Church Discipline 1: Matt. 18:15-20: When to administer
Introduction: When is church a true church? The doctrine of the church was something that was wrestled with at the time of the Reformation when Luther broke with Rome. It emerged at the end of...
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Romans 3:25-26: How can a Holy God forgive sins?
I want to begin by asking a theological question, that given our present day concerns you probably wouldn’t ask but is a central question to the Bible. How can a Holy God forgive sins? Given...
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Romans 3:24: Justified
In every area of life you get technical terms. In the area of sport we are quite familiar with arcane and exclusive terms and phrases. For example, to those who know and love cricket, you...
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Romans 3:21-23: Righteous by faith
You are locked away in prison for your faith, and you are handed one page of the bible to take with you into solitary confinement, what page would you want? I would choose the page...
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Romans 3:9-20: The Conclusion about Man and Sin
“It is hard and unpopular to speak about sin in our modern age, the modern and post-modern philosophies of our age have brought the idea of sin under the knife, and the notion of right...
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Romans 3: 1-8: Jewish Objections to the Gospel –
There are very few of us here today who would be good public debaters. I am sure that most of you are like me in that you come away from a debate or argument thinking...
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Romans 2:25-29: Circumcision and the New Birth
In some recent studies in America some shocking statistics revealed the shocking behaviour of so called ‘born again’ Christians. These studies showed that born again Christians were as likely to divorce as non-Christians; that only...
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Romans 2:17-4: Hypocrisy
Sorry, there is no audio recording of this sermon available. “Every true revival of God follows the same pattern: first there is a deep conviction of sin as the Holy Spirit uses the law...
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Romans 2:12-16: Questions about Judgement
“If you had to ask me what the most difficult verse in Romans is, I would point you to one of the verses we are dealing with this morning, 2:13. It is a hard verse...
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Romans 2:6-11: Judgement according to works
“You will recognise them by their fruits.” These are the words of Jesus as he warned his disciples about how to recognise a false teacher, in other words, those who claimed to be Christians, and...
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Romans 2:1-5: How to convince good religious people that they are sinful and in danger
“Two men were walking through the jungle in Africa, when a leopard that had been waiting for prey in one of the trees pounced on them. One of the men was grabbed by the arm...
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Romans 1:24-32: What Judgement upon Idolatry looks like
“When we think of God judging sin we have a picture of a great white throne, Jesus seated as the judge, the nations before Him, the angels dividing the people into two groups; we tend...
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Romans 1:18-23: Gods anger is revealed against sin
God gets angry at sin! They say that you can tell a lot about a person by what makes them angry. Some people are furious when marmite is no longer on the store shelves. Some...
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Romans 1:18: The Wrath of God is revealed
Everyone likes to hear about a loving God, but an angry God is very unpopular. And yet please note, that Paul who was writing a type of introductory letter to the Romans, informing them of...
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Romans 1:17: The Righteousness of God
“One of the most famous verses in the book of Romans is 1:17. It has been made famous by Martin Luther and the way in which God used it to teach him the Gospel. Luther...
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Romans 1:16: Not being ashamed of the Gospel
Christians are ashamed of the Gospel! This is most evident in the various, faith+ versions of the Gospel we see in Christianity; and the various Christ+ variations as well. Christians are failing to see the...