Today I am reading Romans 5-6. The first part is called "Faith Brings Joy", you know? Those little title type things they label sections with in your Bible? That's what I mean.
Chapter 5
Key verse, and favorite verse from this chapter is 17.
"For the sin of one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ."
Adam, the first man on earth drove us all down to the sinful pits of...well...SIN! He and his wife betrayed God's trust. They sinned before there was a law to sin against. Yes, people sinned before there were laws, they just didn't know they were sinning. God gave us laws so we could see how bad off we were into sin...but it just became a common thing to do.
God gaves us grace after that. Grace was something not many found for a while. It was the light in the darkness, the good amongst all the bad. But God then sent His son Jesus to die for us. He died for a bunch of sinners like us. Like it says in verse 7, most people wouldn't even die for a righteous man these days..maybe for a really good guy.... but sinners? Jesus did it. Thank you Lord, you saved us all from Hell. We just need to belive in you the way you believe in us.
Chapter 6
This section is actually titled "Sin's Power is Broken". Already sounds amazing right? THe first paragragh of this chapter gives me chills. Go read Romans 6:1-4 and tell me it doesn't give you chills. It actually tells you what a baptism is and what it stands for.
There are a few verses I ABSOLUTELY love in this chapter.
Verse 6
"We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. WE ARE NO LONGER SLAVES TO SIN."
Verses 10-11
"(10)When He died, He died once to break the power of sin. But now that He lives, He lives for the glory of God.(11)So you should also consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus."
Amen?
And finally verse 22-23
"(22)But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. (23)For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."
Amen.
Prayer requests? Comment below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
Today I listened to these songs during my blog time. They are awesome!
Dwell by Casey Corum
Your Presence by Darren Clarke
If You Say Go by Diane Thiel
Holy by Brebton Brown
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Day 14/365 Bible in a Year
Today I read Matthew 3-4. But I am going to read ahead a few days soon.
Chapter 3 was about Jesus being baptized. My main focus is verses 13-17. Jesus went tomeet with John the Baptist. John thought that Jesus should baptize him, but you know what Jesus said? "It should be done [that John baptize Jesus], for we must carry out all that God requires."
Notice that? God REQUIRES this. It's not an option. It's not probably going to happen. It WILL happen. Once you are saved you follow up with a baptism. It's how you profess publicly for the first time your new faith in Christ. I LOVE THIS!
God calls down from Heaven that He is proud of His son, He says, "This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy." Amazing right?
Chapter 4 is a little rougher and a lot less easy (harder). Jesus, after His baptism, is sent into the wilderness. He fasts for 40 days and 40 nights and prays. My favorite verse in this chapter is verse 10. Satan is tempting Jesus with th world. He offers all of the kingdoms to Him if He would bow to Satan himself and worhsip him just once.
Jesus says, "Get out of here, Satan, for the scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'"
Then Satan leaves and the Lord's angels come down and take care of Jesus.
Then Jesus begins His ministry. He tells people of who He is and who God is and how they should worship according to God. He tells them to repent and turn to God. And he finds a few of His apostles. The first 4 are brothers. (2 are brothers and the othe 2 are brothers hehe not all 4 brothers :D)
Simon (Peter) and Andrew
and
James and John.
They all just up and left what they were doing to be with Jesus.
Prayer requests? Comment below or emial me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
Chapter 3 was about Jesus being baptized. My main focus is verses 13-17. Jesus went tomeet with John the Baptist. John thought that Jesus should baptize him, but you know what Jesus said? "It should be done [that John baptize Jesus], for we must carry out all that God requires."
Notice that? God REQUIRES this. It's not an option. It's not probably going to happen. It WILL happen. Once you are saved you follow up with a baptism. It's how you profess publicly for the first time your new faith in Christ. I LOVE THIS!
God calls down from Heaven that He is proud of His son, He says, "This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy." Amazing right?
Chapter 4 is a little rougher and a lot less easy (harder). Jesus, after His baptism, is sent into the wilderness. He fasts for 40 days and 40 nights and prays. My favorite verse in this chapter is verse 10. Satan is tempting Jesus with th world. He offers all of the kingdoms to Him if He would bow to Satan himself and worhsip him just once.
Jesus says, "Get out of here, Satan, for the scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'"
Then Satan leaves and the Lord's angels come down and take care of Jesus.
Then Jesus begins His ministry. He tells people of who He is and who God is and how they should worship according to God. He tells them to repent and turn to God. And he finds a few of His apostles. The first 4 are brothers. (2 are brothers and the othe 2 are brothers hehe not all 4 brothers :D)
Simon (Peter) and Andrew
and
James and John.
They all just up and left what they were doing to be with Jesus.
Prayer requests? Comment below or emial me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
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