ROMANS Study Guide

a. Paul has been rejected and slandered by the Jews and mocked by the Athenian Greeks (Acts 17:32) for what he preached… but Paul was not embarrassed in the lest over his message. b. His message has been affirmed by God through His Power ( dunamus : miraculous signs that had impacted whole cities)

c. Bringing salvation (soteria: deliverance, rescue, healing, safety and well-being)

d. To everyone who believed in his gospel (trusted in it to save them)

e. Paul’s oft repeated formula… ”first to the Jew and then to the Gentile” … The promised salvation has to come to the Jew first since God had promised them it would come to them before it went to the Gentile peoples. (Both judgment and blessings begin with God’s People…1Peter 4:17)

Faith Alone

Rom 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

2. Paul now in vs.17 launches his theme that he will deal with in the

next five chapters.

a. Being right in our relationship with God comes from faith alone!

1) Faith to Faith … an intensive phrase signifying two essential

meanings:

a) ”Faith alone makes us righteous b) and we must grow in this “ever increasing” faith

2) God’s righteousness is being revealed (Pres. Pass. Indic.).

The word means “what was once invisible is now being made

visible”) in Jesus Christ. This is a righteousness that is

progressively growi ng in us… but we are the “passive recipients”

(it is nothing we have done – to deserve his grace)

b. Paul quotes Hab.2:4… which declares that those who will be