Romans 1:18-4:25 - Outline

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

*Tel: 253-517-9195 - Email: jmbetter at gmail.com*

*Web: www.2rbetter.org*

November 9, 2012


 *JUN 27 - ROMANS 1:18-4:25 - LAW SHUTS UP TO JUSTIFICATION*


 *1. 1:20 (1:18-32, NNT) SIN SHUTS US UP. “For his :invisible things since
the world’s creation are clearly seen, being perceived through the things
made, both his everlasting :power and divinity; that they be without
excuse.” *Father, we will *declare* that all creation, man included, points
to unseen and spiritual reality. So is Your Kingdom designed: so do we also
declare! *Hallowed be your :name!*


 *2. 2:4 (2:1-16) UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGING SHUTS US UP. “Or do you despise the
riches of his :goodness and :forbearance and :longsuffering, not knowing
that the goodness of :God leads you to repentance?” *Yes Father, and we
commit ourselves to this truth, and acknowledge that Your patience with us
leads us to *repentance*. We take on the attitude of saints and angels in
our declaration - *Your :kingdom come!*


 *3. 3:3-4 (2:17-3:8) UNRIGHTEOUS HYPOCRISY SHUTS US UP. “For what if some
disbelieved? shall their :unbelief make void the faithfulness of :God? 4 Be
it not so: yes, let :God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is
written, That you might be justified in your :words, And might prevail at
your judging.” *Father, we *justify* You in *all* Your words; and as
children, rely on You for *all* our needs! *Your :will be done, As in
heaven, so on earth!*


 *4. 3:20 (3:9-20) SIN’S KNOWLEDGE THROUGH LAW SHUTS UP. “Because by works
of law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through law
isknowledge of sin.”
*We thank You O Father, Great Jehovah, for Your purpose in law on our
behalf. We let it bring us to *repentance*! *Our :daily :bread Give us this
day!*


 *5. 3:28 (3:21-31) RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH SHUTS US UP. “For we reckon a
man is justified by faith apart from works of law.” **Our* righteousness O
Father, is based upon our faith in what *Jesus* has done for us. Our works
are a love gift flowing out from this. No wonder You spare us from testing
when we are established in this truth! *And forgive us our :debts, As we
also have forgiven our :debtors!*


 *6. 4:13 (4:1-15) ABRAHAM’S EXAMPLE SHUTS US UP. “For not through law was
the promise to :Abraham or to his :seed that he should be heir of
theworld, but through righteousness of faith.”
*Father, *here* is victory over Satan! Here in this truth, we *rest* in
Jesus! *And bring us not into temptation!*


 *7. 4:17 (4:16-25) FAITH OF ABRAHAM SHUTS US UP. “As it is written,
[that], I have made you a father of many nations), before him whom he
believed, God, who makes alive the dead, and calls the things that are not,
as though they are.” *Yes Father, *this* is the kind of God You are! We too
join with You and use the Keys of the Kingdom in binding and loosing! *But
deliver us from the evil one!*


 *NOTE**: 2:28-29 (2:17-3:8) **DEFINITION OF TRUE CIRCUMCISION! “For the
Jew is not one manifestly, neither is circumcision manifestly in the flesh; 29
but the one in :secret is a Jew; and circumcision is of the heart, in
spirit not in letter; whose :praise is not of men, but of :God.” *O Father,
let this truth evermore be deeply written on our hearts!


 This is one passage of Scripture that clearly brings out the truth and
God’s perspective on the *law*! There is a law under the New Covenant: “the
law of the *Spirit of life* in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:2) - and *this
law*has freed us from the
*law of :sin and :death* under the Old Covenant!


 This is a very difficult concept for New Testament saints to receive. The
Old Testament is a covenant of Types and Shadows. In God’s sight it was a *
stop-gap* until His Son came to undo the death that came upon the human
race by Adam’s sin. By *one man* sin came into the world. But - by
*One Man*, God’s only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, has the
penalty for that
sin been paid at *Calvary*. The 5-fold benefit of the Cross, as revealed in
the 5 offerings of Leviticus 1-7 - is a *Reality* for you and me! It frees
us from the bondage of the Old Testament Law, which was as it were our
Schoolmaster - until Jesus ushered in by His death and resurrection “The
law of the Spirit of Life.”


 Beware of teachers who would bring you back into the legalism of the
Galatians! These Judaizing teachers were busy in Jesus’ and Paul’s day -
and are *still* busy today. See Acts 15, and how the apostles and elders of
the church of Jerusalem - freed Gentile believers from he OT Jewish law.
Only 4 things were laid upon Gentile non-Jewish believers. And if they can
receive it - Jesus through Paul revealed that at the destruction of the
Jewish Temple in 70 AD, God gave a clear Word that Jews too are freed
through Christ into the One New Man - and they too are freed from the
legalism of the OT law. Of the 613 commandments they were required to walk
in prior to the Cross - 200 became impossible to fulfill at the temple
destruction. Sacrifices *ceased* then, because Christ’s sacrifice at
Calvary fulfilled *all* OT sacrifices! Very difficult for Jewish believers
to perceive - but true nonetheless.


 Carefully review the seven sections above. Look at the titles; consider
the quoted verses; see the context! The Lord Jesus through Paul - is here
freeing the Jews as well as Gentile from the OT law, and ushering all of us
into the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus!


 No doubt we all need a Paul - who will travail again in birth for us as
believers - until *Christ* be *fully formed* within us!


 *Our chapter from Proverbs for the day: 27:5-6 (27, ESV) MORE PROVERBS OF
SOLOMON. “Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds
of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.” *O Father, we want to
glorify Your Name! And when we *Hallow your :name - *then we deal honestly
and in truth with one another.



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