Father God, thank you for this time that we can spend reading and studying your word, in particular today the book of Romans chapter 3. Romans 3: 1-2 Romans 2 ended with the following verses: Romans 2:28-29 in the KJB says,  28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. In those verses we learned that the Jews are not saved just because they are Jewish or circumcised. In Romans 1 we learned that the Gentiles are under sin and guilty before God. In Romans two we learned that the Jews are also under sin and are guilty before God. In Romans chapter 3, we will learn that the whole world is under sin and is guilty before God.  Romans chapter 3 verses 1-2 continues on from Romans chapter 2 and says, "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is th...

Father God, thank you for this time that we can spend reading and studying your word, in particular today the book of Romans chapter 3. Thank you Father for the shed blood of Christ and how that He died for our sins, was buried and rose again for our justification. And that by simple faith in this glorious gospel, we are saved. In Jesus's name we pray, Amen.  The shed blood of Christ  Hebrews 9:22b in the KJB says, "and without shedding of blood is no remission."  And Romans 3:25 says, "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" Have you ever noticed that within Christendom there are many false gospels that leave out the shed blood of Christ? They will tell people "just believe in Jesus"! But to be saved today we are not to just believe in Jesus, but to also believe how that Christ died for our sins (He shed his blood for...