https://sa.hpwl.org/podcasts/163038/ The newest sermons from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian on SermonAudio. Religion & Spirituality Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://vps.sermonaudio.com/resize_image/sources/podcast/1440/1440/hopewellarp-02.jpg https://sa.hpwl.org/podcasts/163038/ en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:22:57 +0000 30 James Hakim no James Hakim church@hopewellarp.org The newest sermons from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian on SermonAudio. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/89241819405570 The chief end of the gospel is God's glory in Christ, Who is glorified in strengthened Christians from all nations. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/89241819405570 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:28:27 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/7252414318632 Honoring others increases the encouragement that we may have from them—especially honoring Christ, Who is God, but has given Himself both for us and to us. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/7252414318632 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:43:25 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/71824232255307 Christians must watch out for Satanic ploys to divide us or enable us in sinning. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/71824232255307 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:42:47 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/71224338277216 Believers are to delight in one another and take opportunities to show it. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/71224338277216 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:42:28 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/752408387160 Believers have been consecrated by God to serve Him and each other. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/752408387160 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:14 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/627241944437424 Praying biblically for ministry conforms unto Christ our thoughts and feelings about ministry. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/627241944437424 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:34:29 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/620241940234670 We should love to serve, and to see other believers serve, because believers' service is Christ's fruit unto Christ's glory. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/620241940234670 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:19 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/6624218127620 Proper Christian boasting glories in Christ's past work to stir up desire and confidence in Christ's future work. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/6624218127620 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:39:36 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/531242953305 God's intention toward believers is to fill them with joy, peace, faith, hope, goodness, knowledge, and holiness unto God's glory. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/531242953305 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 29 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:44:10 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/52424339495933 When we welcome one another in order to see all God's elect brought to worship Him, we are participating in that purpose for all things that is Christ's own aim. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/52424339495933 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 22 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:31:37 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/5162421348056 Christians must delight most of all in God and His glory, leading them to prefer their brothers to themselves, just as Christ did. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/5162421348056 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 15 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:37:23 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/592421852159 Those who have gained liberty by a biblically informed conscience should employ it in love, seeking the same for their brethren. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/592421852159 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:37:12 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/53241358262117 Those who live and die unto the Lord must show it by receiving the Lord's people in the Lord's way. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/53241358262117 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:41:55 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/425242158566657 Christians should begin living now, already, our heavenly life, which we are enabled to do by putting on Christ. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/425242158566657 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:34:46 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/4182434088186 True love is unto God first, defined by God's law, and determined by God's providence. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/4182434088186 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:42 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/411241543482626 God, Who rules in all authority, rules over and through each individual authority, demanding that we do good—both in authority and under it. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/411241543482626 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:42:08 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/4424310335939 Beyond their mutual love unto one another in the Lord, believers are to treat all other men well for the Lord. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/4424310335939 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:28:44 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/32824129171584 True love among believers is a law-defined, grace-sustained, providence-arranged life together. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/32824129171584 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:43:33 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/323242113306149 By the gospel, the God of glorious mind and mercy transforms sinners from the perversion of their self-willed self-service into members of Christ who sacrifice themselves for other members' good. He gives gifts TO us that are FROM Him and FOR His church. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/323242113306149 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:47:27 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/314242016273903 Being truly Reformed means overflowing with praise about and unto God with the lip and the life. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/314242016273903 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:32:32 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/382422048898 God ordains that all whom He is saving would be shut up in disobedience so that He might have mercy upon all. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/382422048898 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:30:57 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/3124015415652 The Deliverer comes out of Zion to take away ungodliness and sin from all Israel—Jacob and Gentile. