the options, and then asks you to decide which option is best
In verses 1-13 Paul tells us:
Paul a slave of Christ
Set apart for God’s gospel
A promised gospel
A Christ centered gospel - the gospel is the life and work of Jesus and how sinners receive the benefits of his perfect life and atoning work
A trinitarian gospel - salvation is the work of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
A saving gospel
A transforming gospel - Paul the persecutor became Paul the preacher
If the gospel is all this - what is the responsibility of the believer? What is our mission, our purpose, out goal?
After explaining the gospel, in Romans 1:14-16 Paul will tell us what he is bound to do, what he is responsible to do, what he must do.
And by implication, what Paul says he must do every believer must also do.
And Paul tells us in a way that points to the way that Jesus was dedicated and committed to His mission.
1:18 - why do we need the Gospel?
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
From the joy and glory of the Gospel, Paul changes direction. It’s as if throws the glass against the wall, as if drives
(1) The origin of “Are you saved?”
Salvation has always been by grace alone through faith alone in the Messiah, the Christ, alone
The Old Testament presents God as creator, sustainer, and Savior. God is the one who saves those who cannot save themselves.
In the Old Testament we see saved people doing the things that saved people do.
The Old Testament also shows the Lord saving people from physical harm as a reminder of His eternal ability to save us from spiritual harm.
Noah was saved by God
20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.
Abraham saved Lot
Genesis 14:14–16 (LSB)
14 So Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, and he led out his trained men… 16 And he brought back all the possessions, and he also brought back his relative Lot with his possessions and also the women and the people.
Moses saved Jethro’s daughters
17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses rose up and saved them and gave water to their flock to drink.
The Exodus - the Lord saved Israel
30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
The name Joshua - means the Lord saves
10 For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
The Judges saved Israel
16 Then Yahweh raised up judges who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.
Nehemiah speaking of the Judges says
27 “Therefore You gave them into the hand of the ones who distressed them, and they afflicted them with distress, But at the time of their distress they cried to You, And You listened from heaven, and according to Your abundant compassion You gave them saviors and they saved them from the hand of the ones that distressed them.
In the Book of Job
2 “What a help you are to the one without power! How you have saved the arm without strength!
2 “What a help you are to the one without power! How you have saved the arm without strength!
And it is in the Psalms and Isaiah that we especially see the Lord as Savior - as the Saver
3 I call upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies.
16 The king is not saved by a mighty army; A warrior is not delivered by great strength.
6 This poor man called out, and Yahweh heard him And saved him out of all his troubles.
Three times in Ps 80:19
19 O Yahweh God of hosts, restore us; Cause Your face to shine upon us, that we might be saved.
12 “It is I who have declared and saved and caused it to be heard, And there was no strange god among you; So you are My witnesses,” declares Yahweh, “And I am God.
17 Israel has been saved by Yahweh With an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or dishonored To all eternity.
22 “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.
In the New Testament
10 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
30 and after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your house.”
15 It is a trustworthy saying and deserving full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost.
(2) The Need for the Gospel: What are we saved from?
30 “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He determined, having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead.”
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Everyone desperately needs the Gospel. No one will escape the judgment of God. Only those who believe into Christ will escape the wrath of God
Now may the Lord who hears your cry when your heart is faint continue to be the rock beneath you, the shelter above you, and the strong tower around you until Jesus comes. Amen.