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288 | Continuing Down the Romans Road - Romans 5:8 · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  about God and to strengthen Your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  In this episode of the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast,
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  join Kim Miller and Erika Klose in a conversation as we walk with Jesus.
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  In today's conversation, we continue to discuss the importance of the Roman's
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  road and the power it has as a tool to witness to others and build the kingdom of God.
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  Well, thank you all so much for joining us in today's podcast.
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  My name is Erika Klose, and I am here with Kim Miller. Hello,
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  and thank you guys so much for joining us today.
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  I believe we could not pick a more needed subject than the Romans wrote as a
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  tool to be a effective witness for the Lord.
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  We are told that we are to be the light of the world and we're not to hide our
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  light under a bushel because we should put our light on a candlestick so that everybody could see it.
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  And our life is to be lived in such a way that it gives honor and glory to the Lord.
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  That's what we're told in Matthew 5:14- 16.
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  But some of us get so bogged down with how to do it.
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  So we've decided to devote quite a few episodes to just spending time in the
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  Scriptures so that you fully understand how to tell somebody else.
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  To be saved. Telling the story you already know if you've given your life to Christ.
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  And so Erica and I are going to continue on this path until we have come to the end of Romans Road.
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  And it's our prayer that every one of you listening to us, when you get to the
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  end of Romans Road, You know him personally,
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  and you also know how to bring somebody else on this journey from here to heaven with you.
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  I think it's so important that you talked about how when we are sharing the
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  gospel, as saved individuals, we are sharing what we know.
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  And so the most wonderful thing that you can do when you're telling people about
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  what it means to be a Christian is to share your own experience.
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  But your experience is going to reflect these verses.
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  As saved Christians, we have walked down this Roman's road. So I'm going to
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  review the Romans Road, and then we're going to hop into the point of the road
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  where we find ourselves today.
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  So the Romans Road is a series of verses, the first of which being Romans 3:23,
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  which says, For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  And then we have Romans 6:23, which reads, For the wages of sin is death,
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  but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  So we talked about those two verses in last Wednesday's podcast.
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  So we invite you to go back if you weren't able to listen to that one.
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  Then we continue on down the Romans road. After talking about how the wages
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  of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, we move into Romans 5:8,
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  which says, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
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  Christ died for us.
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  Then we talk about the verse that talks about how it is that we are saved.
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  Romans 10, 9 and 10 says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
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  Jesus, and shalt believe in
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  thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
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  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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  And then to close out the Romans road, we go to Romans 10, 13,
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  which says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  That is a simple set of verses, but these verses are an incredible tool when
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  you are trying to effectively share the scripture that explains why we need a Savior,
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  what God did to provide a Savior for us, and then how it is that we are saved.
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  So like I said, we talked about Romans 6:23 and 3:23 last week.
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  And today we are stopping in Romans 5:8.
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  And Romans 5.8 says, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we
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  were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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  I love this verse. Absolutely.
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  It is a powerful, powerful verse. One of my favorite things about this verse is the word commendeth.
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  Commendeth to me is like giving someone a commendation, almost like a recommendation, right?
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  It is something that is given to you. It's a huge gift.
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  It's kind of like an honor. It's a gift that is, I think, above many other gifts.
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  Okay, but God commends. He gives us his love.
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  He commends his love toward us.
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  In that while we were yet sinners, before we ever even understood that we were
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  a sinner in need of a Savior, Christ himself died for us. Amen.
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  When we think about him commending his love, we can't help but see that in John 3:16.
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  And that's a very familiar verse that most people know.
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  And rarely would I take someone down the
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  Romans road that John 3 16 wouldn't appear and clearly
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  it's not on the Romans road but it's kind of the
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  rest area it says for God
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  so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth
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  in him should not perish but have everlasting life when you think about the
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  demonstration of love that God had for us and continues to have for us.
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  But when you think about his finished work on Calvary, you cannot ignore the.
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  Amazing love that he gave us.
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  And he didn't just stop on Calvary, but because he never leaves us or forsakes us,
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  that love is continually poured upon us because he doesn't want anyone to perish.
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  But that all should come to repentance.
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  This love becomes magnified. It becomes so encompassing because it doesn't matter
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  who you are, what you've done, what you haven't done.
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  Jesus loves you
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  and he gave himself for
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  you not when you were worthy not when you deserved it but when you were a sinner
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  and you know if you read that passage it talks about that some Some might die for a righteous man,
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  but no one would dare to die for an evil one.
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  No one except Jesus. Absolutely.
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  He justified us with his own blood simply because he loved us.
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  And, you know, when he came to earth as a babe in a manger, which,
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  spoiler alert, he's not coming back as a babe in a manger.
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  But when he came, he knew what his father's will was.
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  He knew that he was the only payment for sin.
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  Yet, he willingly took that upon himself.
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  And if you don't believe me, read the account of the Garden of Gethsemane,
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  where he says, Lord, if there be any other way, let this cup pass from me.
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  He wasn't shirking his duties, but it showed every one of us who've read that.
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  He willingly knew what he was walking into when he was carrying his cross to
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  Calvary on the hill of Golgotha.
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  That's love. It's amazing love. You know, when we look at the place of this
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  verse in this series of verses that we call the Romans Road,
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  we have those first two verses that talk about, you know, how we have all sinned
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  and come short of the glory of God.
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  And then 6:23 talks about the wages of sin is death.
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  What is due to us as sinners. And then we have Romans 5:8 that starts out with
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  one of my most favorite phrases in all of Scripture, which is, but God.
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  The Romans road sets up the reality of our place as sinners.
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  The reality of our place of what is due us because of what we have done and
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  who we are. And then we have this verse that says, but God, this is a turning point.
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  And as you said, while we were yet sinners, while we were still sinners,
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  he willingly took our sin upon him.
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  I love that you say he didn't come for us when we had, you said something to
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  the effect of he didn't come for us when we had made ourselves ready to receive him.
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  He came for us when we were in our worst state.
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  And he came because he was the only payment that was going to be acceptable.
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  And in John chapter three, verse seven, he says, marvel not.
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  That I said unto you, ye must be born again.
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  We had to have his sinless perfect blood to pay our penalty for sin,
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  and he paid a penalty he didn't know for people who usually.
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  Don't even acknowledge what he does.
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  But he loved us enough to die for us, because that's what it took to make us
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  in right standing with God.
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  He was our propitiation for our sins.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know. For the Bible, it tells me so, especially in Romans 5:8.
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  Romans 5.8 is the crux. It's the turning point on the road.
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  It's the verse that lets us know that but God, for all of our sins,
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  for all of what we are due, for every situation in our lives, but God.
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  There's always a turning point where He turns the situation around.
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  If we allow Him and we ask Him to, and then follow Him, He'll turn the situation around.
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  This is what seems to be a simple verse, and it's not at all a simple verse.
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  It's a huge verse, a huge stopping point along the Roman road, Romans road.
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  And as you are sharing with others, this is a verse you can't leave out.
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  It's the foundational point of the whole reason we have the free gift.
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  Because He loved us enough to give Himself. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9 says,
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  For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves.
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  It is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
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  This is the gift that He gave us. This verse, but God shows us the gift.
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  And it's the gift that keeps on giving. And we are so grateful that you have
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  chosen to spend this time with us. and it is our prayer that you know him personally.
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  personal Savior, please contact us at our website at www.watwm.org.
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