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Romans, Justification, and the Third Angel's Message

Norman McNulty

Romans 1—The Totality of Justification

Romans 2&3—The Totality of Human Depravity

Romans 4—Fully Persuaded

Romans 5-8: Totally Transformed

I'm glad that you all are here for our Romans seminar.

So, just want to make sure you have that.

And then did any of you not get this little booklet that I passed out, The Mind of Christ?

So just to explain to you, I don't know that we'll get through all of the handout in the time that we have, And that's fine, but this gives you some things to look at and study further on your own.

And I'll make sure that we hit the most important points from the Book of Romans during the time we have this afternoon.

And then we have 2 more hours tomorrow afternoon and I hope that you can come to as much of it as possible.

And then the Mind of Christ is a very nice booklet that's recently been published that goes through the issues of righteousness by faith and it ties in to what we're talking about in the book of Romans.

So having said that, let's bow our heads for a word of prayer and let's start our study.

Father in Heaven, we thank you so much for bringing us here to this weekend to a conference that talks about being totally transformed.

As we study from the book of Romans, may it bless us and help us and challenge us.

And may we understand the power of the Gospel.

May we really understand what it means to have the experience of justification by faith.

How many of you have studied the book of Romans?

How many of you have not studied the book of Romans before?

And it's okay, raise your hands, that helps me to know who I'm speaking to.

So some of you have, some of you haven't, and that's fine.

And Romans, as you're going to see, is a very critical book in Scripture to understand.

Now I was talking with Eric Walsh last night.

I was kind of joking about how I was saying that Romans is so much more important than the genealogies.

And he was like, well the genealogies are important too.

But then he agreed, the book of Romans, This is a very important passage of scripture to understand.

Genealogies are good, but Romans gets into the essence of salvation.

So that's what we're going to be looking at.

And when you look at the book of Romans, Romans has 16 chapters, But we're just going to look at the first 8 chapters, the main points from the first 8 chapters, because it's in the first 8 chapters that Paul deals with the theology of the Gospel.

And so that's what we're going to take a look at over the next several hours.

Now, let's go ahead and open up to the book of Romans.

And here we read, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.

Now first of all, we look at verse 1 we see the authorship of the book.

So you want to know who your author is, and that can be helpful because then you can compare other books of scripture that Paul has written and see similar themes and you can kind of piece that together.

In the book of Galatians, Paul makes some very similar points and it helps sometimes to understand some of the things he was saying in Romans a little bit better.

So, Paul is the author of the book of Romans And it also says he's a servant of Jesus Christ.

He's a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated under the gospel of God.

When he says he's a servant of Jesus Christ, he's actually going to talk about what it means to be a servant to Jesus Christ in Romans chapter 6.

So I'm giving you a little bit of foreshadowing so that you can think ahead.

But Paul can write about the gospel, and he can write about being a servant to Jesus Christ, which he will do in chapter 6, because He himself has that experience.

A quick point here for us to think about is we can talk about the gospel, we can preach about the gospel, we can teach the gospel, but if we're not experiencing it, then it doesn't have the same effect.

So Paul, as a servant of Jesus Christ, that qualifies him to talk about calling us to be servants to Jesus Christ.

Then it says, he's separated unto the gospel of God.

What does it mean to be separated under the gospel of God?

What Paul is saying here is that, he's saying, I have separated myself from the things of this world.

The gospel has changed my life so dramatically that I have separated myself from this world and I have dedicated myself completely and fully to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Now the question we have to ask ourselves is, have we separated ourselves to the gospel of God?

Because if we want to go out and be workers for God, to proclaim the gospel, we need to be separated to the gospel of God.

Now, continuing on in verse 2, and he puts in parentheses here, So he's making a quick parenthetical statement about the gospel.

So he's like, Paul, I'm an apostle separated to the gospel of God, I'm a servant of Jesus Christ separated to the gospel of God.

And then he says in parenthesis, which he had promised afore or before by his prophets in the holy scriptures." How many of you have heard that the Old Testament teaches the Law and the New Testament teaches grace.

Paul, the Gospel scholar, just said that the Old Testament proclaimed the gospel.

So don't let people tell you that there's Old Testament Christians and New Testament Christians.

All we want to be is biblical Christians, Old and New Testament.

Let's not divide up the Old and the New Testament.

So Paul says, this gospel that I'm separated unto, it was talked about before in the Scriptures, in the Old Testament.

And if you read the book of Romans carefully, especially the first 8 chapters and onwards, Paul is quoting liberally from the Old Testament to make his points.

And we're going to see that when we study Romans chapter 4, which is 1 of the chapters we will look at in this seminar.

He's saying I am a servant of Jesus Christ.

I'm separated under the gospel of God, and this gospel was promised in the past in the Old Testament.

And the question is, what is this gospel?

Well, first of all, what does the word gospel mean?

So Paul is separated to the good news of this message that he's about to proclaim.

There's more in the red bag over here too if you need more.

And what is it that he's going to proclaim about this gospel?

Verse 3 answers the question because Paul is really excited about this gospel that he's going to proclaim.

Because the gospel talks about Jesus Christ.

Now, the gospel is good news because it talks about Jesus Christ, but What about Jesus Christ is good news?

What is it about Jesus Christ that makes the gospel the gospel?

Concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh." So what's the good news of the gospel?

It's that Jesus Christ is Lord, that the gospel is talking about Jesus Christ.

He was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.

Okay, what about Jesus being a human being is good news?

Okay, why Is the gospel such good news that Jesus was made of the seed of David according to the flesh?

Well, let me give you a couple of things to think about.

Series

Romans, Justification, and the Third Angel's Message

Romans 1—The Totality of Justification

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Panel Discussion

1h 15m

White Out: Whatever Happened to the Gift of Prophecy?

Ellen White or Sola Scriptura

59m

Morning Devotional: It's War Time

It’s Wartime - Part 5: The Weapons of Our Warfare

54m

Talking Points, 1st Quarter 2022. In These Last Days: The Message of the Hebrews

12 Receiving an Unshakeable Kingdom

29m

GYC 2012 Seminar: Power to Change the World - Jesus, Arabic, and Kale

Gospel Shoes: One Size Fits Some?

56m

The Almost Overmastering Delusion

54m

Prophecy Seminar

The Mark of the Beast

43m

Balaam, Balak and the Nicolaitans

46m

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

43m

Unlocking Prophecy

18- The Best is Yet to Come!

59m

Workshop: Abiding in Christ

The Correction of God

57m

Summary and Conclusion

39m

Sound Doctrine