August 10, Reading 3 – Romans 3

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SAA Notes

These chapters contain many verses worth learning by heart. Find one and learn it. Paul is expounding his teaching that righteousness is by faith with a steady though intense and concentrated logic. He is worth following at a slow pace!

SJA Notes

* God of Light and Love, please teach us Your truth today.

“For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,”

We are a motley crew, a ragged and despicable legion from Adam till now and onwards until the last trumpet sounds.

You can see Paul building, pulling together scripture – Taking a solid foundation from the old testament.

The language Paul echoes is that of open grave throats and deceiving tongues, lips with venom and mouths of curses and bitterness. Further, the deep darkness of humanity rejecting God.

Paul sums up both our desperate need and the solution. That mind-boggling way for us to be saved.

“For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,”

More of Jesus, less of us. We cannot stake claim to anything in our salvation. Not one fragment, not a tiny whisper of import are we able to grab hold of.

We all fall short. We all have sinned.

BUT.

From 1 Corinthians 15 we have this, a great BUT,

“But thanks be to  God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Hallelujah, redemption (victory) is found in Jesus – What a God we have!

* Gracious Lord,

Thank You. You have saved us! We have victory through Jesus.

Thank You for redeeming us, justifying us through Your grace.

Thank You for this gift, given even though we do not deserve it.

Thank You Lord!

Amen.

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