Romans: Session 2

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Okay. All right. Well, it is good to see everyone this morning. Praise the Lord for this new day that the Lord has given us, what a privilege to be alive and well, so, I want to welcome. Welcome. Welcome you. All right. This is going to be the thing that's going to be the characters, the signature welcome in our class. So, so you're too. And it's all because of Tom beginning Prayer by the right? Thank you so much for the privilege that we have, is your people to come. I just study your word. Are the what of an amazing opportunity that we had that you would speak to us through your Holy Spirit? We know that your holy spirit is our teacher. This morning. We pray that you would guide the words and the thoughts. And the attitudes and the focus this morning to be on the Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Jesus name. Amen. So regard to the gospel. I want to just show this slide against, I think it really sums up. What we were talking about with regard to the gospel. Now, we're this whole the whole theme of the book of Romans at the is the rightness of God reveal. And of course, we as we mentioned last week, great men that we respect like Martin Luther particularly a man who desired to know how to be right with God. And he tried through through the human means to become right with God and it wasn't until he came to the gospel, understood it. That he understood how to become right with God, the righteousness of God revealed. How is it revealed? And we're going to see. We're going to unpack this in in this book, but we see God's judging righteousness because God is a just got. He must judge said, he ain't nothing winked at sin. He doesn't just say, oh, that's okay. He must judge sin. But God is also a loving compassionate, long-suffering and merciful. God. So God saving righteousness and God's judging righteousness, come together at the cross. That's what we're going to unpack. So let's go to every teacher, does this write reviews. We'll see how the review can be an encouraging or discourage anything, right? If if, if you didn't come through and nobody knows the answers. Well, then you just give up and go home. No, not really simple. He's a real Because I want to get through this introduction quickly. Alright, so Who wrote Romans all good? And where was it written?

All right, that's right. And there were several references to people who lived in Corinth with Paul. So, how did the Roman Church begin?

