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Romans 5:1-11But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (5:8).One By One Of all things and above everything, the Christian faith and the Christian religion is a personal faith and a personal religion. The revelation of God in Jesus Christ is the religion of the individual. It is the Christian faith, it is the Christian religion that magnifies the one lost sheep, the one lost coin, the one lost boy [Luke 15:3-32]. Sometimes by the naked eye you can look into the starry firmament above at night, and there is a great mass of whited way, and here are great groupings in the firmament; and to look at them you’d say, "These are nebulae, they are great masses of indistinct gaseous forms and vapors and collections of matter." But when you take a telescope and look at those great nebulae, most of the time you will find them galaxies of individual stars. That’s what the Christian faith does to humanity. We’re not masses, and gobs, and bucketfuls, and oceans and seas of people in the sight of God; but we are individuals. God looks at us one at a time. He calls us by name [John 10:3]; He even says that the very hairs of our head are numbered [Matthew 10:30]. That’s the Christian religion, that’s our God, and that is our faith. In the great, broad way, masses of men are indistinct; but in the narrow way, the lone traveler is seen one at a time, as he makes his pilgrimage from this world to the world that is to come. The Christian religion is a personal religion. We are saved personally and individually. A man’s godliness cannot suffice or be imputed to another man. Every man has to be saved for himself. Because I am born in a Christian home or in a Christian country does not make me thereby and therefore a Christian. I must become a Christian for myself; I must be saved for myself. Could I say this facetiously? Because a man is born in a garage, he’s not thereby and therein a car; or because a rat lives in a stable, he’s not thereby a horse. So it is with a man who is born in a Christian home or in a Christian family: he is not thereby a Christian. The Christian faith is an individual faith and an individual religion. A man must believe for himself.