Unstoppable Love

CHAPTER 1

SIN: JEWS and GENTILES

CHAPTER 2

- Hears vs doers

- Jews sin through the law//Gentiles without it

CHAPTER 3

-Law = Works will not save you

20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for bthrough the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

23 for all ahave sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

CHAPTER 4

-Abraham = Justified through faith

4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

-No faith=no promise

14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified;

15 for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.

16 For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise [?] will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to cthose who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

-What is faith?

19 Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness (Inibility) of Sarah’s womb;

20 yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,

21 and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

22 Therefore it was also credited to him as righteousness.

-The cost paid (you could not have done it alone):

25 He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

CHAPTER 5

-The assurance made:

10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved bby His life.

11 And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

20 aThe Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

21 so that, as sin reigned in death [in our fleshly inabilities], even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

CHAPTER 6

-A New life:

4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

-We died with Him, without even dying.

6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

7 for he who has died is freed from sin.

11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,[1]

14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

CHAPTER 7

-No allegiance to the law.

13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

-There is no hope within ourselves:

23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from athe body of this death?

CHAPTER 8

-You can’t condemn a dead man.

8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

3 For what the Law could not do, bweak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

WHERE IS OUR PUNISHEMENT?

-It’s on the cross:

i. The abandonment

ii. Scourging

iii. The beatings

iv. The Crown of thorns

v. The mocking

vi. The Cross

1. The humiliation

2. Nails through the hands

3. Shocking pain

4. Asphyxiation

5. Insults

6. Trying to breath

7. Death (separation from God)

WHAT A LOVE

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? (is there anything more that he could give).

33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was craised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. (The judge has found you without fault)

35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 Just as it is written,

“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;

We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” (He became a sheep to the slaughter)

37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[1] New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .