Chapters: 16
Verses: 433
Words: around 9447
Time Period: around 58-60 AD
Name Meaning – Strength, Power, Energy
Theme – The Revelation of the righteousness of God, which is through Jesus Christ.
HISTORICAL – Paul writing to the saints at Rome about foundational truths of the Christian faith.
DOCTRINAL – A thorough exposition of our salvation today. Paul gives the great truths about our salvation today.
DEVOTIONAL,INSPIRATIONAL,PRACTICAL– You see your need for the righteousness of Jesus Christ. How to get it and how you need to live after you get it.
Chapter 1
Man Doesn’t Want God In His Knowledge
The entire history of mankind has been man giving himself over to wicked imaginations and fulfilling the sinful desires of his heart.
Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient
The average man doesn’t want to think about God or the Bible because it reminds him that he is GUILTY!
If you want to cut down on a sin problem than put a Bible in your pocket, and right next to you in every room. It makes you sin conscious.
You bring it to work and people will clean up their act temporarily.
They have to get around the word to live wicked with a good conscience.
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Chapter 2
Men Believe They Are Righteous
Consider how the Pharisees looked good outwardly, but inwardly they were full of hypocrisy.
Rom 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Pharisees could look at the publicans, the harlots, and all of their unrighteousness they did outwardly, but the Pharisees are just as bad inwardly.
You may have it all looking good on the outside and be rotten as hell on the inside. A politician looks like a good man. Abortion doctors look like good men.
God says every man without exception is evil, Jew or gentile.
Rom 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Rom 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
The history of gentiles is shown to be a wicked history according to Romans chapter 1. The Jews are shown to be wicked in chapter 2.
The gentiles are giving the illustration of outward wickedness. The jews here are giving the illustration of inward wickedness.
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
There is a question about “what about the lost who have never heard of the gospel”?
Everyone will hear. Remember he said “for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20)
Jhn 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
God puts it in your heart that he is real. He puts it in the creation that he is real. He put the law in their heart so they could live by their conscience.
Chapter 3
Man Can’t Make Himself Righteous
Chapter 1 shows you that man is evil and gets worse. Chapter 2 shows you that men are self righteous. Now chapter 3 shows you that man can’t make himself righteous!
Rom 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Rom 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Rom 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Rom 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Rom 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Rom 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Chapter 4
You Have To Get IMPUTED Righteousness
Rom 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
Rom 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
Rom 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Rom 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Rom 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Rom 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Rom 4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Rom 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin
Abraham’s faith in his seed was why he got imputed righteousness just as our faith on Jesus Christ is why we got imputed righteousness.
Rom 4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
Rom 4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
Rom 4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Rom 4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Rom 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Rom 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
Rom 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
Rom 4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
In chapter 1 you saw that man is unrighteous. And just how far he will go in unrighteousness.
In chapter 2 you saw that men are self righteous.
In chapter 3 you see how man can’t make himself righteous.
In chapter 4 God himself must give you righteousness.
Chapter 5
The JUDGE Declares You Righteous
In Genesis 18:25 Abraham says to the LORD “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Since we are unrighteous, it wouldn’t be right for God to give us salvation UNLESS he has found a way to do it.
The way he has found a way to give us righteousness is by coming down, living the righteous life himself, and giving you the opportunity to accept his righteous record when you believe on HIM to be saved.
God is DOING RIGHT by giving righteousness to anyone on believes on Him.
Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
My Standing is sinless perfection because of the imputed righteousness.
The fact that he gave me His righteousness allows him to declare me righteous even though I’m UNRIGHTEOUS!
Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
At salvation you received the Holy Ghost. It came in to live. And your body is now the temple of the Holy Ghost.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
The blood is significant. Without shedding of blood is no remission.
The blood of Jesus Christ saves you from the wrath of God in hell and the great tribulation time period.
1Th 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Rom 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Reconciliation. Before salvation you were the enemy of God. Jesus Christ reconciled you to God by his blood.
Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
The “peace offering” in the Old Testament is a picture of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the opposite of a lot of people. They want to go around and cause trouble between two parties.
Pro 16:28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Just like the devil wanted to separate Adam and Eve from God.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Jesus Christ wants to make peace between two parties.
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Chapter 6
The Spirit Baptizes You Into The Body Of Christ
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Your baptized into the body of Christ the moment you believe on Jesus Christ from the heart.
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
When you got saved you were crucified, buried, and risen to walk in Jesus Christ.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
My old man, the flesh, was crucified with Jesus Christ. As far as God is concerned, my flesh is dead, so anytime I spend serving the flesh, I’m serving a dead body.
Chapter 7
The SPIRIT Separates Your Flesh & Soul
Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Once you get married your bound to your husband, but if he dies than your loosed.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
If your husband is living, and you haven’t scriptural divoorced him, and you join with another man, you’re an adulteress.
BUT if he is dead you have been loosed and your not an adulteress, through your married to ANOTHER man.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
He is using this illustration to show you something about your salvation. When you got saved you became dead to the law. Your flesh died, and you are free to marry the one who was raised from the dead. (Jesus Christ)
This has to do with the spiritual circumcision. Where your body is separated from your soul. And you were free to marry another.
