LIVE: "The Righteousness of God Revealed" (Rom 1:17), Part 2/4

Send us Fan MailThe hardest part of grace is not understanding it. It’s accepting that we don’t get to help. We sit with Romans 1:17 and the line that wrecks human pride: God reveals his righteousness “from faith to faith,” and he justifies the ungodly. That means salvation is not God meeting us halfway after we’ve become respectable. It’s God doing what we cannot do, start to finish, without owing us anything.We talk plainly about the instinct inside all of us to minimize sin or to try to overcome it with personal merit. Then we name the common “add-ons” people attach to the gospel of Christ: circumcision, water baptism, the Mass, appeals to Mary or the saints, and any system that turns faith into a checklist. The moment you add a requirement to the finished work of Jesus, the message stops being the gospel that saves, because it shifts glory away from Christ and back onto us.Along the way, our panel connects Paul’s argument to Habakkuk 2:4, explains why true faith is a supernatural revelation by the Holy Spirit, and clarifies what baptism is for and what it is not. We use the thief on the cross and Abraham’s circumcision as practical anchors: signs and obedience matter, but they follow salvation rather than create it.If this helped you think more clearly about justification by faith, grace alone, and the righteousness of God, subscribe, share this with a friend who’s sorting through “faith plus something,” and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.Support the showBE PROVOKED AND BE PERSUADED!