Takeaways from Romans #2

• We are to preach the gospel to believers. All the time. (Romans 1:12,15). We learn this is the case from 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 ("where we stand") and 1 John 2:19 ("they went from us"). Let’s not comfort backsliders with validation of a past promise but warning that they might have believed in vain.
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• The world teaches us to deal with shame by hiding it, avoiding situations that would bring it out. God, instead, brings our shame to the for forefront, despises it, and frees us from it. Romans 1:16-17 brought Martin Luther into paradise.