All Sermons in Romans

(Text Only) Title: Introduction to Romans; Three things that Paul is Author: The Apostle Paul (1:1, biographical details of Ch. 1, 15, 16) Paul’s authorship has only rarely been disputed, and never disputed convincingly. Date and Occasion: Paul wrote Romans shortly before his visit to the Church in Jerusalem when he was bringing the gift…

(Text Only) Title: Breaking down Paul’s text to build up our hearts Ask my wife, this sermon was a killer to write. Mary was a descendant of David, to whom God had made the promise that Messiah would come through him. V2 (read) Paul reminds the Jewish Christians of the Church (or really anyone who…

(Text Only) Title: Paul’s Salutation I.  The Gift and the Charge v5 “Through Him…”  Paul is saying, “Through Him, this Jesus that I have just painstakingly outlined, it is through Him we’ve received this grace.” “Through” Greek= “dia”   def.   the ground or reason by which something is or is not done Essentially, Christ…

(Text Only) Title: Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome I.  Your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world One of the first things that we learn from Paul is that the witness of the Church in Rome has stretched all the way to Judea.  Historically, we don’t know who or how the church in Rome…

(Text Only) Title: Living By Faith I.  Paul as an offering v13 Paul explains that it’s long been his desire to visit the church in Rome, with a purpose: “so that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other gentiles.” The NAS translates that passage as “that I may obtain…

(Text Only) Title: The inevitable result of Godlessness This is great stuff.  This is where Paul starts to unload theological Truth and brilliance at such an amazing rate that we could literally slow our study down to one verse a week and still not even touch the tip of what Paul is revealing to us. …

(Text Only) Title: What May Be Known of God? This is a passage where it really helps to understand the Greek language to help this text make a bit more sense.  So, what does this mean, do you have to toil through two semesters of Greek in order to understand this word?  No, but there…

(Text Only) Title: The Downward Spiral v21 So much of our understanding, not only of Paul’s theology, but of our sinful state as a race, hinges upon this one word, “know.” There are two workable options as we read this text.  The first is that “know” refers to having a general knowledge of someone. “I…

(Text Only) Title: What Is Shameful In our society today there is a lot of talk about homosexuality.  And the main argument for homosexuality goes something like this: “If I can prove to you that I was born a homosexual than you have no recourse against me.  If I can convince you that it how…

(Text Only) Title: The Judgement Checklist v28 (read) This is Consequence Four.  The same theme keeps recurring with these consequences, and that is the theme of God “giving us up” to ourselves.  Next week, as we move into chapter two, we will review all of these consequences in more detail. But for now, just remember…

(Text Only) Title: Comforting Ourselves To Death Over the course of the last three weeks as we have been studying in Chapter One, we have come across four consequences that Paul outlines of God moving away from humans as the ultimate earthly punishment upon our lives. The reason it is the ultimate punishment for God…

(Text Only) Title: The Precision of God v4 “Or…”  This is a key transitional word from Paul.  If we read v3 where Paul flatly asks, “Do you think you can escape the judgement of God?” and then read v4 in which Paul asks another question, “Do you despise the riches of God?” In a rhetorical…