Romans 1:1-7 Introduction to The Book of Romans
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Romans 1:1-7
Introduction
Introduction
Technical Information
Paul, wrote the book Romans from Corinth,
Reference to Phoebe
Romans 16:1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,
Cenchrea was Corinth’s port
Reference to Gaius and Erastus
Romans 16:23 Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother.
Written towards the end of His 3rd missionary journey, around 56 AD.
Written to the church at Rome, to Christians Paul had never met, but greatly desired to be with them
Romans 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established—12that is, that I may be encouraged together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
Romans 1:15 So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
Romans 15:32 that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you.
We have no report of the church being started there so it must have been started from converts on the day of Pentecost.
Spiritual Information
Most all of the great revivals & reformations in the history of the Church have been directly related to the reading of the book of Romans.
Martin Luther: “I greatly longed to understand Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and nothing stood in the way but that one expression, "The righteousness of God," because I took it to mean that righteousness whereby God is righteous and deals righteously in punishing the unrighteous...night and day I pondered until...I grasped the truth that the righteousness of God is that righteousness whereby, through grace and sheer mercy, He justifies us by faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise. The whole of Scripture took on a new meaning, and whereas before "the righteousness of God" had filled me with hate, now it became to me inexpressibly sweet in greater love. This passage of Paul became to me a gate way to heaven.”
"It is the chiefest part of the New Testament & the very purest Gospel."
John Wesley: I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust Christ, Christ alone, for my salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
John Calvin: When anyone gains a knowledge of this epistle, he has an entrance open to him to all the most hidden treasures of scripture.
William Tindale: For as much as this epistle is the principal and most excellent part of the New Testament, and most pure evangelion, that is to say, glad tidings, and that we call gospel, and also a light and a way unto the whole scripture I think it meet that every Christian man not only know it, by rote and without the book, but also exercise himself therein evermore continually, as with the daily bread of the soul. No man verily can read it too oft, or study it too well for the more it is studied, the easier it is; the more it is chewed, the pleasanter it is; and the more groundly it is searched, the preciouser things are found in it, so great treasure of spiritual things lieth therein.
John McArthur: It has been said that Romans will delight the greatest logician and captivate the mind of the consummate genius, yet it will bring tears to the humblest soul and refreshment to the simplest mind. It will knock you down and then lift you up. It will strip you naked and then clothe you with eternal elegance. The book of Romans took a Bedford tinker like John Bunyan and turn him into the spiritual giant and literary master that wrote The Pilgrim's Progress and The Holy War.
This Epistle quotes the Old Testament some 57 times, more than any other New Testament book.
It repeatedly uses key words - God154 times, law 77 times, Christ 66 times, sin 45 times, Lord 44 times, and faith 40 times
Romans is the most exhaustive treatment of the Gospel in the Canon of Scripture
If this were the only epistle that Paul ever wrote, it would be enough to make him considered the most important New Testament author.
Are you ready to be challenged, changed, and charged up? This study will do it. Pray I do not hinder its great message!
The Author - (Verse 1)
Paul the Bondservant
“Bondservant” – (Doulos) “Slave”
Paul the Apostle. (Acts 9:15; 22:14, 15)
“Apostle” – One sent with a message
It was the name of the Office that Christ gave the original 12
After Judas was found to be a fraud they replaced him in Acts 1
Peter gives the qualification of an Apostle: Acts 1:22 beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”
Paul is the 13th Apostle:
1 Corinthians 15:7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.
He saw Jesus on the Damascus road
He spent three years with Jesus in the Arabian dessert
He was caught up into the 3rd heaven
The Theme - The Gospel:
The Promise “Which He promised before”
The Person (3, 4)
The Provision “Resurrection from the dead”
The Proclamation (5b) for obedience to the faith among all nations
The Purpose (5c) “For His name”
The Privilege (6, 7) “The called of Jesus Christ”
The word “Gospel” appears 4 times in first 20 verses.
Some Key Words. (16, 17)
“Power:” - DYNAMOS - Word from which we get the word dynamite.
Power to change a sinner. (Jer. 13:23)
Power to raise a sinner. (Rom. 5:15; Eph. 2:1)
Salvation - Rescued from the eternal punishment.
Faith - Is believing: Trusting in, relying on.
Righteousness - That which is needed to be saved.
God's Righteousness - verse 17: "Just" that is, the Righteous man made righteous by God’s imputed righteousness
The Structure of Romans
Chapters 1-11, Doctrinal
1:18-3:20 The Prevalence of the Unrighteousness of Man
3:21-5 The Provision of God’s Righteousness
6-8 The Power of God’s Righteousness
9-11 The People of God’s Righteousness
Chapters 12-16 Practical
12 Responsibilities in the Church
13 Responsibilities in the World
14:1-15:13 Responsibilities to the Brethren
Chapter 15:14-33 Personal Remarks
Chapter 16 Closing Remarks
Conclusion
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