ROMANS V.P. Wierwille Romans Table of Contents REFERENCE Pages Introduction ................................................................. v-xi Background & Structure .............................................. 1-7 “Doulos” ................................................................. 9-17 “Genitive of Relationship” .......................................... 19-26 Romans 1:1 “Jesus Christ” ....................................... 27-31 Romans 1:1 “Called” ........................................ 33-36 Romans 1:1-3 “Separated” ......................................... 37-40 Romans 1:1-4 ........................................................ 41-45 Romans 1:4 ........................................................ 47-51 Romans 1:5-7 ........................................................ 53-58 Romans 1:8-12 ........................................................ 59-64 Romans 1:13-15 ........................................................ 65-70 Romans 1:17 ........................................................ 71-76 Romans 1:18-22 ........................................................ 77-80 Romans 1:18-26 ........................................................ 81-88 Romans 1:27-32 ........................................................ 89-96 Romans 2:1-6 ........................................................ 97-102 Romans 2:6-11 ........................................................ 103-107 Romans 2:12-16 ........................................................ 109-112 Romans 2:17-29 ........................................................ 113-118 Romans 3:1-9 ........................................................ 119-125 Romans 3:10-22 ........................................................ 127-131 Romans 3:21-26 ........................................................ 133-142 Romans 3:27-31 ........................................................ 143-147 Romans 4:1-8 ........................................................ 149-154 Romans 4:9-22 ........................................................ 155-165 Romans 4:23-5:11 ........................................................ 167-175 Romans 5:12 ........................................................ 177-182 Romans 5:12-14 ........................................................ 183-186 Romans 5:12-21 ........................................................ 187-199 i ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Romans 6:1-14 ........................................................ 201-212 Romans 6:15ff ........................................................ 213-221 Romans 6:15-7:6 ........................................................ 223-231 Romans 7:7-12 ........................................................ 233-238 Romans 7:13-25 ........................................................ 239-240 Romans 8:1-4 ........................................................ 241-249 Romans 8:5-11 ........................................................ 251-259 Romans 8:12-17 ........................................................ 261-269 Romans 8:18-21 ........................................................ 271-275 Romans 8:22-28 ........................................................ 277-285 Romans 8:29, 30 ........................................................ 287-295 Romans 8:31-39 ........................................................ 297-302 Romans 9:1-5 ........................................................ 303-308 Romans 9:6-13 ........................................................ 309-314 Romans 9:14-16 ........................................................ 315-319 Romans 9:17-33 ........................................................ 321-327 Romans 10:1-8 ........................................................ 329-334 Romans 10:9-13 ........................................................ 335-341 Romans 10:14, 15 ........................................................ 343-347 Romans 10:15-21 ........................................................ 349-353 Romans 11:1-24 ........................................................ 355-362 Romans 11:25-36 ........................................................ 363-366 Romans 12:1-3 ........................................................ 367-371 Romans 12:3-8 ........................................................ 373-380 Romans 12:9-21 ........................................................ 381-387 Romans 13:1 ........................................................ 389-395 Romans 13:1-8 ........................................................ 397-402 Romans 13:8-10 ........................................................ 403-410 Romans 13:11-14 ........................................................ 411-413 Romans 14:1 ........................................................ 415-419 Romans 14:1-6 ........................................................ 421-424 Romans 14:2-10 ........................................................ 425-432 Romans 14:11-23 ........................................................ 433-440 TABLE OF CONTENTS iii Romans 14:17-23 ........................................................ 441-449 Romans 15:1-13 ........................................................ 451-458 Romans 15:13 ........................................................ 459-463 Romans 15:14-29 ........................................................ 465-469 Romans 15:30-33 ........................................................ 471-475 Romans 16:1-16 ........................................................ 477-481 Romans 16:16-18 ........................................................ 483-488 Romans 16:19-27 ........................................................ 489-497 The Meaning & Background of the Names of 499-501 Men and Women in Romans 16 Bibliography ........................................................ 