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/3124015415652 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:32 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/222242048525676 When thinking about our current spiritual state, our future state, or that of others, the most important thing to keep in mind is the character of God, Who is abundantly good but by no means overlooks sin. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/222242048525676 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:39:52 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/2152422563022 Only in Christ is there life and holiness. None who are in Him can be lost, but all who are not in Him will perish. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/2152422563022 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:33:18 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/29241457414667 Since the Lord, Who has assigned to each of us our service, is focused on saving all of the elect from all of the nations, each of our own service is a participation in that great and glorious work. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/29241457414667 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:38:15 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/212425182792 Whereas the Lord has reserved for Himself the elect, out of their blindness, the rest He intentionally and righteously gives over to their blindness. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/212425182792 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:33:22 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/125241430525615 Salvation has always been a remnant who are saved, over-against their hell-deserving wickedness, according to the election of grace. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/125241430525615 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:38:49 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/11924158361492 Everyone has heard the Lord through general revelation, and many hear the Lord repeatedly through special revelation, but the Lord is actually known only by those whose contrariness the Lord has decided to take away. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/11924158361492 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:37:43 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/11224549224492 Saving faith comes through hearing Jesus address our heart, even as the preacher whom He has sent addresses our ears. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/11224549224492 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:37:52 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/152414334535 God's sovereign salvation will always include what is needed, will always be completed, and is for every type of needy sinner https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/152414334535 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 03 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:38:10 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1230232022114886 The law always taught that righteousness was not by works but by dependence upon the sovereign God Who brought His salvation near to us, working His salvation in us by grace. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1230232022114886 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:43:45 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/122223230344016 We must submit to what the Bible says is the only righteousness that can save a sinner: the righteousness of God in Christ https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/122223230344016 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:44:15 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1215234187466 We should respond to the reality of God's mercy by believing upon Him. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1215234187466 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:43 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/129232029112153 The Lord saves Jews over-against the ineffectiveness of their religious experience/efforts and Gentiles over-against their ignorance of true religion https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/129232029112153 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:34:10 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/113023354593270 Predestination is used by God to show the riches of His glory, because the vessels that display that glory are vessels that deserved wrath, but received mercy. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/113023354593270 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:03 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1123232255576643 God is both righteous and merciful and compassionate to save from among sinners who all deserve to be hardened. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1123232255576643 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:32:59 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/111623429431114 That God's purpose according to election may stand, faith in the promised seed comes not by works, but by the effectual call of God. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/111623429431114 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:39:32 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/102623225467315 God's faithful Word to us is about the faithful Word, His Son. Being God's children comes not by our lineage or membership, but by Christ Himself, in Whom God's promise has its "Yes" for us and our children and as many as He calls to Himself. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/102623225467315 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:33 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/101923456101087 As grace conforms us increasingly to Christ, our grief over the lost—and specifically over lost relatives and lost Jews—increases. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/101923456101087 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:42:05 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/101223312231015 Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, which has invested His divine glory in doing us everlasting good. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/101223312231015 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:27:34 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/109231127267733 In the midst of suffering, a Christian should remind himself of God and the gospel. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/109231127267733 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:05 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/928232049572347 God works all things according to the counsel of His will, which is determined to make us know God like Jesus knows Him and love God like Jesus loves Him. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/928232049572347 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:29:33 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/92123327215907 The Spirit, who helps us pray in a godly manner, also prays for us as God Himself. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/92123327215907 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:32:02 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/915232224251153 There is a proper groaning that comes not from the flesh but from the Spirit, marked by eagerness and perseverance. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/915232224251153 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:27:50 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/972331807552 God has placed us in an expectant creation that teaches us to live in expectation of glory at the resurrection. