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ROMANS

1. It was constituted by Jewish people who converted during the day of Pentecost.
Upon returning to Rome, they spread the gospel, and the church grew.

-Acts 2

2. Through God’s grace (God’s unmerited favor) and Christ’s sacrifice on the cross,
through faith. Through him we can stand before God Justified (not guilty).

-Romans 3:21

3. Using the gifts of the Spirit to serve others (12:3,8), truly love them (12:9,21) and
be decent citizens (13:1,14). Freedom must be guided by mutual love, building each
other up in faith and by being sensitive and helpful to those who are weak (14:1-15:4)

4. Introduce Paul to the Romans and give a sample of his message before he arrives
in Rome.

5. Paulo is the author of the book of Romans.

6. To the Cristhians at Rome.

7. Around 57 AD.

8. From Corinth, when Paul was preparing to visit Jerusalem.

9. The key verse in Romans 5:1.

10. The key people: Paul and Phoebe.

11. The key place: Rome.

12. In his letter to the Romans, Paul carefully presents an organized statement of his
faith. Although it’s not the typical form of letter, in the end Paul devotes considerable
space to greeting the people in Rome.
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I. What to believe 1:1, 11:36

All people are sinners; Christ died to forgive our sins; we become righteous before God
through faith; this begins a new life with a new relationship with God. Like a sports team,
sticking to the fundamentals will help us greatly in our faith. If we study Romans carefully,
we will always know what to believe.

a. The problem of sin.

b. Forgiveness of sin through Christ.

c. Freedom from the clutches of sin.

d. The past, present and future of Israel.

II. How to behave

Paul gives the believers in Rome clear and practical guidelines for the personal life of a
believer. The Cristhian faith is not an abstract theology disconnected from life, but rather it
has practical implications that will affect how we decide to behave each day.

It is not enough to simply know the gospel; we must let it impact and transform every
aspect of our life.

a. Personal responsibility.

b. Personal note.

14.

a. Explanation of Sin: It means refusing to do God’s will or not doing everything God wants.
Since Adam’s rebellion against God, we disobey by nature. Our sin separates us from God.
Sin drives us to live as we please rather than the way God desires. Because God is morally
perfect, just and impartial, he corrects and just when he condemns sin.

b. It’s importance: Every person has sinned, whether by rebellion against God or
by ignoring his will. Our backround or all the effort we make to lead moral and correct lives
does not matter. We cannot earn salvation or take away our sin. Only Christ can save us.

15.

a. Explanation of Salvation: Because of sin, we need to be forgiven and cleansed. Even

though we don’t deserve it, God, in his goodness extended his hand to love us all
and forgive us. He gives us the way to be saved. Christ’s death paid the panlty for our sin.
b. It’s Importance: It’s good news that God saves us from our sin, but to enter into a new
and wonderful relationship with God, it is necessary to believe that Jesus Christ died for us
and that he forgives all our sins.

16.

a. Explanation of Growth: By the power of God, believers are sanctified (i.e., made holy).
This means that he separates us from sin and gives us the power to obey and to become
more like Christ. As we grow in our relationship with Christ, the Holy Spirit frees us from
the demands of the Law and the fear of God’s Judgement.

b. It’s Importance: Because we are free from the control of sin, what the Law
demands, and the fear of God’s punishment, we can grow in our relationship with Christ.
By trusting in the Holy Spirit and allowing him to help us, we will overcome sin
and temptation.

17.

a. Explanation of Sovereignty: God watches over and cares for his people; in the
past, present and future. God’s dealings with people are always fair. He is in charge of
all creation and that is why he can save whoever he wants.

b. It’s Importance: Thanks to God’s mercy, both Jews and Gentiles can be saved. We
must all respond to his mercy and accept his undeserved gift of forgiveness. Since he
is sovereign, let him reign in your heart.

