There is a pattern in Romans 1 that has repeated itself throughout history in every empire, nation, government and even in God’s chosen people, whether it be Israel or the church, the body of Christ. It has a beginning that is very important, and that we are going to look at in some detail, but first we want to look at the…
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
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In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans we read the following statement.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23
Obviously, this is one of the most well known passages of scripture in all of God’s Word. It shows us two great contrasts about our sin and our salvation. The first contrast is between a wage and a gift. Our sin earns us a wage but God gives us a gift. The second contrast is between death and eternal life. The wage that our sin earns us is death but the free gift that God gives us is eternal life.
The first chapter of Ephesians is perhaps one of the most thrilling chapters in all of Paul’s epistles. Paul details our spiritual blessings in Christ. He reveals the source of all of those blessings when he reveals the nature of God as the “Father of glory” (Ephesians 1:17). All that we have in Jesus Christ is a result of God’s marvelous gift of salvation. That salvation is a result of the Father’s plan, the Son’s payment, and the Spirit’s perseverance. Every aspect of our salvation brings glory to the God who gives it.
We are all familiar with what a “saying” is. A saying is simply something that is said, usually over, and over again over the course of time. Sayings like, “A stitch in time saves nine, a penny saved is a penny earned, absence makes the heart grow fonder”, and countless others have become a part of our vocabulary and culture. I have often been amused when someone will quote one of these adages and then ask me where it is found in Scripture. While these types of sayings often give us insightful bits of wisdom, they are certainly not on a par with the inspired Word of God. There are however, sayings that are the Word of God. These sayings are distinguished from all other sayings in that they are said to be “faithful”. While man’s sayings become sayings because they are found over the course to time to be generally true, a “faithful saying” is guaranteed by God Almighty to be true every time. The four faithful sayings of Scripture are found in the epistles of Paul to Timothy and Titus.