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/972331807552 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:29:04 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/83123233462625 Union with Christ is the great factor in properly accounting for believers' suffering https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/83123233462625 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:33:11 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/82423130465452 All three Persons of the Godhead minister believers' adoption to them in divine love and power. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/82423130465452 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:02 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/81823204639817 The sons of God are led triumphantly by the Spirit in Christ-given confidence in the Father. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/81823204639817 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:37:46 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/810231215297205 Brothers in the Spirit join the family business: killing sin. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/810231215297205 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:25 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/720231431206103 We grow in pleasing God by the grace of the Triune God through union with Christ. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/720231431206103 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:34:57 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/71523444351569 There are two types of people—dead and alive, at enmity with God and at peace with God… living according to the flesh and living according to the Spirit. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/71523444351569 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:31:32 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/77235755977 Distresses of all sorts point us to Christ, and union with Him, which is cause for thanksgiving. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/77235755977 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:37:25 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/63023323233310 Christians are joyful slaves of God and of His law. Everyone else is a slave of sin. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/63023323233310 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:32:23 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/622232142325192 When a believer experiences his remaining sin, he realizes what he was apart from the Spirit, he realizes that He is now in the Spirit, and he realizes that the sinfulness of his former nature still dwells in him. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/622232142325192 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:32:38 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/615232211281930 Union with the resurrected Christ has delivered us from sin's always taking advantage of God's commandments, and given us newness in His Spirit by which to keep God's commandments https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/615232211281930 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:30:22 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/612340202640 Union with Christ releases us, by death, from being bound to sin and brings us to a forever-life of bearing fruit unto holiness for God. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/612340202640 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 31 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:32:29 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/52623146385922 Christian liberty is liberty to bear fruit unto holiness as those being prepared for eternal life. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/52623146385922 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 24 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:25:01 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/51923011116143 If you walk in sin, you're a slave of sin and not of Christ. If you're a slave of righteousness, then you belong to Christ, Who started that work in you and will finish it! https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/51923011116143 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 17 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:34 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/511232228365296 As the believer seeks to reject sin and obey God, his obedience depends upon his new reality, and is facilitated by his embracing that new reality. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/511232228365296 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 10 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:06 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/5523232211849 Christians must give their whole self, for this whole life, entirely to God for righteousness. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/5523232211849 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 03 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:34:27 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/42723140394636 Christians are to concur with God's justifying and sanctifying declarations about themselves. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/42723140394636 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:40:10 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/42023315346014 Christians are believers who know that Christ's life is sure, eternal, and glorious, so their freedom from sin's power is glorious in Him. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/42023315346014 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:42 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/4623218133093 Since grace comes by a Spirit-wrought union with the Son, so that the glory of the Father makes us to walk in new, righteous life, not our old, sinful death. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/4623218133093 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:43:20 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/3302317254387 Every impulse of love toward God and obedience toward His law shows that the believer is under the reign of grace—an eternal empire that has Christ as Emperor. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/3302317254387 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:44:02 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/323232132267790 How the law increased transgression SO THAT grace would super-abound https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/323232132267790 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:20:10 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/316232136196409 Each of our federal heads brought us into a new moral state. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/316232136196409 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:33:14 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/310232284483 First Adam, and then Christ, brought all who were in them into a new judicial standing before God. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/310232284483 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 08 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:37:25 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/21623229132088 The goodness, righteousness, and life of Jesus are infinitely greater for those who are in Him than the offense, condemnation, and death that were ours from the first Adam. