Romans 3:27-28 - 27 Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
Message: No room for boasting.
Time: Paul probably wrote Romans between A.D. 57-58 while he was at Corinth in
the home of his friend and convert Gaius. He planned to go first to
Jerusalem to deliver a gift of money from the Gentile churches to the
poor in Jerusalem. Then he hoped to visit Rome on his way to Spain. His
hopes were later realized, but not as he had expected. When he finally
arrived in Rome in early A.D. 60, he was a prisoner under house arrest
(Acts 28:11-31).
What the Lord is Saying:
This passage begins with a question based upon what has previously been stated. I just finished reading what has been called the greatest paragraph in the Bible, namely Romans 3:21-26 which stated that a person is made right with God by placing their faith in Jesus Christ. God sent His Son Jesus as a sacrifice, to sacrifice and she His blood for all people. God is just and God will be the justifier of man's sins. Man can't justify himself because man is a sinner. God must punish sin and He does this through Jesus.
Paul then in verse 27 asks a question: What about boasting? I think what Paul is saying is, "Does many have any part in this?" If man had a part in this then there would be boasting to say, "look what I have done God for you." I don't see how anyone can look at this passage and then say that man has anything to do with salvation, either by doing good deeds to make oneself acceptable or by being good deeds in order to be worthy for the gift of salvation. +
Promise: Sinners can only be justified on the principles of faith and we cannot boast in anything we have done.
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