Romans

1
Romans
2

• Blessed is the one who reads, as well as those
  who hear the words of this prophecy and pay
  attention to what is written in it (Revelation
  13 GN)
• But, my friend, I ask, Who do you think you are
  to question God? Does the clay have the right to
  ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did?
  (Romans 920 CEV)

3

• From Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to
  be an apostle and appointed to spread the Good
  News of God. God had already promised this Good
  News through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.
  This Good News is about his Son, our Lord Jesus
  Christ. In his human nature he was a descendant
  of David. In his spiritual, holy nature he was
  declared the Son of God. This was shown in a
  powerful way when he came back to life. (Romans
  11-4 GN)

4

• For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is
  Gods power for salvation to everyone who
  believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
  For the righteousness of God is revealed in the
  gospel from faith to faith, just as it is
  written, The righteous by faith will live.
  (Romans 116,17 NET)
• For in the gospel a righteousness from God is
  revealed (NIV)
• For in it the righteousness of God is revealed
  (NKJV)
• For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor
  uncircumcision counts for anything, but only
  faith activated and energized and expressed and
  working through love. (Galatians 56 - Amplified)

5

• I am not ashamed of the good news about God and
  his character, methods and principles, because
  this truth is Gods power that heals everyone who
  thinks it through and trusts in him For the good
  news is a revelation of Gods true righteousness,
  character, methods and principles that restores
  trust in God and results in re-creation of a
  righteous and Christlike character, just as it is
  written The Christlike will live by trust.
  (Tim Jennings)

6

• Gods anger is revealed from heaven against all
  the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways
  prevent the truth from being known. God punishes
  them, because what can be known about God is
  plain to them, for God himself made it plain
  (Romans 118,19 GN).
• They say they are wise, but they are
  fools instead of worshiping the immortal God,
  they worship images made to look like mortals or
  birds or animals or reptiles. And so God has
  given those people over to do the filthy things
  their hearts desire, and they do shameful things
  with each other. They exchange the truth about
  God for a lie they worship and serve what God
  has created instead of the Creator himself, who
  is to be praised forever! Amen. Because they do
  this, God has given them over to shameful
  passions.Because those people refuse to keep in
  mind the true knowledge about God, he has given
  them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the
  things that they should not do (Romans
  122-26,28 GN).

7

• They are filled with all kinds of wickedness,
  evil, greed, and vice they are full of jealousy,
  murder, fighting, deceit, and malice. They gossip
  and speak evil of one another they are hateful
  to God, insolent, proud, and boastful they think
  of more ways to do evil they disobey their
  parents they have no conscience they do not
  keep their promises, and they show no kindness or
  pity for others. (Romans 129-31 GN)

8

• Those people are on a dark spiral downward. But
  if you think that leaves you on the high ground
  where you can point your finger at others, think
  again. Every time you criticize someone, you
  condemn yourself. It takes one to know one.
  Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known
  way of escaping detection in your own crimes and
  misdemeanors. (Romans 21 The Message)

9

• If youre brought up Jewish, dont assume that
  you can lean back in the arms of your religion
  and take it easy, feeling smug because youre an
  insider to Gods revelation, a connoisseur of the
  best things of God, informed on the latest
  doctrines! I have a special word of caution for
  you who are sure that you have it all together
  yourselves and, because you know Gods revealed
  Word inside and out, feel qualified to guide
  others through their blind alleys and dark nights
  and confused emotions to God.

10

• While you are guiding others, who is going to
  guide you? Im quite serious. While preaching
  Dont steal! are you going to rob people blind?
  Who would suspect you? The same with adultery.
  The same with idolatry. You can get by with
  almost anything if you front it with eloquent
  talk about God and his law. The line from
  Scripture, Its because of you Jews that the
  outsiders are down on God, shows its an old
  problem that isnt going to go away. (Romans
  217-24 The Message)

11

• Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my
  heart and my prayer to God is that the Jewish
  people might be saved. I know what enthusiasm
  they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.
  For they dont understand Gods way of making
  people right with himself. Instead, they are
  clinging to their own way of getting right with
  God by trying to keep the law. They wont go
  along with Gods way. (Romans 101-3 NLT)

