All Sermons in Romans

Title:   The Mighty Paul I.  Good Jealousy v11 (read) Here Paul seems to repeat the question that he opened chapter 11 with: Have the Jews fallen away totally and completely?  But here, in verse 11, there is a bit of a different twist to it; for here Paul asks if God’s purpose, God’s point, in…

Title:  The Fruit of the Branches, Part I Today we begin a three part series that is very, very thick and rewarding theologically. I.  What is the source of your action? v16 (read) Here Paul begins this wonderfully rich dialogue with an example from horticulture.  He states a law from nature which dictates that the…

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Title:  The Fruit of the Branches, Part 3 Ben shooting a proper lay up at KAA, each kid in the line making the same mistake I did. “Do not boast against the branches.  But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.” As we look at…

Title:  The Return of the Branches: The Four Opposites It has been two Sundays since we last visited Paul’s expression of the vine and branches in Romans chapter 11, and I think that actually is a good thing.  I wanted us to have a couple weeks off to “stew” in this concept of us, as…

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Title:  An Exegetical Problem Today we will look at what seems to be a rather simple and familiar passage as we continue our study in the book of Romans.  As Paul continues to dialogue with his readers about the future of God’s salvation as it pertains to both the Gentiles and Israel as a people….

Title: The Disobedience of the Jews I.  How ought we regard the Jews? v28/29 (read) Paul summarizes how the saved (both Jew and Gentile) are to view the currently non-believing Jews who are persecuting them. It would be one thing for Paul to say, “Remember what Jesus said and love your enemies.”  If this is…

Title: The Sweet Surrender unto Sovereignty, Part One And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it…

Title: The Sweet Surrender unto Sovereignty, Part Two Last week we looked at the first part of the closing passage of Chapter 11 of Romans, which I am calling Paul’s Sweet Surrender unto Sovereignty.  I argued last week that the first step a believer takes to understand and submit to God’s sovereignty is to realize…

Title: A Living Sacrifice Most of you know when reading the English Bible that the chapter and verse markers were added around the year 1000 A.D., roughly 1000 years after they were written.  The chapter and verse markers were added by men as a reference system, they are not infallible. For this reason, anyone who…

Title: A Living Sacrifice Last week we spent the duration of the chapter dealing with the issue of qualification.  We decided that Paul makes an appeal to his readers in 12:1 based on four criteria: 1.  A personal appeal 2.  Based upon the weight of his previous arguments in Romans 1-11. 3.  An appeal to…