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/21623229132088 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:07 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/2923225376931 One great reason that we sinned in Adam and died with Adam was so that we might learn about (and be sure of) our union with Christ, our actions in Him, and our benefits with/from Him. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/2923225376931 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 08 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:31:33 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/22231634116712 Christians should be forward-looking people. There is joy that we have now already. And there is joy that is set before us that we properly value as we endure our tribulations. If we live for the present, we fall short of this. And if we fail to enjoy the present, we also fall short of this. For, justification by Christ's blood completely assures us of complete salvation from God—past, present, and future. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/22231634116712 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:53 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/12623456236775 The gospel is not only the power of God for salvation and the revelation of the righteousness of God through faith, but the demonstration of God's love, and the display of Christ as this God! https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/12623456236775 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:33:13 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/11923424142525 Those who are justified through faith in Christ glory not only in the hope of God's glory but even in their current tribulations. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/11923424142525 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:32:48 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/11223312123903 Having Jesus means having a Lord and King in Whom we have strength, joy, and hope. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/11223312123903 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:31:33 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1623418487490 Having Christ means having a Lord and a Christ, which means being a creature, a slave, and a subject. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1623418487490 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 04 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:29:59 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1229221810211440 Being justified by faith isn't just a legal status before God; it brings us into an experiential condition of peace with God. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1229221810211440 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:30:42 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1223222038155668 The resurrection of Jesus Christ absolutely assures believers that they are accounted righteous in Him. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1223222038155668 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:15 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1215221435154 Believers receive strength, faith, and righteousness from the same One from Whom father Abraham received them: the God of provision. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1215221435154 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:36:04 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1292257124566 Like Abraham before them, his true seed respond to God's Word and sign with faith in the Almighty God of promise. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1292257124566 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:39:10 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/122222022194165 To be a true child of Abraham, and come into the same inheritance as Abraham, one walks in the faith-footsteps of Abraham. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/122222022194165 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:39:52 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/112522218544934 All that we contribute to our justification and blessedness is the sin from which we need to be forgiven and the misery from which we need to be saved. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/112522218544934 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:27:11 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/111822131063851 The righteousness that is truly ours in Christ comes as an accounting of grace, rather than the repaying of debt, we know that our faith is not a work, and we have no room at all for boasting. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/111822131063851 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:30:19 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1027222128373625 The faith, by which alone we can be justified, is also the only way that genuine law-keeping is ever produced. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1027222128373625 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:28:18 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/102022192215344 In Christ's fully atoning work, God displayed the greatness of His righteousness, the very righteousness that is accounted to those who believe in Jesus. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/102022192215344 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 19 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:29:16 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/10132231440231 God gives His own perfect righteousness, to those who are utterly destitute without it, in Christ alone Introduction: How good is the righteousness revealed in the gospel? 1. Glorious Righteousness 1.a. God's wrath revealed against all unrighteousness in pushing down on truth about Him, neither glorifying Him nor giving thanks. 1.b. The righteousness of which we had fallen short is the righteousness that is given in the gospel. Of course there is no difference, then. Each believer has righteousness that attains to the glory of God! 1.b.i. We could never contribute to or add to this righteousness 1.b.ii. There can be no difference between believers' righteous standing 2. Free Righteousness 2.a. Freely. We contribute nothing 2.b. Grace (cf. 4:4, 11:6). He contributes everything: blessing for those who deserve only curse; strength for those who have only weakness; life in those who have only death; goodness for those who only have sinfulness 3. Costly Righteousness 3.a. Incarnation 3.b. That in a low condition 3.c. Death. Bought with His own blood. Incomprehensible price. 3.d. Curse 4. Personal Righteousness 4.a. Not an abstraction or quantity that we obtain from Jesus, but Jesus Himself. 4.b. It's all about a person. The gospel of God, concerning His Son. Whenever we are in spiritual trouble, the answer is a Person. Conclusion: Let us not be ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for salvation. The glory of God for salvation. The grace of God for salvation. The redemption by God for salvation. God Himself for salvation. