Study Desk

Abraham felt sure that God was able to do what he had promised.

So, "God accepted Abraham's faith, and that faith made him right with God."

Those words ("God accepted Abraham's faith") were written not only for Abraham

but also for us. God will accept us also because we believe in the One who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Jesus was given to die for our sins, and he was raised from the dead to make us right with God.

Since we have been made right with God by our faith, we have peace with God. This happened through our Lord Jesus Christ,

And this hope will never disappoint us, because God has poured out his love to fill our hearts. He gave us his love through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us.

When we were unable to help ourselves, at the right time, Christ died for us, although we were living against God.

But God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

So through Christ we will surely be saved from God's anger, because we have been made right with God by the blood of Christ's death.

And not only that, but now we are also very happy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we are now God's friends again.

But God's free gift is not like Adam's sin. Many people died because of the sin of that one man. But the grace from God was much greater; many people received God's gift of life by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

After Adam sinned once, he was judged guilty. But the gift of God is different. God's free gift came after many sins, and it makes people right with God.

So as one sin of Adam brought the punishment of death to all people, one good act that Christ did makes all people right with God. And that brings true life for all.

One man disobeyed God, and many became sinners. In the same way, one man obeyed God, and many will be made right.

Sin once used death to rule us, but God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. And this brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us even more grace?

Yes, when Christ died, he died to defeat the power of sin one time—enough for all time. He now has a new life, and his new life is with God.

In the same way, you should see yourselves as being dead to the power of sin and alive with God through Christ Jesus.

Do not offer the parts of your body to serve sin, as things to be used in doing evil. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used in doing good.