Sermon Tone Analysis

A. GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS REVEALED (21-23)

1. Apart from law, but witnessed by the Law (21)

But now – after showing that all men are sinners, he moves to reveal God’s righteousness

apart from law - justification could not be accomplished by personal obedience to any law of Jew or Gentile

has been made known (phaneroo) - make actual and visible, realized [Perfect, Passive, Indicative]

Law and the Prophets testify – phrase denotes entire Old Testament; meaning His plan of redemption was stated from the beginning (Gen 12, 15, 17; Hab 2:4)

2. A righteousness through faith in Jesus (22a)

This righteousness from God comes through (dia) faith (pistis) – lit: “by means of faith”

3.

For all who believe, for all have sinned (22b-23)

all (pas) who believe (pisteuo) - to be persuaded of [Present, Active, Participle]

all have sinned (hamartano) and fall short - lit: “to miss the mark”

the glory (doxa) of God - majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity; what makes God, God; His characteristics.

B. GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS EXPLAINED (24-26)

1. Justification by grace through redemption in Christ (24)

Justified (dikaioo) - to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be [Present, Passive, Participle]

Grace (charis) – unmerited favor

Redemption (apolutrosis) - a releasing effected by payment of ransom

2. Jesus' blood offered by God as a propitiation through faith (25a)

sacrifice of atonement (Propitiation: hilasterion) – lit: “mercy seat”

“Used of the cover of the ark of the covenant in the Holy of Holies, which was sprinkled with the blood of the expiatory victim on the annual day of atonement (this rite signifying that the life of the people, the loss of which they had merited by their sins, was offered to God in the blood as the life of the victim, and that God by this ceremony was appeased and their sins expiated); hence the lid of expiation, the propitiatory.”

3.

This demonstrates God's righteousness toward the one who has faith in Jesus (25b-26)

forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished – Old Testament believers

demonstrate his justice (righteousness) –

Just – condemning His son

Justifier – declaring us righteous