Justified by Faith  Romans 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: This verse should bring all believers great comfort and joy! Simply by believing in Christ's death, burial and resurrection as atonement for our sins, which is the ONLY way to be justified, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of what Jesus did for us we are also eternally secure in Him.  Romans 5:1 | Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: This is such a wonderful verse to read. It brings a believer so much comfort knowing that by simple faith in Christ's death, burial and resurrection we now have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Doesn't this bring you so much joy! When I was a little girl I was given the gospel. I understood even at that time that I was a sinner and I believed that Jesus died for my sins, was buried and rose again. I didn't understand too much ...

Biblical womanhood is liberating because Christ has freed us (the believer) from  1) Being slaves to sin and the sin nature  2) Trying to keep the law in our own fleshly efforts  3) Fear, guilt and self-condemnation when we choose as believers to live godly. Romans 6:18-23 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is e...

Abstain from all appearance of evil In the King James Bible there is a verse that very simply says, "Abstain from all appearance of evil." It is in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 22. 1st and 2nd Thessalonians is about our blessed hope. Our blessed hope includes that as believers, we are saved from the wrath to come which is the 7 year tribulation on the earth. Believers in the dispensation of grace will be raptured out before the tribulation begins. Our blessed hope also includes our receiving our glorified bodies, being taken to the heavenly places which is a believers true home, our receiving of possible rewards in heaven, and being given our new heavenly careers. This is one of the first doctrines that Satan attacked, and still today much of Christendom is completely in the dark about the rapture and regarding the details of "the day of Christ". This means that many believers are lacking in hope! We are reminded that we have a blessed hope in Christ and that we ...

Father God, thank you so much for this time that we can spend reading and studying your word, specifically today in Romans chapter 4. Jesus's name we pray amen.  Romans 4:15-25 Again in Romans 4:15 it says,  15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. If you are not under the law, then you are not condemned. Today we are not under the Mosaic Law and as believers we have also already learned the lesson of the law of our conscience that we are sinners who cannot save ourselves and we then believed the gospel of the grace of God for our salvation. This means that we are no longer under the law of our conscience. Instead, in order to walk worthy unto all pleasing to God, we are to get sound grace doctrine built up in our inner man, believe it, and obey it, which is allowing Christ to live in and through us. We live the way that God wants us to live by reckoning our old man to be dead and choosing to walk in the Spirit. We do NOT live for...

Ephesians 5:17  -  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. What is God's will for women? First of all, God's will for ALL people is that they be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2 verse 4in the KJB says, " Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. " God wants all people to be saved but of course each person has a free will and must choose for themselves whether or not to believe the gospel. If they do believe, then God wants them to also come to the knowledge of the truth, which is understanding God's word rightly divided.  So, God wants women saved and then to mature spiritually through the word. He also specifically says that young women are to "marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully." (1 Tim 5:14). Some women might have the gift of celibacy, which means that they would be able to remain single a...

"Wise unto good" and "Simple concerning evil" Romans 16:19 KJV For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. As believers we are to know and understand that which is good, which is God's word rightly divided, and to be simple concerning things that are evil - all of the bad doctrine out there, but also in guarding our minds from learning about all of the evil things in the world. Let's talk about this a little more in detail.  1) Wise unto that which is good What good things does Paul want believers to be wise about? Well, this verse comes at the last chapter of Romans. Romans is foundational doctrine for the believer today in the dispensation of grace. In Romans you learn about being justified by grace through faith alone; our eternal security as believers; our identity in Christ; overcoming the sin cycle and walking in the Spirit; the di...

Father God, thank you so much for this time that we can spend reading and studying your word, specifically today in Romans chapter 4. In Jesus's name we pray amen.  Romans 4:9-15 says 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. 13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the wor...