The Narrow Road … The Roman’s Road to Salvation
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16).
Christ spent His last moment prior to His death in the Garden of Gethsemane. There, He poured out Himself to God the Father through His most earnest prayer. “Jesus prayed, ‘Father if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.’ And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. And being in agony he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” (Luke 22:42-44).
In the Bible’s Book of Romans, the Apostle Paul presents the plan of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
When we read and meditate on the Word of God, we learn that God has inspired the Scriptures. They are from God and about God. It is God’s truth.
The Word of God also is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. In His word, he reveals his divine plan for mankind’s redemption. The Word of God has the power to give life to the spiritually dead. It changes the heart of stone to a new heart. The only hope for eternal life is through the Word of God. It will bring salvation and peace to your life, while sin and rejecting the Word of God will bring condemnation and eternal damnation.
Are you on the narrow road to heaven or the broad road that leads to destruction? Do you know? Nicodemus spent an evening with Jesus and discovered he needed to be born again by God. He was not in God’s kingdom. Have you been “born from above?”
The following scriptures from Romans will help you examine yourself and find the narrow road to salvation in Christ.
“Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar” (Romans 3:4).
“As it is written: ‘There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God’” (Romans 3:10, 11).
“For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
“For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6).
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because all sinned” (Romans 5:12).
“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19).
“Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:11).
“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts” (Romans 6:12).
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
“There is, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:1).
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation (Hebrews 1:14)?
“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together” (Romans 8:16, 17).
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).
“Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ” (Romans 8:34).
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the Love of God, which is Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38, 39).
“that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, ‘Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.’ For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord overall is rich to all who call upon Him. For whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved” (Romans 10:9-13).
“For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so, these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you also may obtain mercy” (Romans 11:30, 31).
“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33).
“I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Romans 12:1,2).
“For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For this end, Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living” (Romans 14:7, 8).
“Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith—to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever, Amen” (Romans 16:27).
(E-Book: Born from Above; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Epilogue)