Not sure yet. If you said unknown, you would be correct. If we don't know exactly. There are some theories that possibly those who were saved at Pentecost, went back to Rome. There's a reference to Aquila and Priscilla who were in Rome for a. Of time and their house churches that are there, but we don't know for sure. So what are the theme versus? And by the way, we will get to these next week for Blake's theme of the book of Romans. Dry cleaners. If you said, if you would thinking, it's correct. Romans, 1, 16 and 17, correct? Okay, so I'm Excited that you sort of know those things last week. We started with the introduction again, but we are going to pick up where we left off, and it was this heading of salutation that that we have to remember this salutation. If you look at the Apostle Paul's Epistles, this is the longest opening the longest salutation of any of his Epistles. Some very good reason for that. And in fact, it's hard for me to get out of this salutation because there's so much in this, I'm going to try to get through this, but just to reiterate where we're going. I'm going to read for you, verses 1 through 15 because I believe that this is how we're going to. This is where we're going to go today, through all 15 verses. That's okay. All right, let's let's this read these out loud Vale servant of Jesus Christ. Jesus called to be an apostle set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised before hand through His prophets in the Holy scriptures, concerning his son, who is descended from David, according to the Flash and was declared to be the Son of God and power. According to the spirit of God by his resurrection, from the dead. I see fear of Holiness. I'll buy the resurrection from the dead. Jesus Christ, Our Lord through whom we have received Grace and apostles ship to bring about The Obedience of update for the sake of his name among all the nations. According according you, including you who are called to be long. The Jesus Christ is the really long sentence, but the Apostle Paul is known for having good long, run on sentences and verse 7, to all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be Saints, grace to you and peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ or safe. First. I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God, is my witness. Whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son. That without ceasing I mention, you always, in my prayers asking that somehow by God's will, I'm a No, I now at least At Last I should say succeed in coming to you while I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you that it is that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's Faith, both yours and mine. I want you to know brothers that I have often intended to come to you. But thus far have been prevented in order that I might wreak some Harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. I am under obligation both to Greeks. Send two barbarians boat to the wise and to the fullest. So, I am eager to preach the gospel to you. Also, who are in Rome? Once I get my mouth moves faster than my brain, so all right. So we're in this part of the salutation. Verses 1 through 7 week, finished burst one last week, but just as a way of review, we see Paul calls himself. What a servant and Apostle we talked about the fact that the word servant is the Purdue lost you lost is related to bond servant back in the book of Exodus, where it has a servant would want to stay with this master after. He has fulfilled his obligations. He wants to stay with his master. He loves his master. The master would put a hole in his ear, and he would be his slave forever or servant. We also realize that he calls himself an apostle, and that Apostle is one who was sent forth with orders as we see here, but we believe, even though technically this word, it can be used today cuz we are sent forth by God and orders in order that we might proclaim the gospel. No bacon. In this instance. We believe this was a an office or a spiritual gift that was given in the first century. Those two had seen the Risen Christ would qualify to be an apostle. We don't have apostles today. Okay, and we saw that he was set apart. We said this was a great word and then to mark off from others by boundaries. We talked about the purpose with the word. Or for what the gospel, which was the good news, could tighten. So Paul sees himself. As a bond servant of Christ, an apostle of Christ, that was called, for the purpose of proclaiming, the Gospel of God. That was how he sees himself. This gospel was designed by God and comes from God, is not a man thing right now, when we come in two versus two and three, we see this, Jesus fulfilled, the Old Testament prophecy as what the Schumann descendant of David. The piece is extremely important. I don't want us to miss this. I don't want to pass over this quickly because it is what we will unpack. As we go through. The book of Romans is incredible that we understand that Jesus was the human descendant of David. Why? Why is that important? That's that David will not have to be lacking a person on the throne forever and ever. The humanity of Christ is as important as the deity of Christ and we're going to look at that in detail here in a second. So we see Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament prophecy as the human descendant of David. Okay. So this human to send it was promised beforehand. It was announced beforehand. That's what it says here. This is a really good word that talks about. How was this announcement made? How was it need redo? It's no question. There was nothing that we had to wonder at, right? It was made through the prophets in the Holy scriptures. Now again, you have to bear with me. If I use try to use some of the Greek and some of the grammar, there's a purpose for it's not just to show you that I know very little about Greek, you know, it is important because the spirit of God wrote the scriptures with grammar. All right, so words are important. So as I look at these things, I want you to understand this word not. When we talk about these words. True the prophets true. The prophet in the Holy Scripture. Both prepositional phrases, the prepositions for them are very important. The word screw in a position of means. How did God speak to us about his son? It was through the prophets. And where do we hear the prophets? The next preposition in is the preposition of location in what the scriptures. So we learn about Jesus, that is sending a David. It was given to us through by means of The prophets and they spoke and it was written in the scriptures. So we over and over Proclaim to you that the word of God is the very word of God. When we say that, the word of God is the word of God. That's exactly what we mean. It is the very words of God this scripture. This Bible is as much as the word of God as if God was standing here, speaking to us right when God spoke to the prophets and they wrote it down, it is that word of God that we have we are privileged to have it. Let us not take for granted. That's not taken lightly that we read the scriptures and in the scriptures are the very words of God. In the scriptures. We find out that. Spoke to the prophets and it was concerning his son according. To the flesh. Now. What was this? What does that mean that he was, what David descendant, David's the send it and where we read that we read that over in 1st and 2nd Samuel chapter 7 verses 12 through 16 and says this when your day just as God speaking to David true Sam, when your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your followers. I will raise up your Offspring after you, who she'll come for from your body. And I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the Throne of his kingdom forever. There's an aspect that we all know, that Solomon came from David and that Solomon built the house but Solomon wasn't forever, right? So there is a there was an already not yet aspect to this prophecy as we'll see. And I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son when the, when the, when he commits iniquity. I will discipline him with the rod of men with the stripes of the sons of men. But my steadfast love will not depart from him as I look at. I took it from. So who am I put away from before you and your house and your kingdom shall be made? Sure forever. Before me. Your throne shall be established forever. Yes. It is to me. So amazing because you have two parents that are Mary and Joseph. Yes, both of which are descendants of David. And when you look at this, Joseph is not his father because of Mary through Nathan and the amazing help even that he will be his father is accomplished here, too.

