ROMANS Study Guide

remnant will be saved to honor God’s promise to the patriarchs.

2) The KJV…(vs.28)” He will finish his word (logos=message) and

cut it short in righteousness. Here Paul is referring to the gospel

message that has gone out to the Gentiles…to ever nation and

people. We are in what Paul is describing as a “cutting short”

period in which righteousness (justification) is reaching all the

Gentile nations through the Gospel. The last days will be a

Quick work in comparison with the rest of ancient history.

Rom 9:30 What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith. Rom 9:31 But Israel, who followed after a law of righteousness did not arrive at a law of righteousness. Rom 9:32 Why? Because it was not of faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that Stumbling-stone; Rom 9:33 as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Stumbling-stone and a Rock-of-offense, and everyone believing on Him shall not be put to shame."

4. Paul now summarizes his discussion in this chapter: vss.30-33

a. The Gentiles who have not had the advantages of the Jews with

their long history of walking with God… have obtained (achieved)

saving righteousness but the Jews who have worked so hard at

earning it have not. Why?

1) Because they sought salvation by works of the law and not

by faith.

2) They stumbled at the “stumbling stone” ( Jesus as Messiah)

Isa.8:14; 28:16 It was hard for Israel to consider that one man

could live the law perfectly and offer us his life as a ransom -

substitution for our sinful life thus making us righteous apart from

the law. Yet that is what the Old Testament teaches in Isaiah 53.

b. Paul describes Jesus in the Jewish thinking as a “rock of offense”