Romans 1:14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise. 15 So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
Flow of thought with the three I am statements
I am a debtor v14
So, because I am a debtor, I am eager v 15
I am eager, For or Because I am not ashamed v 16
Because I am not ashamed, why, it is the power of God v 16
Negatively I am not ashamed, Positively, I am eager to share the gospel
It is a debt to humanity he needed to repay and obligation, (he had been given a stewardship) and it is the Power of God to everyone who believes (He had a sense of conviction because he knew if the Gospel could change him it could change anyone.
1. He was not ashamed of Christ, the person of the Gospel – even though Jesus was a Jew
2. The nature of the gospel is that it is the power of God ........without that power it is but a dead letter
3. The aim of the gospel is salvation, not ashamed because of the plan of the Gospel
4. The gospel is for everyone who believes... Believes means an ongoing condition not a one-time event of belief. True faith is a way of life.
5. Saving faith consists of three elements:
· Mental - The mind understands the gospel and truth about Christ
· Emotional - one embraces the truthfulness of those facts with sorrow over sin and joyfulness over God's mercy and Grace
· A volitional or voluntary submission of the sinners will to Christ and trusts in Christ alone as the only hope of salvation.
V17 the revelation of God's righteousness - Better translated the Righteousness from God
· The gospel is the revelation of God's righteousness through faith that He is just and holy and we are guilty sinners
· Justification of believers means God absolves or removes the consequences of our sin which is accomplished by Propitiation
· The gospel is the Propitiation or legal payment for our sins which is why Jesus had to die on the cross. The legal side had to be paid. There is no remission of sins without the shedding of blood.
Salvation is of God's appointing, of God's approving and God's accepting
To cut off all claims to a righteousness resulting from the merit of our own works
Now Paul quotes Habakkuk 2:4 The just shall live by faith
This verse summarizes the Gospel
The Law was given to Moses in 613 precepts or rules of conduct
In the 15th Psalm they are reduced to 11
In Isaiah 6 ........Micah to 3 ........then again Isaiah reduces them to 2 and finally Habakkuk condenses them into 1 rule
The words " The just shall live by faith" are found 4 times in the Bible, Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, and Hebrews 10:38
God established Abraham as the pattern of faith in the OT and thus calls him the father of all who believe
OT faith was in a Christ to come and NT faith is in the fact that Christ has already come
1 JOHN 1.7,9,2.1-2 THE TEST OF OBEDIENCE PART 2
JOHN 1:14 THE WORD BECAME FLESH
1 JOHN 1:6,8,10 THE TEST OF OBEDIENCE
JOHN 1:12-13 BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM
1 JOHN 1:1-4 A BIBLICAL VIEW OF JESUS
JOHN 1:10-13 BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM
ROMANS 10:9-10 RECEIVING RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH INVOLVES CONFESSING JESUS AS LORD (GOD, YAHWEH) AND BELIEVING IN HIS RESURRECTION
ROMANS 10:5-8 RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW vs. RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH IN CHRIST
JOHN 1:8-9 JOHN IS NOT THE LIGHT, BUT HE CAME TO TESTIFY AND REVEAL THE TRUE LIGHT
ROMANS 10:1-4 ISRAEL’S REFUSAL OF GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS
JOHN 1:4-7 THE LIFE AND THE LIGHT THAT JESUS CHRIST REVEALS TO ALL MEN PART 2
ROMANS 9:30-33 THE BASIS OF GOD’S CHOICE: FAITH VS. NO FAITH
30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL THE LIFE AND THE LIGHT THAT JESUS CHRIST REVEALS TO ALL MEN PART 1
ROMANS 9:24-29 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM,YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD
30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL WALK WORTHY OF YOUR CALLING
ROMANS 9:19-23 WILL THE THING FORMED SAY TO HIM WHO FORMED IT, ”WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME LIKE THIS?”
THE BOOK OF JOHN TELLS US THAT JESUS IS GOD
ROMANS 9:14-18 HE HAS MERCY ON WHOM HE WILLS, AND WHOM HE WILLS HE HARDENS
THE BOOK OF JOHN TELLS US THAT JESUS CREATED EVERYTHING
ROMANS 9:7-13 WHO ARE THE TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD PART 2?
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