Romans (Program #36) – Being Freed from Death (1)
We sinners are not sinners only because we commit some sin. Through the fall of Adam, we all were constituted sinners by being born in sin.
We’re somewhere at the midpoint in our study of Romans. I think it’d be helpful if we reviewed briefly and summarized the central focus of this book that has been dubbed, as we mentioned before, “The Gospel of God”. This book of Romans is called “The Gospel of God” because it gives us the full gospel including the judicial redemption by Christ’s death and the organic salvation in His resurrection life. The focus of the revelation of this book is that God is making sons out of sinners to form the Body of Christ to express Christ. In this book, we have seen also that God is expressed in the Son, Jesus Christ, and further that the Son is expressed in a Body. We have seen and we will see further that the Body is expressed in the local churches.
That’s “The gospel of God” and Romans, as we’ve indicated, has also been called the fifth gospel.
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