12

• The Gentiles do not have the Law but whenever
  they do by instinct what the Law commands, they
  are their own law, even though they do not have
  the Law. Their conduct shows that what the Law
  commands is written in their hearts. Their
  consciences also show that this is true, since
  their thoughts sometimes accuse them and
  sometimes defend them. And so, according to the
  Good News I preach, this is how it will be on
  that Day when God through Jesus Christ will judge
  the secret thoughts of all. (Romans 213-16
  GN)
• For he is not a real Jew who is only one
  outwardly and publicly, nor is true
  circumcision something external and physical. But
  he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and true
  circumcision is of the heart, a spiritual and not
  a literal matter. (Romans 228-29 Amplified)

13
C.S. Lewis

• But I said, Alas, Lord, I am no son of thine
  but the servant of Tash. He answered, Child,
  all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account
  as service done to me. Then by reason of my
  great desire for wisdom and understanding, I
  overcame my fear and questioned the Glorious One
  and said, Lord, is it then true, as the Ape
  said, that thou and Tash are one? The Lion
  growled so that the earth shook (but his wrath
  was not against me) and said, It is false. Not
  because he and I are one, but because we are
  opposites, I take to me the services which thou
  hast done to him. For I and he are of such
  different kinds that no service which is vile can
  be done to me, and none which is not vile can be
  done to him.

14

• Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his
  oath for the oaths sake, it is by me that he has
  truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I
  who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my
  name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is
  Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is
  accepted. Dost thou understand, Child? I said,
  Lord, thou knowest how much I understand. But I
  said also (for the truth constrained me), Yet I
  have been seeking Tash all my days. Beloved,
  said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had
  been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long
  and so truly. (C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle,
  149)

15

• Those whom Christ commends in the judgment may
  have known little of theology, but they have
  cherished His principles. Through the influence
  of the divine Spirit they have been a blessing to
  those about them. Even among the heathen are
  those who have cherished the spirit of kindness
  before the words of life had fallen upon their
  ears, they have befriended the missionaries, even
  ministering to them at the peril of their own
  lives. Among the heathen are those who worship
  God ignorantly, those to whom the light is never
  brought by human instrumentality, yet they will
  not perish. Though ignorant of the written law of
  God, they have heard His voice speaking to them
  in nature, and have done the things that the law
  required. Their works are evidence that the Holy
  Spirit has touched their hearts, and they are
  recognized as the children of God. (E.G. White,
  DA 638)

16

• The Gentiles do not have the Law but whenever
  they do by instinct what the Law commands, they
  are their own law, even though they do not have
  the Law. Their conduct shows that what the Law
  commands is written in their hearts. Their
  consciences also show that this is true, since
  their thoughts sometimes accuse them and
  sometimes defend them. And so, according to the
  Good News I preach, this is how it will be on
  that Day when God through Jesus Christ will judge
  the secret thoughts of all. (Romans 213-16
  GN)

17
(No Transcript)
18

• For no one is put right in Gods sight by doing
  what the Law requires what the Law does is to
  make us know that we have sinned.
• But now God's way of putting people right with
  himself has been revealed. It has nothing to do
  with law, even though the Law of Moses and the
  prophets gave their witness to it.
• God puts people right through their faith in
  Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in
  Christ, because there is no difference at all
  everyone has sinned and is far away from Gods
  saving presence. But by the free gift of Gods
  grace all are put right with him through Christ
  Jesus, who sets them free. (Romans 320-24 GN)

19

• God offered him, so that by his blood he should
  become the means by which peoples sins are
  forgiven through their faith in him. God did this
  in order to demonstrate that he is righteous.
  (Romans 320-25 GN)
• Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
  through faith in his blood (KJV)

20

• God showed that Christ is the throne of mercy
  where Gods approval is given through faith in
  Christs blood. (GODS WORD)
• God publicly displayed him at his death as the
  mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to
  demonstrate his righteousness (NET)
• God presented Jesus as the way and means of
  restoration, through trust established by the
  evidence of Gods character revealed when Christ
  died. He did this to demonstrate his
  righteousness and goodness (Tim Jennings)

21

• In the past he was patient and overlooked
  people's sins but in the present time he deals
  with their sins, in order to demonstrate his
  righteousness. In this way God shows that he
  himself is righteous and that he puts right
  everyone who believes in Jesus. What, then, can
  we boast about? Nothing! And what is the reason
  for this? Is it that we obey the Law? No, but
  that we believe. For we conclude that a person is
  put right with God only through faith, and not by
  doing what the Law commands. Or is God the God of
  the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles
  also? Of course he is. God is one, and he will
  put the Jews right with himself on the basis of
  their faith, and will put the Gentiles right
  through their faith. Does this mean that by this
  faith we do away with the Law? No, not at all
  instead, we uphold the Law. (Romans 320-31)

