Verse by Verse

Paul's teaching in Romans 6: Believers, through Christ's death and resurrection, should reject sin, embrace a new self, live righteously, and rely on grace, not perfection.

True spiritual rebirth in Christ involves dying to sin, receiving a new identity, and living fearlessly in love. Baptism symbolizes this transformation, embodying Christ's essence.

Believers are spiritually united with Christ, dead to sin, and empowered to live a new life. Avoid antinomianism; live by the Spirit, not flesh. Embrace new identity.

The teaching emphasizes the universal impact of Christ's atonement, contrasting Adam's sin with Christ's grace, highlighting universal reconciliation but requiring faith for salvation.

Adam's sin brought death; all inherit sin's environment, not his sin. Christ's death offers grace. Federal Headship: Adam's sin, Christ's grace imputed. Jesus brings life.

Romans 5:12: Sin entered through Adam, affecting all; Jesus' justification by faith offers salvation. Emphasizes grace, redemption, and surpassing Adam's sin.

Paul and Shawn emphasize Christ's sacrificial death and reconciliation, urging believers to focus on personal devotion to God, genuine faith, and unconditional love.

Paul's Romans 5:6-8 highlights peace with God, tribulation, and hope, introducing human depravity and Christ's love, forming Reformed Theology's TULIP basis.

Justification by faith in Jesus brings eternal peace with God, unlike worldly peace. This peace fosters patience, character, and hope, empowering believers through trials.

Shawn teaches that true adherence to God's commandments comes from internal faith, emphasizing salvation through faith and grace, not law, using Abraham's example.

Salvation is a gift of grace received through faith, not by works. Paul contrasts this with works-based systems, emphasizing faith in God for righteousness and freedom from sin.

Salvation through faith in Jesus, not the Law; faith upholds moral law, fostering righteousness. Grace encourages rejecting sin, as shown in "Les Miserables." Faith and actions, like love, fulfill God's law. Paul and James agree: faith is proven by love-driven actions, fulfilling commandments to love God and others. Abraham's faith, not works, justified him, showing faith's primacy over legal rites.

Shawn's teaching on Romans 3 explores faith's objective/subjective nature, Christ's propitiation, salvation by faith, nullifying boasting, and grace leading to good works.

Paul teaches that righteousness comes through faith in Jesus, not the law. Justification is by grace, accessible to all. Shawn explains propitiation through Christ's sacrifice.

The law reveals sin, not justification. True spirituality focuses on Jesus, not self-righteousness. Justification is through faith in Christ, not law adherence.