Romans

Romans

  1. Sin (Chapters 1-3)
    • Sin and the Gentile (1)
    • Sin and the Jew (2)
    • Sin and God (3)
  2. Salvation (Chapters 4-11)
    • Without works (4)
    • Through Christ (5)
    • From Sin (6)
    • For the Conscience (7)
    • For Freedom (8)
    • By God's Sovereignty (9-11)
  3. Sanctification (Chapters 12-15)
    • Personal (12)
    • Social (13-15)
  4. Salute (Chapter 16)

Don D. Callaway

"How to Know the Will of God"

Romans 1:9f; 8:26f; 12:1f; 15:25f

  1. Through the Providence of surroundings Rom 1:9-13
  2. Through the Promptings of the Holy Spirit Romans 8:26-28, 31
    • The Spirit helps in our weaknesses vs. 26
    • The Spirit leads in our not knowing what to do!
    • God knows the mind of the Holy Spirit vs. 27
    • All works for good in God's purpose! vs. 28, 31
  3. Through the Presentation of ourselves Romans 12:1-3
    • To "prove" God's good and acceptable Will one must be totally surrendered to God!
    • God gives each a measure of faith in His will vs. 3
  4. Through the Prayers of the Saints Romans 15:25-33
    • Delivering from evil vs. 31a
    • Service that is acceptable vs. 31b
    • Journeying with joy vs. 32a

This brings peace with God vs. 33

Wayne Steury

The Atonement

Rom. 3:21-26

  1. Exordium
    1. Introduction.
      1. Grace is the manifestation of righteousness apart from the Law.
      2. This seen from these facts:
        1. Universality of sin, the pardon of which shall not be done by the Law, vs. 20.
        2. Thus salvation--God's righteousness--is apart from the Law, for the Law cannot save.
        3. It is received by faith.
      3. To save sinners God also obliged to preserve integrity of the Law, yet do so above the Law. He is just as well as the justifier.
    2. Proposition: The Atonement.
  2. Body. The Atonement is:
    1. Propitious act.
      1. The problem. Human sin brought estrangement on divine side. Problem to expiate guilt of sinner and propitiate wrath of God.
      2. Meaning of propitiation, hilastrerion.
        1. Refers to the Mercy Seat.
        2. Two things we note:
          1. Made in the presence of God.
          2. The sprinkling of blood makes possible mercy and approach to God.
          3. Above the blood is the Shekinah; below, mercy is extended over the broken Law.
      3. Jesus' coming to earth and dying for men set forth the propitiation, means of removing estrangement and rendering God clement and forgiving. Mercy and favor.
    2. Declaration of God's righteousness.
      1. Justice of god prohibited pardon. Conflict between mercy and justice. Reasons:
        1. Leave sin unanswered.
        2. Make sinner a greater sinner.
      2. Reason why atonement both pardons and declares justice:
        1. Death of Jesus answers sin and broken Law.
        2. It delivers sinner from sin and makes a saint out of him.
    3. Covering for human sin.
      1. Literal meaning of atonement; used regarding Ark (Noah).
      2. Jesus' death covers sin and broken Law, as typified by the Mercy Seat. By providing for pardon and personal holiness. Made actual.
  • Conclusion
    1. Aeschylus and his brother.
    2. "Five bleeding wounds He bears, Received on Calvary; They pour effectual prayers, They strongly plead for me. 'Forgive him, oh, forgive,' they cry, 'Nor let the ransomed sinner die!'"

    J. Prescott Johnson

    Romans 5:1-5

    Possessions of those Justified by faith

    1. We have peace
      1. Peace is the absence of guilt
      2. Peace is the awareness that I please Him
      3. Peace is the assurance of unconditional love
    2. We have grace
      1. Grace is the enabling of God
      2. Grace is sufficient.... He is the God of ALL grace
    3. We have hope
      1. He is returning for us
      2. He has prepared a place for us
    4. We have tribulation (We glory in Tribulation)
      1. Was Paul a sadist?
      2. Was Paul stupid?
      3. Paul KNEW that God was shaping us into what He wants us to be.

    William Snider

    "Reigning in Life"

    Rom 5:8-21 (17)

    1. Receiving
      • Use of lambano - (active) - to apprehend, to grasp, to take hold of
      • Implication that some have not received
    2. That which is received
      • Abundance of Grace
      • Righteousness of Life
    3. Reigning in Life
      (Four Sovereigns)
      • vs. 14 Death Reigns
      • vs. 21 Sin Reigns
      • vs. 17 Grace Reigns
      • vs. 17,21 We Can Reign

    Douglas Crossman

    ENSLAVED BY DEBT

    ROM.8 1-13
    1. THE PENALTY (DEATH)
    2. THE PRICE (BLOOD)
    3. THE PROVISION (CHRIST)
    • CONCLUSION
  • YOUR DEBT PAID
  • YOUR OLD ACCOUNT SETTLED
  • WHY NOT ACCEPT GODS DIVINE PLAN TODAY?

