ROMANS RECAP

Romans 1

• Man knows God exists
• Man's sin is inexcusable
• God will not force
• Our hearts reveal symptoms

Man knows God exists: "For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God." -Romans 1:20

Man's sin is inexcusable: "Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused." -Romans 1:21

God will not force: "Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done." -Romans 1:28

Our hearts reveal symptoms:
29 "Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. 30 They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. 31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. 32 They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too." -Romans 1:29-32

Romans 2

• Outward righteousness is useless
• The old, Jewish laws alone are pointless
• How do we practice old laws?

"No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the law; rather, it is a change of heart produced by the Spirit. And a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people." -Romans 2:29

Romans 3

• No one is righteous
• No one can satisfy the law
• God makes a way!

“No one is righteous—
not even one.
11 No one is truly wise;
no one is seeking God.
12 All have turned away;
all have become useless.
No one does good,
not a single one.”
-Romans 3:9-12

"But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law..."
-Romans 3:21

"For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood."
-Romans 3:25

"Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No...we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law."
-Romans 3:27

Romans 5

• Christ dies for you and me!

"7 Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. 8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners."
-Romans 5:7-8

"Jesus didn't just die for our sins, he died for our value. No one is willing to die for trash."

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Romans 6

• Slave to righteouness instead of slaves to sin

"Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey?...We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin."
-Romans 6

Romans 7

• Don't be a person of the law
• There is still struggle with sin due to our nature as sinful people

"19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it."
-Romans 7:19-20

Romans 8

• We can overcome by His Spirit!
• Guard your thoughts/mind
• We are designed to be conquerers of sin

"1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death."
-Romans 8:1-2

"So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace."
-Romans 8:6

"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."
-Romans 8:37

Romans Recap

• Romans 1-8 is a thorough explanation of salvation
• Paul guides us on what our lives as saved believers should look like

We have refused God
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Outer righteousness is useless
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No one is righteous
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God made a way
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Only Christ can save
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Slaves to righteousness
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Continued struggle with sin
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Overcoming by the Holy Spirit