18.

a. Explanation of Service: When we see our purpose in all we do, to glorify God by his love,
power and perfection, we can serve him properly. That service for him unites all believers
and gives them the power to show love and sensitivity to others.

b. It’s Importance: By oneself, no one can have the character of Christ. It takes the entire
body of Christ to fully represent the Lord. By actively and vigorously building up other
believers, Christians can be a symphony of service for God.

19. Apostle means sent person.

20.

a. He came as a human, by natural descent.

b. He took part in the Jewish Royal Lineage of David.

c. He died and rose again.

d. He opened the door for God’s Grace and Goodness to be poured out on us. 21. Saying
that Jesus was a descendant of King David emphasizes that Jesus really fulfilled the
prophecies of the Old Testament, which anticipated that the Messiah would come from the
lineage of David. With this declaration of Faith, Paul declares his agreement with the
teaching of all scripture and the apostles.

22. Paul says that Jesus Christ invited Christians to remain in the Family of God and to be
his own people.

23. Roma was the capital of the Imperial Roman Empire, which extended throughout
the most part of Europe, north Africa and Middle East, New Testament times, when
Romans enjoyed what is called their Golden Age. The city was economically, artistic and
literary wealth and a cultural hotspot.

24. Paul uses the phrase “through Jesus Christ, I thank my God”, to emphasize that Christ
is the only mediator between God and us. Through Christ, God sends us his Love and
Forgiveness; through Christ, we send our thanks to God.

-Timothy 2:5

25. When you find yourself continually praying about something that worries you, don’t be
surprised by the way God answers you. Paul asked God to allow him to go to Rome to teach
the Christians who lived there; when he finally arrived in Rome, he was a prisoner. (Act
28:16) Paul prayed for God’s care on his journey and that he would arrive safely, but only
after being arrested and slapped, experiencing a shipwreck and being bitten by a
poisonous viper. When we pray sincerely, God answers us, although he does so at his own
time and in ways we do not expect.

26. Paul felt a great obligation to the inhabitants of both the civilized world and the rest of
the world, to the educated and the uneducated alike.

27. Paul was not ashamed because his message was good news about Christ. It was the
message of salvation with the power to change lives, and it’s for everyone. 28. For more
than 2,000 years the Jews had been God’s special people, ever since God chose Abraham
and promised great blessings for his descendants. (Genesis 12:1,3) God did not choose the
Jews because use they deserved to be chosen (Deuteronomy 7:7-8, 9:4,6), but because he
wanted to show them his Love and Mercy, and that it would be through them that the
Messiah would come to the world. God chose them, not because he has favorites, but so
that they could proclaim to the world his plan of Salvation.

29. In this good News we see God’s Justice in his plan to save us and discover how we can
be qualified for eternal life.
30. That when we trust in Christ, our relationship with God is fixed; as a final price, God
declares us righteous before him through Faith and only by Faith, to show that by trusting in
God, we are Saved and have Life now and forever.

31. Emphasizing that he not only improves our life now in our present but also promises us
eternal life.

32. It explains how in God’s creation alone, one can see the character of God and God has
also revealed his Law and his word to us and some have perverted and altered his word or
deliberately refused to follow his teachings and the Law.

33. No.

34. God wants to give us a perfect life, and to give us that life, sin and sinful character
cannot enter the new kingdom. Therefore, anyone who suppresses the truth of God in order
to live his life his way despite the truth must suffer the consequences.

35. We need them because they facilitate God’s mission by spreading the word and
helping people know the true nature of God and how sin and our actions separate us from
him and the life he wants to give us.

36. A Powerful, intelligent, loving, merciful and detail oriented, organized God.

37. Through their ignorance and refusal to know God and his word. Humanity is so vain
that they look to replace God with their own images of Power, the Divine and Perfection.

38. Strictly prohibited.

39. It is suggested that this notion is engraved in our minds and hearts because of our sin
and our innate negative recollection and endurance of the guilt and consequences that
comes from sin.

40. We shouldn’t become angry because of others sins because we are also born with
the stain of it, we are sinners by nature and so we cannot judge others, only try our best not
to sin with the help of God every day.