    • Samuel M. Pruitt

    The Meaning of the Atonement

    Rom. 8:3-4 11-30-47
    1. Exordium
      1. Introduction.
        1. The modernistic tendency to posit the ideas of the Christian faith, yet reject their basis: the historic atonement.
        2. The tendency to regard the atonement as being but an ethical and moral display on the part of Jesus. This is not its substantial nature or final explanation.
        3. Etymological meaning of atonement: kaphar to cover. Used in Gen. 6:14, to pitch.
      2. Proposition: The Meaning of the Atonement.
    2. Body
      1. The Atonement as historic
        1. Necessity of the atonement, the inadequacy of the Law.
          1. Purpose of the Law: a child conductor (Gal. 3:24).
          2. Inadequate at the point of the flesh. The depravity of
          nature made it impossible to realize its demands.
        2. Nature of the atonement.
          1. Propitiation.
            1. Render God clement and forgiving (morally, not dispositionally).
            2. Christ is hilasmos. At once the propitiation and the virtue of that propitiation (1 John 2:2).
            3. Christ is the hilasterion or mercy-seat, as the word is used in the Septuagint (Rom. 3:25).
          2. Reconciliation (katallasso).
            1. Denotes a change from a state of enmity to one of reconciliation and friendship (Col. 1:20-22).
            2. Reconciliation means more than merely laying aside our enmity to God. the relation is a judicial one, and it is this judicial variance between God and man that is referred to in the idea of reconciliation.
            3. Moreover the reconciliation is effected not by the laying aside of our enmity but by the non-imputation of our trespasses to us (2 Cor. 5:18-19).
          3. Redemption.
            1. From the word lutroo, which means literally to buy back. Used to signify the act of setting a captive free through payment of a lutron, or redemptive price.
            2. The scriptural meaning is that of a deliverance from every kind of evil through a price paid by another (1 Peter 1:18).
        3. The death of Christ is the redemptive price. The idea of substitution is evident. He is a substitute for penalty, not a substituted penalty (2 Cor. 5:21).
        4. Now the man-ward phase of the atonement, reconciliation and redemption, must become subjective experience. The atonement is thus God's method of becoming immanent in a sinful race.
      2. The atonement as experiential.
        1. The pre-existent Logos is the ground of unity between Christ and the race, and therefore a fundamental factor in the atonement.
          1. Relation to the Father (John 1:1-3).
          2. Relation to the cosmos and race (Col. 1:15-20).
            1. Mankind as a race depends upon him.
              1. For its origin (through the creative word).
              2. For its continued existence.
              3. For its goal or purpose (made for him).
              4. For its completion or perfection (might have the preeminence).
            2. These relations, grounding the metaphysical immanency of God, deep and wide enough to enable the Logos (thus consubstantial with us) to become our representative and bear the penalty due to the sin of the race.
          3. Lapse of ethical immanency because of sin. God is not immanent in man's sin or guilt-consciousness.
        2. The incarnate Christ - procuring cause of redemption.
          1. Nature of the incarnation.
            1. The problem of human nature, i.e., an essence, universal entity. We are born out of human nature. Jesus Christ was born into human nature. Theanthropic.
            2. Through the incarnation his pre-existent relations to the race attain new and higher significance.
              1. As Logos he is the creator of all things, as incarnate Christ he creates men anew.
              2. As he gave existence to the race, now he gives it life.
            3. The incarnation initiates the vital principle of the vital principle of the atonement, the restoration, the implication of the Spirit of life and holiness for and in the race.
        3. The restoration of the Spirit (efficient cause of redemption). As depravity is a consequence of the deprivation of the Spirit, so the bestowal of the Spirit restores man's inner spiritual relation with God. This is shown in:
          1. The re-establishment of the moral ideal.
            1. Fallen man perceives and craves for the moral ideal. It transcends him, beyond his experience at every point.
            2. The incarnation is the supreme embodiment of the moral ideal in human form. The death on the Cross was the overcoming of the principle of sin and death in the race and the establishing of the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Thus the divine immanence through the incarnation becomes a new life-force operating in an ethical and spiritual manner for the redemption of humanity.
          2. The reconciliation of the individual believer with God through sanctification (Heb. 2:11).
            1. Pentecost is the necessary sequel to Calvary. The atonement made objectively by Christ is applied subjectively by the Spirit. The historic act issued in personal experience.
            2. The atonement becomes a reconciliation within as well as without. By his incarnation and death on the Cross, Christ became one with sinners; in justification and sanctification, he becomes legally and vitally one with every individual believer. Thus through redeemed individuals Christ builds up a new race after the pattern of his own resurrection.
    3. Conclusion
      1. Thus the subjective and experiential significance of the objective and historic atonement.
      2. As evidence of the significance of the historic act of atonement, legends gathered around Golgotha, the place of the skull. Here Adam created and buried. Here the center of the world and earth's highest point. Here the entrance to the underworld, and the confluence of the hidden streams that feed Jerusalem's flowing spring. But the Christian instinct for the significance of the Cross rises to a sublimer thought in the inscription of the niche of Adam's chapel at the foot of the hill: topos kraniou paradeisos gegonon (Golgotha has become paradise).

        J. Prescott Johnson

        The Perfect and Permissive Will of God

        Romans 12:1

        Understanding the Fundamentals of God's will

        1. GOD HAS A PERFECT WILL FOR US
          • It is revealed in the Word
          • It is revealed in prayer
          • It is revealed by the Spirit
          • We should seek, find and do it
          But what if I miss God's perfect will for my life?
        2. SOMETIMES THAT PERFECT WILL IS SUBSTITUTED WITH HIS PERMISSIVE WILL
          Illustrations: Israel as a Monarchy, Hezekiah, Deborah
          • Because of Carnality - Israel
          • Because of Infirmity of Understanding - Hezekiah
          • Because of Circumstances - Deborah, Jacob and Leah
        3. GOD CAN STILL WORK OUT HIS PLAN IN HIS PERMISSIVE WILL BUT WITH GREATER HEARTACHE TO US AND DIMINISHED BLESSINGS
          • Sometimes changes have to be made first
            • Achan and Ai
            • Abraham and Hagar
          • Sometimes God works with what we give Him
            • The monarchy of Israel
            • Moses the murderer

          DDCallaway

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