What does Paul say?
* Romans 1
* Gospel intro in vs. 16
* vs. 18 God’s wrath
* Gentiles deserve wrath
* Romans 2
* Jews think they know, but they don’t
* Romans 3
* vs 9 Jews have no advantage
* Romans 3:21-26
* righteousness of God
* positional/forensic/legal righteousness
* righteous status that God wants to give sinners
* salvation
* progressive righteousness
* becoming more like Christ over time
* sanctification
* actual righteousness
* once we get to heaven
* fullness of salvation
* glorification
* word group dikao
* noun- righteousness
* verb- justify, to declare righteous
* vs. 21-22
* bear witness
* not different kind of righteousness, Genesis points to it
* different in degree and accomplishment that is surpasses and is apart from the law
* faith in Jesus vs animal sacrifice
* by faith, I don’t work first, but accept Jesus’s righteousness and payment for sin
* Jesus’s human life pays for human sin, and His divine/infinite life pays for an infinite amount of human sin
* animals only symbolize because they are innocent, but not human or infinite
* vs. 23
* all people
* glory of God
* realistic standard for human life to which God holds us accountable
* doesn’t require omniscience and omnipotent, but justice, mercy, and walk humbly with God
* possible with the Spirit after salvation
* vs. 24-26
* justified (declare righteous) by grace
* grace: God’s riches at Christ’s expense
* redemption: purchased
* propitiation: satisfaction of wrath, bear just penalty for sin
* mercy seat
* the blood is over the ten commandments
* Jesus absorbs the wrath and gets destroyed in protection of us
* God’s wrath is the proper reaction to evil
* God punished Israel and Abraham through Jesus
* just because He punishes sin
* justifier because through Jesus He pays for sin
Role of Faith
* Faith: trust promises of God, results in action
* believe and repent are so intertwined, they are interchangeable
* repentance: turning away from sin
* faith: turning towards Jesus
* focus needs to be on object of faith, not amount of faith
* Eph. 2:8-10
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heart to obey, good works, fruit of the Spirit
evidence
Faith
means
Grace
Proto-evangelium
* first Gospel
* Gen 3
* God’s Role
Form
Function
light from darkness
sun, moon, stars
sky from water
birst and fish
land from later
animals
Man’s Role
* reflect God (image of God)
* rational, emotional, will
* God passed the baton, we dropped it
* God wants to get back to perfect, Rev. 19-20
Gen 3
* word of evil one challenges word of God
* introduces conflict
* word of judgement for serpent, and promise for people
* loss of rule and loss of relationship
* Emnity between Satan and Eve (head and heel)
* supposed to be God→ Adam→ Ground
* Adam rebels→ Ground rebels
* death
* what used to be fun work is toil
* don’t live forever
* death of innocent substitute is necessary
* %%vs 19 death%%
* %%vs 20 faith%%
* %%vs 21 covering of sins%%
Gospel in OT
* Gen 3, 12, 49; 2 Sam 7; Is. 9, 11, 42, 53, 61
* Gen 12
* background
* Gen 11 Babel
* language forced division into nations
* necessary to prevent further unity against God
* ruins change of unified cimmunity
* Babel→Humpty Dumpty
* God’s promise to Abraham os the answer to the problem of Babel
* vs. 1-3
* expands on promise of chapter 3
* Gal. 3:8 Paul refers to 12:3 as the Gospel in advance
* blessing→God→Abram→Jesus→people
* promise to put nations back together
* Land
* put in crossroads of ancient world
* Nation
* Ex. 19:6
* God<→ Priest<→ people
* Kingdom of priests
* God<→nation of priests<→the world
* Leader
* Jesus
* Gen. 49
* Jacob’s prophetic words
* Judah→vs 10, scepter
* Shiloh
* until he comes to whom it (scepter) belongs (Jesus)
* obedience of the nations (Gen. 11-12)
* 2 Sam. 7
* God blesses David to bless and unite Israel
* capital, palace
* vs. 11 David will have a dynasty
* vs. 12 seed after you will build a house for me, I will establish his throne forever
* Solomon built temple, reigned, but died
* Zerubbabel built temple, didn’t reign
* Jesus will build and reign forever
* Is. 9
* Prince of Wholeness
* Shalom
* peace, restoration, fullness of function
* Is. 11
* no curse, no fear of nature
* Jesus’s miracles stop/go against the curse
* Is. 52-53
* talk about Jesus before He comes
Gospel in NT
* Matt. 27; Acts 2, 10; Gal. 3, 2; Rom. 1; Rev. 7, 19, 21-22
* Matt. 27
* Barabbas
* Bar Abbas (son of the father)
* reed→scepter
* crown of thorns→curse
* Jesus gives His life, it is not taken from Him
* people come to life as soon as Jesus dies, the price was paid
* Acts 2
* Spirit comes down on all nations (Jews from all over the world)
* Acts 10
* Peter and Cornelius the centurion
* Cornelius gets the Spirit
* beginning of Babel being put back together
* Eph. 3
* mystery: previously unknown, new revelation by the Holy Spirit
* Gentiles are fellow heirs
* no one ever saw that they would be equal
* Gentiles now get the fullness of God’s blessing
* Gal. 3, 2
* Gentiles don’t need to become Jewish to be on the same level
* Gospel creates one unified body
* Rev. 7
* God sends Jewish people to tell others about Him, and so many got saved you can’t count them
* God’s plan for the Jewish people falls into place