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Romans 4:8-17 - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: August 10, 2008

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Romans 4:10)

We are incomplete without Gods grace in our life.

Life Lesson (Romans 4:11)

Salvation is not keeping the law but keeping the faith.

Life Lesson (Romans 4:15)

The law was not given to save us but that we might know we need saving.

Life Lesson (Romans 4:17)

Abraham did not weigh the promises by his abilities but by God's ability to keep them. Abraham praised God before the evidence was there.

Selected Notes/Illustrations

Solo Fidelis (only by faith)
Solo Grazi (only by grace)
Solo Scriptura (only the Bible)
Solo Deo Gloria (only give God the glory)

Roman Road

Romans 3:10
Romans 3:23
Romans 5:8
Romans 5:12
Romans 6:23
Romans 10:9, 10

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Gal 6:14 NKJV

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Jer 9:24 NKJV

But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the LORD.

1 Cor 1:31 NKJV

that, as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the LORD."

2 Cor 10:17 NKJV

But "he who glories, let him glory in the LORD."

Luke 17:10 NKJV

In the same way, when you obey me you should say, 'We are not worthy of praise. We are servants who have simply done our duty.'"

Col 2:9-10 NLT

9 For in Christ the fullness of God lives in a human body, 10 and you are complete through your union with Christ. He is the Lord over every ruler and authority in the universe.

2 Cor 5:14 NKJV

For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died;

2 Cor 5:14 NLT

Whatever we do, it is because Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for everyone, we also believe that we have all died to the old life we used to live.

1 Cor 13:3 NKJV

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

1 Cor 13:3 NLT

If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.

Rom 5:8 NKJV

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 1:8-10 NKJV

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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