Pull Method

I.Study of Romans

B. Learn how to truly get into the Study of the Bible

1. Read the scripture multiple times

2. Pull Method

a. P= Place it

b. U= Understand it

c. L= Love it

d. L= Live it

C.Romans 2:1–16

Romans 2:1–16 NASB95

1 Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. 3 But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who will render to each person according to his deeds: 7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; 8 but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God. 12 For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; 13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, 16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.

II. P=Place It

A. Place it was written

1. Also quite certain is that Paul’s time in Greece was spent either at Corinth or its port city of Cenchrea. In a letter to the church at Corinth written toward the end of his stay in Ephesus (and less than a year before; cf. 1 Cor 16:8), Paul wrote: “After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you.… Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter” (1 Cor 16:5–6). Also supporting Corinth as the place of origin for Paul’s letter to the church in Rome are several indications in the greetings of chap. 16. In v. 23 Paul passed along the greetings of Gaius, his host. This could well have been the Gaius Paul baptized in Corinth (1 Cor 1:14). Erastus, whom Paul called the “city’s director of public works” (Rom 16:23), probably is the same Erastus mentioned in a Corinthian inscription as “procurator of public buildings.” The identity is strengthened by Paul’s statement in 2 Timothy that “Erastus stayed in Corinth” (2 Tim 4:20). And Phoebe, whom Paul commended to the church at Rome, is called “a servant of the church in Cenchrea” (Rom 16:1). These considerations have led the vast majority of scholars to accept Corinth as the city from which Paul wrote to the believers in Rome.

2. People

a.D. G. Miller finds three general groups in the church at Rome: the legalists, who thought that righteousness was a human achievement; the libertines, who abandoned the law even as a guide for the response of faith; and the spiritualists, whose pride destroyed the true sense of community and made them indifferent to the demands of civic order. From the greetings in 16:3–16 we may garner some interesting details about the membership in the church at Rome. For example, some had been Christians longer than Paul (v. 7), others had houses large enough to serve as meeting places (v. 5), and although many undoubtedly were slaves, some probably came from the higher echelons of society. One example would be Pomponia Graecina, the wife of the Roman general who commanded the British expedition in A.D. 43, who was tried and acquitted on the charge of having embraced a “foreign superstition,” most likely Christianity.

b.Another suggestion is that Rome was evangelized by the missionary outreach of Antioch, but there is no evidence of this. A more reasonable suggestion is that the church at Rome was founded by believers, both Jewish and Gentile, who for a variety of reasons traveled back and forth to the capital city or who had taken up residence there.

3. What does the Scripture mean to the original audience?

a.Judgement is for the legalist

b. No partiality is to the spiritualist

c. under the law and not under the law is for the libertines

III. U=Understand it

A.What does the Scripture tell us about God?

1.Not partial

2.renders judgement according to our deeds

3.God kind

4. God is all knowing

B. What Does this Scripture say about man?

1.We have no excuse

2. That we are judgmental

3. stubborn

4. Unrepentant

III. L=Love It

A. Read the scripture again

B. What does the Scripture demand of me?

1. do not be judgemental

2. persevere in goodness

3. seek glory

4.seek honor

5. seek eternal life

6. James 1:22

James 1:22 NASB95

22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

IV. L=Live it

A. How does the Scripture change the way I relate to people?

1.understand those who may not know the law of grace

2. treat people like they will be judge by God’s standards not ours

3. make sure we do good and have peace to each and everyone. To christian first then the lost

4. God is not partial we should not be.

B. How does this prompt us to pray?

1. Pray that I for me not to be partial

2. Pray that persevere in doing good deeds

C. Reflecting on the Previous 6 Questions,how can I apply this scripture to my life?

1. Be able to not be partial treat everyone the same

2.Make sure that I am praying for those that are not seeking God

3. really understand that it is Jesus that saves and will judge

4. be open to accountablity

V. Conclusion

A. Pull your self through scripture.

B.P=Place It

U=Understand It

L=Love It

L=Live It