Salvation: Yours in Christ Jesus (Romans 10:5-13)
Growing up I had a habit of tinkering with things. If our house phone wasn’t working, I’d grab a screwdriver and open it up. If a door or a piece of furniture seemed off, I might try to deconstruct it and figure out what was wrong.
This lead to many headaches for my parents growing up – and it wasn’t until I had tinkered around and messed something up for the umpteenth time that my aunt had affectionately and empathetically told me, “You have the Cardenas touch”. She was alluding to something that my family on my mom’s side had historically done… sought out to fix something and in return, we’d make it worse.
It reminds me of the old adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
This Sunday in Romans we’re going to be looking further into the way the Israelites tried to fix something that didn’t need help at all – our salvation in Christ! In our message we’ll spend time looking into how a works-based righteousness kept Paul’s listeners from seeing and savoring the beauty of the gospel message, namely that Christ is our RIGHTEOUSNESS!
Looking forward to being with you all this Sunday!
- Jason
5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. 6 But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 “or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:5-13