Gospel Truth....Daily

Last week I suggested (here) that one way to preach the gospel daily to yourself is to pick a passage, read it each day for a week, and make a list of gospel truths that are found in the text. It really takes a very short amount of time to do this and yet the discipline of being in the Word and dwelling on the gospel will have lasting benefit throughout the day. I suggested Romans 5 as a start.

Here are some of the gospel truths I "preach to myself" as I read Romans 5

• By faith in Christ I stand before God as one who is completely justified (which means when God looks at me He sees me as righteous) not by what I have done, but because of what Christ did for me. Romans 5:1
• Because I am justified I have peace with with God because of Jesus Christ. This means where once I was an enemy of God, I now am a friend of God! Romans 5:1
• Tribulations, because of the gospel, are for my good and will help me to persevere. Romans 5:3-4
• I was helpless but God is not and at the just the right time Christ came and rescued me. Romans 5:6
• God loves me despite my sinfulness…I know this because He gave His Son to die for, and His Son gave His life for me. Romans 5:7-8
• Because Jesus shed His blood, giving His life for me, by faith in Him I am now given His righteousness (justified). Romans 5:9
• Jesus took the full weight of God’s wrath for me, saving me from that which I deserved. Romans 5:9
• I was an enemy of God…but my relationship to God has been repaired…reconciliation has taken place… because of Jesus death for me… now I have life. Romans 5:10-11
• The law of God shows me how short of God’s holiness I come, and how great a grace I have received. Romans 5:13-17
• Through man and one act of sin I was born a sinner… Through one act of sacrifice I was saved from my sin. Romans 5:18-19

Choose a passage to go through yourself and ask God to direct you to the gospel truths found there. Remember the gospel this week!