Intro To Romans
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Reading:
Romans 5:18-21 “Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Introduction:
Romans is one of my favorite books.
When I read Romans, I get no nonsense answers and direction for my spiritual welfare and my spiritual health.
In those moments when I begin to believe the lies Satan is telling me I can read
Romans 3:23-26 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
When I read that each and every one of us are equal in our sinful position before the Lord.
I realize that no one is better off, or worse than me. I can love them and treat them in that manner.
Even better than that is the fact that we are all given the equal portion of love from the creator.
He extended grace to me and you when we earned and deserve consequences.
The book of Romans is a straight forward book.
Transition:
The author has been concluded to be Paul; considering the opening verse:
Romans 1:1 “Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,”
The date for the writing was A.D. 57; which Paul was writing from Corinth.
Paul expressed during his third missionary journey his desire to visit Rome:
Acts 19:21 “Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.””
The letter was delivered by Phoebe from nearby Cenchrea.
Romans 16:1-2 “I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.”
Paul’s ministry was to the Gentile church; but if you remember his education and beginnings were in the church of the Jews.
He must have had a desire to bridge the divisions between the 2 factions of faith: Jew and Gentile.
What was happening in the world that Paul was writing to?
A great way for us to receive the truths of scripture is for us to place ourselves in the shoes of those who it was written to and the things they were dealing with.
The best way for us to get into that mindset is that we know the:
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