22

• What shall we say, then, of Abraham, the father
  of our race? What was his experience? If he was
  put right with God by the things he did, he would
  have something to boast about---but not in Gods
  sight. The scripture says, Abraham believed God,
  and because of his faith God accepted him as
  righteous. (Romans 41-3 GN)

23

• For we have quoted the scripture, Abraham
  believed God, and because of his faith God
  accepted him as righteous. When did this take
  place? Was it before or after Abraham was
  circumcised? It was before, not after. He was
  circumcised later, and his circumcision was a
  sign to show that because of his faith God had
  accepted him as righteous before he had been
  circumcised. And so Abraham is the spiritual
  father of all who believe in God and are accepted
  as righteous by him, even though they are not
  circumcised. (Romans 49-11)
• the real Jew is the person who is a Jew on the
  inside, that is, whose heart has been
  circumcised. (Romans 229 GN)

24

• Now that we have been put right with God through
  faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
  Jesus Christ. (Romans 51)
• We were God's enemies, but he made us his
  friends through the death of his Son. we rejoice
  because of what God has done through our Lord
  Jesus Christ, who has now made us God's friends.
  (Romans 510,11 GN)

25

• It is certain that death ruled because of one
  persons failure. Its even more certain that
  those who receive Gods overflowing kindness and
  the gift of his approval will rule in life
  because of one person, Jesus Christ. (Romans
  517 GODS WORD)

26

• What shall we say then? Is the law evil and
  selfish because it increases the amount of evil
  and selfishness we see? Absolutely not! For I
  would not have known what evil and selfishness
  looks like if it wasnt for the diagnostic
  efficacy of the law. I would not have realized
  that coveting was evil and selfish if the law
  didnt say, Dont covet. But selfishness,
  taking advantage of the fact that the law is only
  a diagnostic instrument and not a remedy,
  multiplied every covetous desire within me. For
  apart from the diagnostic ability of the law, sin
  is unrecognizable.

27

• Once I thought I was healthy and free from the
  infection of fear and selfishness, but then the
  commandment examined me, exposed how utterly
  infected I was and diagnosed me as terminal. I
  discovered that the very commandment given only
  to diagnose my condition, I had unwittingly
  attempted to use as a cure and thus my condition
  only worsened. For selfishness, taking advantage
  of the fact that the commandment could only
  diagnose and not cure, deceived me into thinking
  I could be cured by working to keep the
  commandment, but instead my terminal state only
  worsened. So understand this, the law diagnoses
  perfectly, and the commandment is the standard of
  what is right and good, set apart by God, to
  reveal what is evil and destructive. (Romans
  77-12 Tim Jennings)

28

• What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me
  from this body that is taking me to death? Thanks
  be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus
  Christ! This, then, is my condition on my own I
  can serve Gods law only with my mind, while my
  human nature serves the law of sin. There is no
  condemnation now for those who live in union with
  Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit, which
  brings us life in union with Christ Jesus, has
  set me free from the law of sin and death.
  (Romans 724-25 81-2)

29

• God has poured out his love into our hearts by
  means of the Holy Spirit, who is Gods gift to
  us. (Romans 55 GN)
• So you should not be like cowering, fearful
  slaves. You should behave instead like Gods very
  own children, adopted into his family calling
  him Father, dear Father. For his Holy Spirit
  speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that
  we are Gods children. (Romans 815,16 NLT)

30

• In face of all this, what is there left to say?
  If God is for us, who can be against us? He that
  did not hesitate to spare his own Son but gave
  him up for us all - can we not trust such a God
  to give us, with him, everything else that we can
  need? Who would dare to accuse us, whom God has
  chosen? The judge himself has declared us free
  from sin. Who is in a position to condemn? Only
  Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for
  us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays
  for us! Can anything separate us from the love of
  Christ? Can trouble, pain or persecution? Can
  lack of clothes and food, danger to life and
  limb, the threat of force of arms?...No, in all
  these things we win an overwhelming victory
  through him who has proved his love for us. I
  have become absolutely convinced that neither
  death nor life, neither messenger of Heaven nor
  monarch of earth, neither what happens today nor
  what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on
  high nor a power from below, nor anything else in
  Gods whole world has any power to separate us
  from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord!
  (Romans 831-39 JB Phillips)