Romans 8: 31-33
31 - Can we be conquered? No, God is on our side.
32 - Has everything been given freely to us? Yes, God gave us Jesus Christ, the opportunity for salvation and His blessings for us.
33 - Who can change God’s elect? No one can. Once we believe in Jesus, we are His elect. God sees us as righteous and He will not condemn us. No one can change that promise He made to us.
Romans 8: 26-30
26 - The Holy Spirit helps us with sin and its’ effects
26-27 - The Holy Spirit helps us with prayer according to God’s will
28 - The Holy Spirit makes our end good according to God’s purpose
29 - Predestination according to God’s foreknowledge is good: to adoption and Christlikeness
30 - God moreover predestinates, calls, justifies and glorifies us
Romans 8:16-25
16-17: Glorification: the Spirit’s witness to us
18: Glorification: No Comparison
19: Glorification: Our Future Deliverance
20-21: Glorification: God Reverses the Curse’s Effects
22: Glorification: All Creation Groans in Pain for It
23: Glorification: Our Body is Redeemed
24: Glorification: We Hope for Future Salvation
25: Glorification: We Have a Blessed Hope
Romans 8:12-17
12 - I owe my flesh and its sinful appetite nothing, not its thrusts nor its lust
13 - The Spirit leads to life. The flesh leads to death.
14 - The Spirit leading us proves that we are His children
15 - The Spirit gave us the Spirit of adoption
16 - The Spirit bears witness to our being children of God
17 - The Spirit makes our adoption as heirs realized.
Romans 8:5-11
Romans 8:1-4
1 - We aren’t under any condemnation
2 - We are free now from sin and death
3 - Jesus did what the Law couldn’t
4 - The righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in us
Romans 8:1
1 - We aren’t under any condemnation because we are justified
Romans 7:21-25
21- We experience the battle of good and evil within as it rages on
22 - We have within us delight for the Law of God
23 - We see a more powerful law controlling us to sin
24 - We ask who can save us from our miserable selves
25 - We know that our deliverance is Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7: 13-20
13 - The Law is good and manifests sin within
14 - The Law is spiritual whereas we are carnal. We are sold under sin
15 - We do what we don’t allow. We don’t do what we want, we do what we hate.
16 - Doing what we don’t want to do, consents to the Law is good.
17 - Then we aren’t doing it anymore, but sin in us is doing it
18 - Our flesh is only evil
19-20 - Our “want to” tells us a story
Romans 7:7-12
7-12 - We Now Know Sin Because of the Law
7 - In ignorance we are tempted to judge the Law.
8 - Sin positions itself to drive us to lust.
9 - Knowledge of the Law awakens sin to slay us
10 - The Law points us but doesn’t preserve us
11 - Our sin attacks us, deceives us, and slays us
12 - God’s Law is holy, just and good.
Romans 7:1-6
1-Freed from the Law’s authority
2-3 - As death ends a marriage, it frees one to remarry
4 - Likewise, as death frees a woman to remarry, death ends our marriage to the law and frees us to marry God.
5 - We remember how sin in our bodies enslaved us to bearing fruit to death
6 - Now having been delivered from the law by death, we are free to serve God.
Romans 6:15-23
15: We have no license to keep sinning even though God gives us grace.
16: Our master is who we yield ourselves too. We have two choices: sin to death or obedience to righteousness
17-18: Doctrine of salvation through Jesus’ blood freed us from sin to serve righteousness
19: As sinners, we yielded to serve sinfulness, so now we yield to serve righteousness
20: When we served sin, we could not serve righteousness
21: What outcome came as we shamefully served sin? Death
22: But now the outcome of freely serving God in holiness is everlasting life.
23: Sin earns death, but God gives eternal life.
Romans 6:1-14
1 - We should not continue sinning even though we’ve been shown grace and have been forgiven
2 - We are dead to sin
3 - We die with Christ
4 - We were raised from the dead to walk in newness of life
5 - We have been buried and raised with Christ
6 - We have an old man who is not our master
7 - We who are dad are freed from sin
8 - We believe in resurrected living
9 - We have victory over death
10-11 - We reckon ourselves dead and alive through Christ
12 - We let not sin reign over our bodies
13 - We yield our bodies to God for righteousness not to sin for unrighteousness
14 - We being under grace aren’t controlled by sin
Romans 5:12-21
12 - Adam brought death to all, for all have sinned
13 - From Adam to Moses there was no law to impute sin
14 - From Adam to Moses death reigned upon all
15 - As Adam’s offense brought death to many, so Jesus Christ’s grace brought the free gift to many
16 - As Adam brought judgment to condemnation, so Jesus Christ brought the free gift to justification
17 - As Adam’s sin caused death to reign, so Jesus Christ’s grace caused the gift of righteousness to reign
18 - As through Adam’s offense, judgment to condemnation came upon all men, so through Jesus Christ’s righteousness the free gift of justification of life came upon all men
19 - As Adam’s disobedience made many sinners, so Jesus Christ’s obedience shall make many righteous
20 - The Law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace abounded more
21 - As sin has reigned to death by Adam, so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1-11
1 - God frees the just
2 - God smiles upon the just
3 - 4 - He gives new dynamics in life
5 - He gives us shamelessness
6-8: God gave Christ to die for sinners
9: He justifies us by Jesus’ blood
10 - He reconciled us by Jesus’ blood
11 - God made us to now smile on Him
Romans 4:13-25
13-18: Justification is a promise of faith, not flesh
19-22: Justifications comes as faith focuses on God’s strength
23-25: Justification requires faith in our living Lord Jesus Christ
Romans 4: 13-25
What does Paul say about works before and after salvation?
Romans 3:20 - The Law is the knowledge of sin only
Romans 3:27-28 - Faith is required for salvation, not works
Romans 4:2 - Abraham was not justified by works
Romans 4:6-8/Psalm 32:1-2 - God imputes righteousness without works
James 1:17-18 - Salvation comes by faith
Romans 13:12 Cast off works of darkness, put on the armor of Light after salvation
Romans 15:18 - Words and deeds help us to be more like Jesus after salvation
Romans 4:1-12
1-2- Justification is not by works of the flesh.
3-8 - Justification should glorify God, not man.
9-12 - Justification is by faith for Jews and Gentiles.
Romans 3:21-31
21: Jesus manifests God’s righteousness
22 : God’s righteousness comes by faith
23: Those under the Law and those not under the Law are sinners
24: Jesus’ redemption is free to all
25: Jesus is the propitiation for believing sinners
26: Jesus is just and the justifier of each believer
27: The Law of faith excludes the boasting of the Law of works
28: Justification is by faith alone, not deeds of the Law
29: God is the God of the Jews and Gentiles
30: Faith justifies both Jews and Gentiles
31: Faith establishes the Law rather than destroys it
Romans 3:9-20
9 - Are we better than they?
10 -12- “It is Written” out to be sufficient
Compare to Ecclesiastes 7:20, Psalm 14:1-3,
13 - compare to Psalm 140:3, Psalm 5:9
14 - Compare to Psalm 10:7
15-16 - Compare to Isaiah 59:7
17 - Compare to Isaiah 54:8
18 - Compare to Psalm 36:1
19 - The Law declares all guilty
20 - the Law doesn’t justify sinners. It educates them concerning their sinfulness.
You cannot be justified by the Law.