Congrats Deshawn! Deshawn now has two Helmets. Deshawn has the early lead in the Winston race! Luke and Keegan were there at the end with Deshawn, but it was Deshawn winning for the second time in four weeks!
Our game of the week was Murderball Defender! Murderball Defender is Murderball plus ten Mike 23 exercise balls! It changes the game just enough to change the strategies needed to win. The wins went back and forth, and we ended with a 2-2 game tie! Because the games last longer, we ran out of time. Defender is a lot of fun, and seems to raise the energy level in the gym.
Our Bible study topic this week was Righteousness.
Romans 3:10-12 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
If none of us are righteous, then how can we be saved?
Philippians 3:7-9 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
God has provided us with righteousness!
Romans 6:19b-23 Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In this passage we find out that when we were slaves to impurity, wickedness and sin, the result was shame and death. Consequently, when we are slaves to God and righteousness the benefits are holiness and eternal life!
Ephesians 4:22-24 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
1 Timothy 6:11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
We need God's righteousness in order to be saved. After we are saved we are supposed to pursue righteousness!
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