1. Romans, Four and Five Week Five

2. Review to Date The Failure of the Gentiles The Failure of the Jews Chapter 3: God’s faithfulness, no one is righteous, DOCTRINAL CENTER OF THE WHOLE BOOK.. 3.21-31

3. Chapter Four Why Abraham? Three reasons: A)The Jews regarded Abraham as the founder of the race, and supreme ideal of man, B)A radical doctrine which is not radical. C) I have been talking about faith in abstract. If you want to see what faith is, look at Abraham. Story of Robert Louis Stevenson.

4. Abraham Genesis 17.17 The Promise of the God who makes the Impossible Possible. How was Abraham saved? An important transition to Chapter 5-Justification, and the Promise.

5. Chapter Five What does prosagoge mean ? Ushered into the presence of royalty! Also means, in nautical terms, a _______________ Thlipis, and hupomone

6. Chapter Five Dokime! The Final proof of love-Romans 5.6-11 Status and state… justification and sanctification

7. The Old and New Adam Paul does not see Adam as a individual. He is part of mankind, and so his sin is the sin of mankind. All humanity sinned in Adam : a) Not strange to Judaism: 2 Esdras b)Paul: Death is the direct consequence of sin-we would have been immoral!

8. What Happened? The time of Adam to Moses-no law! What happened? A definition of Sin, sin, and moral and venial sins, RC tradition. A serious flaw in this argument? Whatever else we can say “Man was ruined by Sin, rescued by Christ” William Barclay