2 Timothy 4:1-5

Transcription : Every week we start by saying that we are tracing out the storyline of the bible because of the bible is not so much a series of disconnected individual stories, each with a little lesson or moral telling us how to live. It’s primarily a single story telling us what’s wrong with the human race, what God has done to make things and how all the things are going to work out in the end and we are drilling down into three places in the bible, we drilled down Genesis 1 before where we learned something about what the bible says about what’s wrong with us. And now we are going to drill down into Romans 1 through 4, perhaps the single most comprehensive and packed place where through the letter of Saint Paul, we learned what God did about it. And verse 16 and 17, all scholars and students of Romans believe is Paul’s way of putting the gospel in a nutshell. His message in a kind of thesis statement and therefore it is extremely important statement and I want to meditate on it wi

  Transcription : What I’d like to talk to you about tonight is how the gospel ought to be operating in your life. How the gospel should be operating in your life. Let’s look at this very famous passage from the book of Galatians. Let’s notice first of all, “The Heart of the Gospel,” let’s just make sure we do identify what it is, “The Heart of the Gospel,” then “The Centrality of the Gospel,” the role it should have in your life and then finally a word or two about “The Power of the Gospel.” “The Heart of the Gospel,” “The Centrality of the Gospel,” “The Power of the Gospel.”  The Heart of the Gospel Now the heart of the gospel, the gospel is in a sense in verse 15 and 16 where Paul says “a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, because by works of the law no one will be justified.” Now to be justified means to be right with God, made right with God and right away what you see is very counterintuitive, very different than what the ordinary relig