At just the right time, after centuries of divine foreshadowing—the tabernacle sacrifices, Isaac’s near-sacrifice with a substitute, the Passover lamb, and the promises to David—God unveiled His decis...  Read More

Since we are all sinners and incapable of saving ourselves, God did for us—what we could not do for ourselves... He provided a single, sufficient sacrifice in Jesus to make it possible for our sins to...  Read More

Paul shows us that God’s saving promise rests in faith alone in the grace initiative of God—and therefore guaranteed to all who share Abraham’s faith (v.16). Abraham believed the God who “gives life t...  Read More

In Romans 4, Paul continues the argument he began in Romans 3: that no one can earn righteousness through the Law or through moral effort. To prove his point, Paul reaches back to the story of Abraham...  Read More

Paul’s words in this passage are a turning point in his letter to the Romans. For two chapters he has been building the case that everyone—Jew and Gentile alike—has fallen short of God’s perfect stand...  Read More

After proving in Romans 1:16-3:20 that no one is righteous or deserving of God’s forgiveness—and that the Law can save no one but only expose one’s sin, Paul announced the good news that the righteous...  Read More

Paul brings his argument to a sobering verdict—There is no one righteous…not even one. Both Jews and Gentiles alike are subject to the power, pain, and penalty of sin equally – and our minds, motives,...  Read More

After showing in chapters 1–2 that both Gentiles and Jews stand guilty before a holy God, Paul anticipates the pushback: “So what advantage is there to being a Jew?” He answers—MUCH—because they were ...  Read More

In this passage, Paul turns to the Jewish believers who were putting their confidence in their ability to keep the Law and in their circumcision as proof of their faith superiority. He says bluntly th...  Read More

In this passage, Paul continues confronting the spiritually smug and self-righteous tendency we are all capable of embracing. Whether Jew (with the written Law) or Gentile (without it), God’s standard...  Read More

After exposing the flagrant idolatry and immorality in humanity as a result of living in a fallen, sinful world in Romans 1:18-32, Paul turns to the moralist—the privileged, self-righteous Jew or the ...  Read More

Paul pulls back the curtain on the human heart: we know there is a God, yet we refuse to glorify Him or give thanks. That refusal dims our thinking, darkens our hearts, and drives a tragic exchange—tr...  Read More