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When Sinners Become Saints

Primary Scriptures 

Romans 5:1-8 & Galatians 2:20                                                                        July 18 & 19, 2026

Romans 5:1-8:  Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.  Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1. By Grace Alone, Through Faith Alone
    

Eph. 2:8-9:  "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."

2. The Prodigal’s Awakening
    

Luke 15:17,20a:  “When he came to his senses…he got up and went to his father.”
 

Luke 18:13-14:  “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’  I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God”.

3. The Father’s Love
    

Luke 15:20b:  “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him (repeatedly).”

4. Dead in Sin
    

Romans 3:9-11:  What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;  there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.”

5. The Life of Christ in Me
    

2 Corinthians 1:8-9:  We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

Galatians 2:20:       I have been crucified with Christ.  It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.   And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me!

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