Do Joseph because Joseph was a direct descendant of Solomon for world go with him. Only God and totally man. Yes. And in fact, this is This is the importance of the section. We've got to get this. Okay, let us understand that. The gospel could not be good news if Christ was not human. You understand that yet?

And he said, when he commits iniquity, I will chastise him. Right? That's why I said it was an already, not yet part of this. So Solomon was the direct profillment of that but when he gets to burst 16, it says in your house in your kingdom shall be sure forever. Before me. He's talking about Jesus Christ. Yes. Yes. Yes. So important that, we understand that in many times the prophets would talk about things that were going to happen, right? Then and there and yet there was a future fulfillment of the same thing. All right. Okay, so let's let's move on. Let's talk in the let's talk about in in in verse three again. Let's say according up concerning the son who was descended from did cording to the flesh. So the word according to another witch in reference to the flash. The Flesh of man. Jesus was a descendant of David. It wasn't just a spiritual descended. He was a physical descendant of David. It as we said before, the gospel could not be good news. If Christ was not human, but so often I've been in circles that people are to talk about the humanity of Christ. But somehow they feel that if they reference the humanity of Christ that they're leaving out the DD price, but we reference. We know that Christ is God, man. He was all God and He was all, man. That's why if we can't figure that out, right? How can somebody be a hundred percent gone man, that doesn't add up correctly, but that's fine because he's God. Yes to Nature's. Jesus is one person with two Natures the nature of God, and the nature of man. And he's brought out so beautifully here. And I want you to look at this next person. Okay, peachers have this idea that as we teach, there's this one thing we want people to go away with if you hear. Nothing else. Is this one thing when people to go away with? And that's this next verse verse, for see that Jesus declared to be the Sun, how, by the resurrection? By resurrection power. Let's try to get this into our minds. Verse board and was declared to be the Son of God in power. According to the spirit of Holiness, by his resurrection, from the dead. Jesus Christ. Our Lord. It's an incredibly important verse. Bruce Lee? See that he was declared, which really meant that he was clearly. Displayed show to be who he was. How what was he? What is it? What was he declared to be? What does it say declared to be the what? The son of God.

That when you see that phrase, what comes to mind?

I think it's good speaking and saying this is my beloved Son in whom I am. Well pleased, sure. So there is God the Father declaring Jesus to be his beloved Son. Both at the baptism and at the Transfiguration night. And so Jesus was the son of God, which means that he was what Totally God, totally. But God the father is declaring Jesus to be the Son of God when he was in the what? The Flash. So there's an aspect of both what definity and Flash but I called it Messiah. These are its is an important phrase, Son of God. Son of God in his divinity. All eternity. Jesus has been the son of God. But during his period of humanity, his power and its fullest degree was as it were, what? Hidden from you, who see that in Flippy and Stu Wright. Where Jesus was not robbery to be equal with God because he was God but made himself of no reputation, which is the word kenosis. He he bailed he emptied himself. How did he emptied himself? Let's get this. Did he emptied himself of his divinity? No. Do Jesus, remain God? Even in his flesh. What was it? That he emptied himself up?

What was it? Okay, if you didn't sell of his Glory as it were the use of his divine power. They became hidden for a. Of time. They never cease to exist. They became bailed for a. Of time. Yes. Yes. By means of his glorious Resurrection. He was declared to be God. Lewis. Also, let's look at this word, Son of God, and reference to Messiah, the word, Son of God to the Hebrew. It was a Hebrew title for messiah. I think about this. When Jesus rose from the grave, he was declared characterized to be the Son of God. So we saw him. Once again. Vale was remove the glory of the Divine, Son of God was revealed. Let's not miss this aspect of the messiahship. Why was it important that Jesus be the Messiah? What did what was it? What was involved in? That would be great to see Jesus as the Son of God. We believe he was God always was. Always will be. But this unexpected Messiah. Jesus would he emptied himself? Wasn't that he lost something? He gained something. What was that? He gained humanity and why was that important?

