1. The Gospel A series in Romans

2. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful.

3. The Universal Reality of Sin Everyone (1:18-20) Educated (1:21-31) Moral (ch. 2:1-16) Jew (ch. 2:17ff) “So that all people are without excuse.” Romans 1:20

4. God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 1. What they THINK: The way they judge others. 2. What they DO: The merit of their works. 3. What they KNOW: The extent of their knowledge.

5. The Pervasive Power of Sin Suppress the truth by their wickedness (18) Brain Body Being Foolish hearts darkened (21) They are full of envy, murder, strife… (29)

6. The Spiral of Life - Romans 8:4-5 “That the righteous requirements of the Law might be fully met in us who walk / live not according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.” Brain Body Being “Have their minds set on what the Spirit desires” “Those who are being according to the Spirit”

7. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews Revealing His Will – “the oracles of God” First of all Primarily “Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.”Romans 9:4-5

8. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews Revealing His Will – “the oracles of God” First of all Primarily Abraham 2000 BC Moses 1500 BC David 1000 BC Daniel 500 BC Jesus 30 AD “I will bless you… and through you all nations will be blessed.” Genesis 12:1-4

9. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews 2. God was Faithful in Punishing the Jews Revealing His Will “If you fully obey the L ORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the L ORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the L ORD your God… “However, if you do not obey the L ORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you…” Deuteronomy 28:1-2,15

10. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews 2. God was Faithful in Punishing the Jews Revealing His Will “The L ORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him… The L ORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.” Deuteronomy 28:20,25

11. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews 2. God was Faithful in Punishing the Jews Revealing His Will “The L ORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the L ORD will drive you… Then the L ORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. ” Deuteronomy 28:20,25

12. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews 2. God was Faithful in Punishing the Jews Revealing His Will “The Lord, the Lord, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding with hesed and emet.” Exodus 34:6

13. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews 2. God was Faithful in Punishing the Jews 3. God is Faithful in Judging the Religious Revealing His Will Our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness But God is not unjust We are free to NOT sin We are free to NOT sin Our falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness Our evil results in good: God is glorified And we are not free to sin…

14. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews 2. God was Faithful in Punishing the Jews 3. God is Faithful in Judging the Religious & the Rebellious Revealing His Will His Judgment is Just Believers are not free to sin We are free to NOT sin We are free to NOT sin Everyone is “Under Sin” “Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set us free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending His Son…” Romans 8:2-3

15. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews 2. God was Faithful in Punishing the Jews 3. God is Faithful in Judging the Religious 4. God is Faithful in Judging the Rebellious Revealing His Will His Judgment is Just Believers are not free to sin We are free to NOT sin We are free to NOT sin Everyone is “Under Sin” Sinful at Heart Sinful in Speech Sinful in Action Everyone is Guilty Works cannot save

16. Despite our Faithlessness God is Faithful. 1. God was Faithful in Blessing the Jews 2. God was Faithful in Punishing the Jews 3. God is Faithful in Judging the Religious 4. God is Faithful in Judging the Rebellious 5. God is Faithful in Providing a Savior Revealing His Will His Judgment is Just Believers are not free to sin We are free to NOT sin We are free to NOT sin Everyone is “Under Sin” Sinful at Heart Sinful in Speech Sinful in Action Everyone is Guilty Works cannot save The Law’s Purpose was never to REMOVE sin but to REVEAL it