Romans 3:1-26

Nothing can separate us from the love of the Father except us.

 God’s love is open and available to ALL who seek Him and believe in the salvation that He provides in Jesus Christ. 

He sees the Christ in us, the hope of His glory because Jesus paid the ransom for those who came before Him and offers mercy and grace to all those who came after. 

Keep the faith!

Do you believe in Jesus and accept that He died in your place for your sins? Then you are saved because…He is righteous, He is worthy and all power to move heaven and hell is in His hands!

The righteousness of God is not an attribute of God, but an act of God whereby He declares a sinner righteous. We cannot save ourselves because as sinners we can never meet God’s requirements. Our only hope is faith in Jesus Christ.

By His death, Christ satisfied the justice of God.

 He paid the penalty of sin in full. Paul cites two reasons why the righteousness of God comes through Christ’s death. The first is to demonstrate that God Himself is righteous, and did not judge the sins committed prior to the Cross. The second reason for the Cross is that God wanted to show that He is both righteous and at the same time the One who can declare sinners righteous. 

Because of Christ’s death, God does not compromise His holiness when He forgives a sinner.

Romans 3:21-26

²¹ But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, ²² even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, ²⁶ to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 

Ephesians 2:8

¹¹ But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.” 

Acts 15:11

¹⁰ Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 

1 Peter 1:10

¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 

Romans 10:12

¹¹ where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all. 

Colossians 3:11

²² But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 

Galatians 3:22

¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 

Romans 4:16