Topic: Motives for obeying human government Text: 13:1 – 14 Romans 13 continuous the practical section of Romans reminding Christians of their duties to the state. Believers “are not of the world” (John 17:14), but they still have responsibilities to the state. The best citizen ought to be the believer. Individual believers certainly should use their God-given privileges as…
Topic: Four Pictures of the Christian reminding us of our spiritual duties Text: Romans 12 Memory Verse: Romans 12:2 Introduction As already noted in the previous studies, Romans 12-16 entails the practical section that mainly focusses on our worship of God and service to one another. Thus in these final chapters, Paul tells us how to put our learning into…
Topic: God’s redemptive future plan for Israel Text: 11:1 – 36 Memory verse: Romans 11:26a Introduction From Romans 9-10, we respectfully learnt about Israel’s past and present. Romans 11 discusses Israel’s future and answers the question – “Has God permanently cast aside His people, or is there a future for Israel?” Paul says the answer is “Yes, there is a…
Topic: The Rational of Preaching the Gospel of Jesus to Everyone Text: Romans 10:14-21 Memory Verse: Romans 10:17 Introduction We have studied about the fact that in Romans 9-11, Paul talks about God’s plan for Israel. In these chapters, Paul respectfully discusses Israel’s past, present and future. As this lesson focusses on Romans 10, special attention is paid to the…
Topic: Defending God’s Election of His People Text: 9:14-33 Memory Verse: Romans 9:14-15 Introduction Several questions were realized from the previous studies on the basis of Israel’s election. Thus the doctrine of Israel’s national election raises several questions. Chiefly amongst them include the place of God’s justice in the doctrine of God’s election of his people. This lesson then seeks to…
Topic: The Place of Israel in God’s Plan Text: 9:1-13 Memory Verse: Romans 9:3 Introduction Having looked at the theme of God’s righteousness through faith from Romans 1-8, Paul now turns to God’s plan for his own people, Israel. Thus the next three chapters (Romans 9-11) deal with Israel’s spiritual history: her past (chapter 9), her present (chapter 10), and…
Topic: Nothing can separate us from the love of God Text: 8:18-39 Memory Verse: Romans 8:28 Introduction Today’s section concludes the first doctrinal section of the Letter to the Romans, and specifically climaxes the doctrine of sanctification. Romans 8:18-39 identify a number reasons assuring us that nothing can separate us from the love of God. These include: 1. Romans 5-8…
Topic: New Life in the Spirit Text: Romans 8:1-17 Memory verse: Romans 8:1 Introduction In Romans 7, we learnt about the believer’s relationship to the law. There we discovered that through the death of Jesus we have died to the law through faith and that Jesus is our new husband and so we obey Him out of faith. The law…
Topic: Two Principles or Laws operating in the life of the Believer Text: Romans 7: 15-25 Memory verse: Romans 7:25 Introduction From the past two lessons on Romans 7 we have been looking at the believer’s relationship to the law. Using the illustration on “two husbands,” we learnt that our faith in Christ’s death on the cross,…
Topic: Discovering the Purpose of the Law Text: Romans 7:7-14 Memory verse: Romans 7:12 Introduction We have already learnt that Romans 7 talks about the believers’ relationship to the law. Using the story of “two husbands,” Paul illustrated that the law has no authority over the believer. Today’s studies then seek to discuss the purpose of the law. Overview of…
Topic: The Christian’s Relationship to God’s Law Text: Romans 7:1-6 Memory verse: Romans 7:6 Introduction On our previous studies on the theme of sanctification in Romans 6, we have already learnt that the believers role is to know who we are in Christ, reckon that what Christ has done for us true and then we are to yield our…
Topic: Believer’s Responsibilities in Sanctification Text: Romans 6:11-23 Memory verse: Romans 6:22 Introduction From our previous study on the theme of Sanctification, we learnt that the Christian’s secret of victory over the old sinful nature is found in our obeying those three commands from God. These are knowing, reckoning and yielding. The Knowing responsibility has therefore been explained. It was…
Topic: Sanctification Explained Text: Romans 6:1-10 Memory verse: Romans 6:6 Introduction As we have studied the theme of justification, it is important to highlight that, the broken relationship between sinful humanity and a holy God is made right man’s acceptance of what God has done “in Christ.” A person enters the Kingdom of God and is justified before God…
Topic: The Basis of Justification: A Contrast between Adam and Christ Text: Romans 5:12-21 Memory verse: Rom 5:18 Introduction In our previous lessons, we learnt about the theme of justification looking at its meaning and blessings. Today’s lesson highlights on the basis of justification. In Rom 5:12-21, Paul is explaining how it is, that all humanity are sinners and…
Topic: The Blessings of Justification Text: Romans 5:1-11 Memory verse: Rom 5:1 Introduction In the first three chapters of Romans, Paul shows how the whole world may be held accountable to God (3:19) because of sin. This leads to the fundamental question: if sin is universal, how can anyone be righteous before God? The answer to this question is that…
Topic: Justification Explained using the example of Abraham Text: Romans 4:1-25 Memory verse: Rom 4:25 Introduction From the last week lesson on Romans 3:21-31, the Good News of justification by faith was introduced and explained. Its related terms of sanctification, redemption and propitiation were further introduced. In Rom 4 & 5, the theme of justification is given a detailed explanation. Today’s…
Topic: Introducing the Good News of Justification Faith Text: 3:21-31 Introduction Having established the need for a Saviour in the previous section, Paul in Rom 3:21-29 explains his initial statement that salvation is through Christ faith alone. The key term in this passage is therefore Justification. The other related words that are helpful in our understanding of…
Topic: The Universal Condition of Humankind Text: Romans 3:1-20 Introduction It is obvious from our previous studies that Paul has introduced the sinful condition of Gentiles in chapter 1 and in Chapter 2 he talked about the sin of the Jews as well. In Romans 3, Paul then brings the two together to say that the whole world is under…
Topic: Divine principles of judgment that prove the Jew is equally condemned with the Gentile Text: Romans 2:12-29 Introduction In the previous lesson, we studied that the Jews, in the view of Paul, are equally condemned as sinners before God. We also learnt about two main divine principles of judgment that prove that the Jews are equally condemned with the Gentile….
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