A Study of the Book of Romans

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A Study of the Book of Romans ISU Bible Study
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Our Objectives

• Gain an appreciation for Romans
• Apply the principles to our lives
• Understand / be able to explain the basic
  concepts
• Learn (or reinforce) techniques for studying the
  Word
• Memorize Romans Road references

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Historical Background

• No documentation that confidently asserts how the
  church was founded in Rome.
• Emperor Claudius expelled the Jews (both
  Christian and non-Christian) from Rome in 49 A.
  D. as anti-Semitism was rife in the Roman empire.
• Jews returned to Rome in the 50s probably to
  find themselves a minority in the Christian
  church.
• Early leadership in the church is uncertain, but
  Christianity was growing and house churches were
  established.
• Pauls letter to the Romans was written around 57
  A.D. during his stay in Corinth on his 3rd
  missionary journey.
• There doesnt appear to be a glaring issue with
  the Roman church as there was with the church in
  Corinth.

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What is Paul saying in Romans?
God is sovereign as He deals with Jews and
Gentiles
This guilt is removed only when we are justified
by faith which gives us access to Gods grace
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter
4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter
12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16
Every man is guilty of sin before God
God showers on His believers gifts of the Spirit
to be used in His service
Given free grace, we cannot go on sinning, but
must yield ourselves to holiness
The Christian is called to a selfless life,
especially when interacting with our weak brothers
The struggle against sin continues for the
believer, but victory can be found in Jesus
Many of my fellow believers deserve commendation
The Holy Spirit plays a prominent role in the
life of a believer
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The Emotional Roller Coaster
Gods right about sinners!
The Holy Spirit is awesome!
The body of Christ is incredible!
Grace is incredible!
Im surrounded by love!
Oh, no! Thats me too!
So I must be selfless!
Theres hope!
I dont know what to think of Gods sovereignty.
Can I ever conquer sin?
Chapter 1 2 3 45 6
7 8 9-11 1213 1415 16
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Romans Chapter 1

• Verses 1 17 Introduction
• Rom 116 17
• For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for
  it is the power of God unto salvation to every
  one that believeth to the Jew first, and also to
  the Greek.
• For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
  from faith to faith as it is written, The just
  shall live by faith.

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Who are considered sinners before God?

• 118 32 deliberately, openly wicked men

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Romans Chapter 2

• Rom 21 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man,
  whosoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou
  judgest another, thou condemnest thyself for
  thou that judgest doest the same things.

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Who are considered sinners before God?

• 118 32 deliberately, openly wicked men
• 21 self-righteous judges

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Romans Chapter 2

• Rom 26-11
• 6 Who will render to every man according to his
  deeds
• 7 To them who by patient continuance in well
  doing seek for glory and honour and immortality,
  eternal life
• 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not
  obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
  indignation and wrath,
• 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man
  that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of
  the Gentile
• 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man
  that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to
  the Gentile
• 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

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Romans Chapter 2

• Rom 212-16
• 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall
  also perish without law and as many as have
  sinned in the law shall be judged by the law
• 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just
  before God, but the doers of the law shall be
  justified.
• 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law,
  do by nature the things contained in the law,
  these, having not the law, are a law unto
  themselves
• 15 Which shew the work of the law written in
  their hearts, their conscience also bearing
  witness, and their thoughts the mean while
  accusing or else excusing one another)
• 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of
  men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

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Who are considered sinners before God?

• 118 32 deliberately, openly wicked men
• 21 self-righteous judges
• 22 16 law-breakers (based on conscience, not
  physical law)

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Romans Chapter 2

• Rom 217-29
• Condemnation of those who depend on the law to
  give them righteousness.

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Who are considered sinners before God?

• 118 32 deliberately, openly wicked men
• 21 self-righteous judges
• 22 16 law-breakers (based on conscience, not
  physical law)
• 217 29 law-breakers (based on Jewish law)

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Romans Chapter 3

• Rom 31-4
• 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what
  profit is there of circumcision?
• 2 Much every way chiefly, because that unto them
  were committed the oracles of God.
• 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their
  unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
• 4 God forbid yea, let God be true, but every man
  a liar as it is written, That thou mightest be
  justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome
  when thou art judged.

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Romans Chapter 3

• Rom 35-8
• 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the
  righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God
  unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a
  man)
• 6 God forbid for then how shall God judge the
  world?
• 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded
  through my lie unto his glory why yet am I also
  judged as a sinner?
• 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously
  reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us
  do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is
  just.

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Romans Chapter 3

• Romans 39-19
• Further proof that both Jews and Gentiles are
  under the same condemnation of sin.
• Verses 1018 contain 8 OT references in Psalms,
  Ecclesiastes, and Isaiah.

