Study Desk

The words, "He was made right with God," were not for Abraham only.

They were for us also. God will make us right with Himself the same way He did Abraham, if we put our trust in God Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Jesus died for our sins. He was raised from the dead to make us right with God.

Now that we have been made right with God by putting our trust in Him, we have peace with Him. It is because of what our Lord Jesus Christ did for us.

By putting our trust in God, He has given us His loving-favor and has received us. We are happy for the hope we have of sharing the shining-greatness of God.

Hope never makes us ashamed because the love of God has come into our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who was given to us.

But God showed His love to us. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

We hated God. But we were saved from the punishment of sin by the death of Christ. He has brought us back to God and we will be saved by His life.

Not only that, we give thanks to God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have been brought back to God.

God's free gift is not like the sin of Adam. Many people died because of the sin of this one man, Adam. But the loving-favor of God came to many people also. This gift came also by one Man Jesus Christ, God's Son.

The free gift of God is not like Adam's sin. God told Adam he was guilty because of his sin and through this one came sin and guilt. But the free gift makes men right with God. Through One, Christ, men's sins are forgiven.

The power of death was over all men because of the sin of one man, Adam. But many people will receive His loving-favor and the gift of being made right with God. They will have power in life by Jesus Christ.

Adam did not obey God, and many people become sinners through him. Christ obeyed God and makes many people right with Himself.

What does this mean? Are we to keep on sinning so that God will give us more of His loving-favor?

We were buried in baptism as Christ was buried in death. As Christ was raised from the dead by the great power of God, so we will have new life also.

He died once but now lives. He died to break the power of sin, and the life He now lives is for God.

You must do the same thing! Think of yourselves as dead to the power of sin. But now you have new life because of Jesus Christ our Lord. You are living this new life for God.

Do not give any part of your body for sinful use. Instead, give yourself to God as a living person who has been raised from the dead. Give every part of your body to God to do what is right.

Do you not know that when you give yourself as a servant to be owned by someone, that one becomes your owner? If you give yourself to sin, the end is death. If you give yourself to God, the end is being right with Him.

At one time you were held by the power of sin. But now you obey with all your heart the teaching that was given to you. Thank God for this!