Righteousness through Faith

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In Romans 3:27-31, immediately after Paul’s explanation that sinners must be declared acceptable before God by faith in Jesus, we learn of three outcomes for our relationships with people.

Though, justification is a legal position before God, a person in that position can no longer relate to others as they did before their justification. Paul addresses, head on, three excuses we formerly used when we relied in our own justification.

All children of God now have hearts that choose praising God instead of boasting in one’s self (3:27-28), acceptance of the poor instead of partiality to the rich (3:29-30), and obedience to the ways of God instead of the disobedience of our own ways (3:31).

Speaker: Michael Smith
Series: Romans
Scripture Verses: Romans 3:27-31, Luke 2:8-21, Romans 3:27-33, Ephesians 2:8-9, Galations 3:2-3, Romans 4:16, Matthew 5:17, Romans 3:21, Romans 6:17, Revelation 7:10, James 2, Psalm 119:9-11, Psalm 16:11