But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.

We would have done the very same thing they did. We would have disobeyed God just like them. A little bit earlier in Romans we read that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. A little bit farther along in Romans we read that the wages of sin is death. That means we are all sinners and we will all die as punishment for our sin. That’s bad news. Bad news for everybody.

But there is also Good News. The Good News is that Jesus died for our sin.

Church, commit, conform, counsel. These are all indispensable aspects of our promise to encourage one another and to stir one another up to love and good deeds.