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No one gets excited about being let off the hook if they never felt like they were on the hook, to begin with. Romans 8 is the pinnacle of the book of Romans. And it begins with the declaration that we have been let off the hook for all our sins in Christ Jesus. It is a reality worth celebrating.

Join us as we celebrate several wins from this past year and as we discuss how we are going to approach Making More and Better Disciples of Jesus.

Join us as we take a look at Matthew 1 and discuss Jesus as Immanuel, God with us.

If the law was good, why does it make people bad? The answer is, it doesn’t. The law doesn’t make people bad, it simply reveals that people are bad. The law shows us what we should be and helps us realize we aren’t. And the issue isn’t that we don’t want to be good, but that we can’t. We can’t live up to the standard of the Law, we need a savior.

At one time, we were all married to the law. Meaning we were obligated to serve it. And marriage is a sacrament that binds two people together as long as they both are alive. But thanks be to God, through Christ’s death, we died. And now we are no longer married to the law but free to marry another and serve him.

You are a slave to whatever you obey. Everyone is a slave to something. In this text, Paul gives us the option, become a slave to sin or a slave to righteousness. There isn’t an option to not be a slave, you will be a slave to something. You can be a slave to that which pays off in death, or that which brings the gift of eternal life.

Baptism is not a symbol, it is a sacrament. Meaning, it has spiritual ramifications in the heavenly realm. When we are baptized, Paul says we are baptized into Christ's death, burial and resurrection. And because we died with Christ, we are also raised victorious with Him. And just as sin has no mastery over Jesus, it no longer has mastery over us. Just as Jesus is free to live fully to God, we too are now free to live fully to God.

In this text, Paul unpacks how we got to where we are. All were once in Adam, and thus all sinned when he sinned. Sin isn’t just something we do, it is part of who we are. But just as we were once in Adam and his sin infected us all, we have been invited to be born again in Christ and thus be infected with his righteousness. In Adam we all experienced death, in Christ we experience eternal life.

Because of the love of God, Jesus died for the unworthy not the worthy. God did not wait for us to get it together, He died for us while we were still His enemies. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus we are transformed from enemies of God into children of God. And through His death, Jesus reconciled our relationship with God.

Through faith in Jesus, we get to experience peace with God instead of the wrath of God. Through the hope of Jesus, we glory in our sufferings not just in our victories. And because of God’s love for us, he has gifted us his spirit.