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Romans Chapter 3

• Rom 320-22
• 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall
  no flesh be justified in his sight for by the
  law is the knowledge of sin.
• 21 But now the righteousness of God without the
  law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
  the prophets
• 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by
  faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them
  that believe for there is no difference

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Romans Chapter 3

• Rom 323-26
• 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the
  glory of God
• 24 Being justified freely by his grace through
  the redemption that is in Christ Jesus
• 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
  through faith in his blood, to declare his
  righteousness for the remission of sins that are
  past, through the forbearance of God
• 26 To declare, I say, at this time his
  righteousness that he might be just, and the
  justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

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Memory Verse

• Rom 323
• 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the
  glory of God

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Bible Study Techniques

• Read work in entirety to understand context.
• Outline both logic and emotion.
• Pay attention to sentence structure, punctuation,
  transition word usage, and thought groupings.
• Dont hurry!

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Where are we Headed?

• This sin and guilt that we learned about in
  Chapters 1 3 are removed only when we are
  justified by faith in Jesus Christ which gives us
  access to Gods grace.
• Rom 58
• But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
  while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Key Word Usage
Chapter Law Grace Spirit Faith Sin
1 2 2 6
2 21 1
3 11 1 8 2
4 5 2 10 1
5 3 6 2 6
6 2 3 17
7 23 1 14
8 5 21 4
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Romans Chapter 4

• Summary concepts
• Justification is by faith in Jesus Christ
• This justification is given to us, it is not
  earned
• This justification is available to everyone not
  just Jews

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Romans Chapter 4

• Rom 41
• What shall we say then that Abraham our father,
  as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

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Romans Chapter 4

• Rom 42-5
• 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath
  whereof to glory but not before God.
• 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed
  God, and it was counted unto him for
  righteousness.
• 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not
  reckoned of grace, but of debt.
• 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on
  him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is
  counted for righteousness.

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Romans Chapter 4

• Rom 46-8
• 6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness
  of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness
  without works,
• 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are
  forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
• 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not
  impute sin.

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Romans Chapter 4

• Verses 9 - 12
• The blessing of righteousness came before Abraham
  was circumcised
• Circumcision was a seal, not a work of
  righteousness
• Righteousness can be imputed to those not
  circumcised

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Romans Chapter 4

• Verses 13 22
• Abraham exhibited faith even though
• He was too old to have children
• He was asked to sacrifice Isaac
• Because of that faith, God imputed righteousness
  to him (v 22)

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Romans Chapter 4

• Rom 423-25
• 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone,
  that it was imputed to him
• 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed,
  if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our
  Lord from the dead
• 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was
  raised again for our justification.

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Romans Chapter 3 - 4

• Conclusions of Romans 325 425
• We are justified before God by faith
• This righteousness is given to us, it is not
  earned by works or the law
• It is available to all who will call upon His name

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Romans Chapter 5

• Rom 51-2
• 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have
  peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ
• 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this
  grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of
  the glory of God.

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Romans Chapter 5
Peace
Hope
Faith
Grace
Tribulation
Patience
Experience
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Romans Chapter 5

• Rom 56-11 Conclusions of what Christ did for us
• Died for the ungodly
• Died for the sinner
• Saved us from Gods wrath
• Reconciled us to God
• Saved us

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Memory Verse

• Rom 58
• But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
  while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Romans Chapter 5

• Rom 512-18
• 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the
  world, and death by sin and so death passed upon
  all men, for that all have sinned
• 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment
  came upon all men to condemnation even so by the
  righteousness of one the free gift came upon all
  men unto justification of life.

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Romans Chapter 5

• Rom 513-17
• 13 (For until the law sin was in the world but
  sin is not imputed when there is no law.
• 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses,
  even over them that had not sinned after the
  similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the
  figure of him that was to come.
• 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free
  gift. For if through the offence of one many be
  dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by
  grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath
  abounded unto many.
• 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is
  the gift for the judgment was by one to
  condemnation, but the free gift is of many
  offences unto justification.
• 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by
  one much more they which receive abundance of
  grace and of the gift of righteousness shall
  reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

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Romans Chapter 5

• Rom 520-21
• 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence
  might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did
  much more abound
• 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so
  might grace reign through righteousness unto
  eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Amazing Grace

• Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a
  wretch like me!
• I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but
  now I see.
• Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and
  grace my fears relieved.
• How precious did that grace appear the hour I
  first believed.

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Bible Study Techniques

• Look at word frequency to see the major theme of
  the author.
• Look up Greek words to get a more exact meaning
  of the passage.

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Where are we Headed?

• Transition to holy living
• The constant battle against the sin nature
• The Holy Spirits role in a believers life

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Romans Chapter 6

• Rom 61-2
• 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
  sin, that grace may abound?
• 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin,
  live any longer therein?
• Rom 614-16
• 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you for
  ye are not under the law, but under grace.
• 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not
  under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
• 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves
  servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye
  obey whether of sin unto death, or of obedience
  unto righteousness?