503 ROMANS INTRODUCTION Jesus Christ, the man from Galilee, has affected all our lives to the Nth degree. Now the word, or the words of God, as spoken or written; words of the judges, the prophets, Christ, Peter, Paul, and all the others who spoke or wrote the Word of God are equal in importance, otherwise, we reduce the Bible to a level where our respect for the word is determined by man’s rivalry as to which is most important, rather than the authority of the word, and the declaration of God which in I Corinthians 2:13 is: “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” The authority of the word is divine. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, for the prophecy came not in olden time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. The difference in the word is made known by observing to whom, when, special persons, circumstances, what administration it is spoken or written, and many other signposts that must be observed. In the gospel of John, chapter 16, we read in verse 12-16: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now Howbeit when he [it], the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine and shall show it unto you. A little while, and ye shall not see me, and again a little while and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.” A fantastic record about the man, Jesus Christ. He spoke this before the ascension, and it is truly fantastic what he said. He said he had yet many things that were to be related but they couldn’t take it at the time. In verse 13, when that spirit of truth, which came on the day of Pentecost, that spirit will guide you into all truth. First, it’s called the spirit of truth; secondly, it is going to guide you; thirdly, the guiding will be into all truth. If it is all truth, how much more truth is there than all truth? None! That spirit is God in Christ in you today, but going back, it was God in Christ at that time after the day of Pentecost to those men who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit who gave the words which the Holy Spirit teaches... first you have to hear it. They were given that word. Furthermore, this spirit is going to glorify me for that spirit is God, via Jesus Christ, and that is why all things that the Father hath are mine. We’re going to be working one of the books of the Bible that begins to make known the spirit of truth that will guide into all truth. That spirit that they heard, that spoke, and that v vi INTRODUCTION even showed things to come. The greatness of this revelation was so fantastic, and people were so excited and moving with it, that Acts 19 has that great statement which is knowledgeable to all of you – Acts 19:10: “This continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia [Minor] heard the word [logos] of the Lord [Jesus], both Jews and Greeks.” That was a tremendous time in the history of the world, that something that is all truth should be made known. What a tremendous thing, that it is possible to have the all truth. It is exciting and electrifying! How many times have we not had more error than we’ve ever had truth handed to us? But to think that the word of God declares that there is an all truth that the spirit will guide into. Under the ministry of Paul and the other apostles and disciples, the whole province of Asia Minor heard the “logos,” the word in two years and 3 months, and yet, it is a marked contrast when compared with II Timothy 1:5: “This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; ...” Before the death of the apostle Paul, the one who was responsible, along with others, that all this province of Asia heard the word of the Lord; before his death, it is recorded in God’s word that they in Asia had turned away. Now I, for one moment, do not believe that they turned away from Paul because they disliked the clothing that he wore, or the way he looked. It was a lot deeper than that. Before the death of the apostle Paul, that scripture in John 16:12-16 had been fulfilled. The spirit had come and had guided them into all truth. And therefore, the Adversary went to work, to chip away at that truth so that they lost the significance of the great mystery. All the great revelation of God in Christ in you, the hope of glory; having passed from death unto life; no condemnation; all of those great truths of what God made Christ to be for the believer; what He made the believer to be in Christ; all of that was gone before the death of that man. Knowing these great truths documented from God’s word, you can readily see why the Adversary is always after the word. He doesn’t mind if you talk about witnessing – as long as you don’t do it. He doesn’t mind if you say “I’m a Christian and I’m going to heaven” – as long as you don’t move the word. It is the word that disturbs him, it’s the word that upsets him, and he does everything that is in his power to deter, to hinder, to obstruct, to destroy the people who have a knowledge of the word, or begin to compromise on the word. He’ll do anything; and he did that in the first century. We went through stuff like what they called “apostolic succession.” If you want to see apostolic succession, you see it in Acts 20:29: “For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock” This “grievous wolves,” that’s apostolic succession. That’s what happened after the apostle Paul’s death. They look nice, they act nice, they sweet talk you, but they have no word, the word is gone, it’s disappeared. You’ve got to get committed to the word. We’re going to be in that word where the all truth is made known. I do not know of anything more because there is no more to know, and it’s all truth! The only problem I will ever have is with me believing that God’s word means what it says and says what it means, that it is God’s true word. So I have to get committed to that word. The Cheyenne “dog soldiers” carried a leather thong, about 20 feet long, around their waist. When they got out to battle, they would drive down a stake to which they would tie that 20 foot leather thong.