PASTOR'S CORNER

  Rom 1:18-32   Paul moves from the power of the true gospel to the absolute need of the gospel.  Because there is a condemnation that this world will taste one day apart from His saving grace.  What you and I benefit from the true gospel in our salvation…is a peace with God and eternal rest.  But! The gospel is also about God’s judgment and wrath against the sinfulness of mankind.   The full gospel is saving but it also damming to those who are outside His redemptive plan.   The complete work of the cross brought many sinners to taste the joy of His salvation; but there will be a people who will taste the full fury of God’s wrath.  This is the part of the gospel the church  doesn’t like to talk about.  Many would rather speak about your “felt needs” like your “mood, fears, bad habits, loneliness, or uncontrolled desires .  Or they present the gospel as a reward . It’s like dangling a carrot , you will receive a ...

  Rom 1:17   “The righteous shall live by faith”   To understand this phrase we have to go back to where it was first used in the Book Of Habakkuk.  The prophet Habakkuk was deeply distressed because the people of God where being invaded by pagans, and these pagans where triumphing over his people.  This made Habakkuk very confused by asking God this question, “You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?” Hab 1:13.  So, what does Habakkuk do while he waits for God to answer his question? “I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. And the LORD answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it...