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Romans Chapter 6

• Rom 63-13
• Identifying with Christ
• Rom 617-23
• No longer slaves to sin, but to Christ

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Romans Chapter 6

• Rom 613
• 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments
  of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves
  unto God, as those that are alive from the dead,
  and your members as instruments of righteousness
  unto God.
• Rom 619
• 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the
  infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yielded
  your members servants to uncleanness and to
  iniquity unto iniquity even so now yield your
  members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

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Memory Verse

• Rom 623
• 23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of
  God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
  Lord.

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Romans Chapter 6 Conclusions

• Even though we are under grace, we should not
  continue in sin
• We must consciously offer our bodies to righteous
  living, not sin

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Romans Chapter 7

• Rom 71-4
• 1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them
  that know the law,) how that the law hath
  dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
• 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by
  the law to her husband so long as he liveth but
  if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the
  law of her husband.
• 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be
  married to another man, she shall be called an
  adulteress but if her husband be dead, she is
  free from that law so that she is no adulteress,
  though she be married to another man.
• 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead
  to the law by the body of Christ that ye should
  be married to another, even to him who is raised
  from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit
  unto God.

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Romans Chapter 7

• Rom 75-6
• 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of
  sins, which were by the law, did work in our
  members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that
  being dead wherein we were held that we should
  serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
  oldness of the letter.

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Romans Chapter 7

• Even though we are dead to the law, the law is
  not a bad thing
• 7 the law is not sin
• 12 the law is holy, just, and good
• What does the law do?
• 7 the law defines sin
• 8 the law makes sin come alive
• 10 the law brings death

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Romans Chapter 7

• Sin personified
• 8 w/o law, sin was dead
• 9 the law revived sin
• 11 sin deceived me and slew me

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Romans Chapter 7

• The battle of every Christian
• 15 We dont do what we want to do, but we do
  what we hate to do

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Romans Chapter 7

• Rom 718 (KJV)
• 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)
  dwelleth no good thing for to will is present
  with me but how to perform that which is good I
  find not.
• Rom 718 (NIV)
• 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is,
  in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do
  what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

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Romans Chapter 7 Conclusion

• Rom 721-24
• 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good,
  evil is present with me.
• 22 For I delight in the law of God after the
  inward man
• 23 But I see another law in my members, warring
  against the law of my mind, and bringing me into
  captivity to the law of sin which is in my
  members.
• 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me
  from the body of this death?

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Romans Chapter 7 Conclusion

• Rom 725
• 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So
  then with the mind I myself serve the law of God
  but with the flesh the law of sin.

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Questions?
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Romans Chapter 8

• Its all about the personal relationship between
  God (the trinity) and us.
• The roles
• Our role
• Jesus role
• Father role
• Holy Spirit role
• The result of that relationship

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Romans Chapter 8

• Our role
• (1, 5) Walk not after the flesh, but after the
  spirit
• (2) Realize the freedom we have in Christ Jesus
• (13) Mortify (put to death) the misdeeds of the
  body
• (14) Allow ourselves to be led by the Spirit
• (15) Cry Abba, Father
• (18) Realize that as we suffer as a Christian, it
  is nothing compared to the glorious reward
• (23) Groan as we await our adoption
• (25) Patiently wait with hope
• (28) Know that all things work together for our
  good

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Romans Chapter 8

• Jesus role
• (3, 34) Came in the flesh to condemn sin in the
  flesh
• (34) Makes intercession for us

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Romans Chapter 8

• The Fathers role
• (3) Initiated the plan of salvation by sending
  Jesus (his only son) to live in the flesh
• (29,30) predestinated, called, justified, and
  glorified us
• (32) Freely give us all things
• (33) Justifies us

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Romans Chapter 8

• The Holy Spirits role
• (9) He dwells in us
• (11) He will quicken (give life) to our mortal
  bodies
• (13) He helps us mortify the deeds of the body
• (16) He bears witness that we are the children of
  God
• (26, 27) He groans for us in our weakness
  (intercedes for us)

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Romans Chapter 8

• The result of this relationship to the believer
• (1) No condemnation
• (6) Life and peace
• (16) Called Children of God
• (17) Joint heirs with Christ
• (24) Saved by hope
• (38, 39) Inseparable from Gods love

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Romans Chapter 8

• Rom 838-39
• 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
  life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
  nor things present, nor things to come,
• 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
  shall be able to separate us from the love of
  God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Where are we headed?

• 91 95 Lament over Israel
• 96 929 Gods promises have not failed
• 930 1021 Israels rejection because of
  their unbelief
• 111 1132 Israels rejection is temporary
• 1133 1136 Closing doxology

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Romans Chapter 9

• 1 5 Lament over Israel
• Pauls passion for the saving of his people

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Romans Chapter 9

• 6 13
• God has always been choosing people
• These examples show the doctrine of election
• Its all about God who calls, not of mans
  national identity

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Romans Chapter 9

• 14 - 23
• Gods choosing is divine mercy at work.

