Romans 4 – in easy to understand language

Romans 4 – in easy to understand language

by | Oct 27, 2020 | Bible Paraphrased, Romans

Romans 4

It can be tempting to run around trying to do good works, to try to become right with God, but we cannot work our way into God’s good graces.

He already loves us completely.

By putting our faith in Jesus, God saves us and gives us the gift of righteousness.  This means that God covers our sins with Jesus righteousness.

Romans 4:3 “Abraham believed God and He credited it to him as righteousness.”

Abraham is the father of both Jewish people and non-Jewish people – He is the Father of us all.

Just as God had promised, He made Abraham the father of many nations.

When Abraham was facing an impossible situation, having a child when both he and Sarah were old and past the age that you could have children, the Bible says “against all hope, Abraham in hope, believed.”

And because he believed God’s promise that he would have a child in his old age – it came true.
God did just what He had promised.

Abraham never doubted that God would do as He had promised.

It was his unwavering faith that God credited to him as righteousness.

This principle is not just for Abraham.  When we put our faith in Jesus, as our Savior, God also credits us with righteousness.

Through our faith, we are made right with God.

Romans 3 – in easy to understand language

Romans 3 – in easy to understand language

by | Oct 27, 2020 | Bible Paraphrased, Romans

Romans 3

So as believers, do we still consider the Jewish people to be special? Of course we do – the Jews were entrusted with the very words of God.

God chose them to show his important message to first – the message of salvation that is for the whole world.

Anyone with a true heart after God does not try to get out of doing what is right, he wants to follow God with all his heart.

Romans 3:23 says “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

We all sin.  No-one is made right with God by following the law, but the law does show us what sin is.  We are only made right with God when we put our faith in Jesus Christ.

 

Romans 5 – a paraphrase

Romans 5 – a paraphrase

by | Oct 26, 2020 | Bible Paraphrased, Romans

It is because of Jesus that we are now God’s friends.

The Bible says in Romans 5:8 that “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”.

This means we can come to God just as we are.  

It doesn’t matter what bad things we have done in the past.  He loves us anyway.

Jesus has already died for these sins.  And because of this, God doesn’t remember our sins anymore. 

This is called “Grace”.  We gain something we don’t deserve.  We give God our sinfulness and He gives us Jesus righteousness.  

When we put our faith in Jesus, we are made right with God.  And when we have been made right with God, He fills us with forgiveness, peace and joy.

While we are waiting for Jesus to return, we will still experience some hard times on the earth, but we are no longer alone in these hard times.  God is with us, helping us, every step of the way.

He even uses these things to make us stronger and to build our character, so that we become more like Jesus.  Right in the middle of these hard times, God gives us peace and hope.

When Jesus comes back and takes us to live with Him in Heaven, we will have the incredible privilege of ruling with Him. 

How amazing is God’s gift to us! 

How great is His love for us!

 

 

Romans 2 – in easy to understand language

Romans 2 – in easy to understand language

by | Oct 19, 2020 | Bible Paraphrased, Romans

Romans 2

Please don’t judge each other.  You are only a human being.  Often, when you judge other people, you are actually guilty of doing the same thing you blame them for doing.

God is the only true and fair judge.

God is kind, patient and tolerant towards us, which should lead us to be sorry for our sins. 
But sometimes we are stubborn and in our heart we are not sorry for our sins.

At the end of time, on the day of Judgement, God will judge each person according to what they have done.

God does not have any favourites. He treats everyone the same.

Some people know God’s Law and other people don’t.

If you do know the Law, then God will judge you according to how much you have obeyed that Law.

If you don’t know the Law, God will judge whether or not you have lived in accordance with your conscience.

God has written the Law in our hearts,
teaching us how to live.

Be careful of thinking that just because you know what’s written in the Law, you are better than other people.

We all sin

It is not the outward appearance that matters, what really matters is to have a right heart towards God.

Don’t worry too much about what people think of you. It’s only what God thinks of you that matters.

 

Romans 1 – in easy to understand language

Romans 1 – in easy to understand language

by | Aug 13, 2020 | Bible Paraphrased, Romans

Romans 1

My name is Paul and I am writing this letter to the believers who live in Rome.

I live my life to serve Jesus and preach about Him to the world.  This is called being an ‘apostle’.

The message I preach is called the Gospel or the Good News. 

It is all about God’s plan to save the world from their sins, through Jesus Christ.

Jesus died on the Cross for our sins and God raised Him to life again.  Anyone who believes in Jesus and turns from
their life of sin is ‘saved’.

Jesus was both God and human.  His human ancestors go back to King David, but He is also God’s Son.

God has sent me to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles.  Gentiles are non-Jewish people. 

God showed His amazing plan to save people to the Jewish race first.  He has now shown us that this plan is for all nations on the earth.  God has shown me that he wants me to focus on bringing this Good News to the non-Jewish people.

I am so proud of you believers in Rome – your faith is being reported all over the world.

I am praying that God will make a way for me to come and visit you soon so that I can encourage and strengthen you. 

We can encourage each other with the faith we have. 
Your faith will help me and my faith will help you.

I am proud of the Gospel of good News because it teaches people how to be saved.  We are saved by believing that Jesus died for our sins.

The most important thing to God is our faith in Him.  This is what the Gospel is all about – becoming right with God by putting our faith in Jesus.

God shows his power and divine nature by creating the world and everything in it.  Everywhere you look, you can see God at work in nature. 

People have no excuse not to believe in God when they can all simply look at the amazing things God has created.

Many people have chosen a lie, rather than the truth, by worshiping the beautiful things God has created rather than worshipping the Creator who made them.

They have chosen to continue living a sinful life, rather than a life that pleases God.

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