The Gospel that Saves Us Cleanses Us
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16 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.”
Introduction:
At the onset of World War I, several factories were established across the United States to produce watches and military dials painted with a material containing radium, a radioactive element that glows in the dark. Hundreds of young women were hired for the well-paying painting jobs because their small hands were well suited for the exacting, detailed work.
Radium had been discovered just 20 years earlier by French physicists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and its properties were not well known. Because it had been used successfully in the treatment of cancer, many considered radium a miracle element, and a variety of commercial products were manufactured in which radium was an ingredient, including toothpaste and cosmetics.
Ashamed - to experience a painful feeling or sense of loss of status because of some particular event or activity.
What is the number one reason that we might be tempted
Confess the gospel publicly.
Confess the gospel publicly.
Romans 1:16 (ESV)
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel...
The gospel is the life altering truth of God whereby sinners
Many are turning their heads today away from the foolish and offensive message of the gospel.
The world should know of our faith in Christ.
The world should know of our faith in Christ.
Believe the gospel whole-heartedly.
Believe the gospel whole-heartedly.
Romans 1:16 (ESV)
16 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.
The gospel provides divine power.
The gospel provides divine power.
Romans 1:16 (ESV)
16 …for it is the power of God ....
The gospel has a universal appeal.
The gospel has a universal appeal.
Romans 1:16 (ESV)
16 for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Rest in the gospel personally.
Rest in the gospel personally.
June 4, 1923) was a jockey who, on June 4, 1923, at Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont, New York,[2] won a steeplechase despite suffering a fatal heart attack in the later part of the race.[3]
Death[edit]
Death[edit]
The twenty-two-year-old[4] Hayes had never won a race before,[5] as by profession he was not a jockey but a horse trainer and stableman.[6][7] The horse, a 20:1 outsider called Sweet Kiss, was owned by Miss A. M. Frayling.[3] Hayes died in the latter part of the race and his body remained in the saddle when Sweet Kiss crossed the finish line, winning by a head, making him the first, and so far only, jockey known to have won a race after death.[8]
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
How can God be both just and merciful?
How can God be both just and merciful?
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.