41. By our own sins.

42. It criticizes the hypocrisy of a person when the judge others for the sins they
themselves commit.

43. It would represent a special pact between God and Man, where man is promising to
keep God’s word.

44.
a. Excuse #1: “God doesn’t exist.”, ignoring God’s existence, perhaps deliberately, to justify
their actions.

b. Excuse #2: “I’m not as bad as others.”, ignoring the fact that all sins are sin, regardless of
the type of sin.

c. Excuse #3: “I’m a member of Church.”, suggesting that because they go to church and
do good things, their sins should be accepted.

d. Excuse #4: “I’m a Religious person.”, projecting a “holier than thou”

persona, considering themselves exempt of the Law.

45.

a. They were entrusted with the Law.

b. The Mesiah came to die for our sins, to solidify the Law and a new pact of salvation. c.
They would benefit of God’s favor and many pacts between him and his people.

46. Because the take God’s forgiveness for granted, thinking no matter how many times
they sin, they will be forgiven, or that the ends justify the means or teach us valuable
lessons, or that they must stay current with times or that God is so benevolent that he
must ignore our deliberate actions

47. That all of us, without exception, are guilty of sin.

48. To reveal our sinful human nature, shining the light on our mistakes, so that in turn, not
to justify us by our actions, but so that our actions can bring us closer to God.

49. This is the embodiment of God’s Grace for us, forgiving us of our sins, freeing us
from eternal damnation by taking onto himself all our sins.

50. They shall also be judged and saved by the Grace of God, based on their Faith and
their knowledge.

51.

a. Eliminates the act of “tooting our own horns”, taking credit for God’s blessings
and mercy, thinking we can justify ourselves by empty actions.

b. It is Testament and homage to all that God does fo rus daily, even if we don’t
notice, especially when we don’t notice

c. Show us we are nothing without God, that we are only able because of him. d. It proves
that Faith cannot be based on actions, but with a sincere and personal relationship with
God.
52. They follow this mandate from God, in which all Jewish men are called to circumcision
as to separate them from other nations that worshiped false Gods.

53. God promised him that he would be the Father of many Nations and that the whole
world would be blessed through him and his descendance.

54. Paul is explaining just how lucky we are to be called children and friends of God,
without deserving it; calling it “underserved privilege”, and so it is, because we are blessed
and justified through his love and sacrifice, justified by Faith.

55. It all takes us back our need to search for God’s mercy and favor; to let him teach us
how to love and be loved by him. We are reminded that we are sinners, and by sinning, we
are testament to our sinful nature and our constant need of God.

56. It’s the process in which God’s changes us through faith and maturing.

57. Mediante la sumersión, ritual mediante se simboliza la muerte del pecado y

la resurrección en Cristo Jesús.

58. It means that through Christ we no longer have to carry the weight of sin on our own,
that we have the choice to follow him and let the Holy Ghost take over our lives and
actions. 59. God has given us the opportunity to follow him and to stray from sin, to no
longer be slaves of it.

60. It means to love and obey God with all our heart, mind, body and soul. 61. The
relationship between God and the Church, divorcing sin and marrying his Law
and devoting ourselves to him.

62. Having one's own satisfaction as the center, and one's source of power is one's own
motivation.

63. Paul says, "In my mind I truly want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I
am a slave to sin."

64. He learned that knowing the law or becoming a Christian isn’t enough to conquer
over sin, that one needs to work continuously towards becoming a better person under the
eyes of God and only with the help of God and will power.

65. It explains how we are prisoners of our sinful nature and condemned to eternal death
by the law, yet now in Christ we can choose and live by the law in mind and spirit.

66. It is the Greek term for actions of the body.

67. Those who are controlled by their sinful nature and those who are guided by the
Holy Spirit.
68. To deny one’s flesh and resist temptation, allowing the Holy Spirit to take over
our minds, bodies and spirits.

