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Living worthily as recipients of the best gift (1)     [Romans 6:1-11]   We have already learned through meditation on Romans 5:12-21 that the greatest gift God gives us is eternal life.   We must believe in Jesus Christ if we want to receive this gift of eternal life.   Whoever believes in his heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and confesses with his mouth that Jesus is Lord will be saved (10:9) and can enjoy this greatest gift, eternal life, not only in the world to come but also in this world.   If there are people who have not yet received this blessing of eternal life, I hope and pray that you will receive this blessing today.   Believe that Jesus died on the cross to forgive all your sins.   Also, believe that Jesus, who died to justify you, rose from the grave (4:25).   To all those who believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God will give you eternal life, the greatest gift that cannot be exchanged for...

Having been justified by faith     [Romans 5:1-5]     In today's text, Romans 5:1, the apostle Paul gives the concluding words from Romans 1 to 4.   The conclusion is ‘we have been justified by faith.’   The Scripture says that “we”, that is, the saints (Jews and Gentiles) in Rome in the days of Abraham, the ancestors of faith, and Paul and me and you who believe in Jesus, all of us were justified by faith alone.   As Paul makes this conclusion, he says in Romans 5:1-5, ‘Then, since we have been justified by faith (in Jesus Christ), what is the grace (blessing) God has given us?’   In other words, Paul is telling us the result of justification.   What does today's text Romans 5:1-5 tell us about the result of justification?   I want to think about in two ways:   First, the result of justification is “peace.”   We have been justified only by faith in Jesus Christ's death on the cross and resurrection fro...

The happiness of those who are credited as righteous by God (2)           [Romans 4:9-17]       We have already learned who is the happiest person in the world based on Romans 4:1-8.   We learned that the happiest person in this world is the one who has received the remission of all sins only through faith in Jesus Christ, and whom God credited as the righteousness.   In the midst of that, I personally created a “happiness formula”: Happiness Quotient = Only grace + Only Jesus' work on the cross + Only faith.   The more we get to know Jesus through the words of the Bible, and the more we realize what He did on the cross for our salvation, the more our faith grows.   And the more our faith grows, the more we will think of the salvation that God has given us in Jesus Christ.   And the more we think of the salvation that God has given us, the more we realize how great God's grace is.   The more we do...

We are justified by faith alone!     [Romans 3:19-31]   In our life of faith, what we must never forget is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which God did for our salvation.   We must never forget this wonderful work of God, in which God raised us, who was dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1), back to life through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ and made us the greatest masterpiece of God.   However, the problem is that we believers who have been saved by God's exclusive grace often lose focus while living a life of faith.   In other words, when we first live a life of faith, we tend to focus on the grace of salvation that God has done in Jesus Christ, and later on, we tend to focus on what we have done for God.   Therefore, we commit the dangerous sin of relying on human merit rather than the concept of grace.   As a result, we see ourselves serving the church, the body of the Lord, for our own glory in our arrogance r...