Romans 1

Paul’s letters to Roman Christians

1. Introduces himself as a bondservant to Jesus who wishes to spread the gospel

2. Introduces Jesus

   1. Died for our sins

   2. Son of God

   3. Resurrected

   4. Gave us grace and apostleship

3. Addressing Rome

   1. Grace and peace from God to those in Rome who are called to be saints

   2. Thanks God (father) and Jesus for their faith

   3. That he always prays for the people of Rome and prays that he’ll get the chance to visit them to give them a spiritual gift

   4. Being comforted by their mutual faith

   5. He has tried before but has been hindered by other forces

   6. Admits the technology of the Greeks and Barbarians have been useful so he repays this debt by spreading the gospel

   7. “The just shall live by faith”

4. Rome and God

   1. Paul’s purpose for writing to Rome

   2. God’s wrath is revealed by heaven against the unjust and unrighteous

      1. Humanity is guilty before God for unholiness and evil works

   3. God created humanity and it is clearly shown

      1. Yet humanity has grown vain and unthankful to their creator

      2. Turning into fools who think they are wise

      3. Changing God’s incorruptible image to man’s corruptible form as well as that of animals

      4. Now God has let humanity spend their lift worshipping and praising themselves and other creations rather than the creator himself

      5. Even genders have turned away from each other to the same (homosexuality) removing natural purpose of connection between the opposing genders

      6. God has rewarded our rebellion by letting us do debased actions (fornication, coveting, murder, deceit, boasting, etc)

      7. That we do without even thinking about the judgment of God. That each sin is worthy of death, and yet we just do them, not just habitually, but with pleasure.