As a mediator, he was then. Empathetic with both sides because he was, he was part for a totally both sides and the mediator, for example, in a labor dispute. They pick somebody who is not for either side, but is a part of either side to mediate and then exactly what he is.

Yes. The Messiah. I could die. In order to do, I redeem his people. Reconcile them between God and man, bring together the the breach. The chasm that existed between God and man, Jesus, as the Messiah, brought his people to God, how true his Humanity through his death on the cross, through the shedding of his blood. Screw his Redemption. 8 pesos.

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so, He began as it were also at this point when he rose from the dead. And he was declared to be the Son of God which displayed the glory of his divinity. Displayed the reality of him being the Messiah, splayed, the reality of him being the king. Over his people. He was declared to be the Son of God. Jesus, at this point, would be had a kingdom in which, to rule in, that kingdom was his people, in which he Redeemed. So this is so important. He was declared. He was declared to be both God. And man. He was declared to be the Son of God from o. L u s declare to be the Messiah. The Lord, the master over his people. His blood was shed. It was important that he be that perfect Human Sacrifice. How did this come about 12 bucks towards the word power. I love this word do Namaz. We give the word Dynamite. It is an inherent power at the power. That's a part of something. We had Dynamite. It doesn't need anything but itself, right explodes got to be very careful with it. Right? But if I take my cell phone, my cell phone has some power. And if it, where did it get its power from a charger, you know, if the Southern Heritage within my cell phone, right? This is important that we understand. This power is God's power. God has this power as a part of him being God. Anyways, according to this power, but it was according to and it's a very interesting phrase, the word again, here is a prepositional phrase. The word is a preposition of reference Footwear cursing something. What is it referencing? According to what? The spirit of Holiness. What is the spirit of holiness? Okay.

It's not the future holding us the Holy Spirit, you know, think about this when Jesus was here on the earth. He was as I said, never never declined in deity. He was fully God, but this deity, this Glory of that he had was bail for a. Of time. What would it say about Jesus that we read in reference to the Holy Spirit?

Ship between Jesus. And the Holy Spirit.

We see this. Remember in and Luke chapter 4. A Jesus, what full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan? It was led by the spirit in the wilderness. So, there was this, this. This power that brought Christ back from the dead that tower that declared in to be the Son of God. And it was, according to the referenced that power was to the Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit that brought Christ back from the dead, and there's an aspect but we realize that Christ raised from the dead because he was God and the father raised him, but in reference to the spirit and what Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the intimacy that they had and his Humanity, it was right that Paul would say that he was declared to be the son of God. Power. According to the Holy Spirit. Let's get this verse clearly in our heads. Jesus Christ is both God and man. It without him being God and man, they would be no gospel. We would be hopeless right week. Nothing that we would hold to the Christ. Jesus was declared to be the Son of God being the descendant of David in his Flash. Yes by the revolves around the resurrection. Why do we hold? To the resurrection. So tightly. Because without the resurrection, we have nothing. Why do we celebrate Easter? We had nothing without the resurrection. What you've got here is all three of the Trinity involved in the resurrection. Yes. Absolutely. Okay, let's move on. All right, so I have 15 minutes left. Alright, so what was Paul's mission in life, he let all that being said, Paul the mission in life was to bring about obedience to Faith. At what is this obedient sulfate? It's a Beauty Institute day. It is not just conversion butt transformation, Converse Converse

A group years ago that had us go out and canvas places. Preach the gospel.

But what I wanted us to bring home was a list of conversions. And they would celebrate those list of conversions. But we had no idea at all. If whether those conversions were really true. They were really transformation. You know what Paul talks about The Obedience of Faith. He's not just talking about a person. Says, they believe God, they believe the gospel talking about people who obey their salvation with transformation regeneration being made new. So, Paul is all about to bring about the obedient. So, faith for the for what reason, for the sake of his name, know whose name. What are the problems that I have with this kind of?

