Sermon Tone Analysis

Why is Paul not ashamed of the Gospel?

= Because it is the power of God.

How does God prove His gospel has power?

= By saving sinners.

How are sinners saved by this powerful gospel of God? = By faith obtaining from God what God demands.

Complete Surrender

PRAY

S.T.A.R.T.

Solemnly praise and recognize the greatness of our God and Savior connected to the Biblical text being preached.

Oh God our Father we ask for your Holy presence to be with us this morning.

You are the Righteous one of Israel oh LORD.

We praise you that you reveal your righteousness to us!

Touch upon the subject of corporate sin and confess any shortcomings the body has committed related to the Biblical text to be preached.

We confess our sin to you God and we ask that this power of salvation that is your Gospel would be applied to us.

We ask that your righteousness would be reveled in and to us this very hour.

Strengthen our faith we pray oh God for your Word tells us that we will only live by faith.

Touch upon the subject of corporate sin and confess any shortcomings the body has committed related to the Biblical text to be preached.

Ask God to help the body/local church to hear and apply the truths of the Biblical text to be preached.

We cling to your promise in where you tell us...

We hunger and thirst Lord and beg therefore that You would today, even this hour reveal and satisfy our longing for you!

You are faithful and so we know you will answer this petition, so we bring another.

Help us to apply this revealed righteousness!

Teach us to rest in it, the cherish it, to be strengthened by it LORD we pray.

Review and remind the audience of the key related passages to the Biblical text being preached.

Ask God to help the body/local church to hear and apply the truths of the Biblical text to be preached.

Review and remind the audience of the key related passages to the Biblical text being preached.

As we turn now from the throne of God to the pulpit of man we ask for your blessing in the preaching of this word found in , Amen.

Sermon

Why does Paul add this phrase?

/ Why not stop at 16?

How does the gospel reveal the righteousness of God?

What is God’s Righteousness?

What does righteousness mean?

Why does it need to be revealed?

What does from faith to faith mean?

What is faith?

Why does Paul put a quote here?

Why this quote?

What does the quote mean?

Who are the righteous?

How do they live by faith?

How does this apply to me today?

How should this effect the rest of my life?

Word Definitions

Word Definitions

v16 - “everyone who believes” = all who are believing - present / active tense

Righteous / Justice = same greek word

Faith =

John Piper Quotes

“Many people are satisfied with V16 and care not for V17”

“If God tells us something he wants us to know it”

“The gospel is not just how unbelievers are saved but it is how believers stay saved”

Not Pauls Argument

in it the __________ of God is revealed

love

Paul’s Argument

I am eager - why

because I am proud of the gospel - why

because it is the power of God - why

because in it the righteousness of God is revealed = what?

how?

Righteous = Justice

in it the justice of God is revealed = does not make sense?…ow

in it the __________ of God is revealed

love

peace

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Paul says he is not ashamed of the gospel and the more I think aout it the more I wonder if he says this because of the reasons I talked about two weeks ago or for some toher reason all together.

See the more I think about it, the more I have to say that I am ashamed of the gospel.

I am ashamed of my sin that required the death of Jesus to atone for it.

I am ashamed that I often cannot or do not appreceate it as I ought to.

I am ashamed that I offten cannot or do not proclaim it as it should be.

I am not ashamed of the message of the gospel but rather by the very thing itself because of what it reminds me of, primarily the depth of my depravity before a Holy God.

It is this very Gospel that brings me shame and that I am ashamed of because I recognize the depth of my wickness before a Holy God one who loves me in the face of my wickedness and who was then driven by His love to do such an amazing act on my behalf.

This I believe is the same problem many face and is I believe the same issue Martin Luther faced on this section of text.

This I believe is what Satan counts on when he points his finger into our chest and accuses us of all our sinful disobedience behind us, pontificating on our present practices of piety, and forecasting our future failure with ferocity.

This I believe is why many churches, preachers, and evangelist end there messages with the true but feeble message that God is love and God loves you.

That message must be meet with a resounding yes but then we must add the deep theology of His holiness and his justice.

If God were only Love then how would verse 18 of this chapter make sense?

We would need to re-write it:

“For the LOVE of God is revealed from heaven TOWARD all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who in their unrighteousness suppress the truth.”

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth

God is love = chaning lots of scrip...

God is Love =/= trump other attributes / character traits

God is Love = strnegthens the necessity of the other traits

1 = Justice = the problem

Holy God + Sinful Man + Justice [Love] = Wrath / Punishment

brings us to V17 = the problem

How does this gospel reveal the loving justice of God? How could we [sinners] ever possibly be saved by it?

= PROBLEM!!

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Rom

Rom

Goal

​ ESV5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

​ ESV5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say?

That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

​ ESV10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.”

“The venom of asps is under their lips.”