Pull Method (2)

Grant Fowler

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I. Pull Method

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 2:17-29

Romans 2:17–29 NASB95

17 But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God, 18 and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, 21 you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal? 22 You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God? 24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written. 25 For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.

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.That they are so wrapped in the law missing real service.

b. Name of God is blasphemed because of the Jews

c. They focus way to much on law

III. U=Understand it

A.What does the Scripture tell us about God?

1.God is to be honored

2.God views the heart

3. God is knowledge and truth

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B. What Does this Scripture say about man?

1.rely on religion

2. we have our own standards

3. we need a heart change

III. L=Love It

A. Read the scripture again

B. What does the Scripture demand of me?

1. to be circumcised

2. do not boast in the law and not follow it

3. receive praise from God not men

4. do not dishonor God name

5. If you say you know the will of the Lord don't lead them blindly.

IV. L=Live it

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

1.That I am Holy and not hypocrite

2. show that circumcision is of heart and a internal change

3. That we not be religious towards people

4. That just because they have a different doctrine if they believe Jesus is the way we should agree to disagree and work together to futher the kingdom