Celebration, was that it put a lot of emphasis on the person. Their ability to preach the gospel right now. Look at all these people that we're safe, but the reality is the gospel to bring people to Faith for the steak. And the glory and the reputation of Jesus, make sure they live as Christians and teach it, right. We're not called. 2. Make. Converse recalled to make what profession of Faith you worked as begins, right? We're called upon the disciple that and then when we disciple them, according to Matthew chapter 28, is that we teach them everything that Jesus commanded. That's our job.

Okay. So we see that Paul's inclusion of the Roman. So he's saying all this took place and you guys are included it in versus 6 and 7, he calls them to call. This is a again, a great word. It's an adjectives. It seems to call want the same one. He used back in and burst one plates cost is used three times here, and it describes the people. Those who have been selected, divinely appointed, and they and what, to belong to Jesus Christ. So, when we look at that, we've been called to belong to Jesus Christ. A Believer, a cold one is not a self-made man or woman, right? It's not one of those people that takes pride in what they are, who they are. They made them with her. They see themselves.

As belonging and being owned by Jesus Christ, Jesus owns the called. Every one of us here, this morning, going to call by God. We are owned by Jesus Christ. We have been bought with a price. We are not our own. Yes, sir. Yes, absolutely. When he talks about those in Rome, he talks about those who are loved by God. And he says that they are loved. And by the word, by the way, this word love is the word. I got pay means the self-sacrificing. Romans 5:8 type of love. Are loved by God and they are called again. There's the word call to be Saint. So who are Saints is a great word. It needs set. Apart eyeglasses. The Greek word set apart, sacred consecrated to God. We have been set apart. We call ourselves. When we say that we are the church called out. Once called out from the world. We've been caught up set apart. We are special people. Yeah, we've been scattered abroad into the world, but we are full. News is we've been set apart from the Beast, a cord and consecrated to God, it goes back to the Old Testament where the instruments in the Tabernacle. The in the people, the priests they were sprinkled with blood. And those that sprinkling that anointing set them part. It was symbolic of being set apart for the holy, God has called us for that. Same reason. Okay, then he says Grace. Thoughts about Grace and we all have heard that. Grace is the word. That means God's unmerited favor. God has given us this grace and we see the tenses of Grace. And I want to go to this quickly, but I want us to understand something about this, great Paws, every almost everyone in Paul's letters. This is the black thing, right? Grace and peace about our father. Lord Jesus Christ.

So what does grace have to do with us? Yeah, you can say, we hit points back to the past, right? We can see and efficient 2:5. Even when we were dead in our trespasses. He made us to live together with Christ by Grace, you have been safe. So we can all point to that. And safe by Grace. We have been saved through faith. Wonderful. Sometimes we think of Grace is something that happened to us in the past when we were saying, but not so cuz there is a present Point of Grace and 1st Corinthians chapter 15. Paul says this. But by the grace of God, I am What I am. And his grace toward me, was not in vain on the contrary. I worked harder than any of them. Though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me. See the present tense there. He's think he's seeing the grace of God, is with him every single day, to keep him to keep him on path, to keep them going, working harder. And, of course, there's this beautiful future aspect of the, of the word grace, and 1st, Peter, 5:10. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all Grace, who was called you to his eternal glory in Christ with himself, restore confirm, strengthen, and establish shoe. Do they say, I passed a present and future aspect to price? So it makes sense. That the Romans and all the people that he talks about the aspect of Grace and peace. And then this weird piece. Again, it's a beautiful word. It is the idea of being at the peace with God, only only the Christian can have true. Peace in a world. We talked about Jesus being what the prince of peace and a peace. But we're looking for peace with one another or in the world. But the greatest piece that we experience is the peace with God.

Give me the support verse Romans 5:1, we'll get to that. Therefore since we have been justified by faith. We have what he's with God.

