Romans — Week Two

ROMANS 1:16-19

APRIL 30 / MAY 1, 2022

16For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed – a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

5 TRUTHS ABOUT THE GOSPEL…

“The gospel is the royal announcement that the crucified and risen Jesus, who died for our sins and rose again according to the Scriptures, has been enthroned as the true Lord of the world. When this gospel is preached, God calls people to salvation, out of sheer grace, leading them to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the risen Lord.”   – N.T WRIGHT

1. Don’t be of Jesus

“For I am not ashamed …”  (v. 16a)

2. The Gospel is about specifically – not God generically 

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel …”  (v. 16b) 

3. in our lives comes from – not us

“… because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”  (v. 16c)

4. as a reason to disbelieve disappears when you make Christianity about Jesus not you 

“For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed – a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith.’”  (v. 17)

5. God’s is a good thing, and it either falls on

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people….”  (v. 18)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2012/something-about-the-book-of-romans-that-will-help-you-really-get-it
• Ernst Kasemaan, Commentary on Romans (1994). 
• Douglas Moo, The Letter to the Romans: New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT) (2018).
• T. Wright, The New Interpreter’s Bible Commentary: Romans (2015).