Romans 4:1-25
Salvation is not a ‘reward’ to be ‘earned’. It is God’s ‘gift’(4-5). Salvation comes from the Lord. ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only Son’(John 3:16): Without the love of God, the gift of God, the Son of God, there can be no salvation. The way of salvation does not begin with the word ‘I’. Jesus Christ is the Way. He is the Saviour. Salvation is in Him (John 14:6; Matthew 1:21; Acts 4:12). Looking to ‘Jesus our Lord’, crucified and raised for our salvation, we are saved and we give ‘glory to God’(20-25). We rejoice in ‘God our Saviour’- ‘He saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of His own mercy...’(Titus 3:4-7). Looking away from ourselves to Christ, we learn the truth of God’s Word: ‘it is on the basis of faith that it may rest on grace’(16). This is Good News!
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