Romans 6:23

Greetings brethren:

If you are reading this for the first time, please go to the first blog post so that you can understand where we are at with our scripture memorization and hopefully join with us in our desire to have the tools to tell people about the faith that is in us as believers in Christ.

Lets briefly go over what we have learned so far.  At least I hope you are taking this to heart and learning these scriptures in order to be prepared to share the wonderful work that Christ did for us on the cross.  Our first topic and verse was, "nobody's righteous", Romans 3:10, then, "all have sinned", Romans 3:23, then, "by one man", Romans 5:12. 

Today our topic and verse is about the results of sin in everybody's life.  As I mentioned in the post titled Romans 5:12 revisited, we will not be judged for anyone else's sin, whether it be Adam's or your next door neighbor's sins, but our own and the previous scriptures have shown that we are all guilty of sin.  This is the basic reason that we are called to share the Gospel with the unsaved.  You will find as you go out and talk to people that just about everyone thinks they are a good person.  Here is how most conversations will go when you ask this question,  "If there is a heaven and hell, would you go to heaven or hell?"  I would say that eight times out of ten, their response will be, "I would go to heaven, because I am basically a good person, I try to respect people, I try to always think positive about life and others, etc. etc."  So this is where having a knowledge of scripture helps you to show them what the Bible says and point them to salvation through Christ by showing them that the Bible says we have all sinned and fallen short.  God is a just God and He can't allow sin into heaven so if someone was such a good person that they maybe only sinned once in their life, our next verse says that they have missed the mark, or fallen short of being able to enter into God's Kingdom without salvation through Christ.

These verses we are learning and memorizing are just the elementary foundation to being prepared scripturally.  Once we get through them, then I will start teaching you how to implement these verses into a conversation and will share with you other websites that can also assist you in sharing what we are learning.  I will also start teaching how we can use tracks to reach the lost.  But right now I feel the need to lay some foundations.

Our next verse is Romans 6:23.  This is a verse that doesn't mess around but comes right to the point.
It says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord".  I use the topic, "sins wages".  There is a cost for sin.  Sin costs every human being their eternal life in heaven and condemns them to hell.   This is why we are commanded by Christ to preach the gospel to everyone.  God wants everyone to come to the truth and accept eternal life with Him.

We have four more verses to memorize.  I could give them all to you now, but I am hoping that a little at a time will give you time to get them firmly planted in your mind.  Please share this blog with someone and if any of you need some tracks, please contact me and I will send you some free of charge. 

God Bless,
Brother Bill
aka River rat