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Romans Chapter 9

• 24 - 29
• The Old Testament verifies that this day would
  come when God would chose Gentiles.

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Romans Chapter 9 Conclusion

• 30 33
• God has chosen to declare righteousness to come
  by faith, not by the law
• Gentiles (as well as Jews) are now being chosen
  to be called righteous because of their faith
• Some Jews are not being chosen to be called
  righteous because of their lack of faith

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Romans Chapter 10

• 1 4
• Israel has a zeal for righteousness after the law
  but are not submitting to the righteousness of
  God through faith in Christ

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Romans Chapter 10

• 5 13
• Faith is the only way to have a right
  relationship with God, and it includes both the
  mouth and the heart both confession and belief.

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Memory Verse

• Rom 109
• 9 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
  Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
  hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
  saved.

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Romans Chapter 10

• 14 21
• Sovereignty and responsibility are interdependent.

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Romans Chapter 11

• 1 6
• God has not rejected His people Israel, but has
  chosen from them a remnant
• 11 32
• The stumbling of Israel has resulted in salvation
  to the Gentiles
• But Gentiles must remain faithful or they will be
  broken off from God like a branch
• Some day the nation of Israel will return to God
• All men have been guilty of disobedience so that
  God might have mercy on all

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Romans Chapter 11

• Rom 1133-36
• 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom
  and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his
  judgments, and his ways past finding out!
• 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or
  who hath been his counsellor?
• 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall
  be recompensed unto him again?
• 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are
  all things to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

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Romans Chapter 11

• 33 36
• God is deep in wisdom and knowledge
• Gods ways are far beyond our comprehension
• None of us are wise enough to be His counselor
• None of us have ever given anything to God that
  deserves repayment
• Its all about Him, not us
• Glory belongs to Him forever

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Parable of the Gift
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Memory Verse

• Rom 121-2
• 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
  which is your reasonable service.
• 2 And be not conformed to this world but be ye
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
  may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
  perfect, will of God.

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Romans 12

• Rom 121-2
• The passion
• The living sacrifice
• The focus
• The reasonableness
• The transformation
• The will of God

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Romans 12

• Rom 123
• 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to
  every man that is among you, not to think of
  himself more highly than he ought to think but
  to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to
  every man the measure of faith.
• Rom 126
• 6 Having then gifts differing according to the
  grace that is given to us,

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Romans 12

• Verses 4 8
• The body of Christ
• We dont all have the same function
• Prophesying
• Ministering (serving)
• Teaching
• Exhorting (encouraging)
• Giving (contributing to needs of others)
• Ruling (leadership)
• Showing mercy

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Romans 12

• Verses 9 21
• Thought processes
• How to love
• What to hate
• Responding to hope
• How to pray
• Relationships with others
• The Saints
• Our enemies
• People of low estate (low position)
• Responses to situations
• When others rejoice or weep
• When we are persecuted

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Romans 13

• Verses 1 7
• Response to governing authorities
• Verses 8 10
• Love thy neighbor as thyself
• Verses 11 14
• Put on the Lord Jesus Christ

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Romans 14

• Getting along with other believers with different
  views
• For disputable matters, accept each other without
  judging or condemning
• Both are servants of Christ
• Every one of us will give a personal account of
  himself to God
• Instead of judging, determine not to put a
  stumbling block in your brothers way
• An activity (like eating meat) may be sin to one
  and not to another
• Follow after peace and edification

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Romans 15

• The final encouragement
• Christ as the example
• Glorify God and Jesus Christ
• Abound in hope
• Full of goodness and knowledge

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Romans 16

• Phoebe is to be commended
• Others were
• A succourer
• Helpers
• Dear friends
• Relatives
• Laborers
• Chosen

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Conclusion

• Rom 1625-27
• 25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you
  according to my gospel, and the preaching of
  Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
  mystery, which was kept secret since the world
  began,
• 26 But now is made manifest, and by the
  scriptures of the prophets, according to the
  commandment of the everlasting God, made known to
  all nations for the obedience of faith
• 27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus
  Christ for ever. Amen.

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Romans Road Memory Verses

• Romans 323
• Romans 58
• Romans 623
• Romans 109
• Romans 121-2

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Concluding remarks

• Study is a lifelong goal
• Cross-reference scripture to find corroborating
  evidence to difficult doctrines
• Stick with the Word itself

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Did we meet our objectives?

• Gain an appreciation for Romans
• Apply the principles to our lives
• Understand / be able to explain the basic
  concepts
• Learn (or reinforce) techniques for studying the
  Word
• Memorize Romans Road references