DISCOURSE: 1828 CHRISTIANS’ ADVANTAGES ABOVE HEATHENS Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way_. IT is not easy to form a just estimate of the privileges attached to the profession of Christianity: we are ready either, on the one hand, t... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1829 THE FOLLY OF UNBELIEF Romans 3:3. _What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar_. IN every age of the world man has been prone to disbelieve the testimony of God: our first parents fel... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1830 THE EXTENT OF MAN’S DEPRAVITY Romans 3:10. _It is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not on... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1831 OUR VIOLATIONS OF EVERY COMMANDMENT Romans 3:20. _By the law is the knowledge of sin_. OUR lost estate, and our consequent need of a Saviour, can never be truly known, unless we compare our lives with that universal rule of duty, the law of God. St. Paul took this method of proving... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1832 THE BELIEVER’S RIGHTEOUSNESS Romans 3:21. _But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe_. IT is justly observed by... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1833 THE JUSTICE OF GOD IN JUSTIFYING SINNERS Romans 3:24. _Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1834 JUSTIFICATION WITHOUT BOASTING Romans 3:27. _Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law_. IT may well be supposed, that any revelation, purporting to... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1835 FAITH ESTABLISHES THE LAW Romans 3:31. _Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law_. A GENERAL prejudice obtains against the way of salvation by faith: but it prevailed equally even in the apostolic age. Paul himself saw that his statement of... [ Continue Reading ]