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/10132231440231 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:28:39 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1062225851726 God gives His own perfect righteousness—to those who are utterly desperate for it—in Christ alone 1. RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD 1.a. What we have been waiting for since 1:17 1.b. What we are much more desperate for after 1:18–3:20 2. RIGHTEOUSNESS APART FROM THE LAW 2.a. Don't attempt to use the law in any part of your justification. 2.b. Watch out for those who try to sneak it into so-called "final justification." 3. RIGHTEOUSNESS WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS 3.a. The law dissuades us from self-justificaiotn by how "exceeding broad," ultra-detailed, and spiritual are its many requirements. 3.b. The law itself showed us "alien" righteousness via the sacrificial system. 3.c. The law showed that these sacrifices could not give righteousness, having to be repeated. 3.d. The law taught by faith in the examples of its "best" saints. (The apostle will show this in the next chapter) 3.e. We can rightly say that the law teaches us to obtain our righteous standing "apart from the law." 4. RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH "OF" JESUS CHRIST 4.a. The "of" is important here. We can say that our faith "justifies" if we are speaking instrumentally, but not meritoriously. Even the faith that justifies (meritoriously!) is Christ's faith. 4.b. Is your faith weak? Cling to Christ. His is perfect! (cf. Heb 2:13) 5. RIGHTEOUSNESS "INTO" AND "UPON" 5.a. "Into": actually ours as much as if we had done it 5.b. "Upon": ours by imputation, not by infusion 6. RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE 6.a. Faith is the instrument. "For all who believe." 6.b. Faith is the alone instrument. Nothing can increase/decrease faith's righteousness—not even its own strength or weakness. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/1062225851726 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:27:33 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/930223052266 The law's role in our justification is to close our mouths, judge us before God, and convince us of sin. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/930223052266 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:29:52 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/922221641487790 Humility is essential to the Christian mindset, because it recognizes that no good can come from us except that which is from Christ. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/922221641487790 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:34:10 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/912217486214 God's perfect righteousness will always bring Him glory. But the only hope that a sinner has is if that righteousness becomes his own through faith in Jesus Christ. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/912217486214 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:38:05 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/826221228535597 Church members' unbelief doesn't negate the goodness of the gift or the Giver https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/826221228535597 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:45:34 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/81822192937477 The covenant sign and covenant membership were profitable, because they pointed to how a believer's salvation would come, would grow, and would finish. But for the one who never comes to faith, God's sign is still true, even as He rightly judges such a man as false. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/81822192937477 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:37:53 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/8522181587380 A right use of being identified with God and instructed by God is to not be puffed up about ourselves but humbled, unto the honor of this God Who has been so kind and patient with us. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/8522181587380 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:34:06 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/714221255386158 Whether one is a heathen, a Jew, or a Christian, what he knows abundantly declares that his sin is inexcusable, and the wrath that it deserves is unendurable. But the one who knows Christ alone as his atonement and righteousness knows that God's grace to him is even greater. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/714221255386158 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:38:46 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/772214756552 God is not partial but just and merciful; the human race is not split up into Jew and Greek, but rather good-working and evil-working. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/772214756552 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:33:21 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/630221137236472 God's judgment is real, great, and certain; so, the opportunity for repentance being genuine, it is also very urgent. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/630221137236472 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:41:50 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/623221359221812 Lest we be self-deceived about having been given up to sin, the Spirit lists for us 23 sins to which unbelievers are given up and against which believers are in battle. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/623221359221812 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:43:09 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/616221159104608 All sin is "unfitting" (v28), so when man refuses to glorify God or give thanks, God gives them up to what is least fitting as a witness that all sin is that way at its core https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/616221159104608 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:30:06 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/622215721083 The wrath of God that is revealed against us is as great as God's own glory, because it has been revealed against the despising of His glory. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/622215721083 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:38:25 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/52622142357123 If you're a believer in Christ, then you came into life through faith in Christ, rejoicing over God powerfully saving you. That life, faith, and joy is still the only way that you can make progress in righteousness. And, as you do so, you will be fortifying yourself against ever being ashamed of Christ or His gospel! https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/52622142357123 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 25 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:42:17 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/5192223326784 God's people should highly value participation in God's work in one another's lives. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/5192223326784 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 18 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:41 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023) https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/51222226582271 God's people prioritize what He witnesses, over what men see. They interact with God's will in their hearts and lives. And they participate in God's work in one another's lives. https://sa.hpwl.org/sermons/51222226582271 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 11 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000 James Hakim 0:35:25 no James Hakim - Romans (2022–2023)