God's Gracious Offer

This twenty-seventh message from Romans reveals God's gracious offer to all men. Two CHOICES are presented toward attaining righteousness - the efforts of men earned by works or the efforts of Christ on the cross received by faith. Salvation by Christ was never accomplished by human efforts to bring Christ down to earth (incarnation) or to bring Christ up from the dead (resurrection) - God alone sent His Son and raised Him from the dead. God alone offers an eternal CHANGE for all men: His help for all comes as a clear message as "the word of faith", and in a simple method by confessing with your mouth that Christ is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the dead - resulting in salvation. His hope for all brings eternal assurance to whoever believes in Him, and generously appeals to whoever will call - they will be saved. Four specific CHALLENGES remain - calling requires trust, believing requires truth, hearing requires transmission and preaching requires travel. God gave His only Son to redeem and sends His many children to make disciples.