Soon as you got here, you were already wrong because the Bible says we were born in sin, we were

shaping in iniquity. We were born with the image of Adam stamped on us, which is an image of death.

Well, that doesn't sound too promising, does it? But there is good news, and his name is Jesus.

Hello, and thanks for stopping by for today's Destin for Victory with Pastor Paul Shepard.

Well, Romans chapter 6 tells us that all of us are sinners, and the wages of that sin is death.

But it goes on to say that God offers their free gift of eternal life through his only

begotten son, Jesus Christ.

Because of him, we are justified, set free from both the penalty and the power of sin.

Today you'll be reminded of exactly what that means.

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Romans chapter 5, let's look together at verses 1 through 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 rejoice in the hope

of the glory of God not only so but we also rejoice in our sufferings because we know that suffering

produces perseverance perseverance character and hope. And hope does not disappoint us

because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit whom he has given us.

You see, at just the right time when we were still powerless, Christ died for the

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