Romans 4:9-12: The Purpose of the Sacraments

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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What's the purpose of the sacraments if they can not secure salvation? What does the Bible teach about these signs and seals? How should this cause Christians to think about baptism and the Lord's Supper? Paul offers us a comprehensive view of the gospel in the book of Romans, giving us better gospel fluency. So far, the book of Romans has shown us the universal condemnation of the law, and that all men are condemned by the law, and are only justified by faith in Christ alone. This blessing of salvation in Christ is something that occurs before any sacraments are performed. Just as Abraham was justified before he was circumcised, so too we are justified through faith which leads to obedience. We obey, not so that we will be saved, we obey because we have already been saved. We must remember that our obedience is a sign of what God is doing in and through us because He has saved us in Christ. In this episode of Real Christianity, pastor Dale Partridge walks us through how we should look at the sacraments and how this understanding should shape how we see baptism and the Lord's Supper.

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0:00.0	In this episode of Real Christianity, we tackle an important question.
0:02.8	What's the purpose of the sacraments if they cannot secure salvation?
0:07.0	In other words, what does the Bible teach about these signs and seals?
0:10.8	And how should Christians think about baptism in the Lord's Supper in light of this truth?
0:15.2	So get ready all that more coming up right now.
0:17.4	Welcome to Real Christianity.
0:28.3	My name is Dale Partridge.
0:29.3	Now as you know, this show is an audio and video ministry of relearn.org where it's our
0:33.5	mission to bring the church back to the Bible.
0:35.8	One of those resources is one of my newer books is The Ground of Good Theology.
0:40.8	You can pick it up at relearn.org.
0:43.5	You can also pick it up on Amazon.
0:46.9	The subtitle is A Beginner's Guide for the Faithful Study of God.
0:51.6	This is a basic introduction to systematic theology.
0:55.0	What is it?
0:56.0	What how do you study your Bible?
0:58.0	Just a lot of the basics before you dive in.
1:00.3	You can read this in probably about less than 90 minutes.
1:04.2	And so it's a great book again.
1:05.2	It's titled The Ground of Good Theology.
1:08.0	A Beginner's Guide for the Faithful Study of God.
1:10.2	You can pick up a copy again at relearn.org forward slash theology.
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