Sermon Tone Analysis

Faith

Spiritual Gifts

ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν

Paul’s Desire to Visit

In this case the word faith signifies the true piety and genuine devotion of the Roman Christians.

Paul’s Obligation

Genuine faith is always accompanied by genuine devotion.

Genuine devotion is visible, as this text makes clear by inference.

We can see true devotion which means we can see true faith.

How many Christians are looking for true faith in others versus just taking their outward profession at face value?

What problems can this create in the the church?

lays the foundation for the new process for purging the community.

gives an example of what NT stoning looks like.

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This is the trust and confidence we place in God.

But the capacity for such trust and confidence does not naturally reside in the fallen sinner.

The Gospel

What is the content of the gospel?

God’s absolute right.

Man’s rebellion.

God’s justice.

Man’s hopelessness.

God’s grace.

Christ’s substitution.

Man is saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone for the glory of God alone, according to Scripture alone.

Note that Paul said he was eager (v.15) to preach the gospel.

Christians ought to be eager to share the truth with each other, to witness to the saving grace of God in the gospel.

It is the expression of God’s power

Ashamed: ἐπαισχύνομαι.

to experience or feel shame or disgrace because of some particular event or activity.

to experience or feel shame or disgrace because of some particular event or activity

εὐαγγέλιον: the gospel is good news but why is it good news?

How is the gospel the expression of God’s power for salvation?

Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 309

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Turn to : It was by God’s own wisdom that the world would not come to him through its own wisdom.

Instead it would be through the foolishness of preaching.

Why does God choose to save the world through the foolishness of preaching?

So that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

So that our faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

Why is Paul not ashamed of the gospel?

It results in salvation

παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι

δύναμις: the potentiality to exert force in performing some function.

σωτηρία: To rescue from danger and to restore to a former state of safety and well being.

The power of God to save is contained in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Jews and non-Jews.

To everyone who believes

παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι

Who are the believing ones

Jews and non-Jews.

Why do some men believe and others do not?

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A frustrated deity is impossible.

What Paul is saying here, then, is that the gospel is God’s effective power active in the world of men to bring about deliverance from His wrath in the final judgment and reinstatement in that glory of God which was lost through sin - that is, an eschatological salvation which reflects its slendour back into the present of those who are to share in it.

It is the revelation of God’s righteousness

How does the gospel reveal God’s righteousness?

In the gospel we see the wrath of God poured out on Christ who stood in the place of sinners, bearing upon himself our judgment.

In this we see God’s righteousness.

But we also see God’s grace, mercy, and compassion in that it is through faith in that finished work that man is rescued from divine wrath.

ἀποκαλύπτω: to cause something to be fully known, to disclose, bring to light, make fully known.

Entirely by faith

Eph

The righteousness of God is made clear, or a righteous status is being revealed which is altogether by faith.

The starting point of righteousness is faith and the extent and end of righteousness is faith.

The phrase highlights the centrality of faith in the letter to the Romans.

Affirmed by God’s Word

The phrase, the just shall live by faith should be understood to mean that a man LIVES and does not die, only by faith.

By his faith, the just man lives, is made alive.

And the faith that we call “his” faith is only his because it has been given to him by God.

There is no other way for him to come into the kind of faith that renders the dead man alive.