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Lesson 11: Our Death & Resurrection (Romans 6.1-14)
Intro: what happened when you were baptized? Why were you baptized? Chances are passages such as Acts 2.38; 22.16 and Mark 16.16 will immediately spring to mind. You were baptized so that your sins would be forgiven, so that all the wrongs you once committed would no longer be held against you. While it is…
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Lesson 12: Sin & The Law – Part 1 (Romans 6.15-7.6)
Paul had concluded his Adam – Christ contrast by placing the Law in the sphere of Adam, belonging to the epoch of sin and death, “Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,” (5.20). This was perhaps Paul’s most shocking declaration regarding the Law up…
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Lesson 13: Sin & The Law – Part 2 (Romans 7.7-25)
No Problem With The Law, But It’s Not The Spirit Paul had firmly placed the Law on the side of sin and death (5.20-21; 6.14; etc.). Undoubtedly, some Jewish Christians began to accuse Paul of licensing sinful activity. After all, if we are not under Law, why would sin be wrong? Paul had emphatically stated…
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Lesson 14: No Condemnation In Christ (Romans 8.1-17)
Our Need For A New Spirit The importance of man being a spiritual being reaches back to the Creation account. In Genesis 1’s abbreviated account of man’s creation we see that man was created in God’s own image (vs. 27), but in the fuller account of chapter 2 we see just how man was made…
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Lesson 15: Suffering Put Into Perspective (Romans 8.18-39)
In our study of Romans 8.1-17 we focused on the fact that in Christ, everything has changed. Whereas our lives were once typified by sin and condemnation (see 5.18), “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,” (8.1). Yet, Paul concluded this thought with a word about suffering, that we are…
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Lesson 16: Election – part 1 (Romans 9.1-13)
What this text is NOT about… Tragically, for many of us when we hear the term “election” our minds turn to John Calvin and his doctrine of Unconditional Election. As we will see, Calvin’s doctrine is NOT what Paul was teaching, but given the prevalence of this false teaching and their reliance on this passage…
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Lesson 17: Election – part 2 (Romans 9.14-33)
Paul began this section by describing his “great sorrow and unceasing anguish” over the fact that his kinsmen, physical Israel, had rejected Christ (9.2). Significantly, Paul returns to the feelings in his heart at the beginning of chapter 10: “my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved” (Romans…
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Lesson 18: The Word of Faith (Romans 10)
It is important to remember that chapter 10 falls in a section where Paul is lamenting the fact that his Jewish kinsmen had mostly rejected the gospel. This is the topic of Romans 9, 10 & 11 (remember, Paul didn’t write the letter in chapters). It’s little surprise that Paul spends so much time on…
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Lesson 19: In This Way All Israel Will Be Saved (part 1)
Paul may have had great sorry for his Jewish kinsmen (9.1-3) and prayed to God for their salvation (10.1), but things were not looking good for most of them. They were lost, but their condition was their own doing and blame could not be lain at the feet of God. They may have been God’s…
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Lesson 20: In This Way All Israel Will Be Saved – Part 2 (Romans 11.17-36)
“Remnant” was a familiar concept to Paul and his kinsmen, one taken from their history. When Israel entered into a covenant with the Lord, He had laid out a series of blessings which would result from their faithfulness and curses which would result from their unfaithfulness, the last of which was captivity in a foreign…