Author: Molly Gonzalez

I love quiet mornings, hot coffee, and studying the Word with friends. My purpose in writing continues to be to inspire and encourage my fellow believers in Jesus by sharing my learnings on the road of faith. I pray that my words would be helpful to anyone seeking to take hold all that God has for them.

Embracing Christ and His work on the Cross

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If you are following the read-through-the-Bible plan with us, you have come to the end of Romans today.(or you will finish in the next five days of catch up time) John Piper closed his sermon series on Romans with a prayer.  Here is the conclusion of that prayer,  Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans,

But we turn now, Lord, from thanking you for your work to embrace afresh—perhaps some of us here for the first time—the benefits you obtained for us by your work. By faith we take them, receive them, embrace them, treasure them, knowing full well that this very gift-receiving faith is a gift (Romans 10:17).

  • We embrace the truth that we have died to sin and to the law and now belong to you alone, alive from the dead forever (Romans 6:2-5; 7:4-6).
  • We embrace afresh the forgiveness of our sins (Romans 4:6-7).
  • We embrace the…

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