God is a power and a force to be reckoned with he will. Jesus said don't fear those who can kill the body, but fear Him, who can kill both body and soul in hell. Our God is a consuming fire. And to be at peace with God. It's only something that the Christian can claim. Yes, because we have peace. by way of Lord. Jesus Christ. Resurrection, that's absolutely the case. Absolutely true. Yes. Yes. So, we have peace. From God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I love how pull sums up because peace with God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. There's a, there's a reality there that you don't may not be evident that. He's placing the Lord Jesus Christ in God, the father on the same level as identity. So, to have peace with the Lord, Jesus Christ at peace with God. The father. So that is the end of seven. So maybe I'll just introduce you to the next section. Okay, I won't get that. I have 3 minutes, but let's look at it anyway. Verses 8 through 15 or about Thanksgiving? And Paul's, what? I remember, one of the purposes that Paul wrote the book of Romans is that he was going to do. What visit them. He wanted to visit them. You didn't hear, he talks about this purpose. And I read through that quickly, what we see in purse, ate Paul's report of the Romans.

So Paul, what is he say? He thanks God for their faith. What about their faith? What about it? That's why I brought up the background of this book. Where were these Christians in Rome? Yes, throughout the whole world because there have been dispersed and the fact that they are in one faith in a place where it is required, that you do. What? Worship the emperor. All right, to these Christians, we're alive and Proclaim me. I love the word uses his papa on below and it is the idea of the inside that where does the where we get the word Angel Messengers? Caca is according it's as if these people, they're their faith is being declared as an angel of God declares God's message on the afraid of what will happen. It is to be or become known openly and with Y, distribution, I can God. I'm hoping Christians are having an effect on Rome.

Being the hometown of the emperor. This is where the major portion of the persecution took place. Yes. Absolutely. Nothing liberal about the persecution out in the Oscars, but in Rome, it was intense. It was very intense. And I mentioned to you yesterday after I after a while, the citizens in Rome, the people in Rome were saying, why are we killing these Christians are the best citizens? We have? No. So we see that Paul and I got 30 seconds, so, Verses 9 and 10, Paul's deep desire to visit Rome. He had a deep desire to visit Rome and he says by God's will or by means of God's Will and purpose. So he was really Desiring to visit Rome, but he saw that his desires wrapped up in what the will of God. I mean that's a simple thing that we all need to understand. I mean, we all make these plans, we all have these great ideas, but ultimately desire. And that we need to understand that God's Will and purpose plays into it and must we must take that into account. So verses 11 through 15. I'm just going to introduce this. We see Paul's reason and we see his eagerness to visit Rome. So what was Paul's reason there were several of them used to your mention to your first. He wanted to impart some spiritual gift is to give them some spiritual, get to recognize some spiritual get. But he also realize that there was a need for what? Mutual encouragement, encouragement back and forth. This is what we do. And that Paul was saying that he desired some Harvest. But then there's this bridge between his reason and is earnestness this brand just called is under obligation. It's a beautiful word and then you have to bear with me again. This word under obligation is, what lake is it for now, but it's what's called a predicate of predicate nominative. That means you'll know there's a sentence in the sentence has a subject and it has a predicate y'all. Remember that the predicate is from the bird on and the subject is the person who's doing the action, right? So, this predicate in the second half. There's this word called obligation. Obligation is feeding back to the subject and we really would. It's like this, like, saying I be obligated one. Pulgas team himself under great obligation to do. What? Here's where the earring is comes in. The preach, the gospel to the Romans. He wants to do. I want us to think about this. Okay, let's let's go with this. We like the Apostle Paul are complicated. Right? And it sounds like a negative thing, but it's really not. We are obligated to do what? Preach, preach the gospel. Preached, the gospel. Paul was saying, preach the gospel to the Romans, or he was saying to the Greek in the Barbarian to the those who are Greek and those who are not Greek. So we have been given a circle influence, the preach the gospel. Let us think of ourselves as being the obligated one to proclaim the gospel of leave you with that left us. Pray. Father. I thank you so much for the privilege. We have to be sure this morning to know, Jesus Christ, the son of God. God In the Flesh. Who is our Messiah? The one who paid for our sins, he is our King. He is our Lord. He is our Master help. Us see ourselves. As obligated to proclaim the gospel. This good news that Jesus saved. Preach the gospel to those around us that you have given us. I thank you for this class. Bless them help us now, prepare our hearts as we go into the next service to worship you. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. All right. Well the Lord bless you. All will see you Lord willing next week.