What Shall I Render

God is the backdrop of every text in scripture.

...pray in the Spirit, on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests . . . always keep on praying for all the saints (Eph 6:18). Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ (Gal 6:2).

Romans reveals the power and purpose of the gospel message to bring the righteousness of God to reign in our lives, save our souls, and equip us to serve God.

What God has given us, we can share. Our confidence is in the One we trust!

God's promises are powerful in our lives, and so, in Christ, we speak the Amen, to the glory of God, who gave them!

God is the God of endurance and encouragement. His gospel call to us is to be beneficiaries and representatives of Him, in His Son (Rom 15).

God gives endurance, encouragement, hope, joy, and peace, through the gospel, to those who believe it. (Rom 15:1-13)

God opposes the arrogant, but He graces the humble. One of the most powerful and blessing filled results of the gospel is the humility it produces in us. ( Rom 1:16; 12:3; 1 Pet 5:5-6)

We have no right to condemn someone else's servants. Rom 14:4

Part of the gospel's continuing call for us to submit to God is to not place ourselves above law and authority.

Giving ourselves to hear and rely on the gospel message transforms our lives and renews our minds.

Viewing God's mercies, as the gospel reveals them, we find His call upon our lives in these mercies, and His love for us is His greatest call! (Rom 12)

The call of the gospel for Christians is to give their lives as living sacrifices to His glory. This sacrifice is empowered by the gospel message which reveals God's mercies shown us in Christ. God's mercies (the gospel's revelation) transform our minds to direct our lives as living sacrifices. (Rom 12:1-2)

Where can we go that God cannot get to us? Distance and darkness cannot stop God from saving and guiding.

Peter reminds suffering struggling Christians of the goal of their precious faith, the salvation of their souls. (1Pet 1:6-8; 2Pet 1:1).

The gospel calls us to God. It reveals to us a righteousness from God (Rom 1:1, 6, 7, 16-17). The gospel gives us a view of God's mercy, and it calls us to live in view of God's mercy (Rom 12:1).

The gospel brings to God those who will believe and submit to His saving message.

Romans 10:13, like many other passages, is often read and quoted out of context, and this kind of study hinders our hearing the message of it.

The gospel is a continuing call for us to know and rely on the love God has for us - 1 Jn 4:16.

The Gospel calls everyone, Jew or Gentile, to God through Jesus Christ. Inherent in the idea of a call is a response, an answer. If you never hear a call, you simply will not answer.

God had given Israel such spiritual privilege: adoption as sons, the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship, the promises, the patriarchs, even the physical lineage of Christ, and yet they rejected the opportunity all of these things gave them for faith. They chose to trust in themselves over trusting in the God, who calls (Rom 9-10).

The gospel message of Jesus Christ is powerful to save us (Rom 1:16-17), and it is powerful to grow and bear fruit within us (Col 1:5-6, 27). So, we should give careful attention to how we listen (Luke 8:4-18).

God's purpose through the gospel is to bring His love, not just into the hearts of His children but ever so practically into their lives! Rom 1:16-17; 5:5; 1 Cor 13:1-8

Born of God's promise, we find His purpose in that promise. Born of the gospel, we find God's purpose in that same Gospel.

Abraham's descendants were covenant related children of God, as a result of His promise to Abraham. Even under the Law of Moses all that Israel had with God were a result of His promise to Abraham. We are born of God, today, through Christ Jesus, who is God's covenant with us (Rom 9:1-18).