Romans 3
Digging Deep into God’s Word!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, August 13.
Paul’s writings, starting with Romans, invites us to become students of the Bible. Unlike the story telling of the Gospels and Acts, Romans is a theological treatise of the gospel and it takes some work to mine the depths of it.
For example, listen to Romans 3:21-25a, “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.”
This is a very important Scripture passage as Paul is laying out the truths that lead us to understand our need for Jesus Christ and how we can be saved.
This short section from Romans 3 is loaded with biblical concepts and vocabulary that will require you to be a serious student of the Bible if you want to get the most out of it.
Here are three practical steps you can take to becoming a responsible student of God’s Word:
- Submit your reading time to God by praying before you read. You need the Holy Spirit to teach you, to guide you into all truth.
- Resist the enemy of your soul who wants to distract you from reading your Bible. If he can’t stop you from reading it, he will seek to distract you from understanding and applying it.
- Study the Word of God. Don’t just read over the surface, dig into it! Pull out a journal, use a Bible dictionary, and get serious about your Bible study time.
Seize the moment and dig deep into God’s Word today.