Romans 2
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- Rome
- "the capital of the world"
- themes
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-righteousness of God
-justification - date
- 55-58 AD
- purpose
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-Paul never been to Rome
-wants support and prayers
-wants new center for mission work
-to protect them from heresies - thesis
- v. 1:16- ...power of God to salvation...
- Universal need for righteousness
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-v. 1:18-3:20
-humans want to be own God
-law doesn't make you right before God, can actually make you sin - God's provision for universal need
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-v. 3:21-4:25
-core of Christian message - God's desire to have us living in relationship w/ Him
-salvation b/c of Christ's faithfullness
-works follow salvation - consequences of God's righteousness
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-v. 5:1-8:39
-justified by faith
-free from the power of sin
-free from the law
-free from death - relation of God's righteousness to the Jews
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-v. 9:1-11:36
-Paul frustrated that more Jews haven't accepted Jesus - righteousness of God applied
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-v. 12:1-15:13
-b/c they are saved
-practical stuff - conclusion
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-v. 15:14-16:27
-greetings, travel plans, closing - righteousness of God
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-as an attribute of God's being
-an active attribute of God
-something imparted to humans by God - justification
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-describes an effect working in those who believe what God has done in Christ
-people declared innocent even though they were guilty - salvation
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a unifying concept:
-sin
-flesh
-law
-righteousness of God
-redemption
-justification
-reconciliation
-baptism - flesh
- the reality we live in
- redemption
- = price paid for a slave in market
- reconciliation
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-between humans and God, humans and humans
-person in the wrong reconciles - apostle
- someone w/ special mission
- audience
- -suggested to be either Jewish-Christian or Gentile
- diatribe
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-common shorthand
-rhetorical questions
-raise position that speaker would debate