Ray Stedman Sermons

Topic:Peace With God Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 The first thing that you learn as a Christian is that you are justified by faith. To help us understand what that means, the apostle brought in …

Topic:The Faith of our Father He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed — the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, …

Topic:The Father of Faith What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about — but not before God. What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was …

Topic:No Boasting Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews …

Topic:But Now… But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. Romans 3:21 This is what Paul elsewhere calls “the glorious gospel of the blessed God” (1 Timothy 1:11), the good news that God has to announce …

Topic:Total Wipeout Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; …

Topic:According to Light All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who …

Topic:Sinful Morality You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Romans 2:1 Here Paul talks about those who pass judgment on others. The apostle makes two …

Topic:God Gave Them Over Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts, to sexual impurity, for the degrading of their bodies with one another. Romans 1:24 The wickedness at work among human beings follows a process which is identified in this passage by the thrice-repeated phrase, …

Topic:Suppressing the Truth The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation …