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The righteousness of God revelated ROM 1 Page 2 It's time to start with the Lesson for tonight I believe that you sometimes had discussions with your friends regarding different subjects and you are arguing for minutes or maybe hours for the right answer, till the moment that someone is jumping into the conversation, and he has the authority to explain the truth and the right answer. In the same perspective, we will review tonight the Righteousness of God And this Righteousness has been revealed to all. I would like to do a quick introduction to the book or Epistle of Paul to the Romans. We will learn together through this letter of Paul, the foundations of the faith that are applied to the church and all believers. We will have 13 lessons from Romans. Hope that each of you spends some time during those days on the booklet to read the verses and answer the questions. A quick reminder regarding the payment of 10 Euro for the book. We have a nice tradition in our group that new members that joined BB will gives all the answers in the first lesson 😊 No don’t worry we will learn together, and we will grow up in faith together. So, if you will have any question during the lessons feel free to ask for more details, and we will be happy to share with you the answers. I found this presentation that looks nice to use for this lesson as an introduction for the Romans Key points for the first chapter: Paul introduces himself to the Roman Christians. (vs 1 - 5) Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God a. Paul: The life and ministry of the Apostle Paul (also known as Saul of Tarsus) is well documented in Acts chapters 8 through 28, as well as Galatians 1 and 2, and 2 Corinthians 11 and 12. i. Paul wrote Romans from the city of Corinth as he wintered there on his third missionary journey as described in Acts 20:2-3. date of writing anywhere from 53 to 59 A.D. Romans is different from many of the other letters Paul wrote churches. Other New Testament letters focus more on the church and its challenges and problems. The Letter to the Romans focuses more on God and His great plan of redemption. A bondservant... an apostle: Paul’s self-identification is important. He is first a servant of Jesus Christ, and second, called to be an apostle. Separated to the gospel of God: The idea of being an apostle is that you are a special ambassador or messenger. Paul’s message is the gospel (good news) of God. It is the gospel of God in the sense that it belongs to God in heaven. This isn’t a gospel Paul made up; he simply is a messenger of God’s gospel. The gospel of God – The word GOD is the most important in the epistle of Romans used 153 times 2. (2-6) Paul introduces his gospel to the Romans. Which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name, among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ; Paul didn’t bring something new, but something very old in the plan of God. b. Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord: This is the center of Paul’s gospel, the “sun” that everything else orbits around. The center of Christianity is not a teaching or a moral system, it is a Person: Jesus Christ. Paul declared (he manifested Jesus with his life) c. Jesus Christ our Lord: It means something that the Apostle Paul called Jesus Lord: “This term could be no more than a polite form of address like our ‘Sir.’ But it could also be used of the deity one worships. The really significant background, though, is its use in the Greek translation of the Old Testament to render the divine name, Yahweh. 3. (7-15) Paul’s desire to come to Rome. To all who are in Rome: Paul had never been to Rome, and he did not found the Roman church. This makes the Book of Romans different because most of Paul’s letters were to churches he founded. It seems the church in Rome began somewhat spontaneously as Christians came to the great city of the Empire and settled there. There is also no Biblical or historical evidence that the Apostle Peter founded the church in Rome. I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world: Paul was thankful for the good reputation of the church in Rome. Because of its location, this church had a special visibility and opportunity to glorify Jesus throughout the Empire – Rome on that time was the capital of the biggest Empire. · Paul was ready to preach and to serve (Romans 1:15). 4. (16-17) Paul introduces the theme of his letter: the righteousness of God, as revealed in the gospel of Jesus Christ. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” For in it the righteousness of God is revealed: Simply, the gospel reveals the righteousness of God. This revelation of God’s righteousness comes to those with faith, fulfilling Habakkuk 2:4: The just - that is, the justified ones - shall live by faith. i. It is essential to understand exactly what the righteousness of God revealed by the gospel is. It does not speak of the holy righteousness of God that condemns the guilty sinner, but of the God-kind of righteousness that is given to the sinner who puts their trust in Jesus Christ. ii. Righteousness: William Barclay explains the meaning of this ancient Greek word dikaioo, which means I justify, and is the root of dikaioun (righteousness): “All verbs in Greek which end in oo... always mean to treat, or account or reckon a person as something. If God justifies a sinner, it does not mean that he finds reasons to prove that he was right - far from it. It does not even mean, at this point, that he makes the sinner a good man. It means that God treats the sinner as if he had not been a sinner at all.” 5.The wrath of God: In this portion of the letter (Romans 1:18-3:20), Paul’s goal is not to proclaim the good news, but to demonstrate the absolute necessity of the good news of salvation from God’s righteous wrath. i. The wrath of God is not revealed in the gospel, but in the facts of human experience. 2. (18b-23) Why the human race is guilty before God: demonstrations of our ungodliness and unrighteousness. Against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man; and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. a. Ungodliness: This refers to man’s offenses against God. Unrighteousness refers to the sins of man against man. His invisible attributes are clearly seen God shows us something of His eternal power and divine nature through creation, by the things that are made. He has given a general revelation that is obvious both in the creation and within the mind and heart of man. d. Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God: The problem is not that man did not know God, but that he did know Him - yet refused to glorify Him as God. Therefore, mankind is without excuse. Instead of glorifying God we transformed our idea of Him into forms and images more comfortable to our corrupt and darkened hearts. The rest of the first chapter is dealing with this problem ungodly attitude of man 6. (24-32) The tragic result of human guilt before God. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them