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*A LIFE-CHANGING LETTER*
*Grace: The Truth that Transforms - Part 1 of 36*
*Introduction to the Book of Romans*
*Rick Warren*
Whenever you begin a study of an entire book of the Bible, you should ask five questions:
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Who wrote it?
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To whom was it written?
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When was it written?
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Why was it written?
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What's the main message?
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OVERVIEW
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1:18-3:20
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6:1-8:39
9:1-11:36
12:1-15:13
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\\ *A LIFE-CHANGING LETTER*
*Grace: The Truth that Transforms - Part 1 of 36*
*Introduction to the Book of Romans*
*Rick Warren*
If I were to ask you, What's the most important letter you have ever read?
I wonder what you'd say.
A proposal?
About the birth of a baby?
Get drafted?
About an audit by the IRS? Letters can be very good or very bad.
Maybe you got a job offer, a chance to move.
Tonight, we're going to begin a study on what I consider to be the greatest letter ever written.
It was written by Paul and we cannot overestimate the influence of this one letter.
Quotes from different people I've read:
Richard Halbertson: "In a very basic sense, western civilization is a by-product of Paul's letter to the Romans.
Nothing was written by man that had a greater impact on modern history."
Baxter: "It's Paul's magum opus."
Samuel Colleridge: "The most profound writing in existence of all time."
John Calvin: "If a man understands Romans he has a sure road open to help him understand the entire Bible."
I have in my library over forty books on the book of Romans.
You just can't say enough about this book.
It's the basic handbook for Christianity.
It has influenced hundreds of thousands, millions of people.
It's changed history.
Martin Luther started the Reformation because of the book of Romans.
John Wesley started the Wesleyan revivals -- Methodism began out of that.
Augustine became a Christian because of the book of Romans.
All throughout history, God has used the book of Romans to influence people's lives in ways you cannot imagine.
How are we going to get the most out of this study?
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Be sure and bring a Bible.
We're going to be looking at scriptures, sometimes a few, sometimes entire sections.
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Bring a notebook or something to keep notes in.
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Bring a pencil.
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Write things down.
If you do, by the time we get through this study you'll have a complete commentary on the book of Romans.
The best way to approach the book of Romans is to start by seeing it as a letter to you.
I want us to pause right here at the start and ask God to give us some insight as we look into this book.
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, I really feel inadequate as we look at this magnificent book of the Bible.
I know that it has so much to say and there is no way we can plumb the depths of this book.
I pray that in the next few weeks as we look at Romans You would change our lives -- that this would be a life changing letter so we can better understand Your plan for our lives though it.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
When you study a book, you always want to ask at least five questions: Who wrote it?
To whom was it written?
When was it written?
Why was it written?
What's the main message?
Tonight, I want to give you an introduction to this book, the basic overview of the book.
We can't understand the book without understanding these basic things.
Who wrote the book?
Paul.
The ancient Greeks had an idea that I don't know why we don't take advantage of.
In the old times of Greek culture when you wrote a letter, you wrote who it was from first.
When we write a letter today, we sign on the opposite end.
Yet when you get a letter, what's the first thing you look for?
Who's it from.
You ought to find out who it's from so then you know where they're coming from.
The ancient Greeks always started out up front telling you who it's from and who it's to.
Like a memo.
From Paul to you.
We know it was written from Paul.
Actually it wasn't written by Paul.
It was authored by Paul, but the actual handwriting wasn't written by Paul.
Look at chapter 16:22 /"I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter greet you in the Lord."
/Tertius wrote the book of Romans.
He was Paul's secretary.
Paul did not write the letter down personally, but dictated it.
This is helpful for you to understand, because sometimes Paul gets long, long sentences and they're very complex and seem to go on and on . .
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A run on sentence.
Why?
Paul was not setting there thinking about each word, taking his time to think out the construction but, I imagine, he walked back and forth dictating this letter.
Tertius is probably writing it down as quickly as he can, trying to polish each sentence as he wrote, putting periods in.
Where was it written, /"Gaius whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, send you his greetings."
/ That tells us where the letter was written from.
Gaius was a Christian business man and he lived in Corinth.
So the letter was written from Corinth by Paul (actually by Tertius, dictated by Paul).
Paul is pouring out his heart.
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WHO IS PAUL? Paul was probably the greatest man who lived since Jesus Christ, the most influential man.
There are over a billion Christians today in the world because Paul was the one who single handedly took the gospel all across the Roman empire and started churches all around the Mediterranean.
He was the most influential man in history since Jesus Christ.
He is a product of three different cultures.
1) Religiously, or by race and religion, he was a Hebrew.
Philippians 3:4ff Paul gives a testimony, /"Though I myself have reason for such confidence, if anyone thinks he has reason to put confidence in the flesh, I have more.
Circumcised on the eighth day of the people of Israel of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews.
In regard to the law, a Pharisee.
As for zeal persecuting the church.
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