"THE GOSPEL OF PEACE" Intro. Paul has just declared that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. He then asked but how can they call on Him if they do not believe in Him and how can they believe if they have never heard of Him and how can they hear of Him without someone preaching to them and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? Here you have th...
"THE DEPTH OF THE RICHES OF GOD" Intro. Paul has been writing about the plan of God in redemption. His using the nation of Israel in the accomplishing of His purposes of bringing the Messiah into the world, and how by their rejection of the Messiah the blessings have come upon the Gentiles, but how that God, faithful to His elections and callings will once again open the hearts of...
"THE POWER UNTO SALVATION" I. IN THE FIRST VERSE PAUL DECLARES THAT HE IS SEPARATED UNTO THE GOSPEL OF GOD. A. The word gospel means good news. 1. What is the good news of God? a. It concerns His Son Jesus Christ who is our Lord. b. It was promised by His prophets in the holy scriptures. c. He was to be a descendant of David according to the flesh. ISA 9:6 For unto us a ...
"YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE" I. PAUL OPENS THIS EXHORTATION WITH A PLEA, "I BESEECH THEE" OR I PLEAD WITH YOU. A. I am amazed that God should plead with man. In chapter 10:21 Paul quotes from the prophet Isaiah, who speaking for God said, "All day long have I stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people. 1. Ezekiel tells us how that God pleaded with the people to...
"HIGH TIME TO WAKE UP" I. KNOWING THE TIME. A. I believe that God wants us to know the times in which we live. 1. Matthew tells us the conversation between Jesus and the Pharisees and the Sadducees. MAT 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. MAT 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it i...
"EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW" I. VERSE 11 FOR IT IS WRITTEN, "AS I LIVE SAITH THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD." A. Paul is quoting from the prophet Isaiah ISA 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. B. Paul makes r...
"THE GOD OF HOPE AND PEACE" I. THE GOD OF PATIENCE. A. I marvel at the patience of God, how He so patiently puts up with man. B. Think of how patient God was in fulfilling His promise to Adam that the seed of the woman would bruise Satan's head. 1. This is actually a prophecy of the virgin birth, for a woman does not have a seed, but the egg. 2. Later God declared plainly thro...
"HOW CAN A JUST GOD FORGIVE SIN?" I. THE DEFINING OF THE THREE CRUCIAL WORDS OF THE QUESTION. A. Just, it comes from a root that means to see. We have a synonym, observe in which we mean more than just see, but to act in accordance to that which is seen. 1. At a camp we may say to the campers, we have posted these rules on the bulletin board and we want you to see them. 2. We h...
"BEING STRONG IN THE FAITH" I. HE CONSIDERED NOT HIS OWN BODY NOW DEAD WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 100 YEARS OLD. A. One of the first things we consider are the difficulties, or improbabilities. 1. We are prone to categorize things as easy, average, difficult, impossible. 2. We often then carry our categories over to God. a. If it is easy for us, then surely it is easy for God. b. If i...
"GRACE, GRACE, ABOUNDING GRACE" Intro. I have been found guilty before God. I have sinned and the wages of sin is death. I deserve the wrath of God that is to be revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men that hold the truth of God in unrighteousness. God has made provision for me to be accounted righteous before him through His Son Jesus Christ. It is...
"SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN?" I. WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED THUS FAR IN ROMANS? A. Chapter one. 1. The gospel or good news of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation to all that believe, Jew and Gentile alike. 2. That the pagan world cannot plead innocence, for God has manifested Himself to them through creation. 3. Yet the pagan world refused to glorify Him as God and became ...
"THE PROBLEM" Intro. Chapter 7 seems to be Paul's account of his struggle of trying to attain a righteous standing before God by keeping the law, after his conversion on the Damascus road. I. WHAT PAUL HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE LAW IN THIS CHAPTER. A. By the law is the knowledge of sin. 1. Every man who is not in Christ is under the law. 2. The law shows to us God's righteous stand...
"THE ANSWER, THE SPIRIT FILLED LIFE" Intro. Last week we dealt with the problem. What God has commanded and required of us is good, it is fair, it is holy. I have no argument with the law of God. I wish all people lived by it especially me. The problem is manifold, 1. The law is spiritual and I am carnal. 2. My carnal nature is sinful and rebels against the law of God. My flesh ...
"WHO ARE YOU TO QUESTION GOD?" I. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD OVER HIS CREATION. A. Before the twins Jacob and Esau were ever born God declared the elder shall serve the younger. 1. In our minds immediately we think, "That isn't fair." How can God determine that before they are ever born? a. We have spoken before of the foreknowledge of God, "Whom He did forknow, them He also predes...
"VITAL QUESTIONS" I. "IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US." A. For a long time in my Christian experience I somehow had the idea that God was against me. 1. That He was just waiting for me to make a mistake so that He could teach me a lesson by bringing judgment upon me. 2. Every bad thing that happened to me I blamed on God. I figured that He was punishing me for something...
I. IN THE FIRST VERSE PAUL DECLARES THAT HE IS SEPARATED UNTO THE GOSPEL OF GOD. A. The word gospel means good news. 1. What is the good news of God? a. It concerns His Son Jesus Christ who is our Lord. b. It was promised by His prophets in the holy scriptures. c. He was to be a descendant of David according to the flesh. ISA 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son...
Intro. I am often asked if it is fair for God to condemn forever in the torment of hell, those who have never heard of Jesus Christ? My answer is, I do not know what God will do with them, but I know that whatever he does will be fair. Paul makes reference here to the righteous judgment of God. I. THE BIBLE FORBIDS OUR JUDGING OTHERS. A. Jesus said, "Judge not lest you be judged,...
I. THE GENTILE PAGAN WORLD AS PAUL SAW IT. A. They were filled with unrighteousness, fornication, covetousness, full of envy and murder, haters of God, proud, boasters, without natural affection. B. The reason for this condition. 1. When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God. 2. They had become vain in their imaginations. 3. Their foolish hearts were darkened. 4. Profe...