But now your EX won’t leave you alone. He’s always calling you, knocking at your door, saying just one more time, saying let’s do something tonight. Saying don’t you miss the old days and how happy we were?
Now…You got this perfect guy, so don’t try to crawl back in bed with the flesh. He’s the bad boy type.
The average person likes bad boys and bad women. No matter they give into the flesh so much.
The perfect guy, the new man in you now, is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.
The average woman thinks the good guy is boring.
And this is just like how Christians get bored with God and the Bible.
They see the flesh as the bad boy who gives them instant fun because the pleasure of sin only last for a season. They aren’t thinking about the future about how the old man is going no where.
But the NEW MAN, the perfect man, not only can you grow old with him down here, you go to a place where you never grow old together.
The old man is dead right now and he will ruin your life. He looked so good at first, then you wake up next to him and you see the beer belly, he’s 25 but looking 60, spending all his money on vaping and booze, doesn’t want to spend time with the kids, scared to death of work. That’s the old man.
The old man is what says go back to sleep when your alarm goes off. The old man is what says “just smack that co worker upside his head”.
Where we get age of accountability.
REDEMPTION (why your BOUGHT BACK)
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Rom 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE FLESH AND SPIRIT. (Battle with your Ex that won’t leave you alone)
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Your flesh is like a stalker that is obsessed with you and anytime you spent with him you will
Be sorry. Because you’re just leading him on and he thinks you really want to be in a relationship with him.
Chapter 8
In The Family, Waiting On A Glorified Body
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
I’m putting off this body and getting a new one.
If I don’t suffer for the LORD while in this body than I’ll die early.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
And I won’t get as much rewards.
Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Chapter 9
Paul’s Heavy Burden For Israel
Rom 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Rom 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Chapters 9-11 are obviously about the physical nation of Israel. Notice Paul said “my kinsmen according to the FLESH”. This isn’t his brothers in Christ.
Rom 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Rom 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Concerning the flesh in which Christ came, He was a Jew!
Paul has a heavy burden for Israel. They have rejected Jesus Christ. Jesus came unto his own and his own received him not. Paul knows that most of the Jews are headed to hell because they reject Jesus Christ.
Chapter 10
Israel’s Ignorance Of God’s Righteousness. How Do You Accept His Righteousness?
Rom 10:1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
How does Paul say a man gets saved? Acts 16:31 days “believe on the LORD Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” For the most part Israel won’t do this.
Rom 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Rom 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
All kinds of people are doing this. They are trying to set up their own righteousness. But man can’t make himself righteous. When a person says you have to complete this list of standards in order to get saved, stay saved, or prove your saved, they are showing that they are ignorant of God’s righteousness.
Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
At one time God would see a man as righteous temporarily when he kept the law, and offered the prescribed sacrifice when he broke it. But the blood of bulls and goats can’t take away sin.
Jesus Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. He kept the law perfectly and then died for your sins and he offers his righteousness to you.
Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
The gospel, the word of truth, that will save you is in your heart and it is in your mouth. It is just inches away.
All you have to do to be saved is…
Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Rom 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
The moment you believe on Him from the heart, you are saved, and as a general rule the things that are in your heart come out of your mouth.
Rom 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Chapter 11
Mystery Of Israel’s Blindness
Rom 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin
Notice that Paul is still talking about his national distinction. An Israelite, seed of Abraham, tribe of Benjamin. The context is definitely referring to physical Israel.
Rom 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Gentiles are those who aren’t Jews. In the Old Testament God was dealing with the Jews, the nation of Israel. Now, he’s dealing with the church and primarily gentiles are making up this church, which is the body of Christ.
But notice he is using the gentiles to “provoke Israel to jealousy”. That also shows he isn’t done with them. If you have an old girlfriend , you try to make her jealous because you’re still interested in her.
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Anyone who says that God is done with Israel or that the church has replaced Israel is ignorant of this mystery and they are conceited.
Right now Israel is blind in part, most of them don’t believe on Jesus Christ as the son of God but one day there will be a remnant that does in the tribulation and when Jesus Christ comes back at the second coming they will look on him whom they have pierced.
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Rom 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Notice this can’t be talking about the church. We already have our sins taken away. We are ALREADY SAVED.
Rom 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
The church isn’t an enemy to the gospel, that would be Israel, they don’t believe in the gospel. In that sense they are my enemy, but when it comes to the election, they are beloved for the father’s sake. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Rom 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
God isn’t going to go back on his unconditional, everlasting, promise to Abraham.
Chapter 12
Service For God
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Rom 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Rom 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Rom 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Rom 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Chapter 13
How Christians Should Act Towards Higher Powers
Rom 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Rom 13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
Rom 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Chapter 14
Liberty In Christ Concerning Questionable Things
Rom 14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Rom 14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Rom 14:3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Rom 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Rom 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Rom 14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Rom 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
Rom 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Rom 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Rom 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Chapter 15
Please Your Neighbor, Paul Minister To Gentiles
Rom 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Rom 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Rom 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Rom 15:25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
Rom 15:26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
Rom 15:27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
Chapter 16
Paul’s Greeting, Salutation, Warnings, Closing
Rom 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
Rom 16:4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
Rom 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Rom 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Rom 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
