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Paul was on fire to preach the good news of the gracious lordship of God expressed in Jesus Christ, and nowhere more so than in Romans. Because God as creator is Lord over the whole of created reality, reflections on that lordship encompass the full range of human problems, and nowhere is that more the case than in Romans. Paul deals with problems as contemporary as tomorrow's newspaper. They are...

totally unmerited nature of God’s grace to us which breaks the power of sin and opens the way back to him. That totally unmerited nature of God’s grace in Christ, so strongly emphasized in these verses, is perhaps itself the strongest theological justification for infant baptism: The infant who has done nothing at all to deserve anything at God’s hands is nevertheless shown grace in baptism into Christ. As such, the baptism of infants presents a striking metaphor for the way God’s grace comes to
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