69. Because our world was taken hostage, perverted and lost all its potential, it’s
purpose. We rely only on the Mercy of our God, who thankfully, all he wants is to save us
and restore us.

70. Forces and legions of evil that intend to sully the name of God and destroy humanity.
71. He offered his own life in exchange for their salvation if needed be.

72. Because God knows all our hearts and even though he still gave Esau the privilege
to also know him and learn to love him, like he does with all of us, he needed Jacob
because he knew Jacob would be loyal to the cause and would secure God’s lineage of
faithful servants and the run for humanity’s salvation and redemption.

73. They wished to honor God but, they couldn’t understand that you do not accomplish
this by only keeping the law, as a ‘quid pro quo’, they failed to see that they needed
to develop a relationship with God through Faith.

74. It refers to Jesus, because they clash with what he offers, they refuse to accept
salvation through faith and his sacrifice in the cross; they wish to continue living their lives
as they see fit, thinking that they can buy themselves salvation through good deeds while
God ignores their faults.

75. Jewish people are beholden to the same law; salvation can only be obtained through
Jesus Christ. It explains this is why Paulo worked so arduously towards educating the
Jewish people about the truth.

76. Because humanity can no longer be justified by their own actions and merits, but
only through Faith and life in Jesus Christ.

77. So that the rest of the world would know the gospel and be saved through their
testimony.

78. They go by the law only when they had been chosen to spread the Gospel and
convert souls for the Glory of God, yet they still refused Jesus and his sacrifice.

79. It suggests remaining firm in our Faith and not letting temptation and circumstances
get the best of us.

80. No matter our differences, God has made is so that Jewish and Gentile alike can be
a blessing to the other.

81.
a. One must recognize that all gifts and talents come from God.

b. Understand that we do not all share the same gifts or talents.

c. We need to get to know ourselves, understand who we are and what we are
most capacitated for.

82. Each gift is given with a specific purpose to serve humanity in what every way that
may be and each gift requires certain talents but, it invites us to consider how a generous
and empathetic person might not also necessarily be fit to be a leader if they lack the
firmness and authority or the stomach to make tough decisions. And so goes on many
other ways we can compare this analogy to; we must understand that another’s weakness
or lack of may compliment or assist another’s. God in his wisdom has made it so that we
all become a whole of a metaphorical body in the service of God and ourselves.

83.

a. Because forgiveness not only can lead to reconciliation, growth and healing. b. It serves
as a tool to help people recognize, analyze and repent on their actions or lack of, for that
matter.

c. He explains how an eye for an eye can only beget more pain and destruction. No one
wins.

84. It talks about how all Christians have a common understanding that we must maintain
a peace broker between Church and State, and it’s explained as follows:

a. Many believe it not wise to become involved with State affairs considering how many
acts of the government go against one’s beliefs and therefore one must not work for the
government, vote or join the army.

b. Others believe that Church and State compliment each other and this is as intended by
God in the first place, explaining how God has considered each party’s responsibilities and
realms of jurisdiction and development or authority.

c. This one suggests that it is our responsibility and prerogative to influence the world and
society from within, electing citizens who embody the characteristics of a good citizen of
the world but of God as well, for the betterment of humanity. All this with the agreement of
the importance of us respecting the laws of the State so long it doesn’t clearly violate the
laws of God.

85. It’s a euphemism for “wearing” the presence and attributes of God through baptism,
by which we publicly accept and testify of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection
and commitment to his word and law with our service to others, loving one another,
be humble and resisting temptation.

86. This remark refers to when one becomes critical and judgmental towards the
inner workings of another, ignoring the fact each person is a different world of acquired
knowledge and stimulation and experiences or beliefs.

87. We would be unwise as to do so. We must not become people pleasers, but in turn,
keep our focus lock in to what God wants for us.

88. It means Jesus is the source, the living source, salvation incarnate.

89. Carnal things are those that pertain to our own selfish wants and desires,
whereas spiritual things are all about the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

90. It was comprised of much diversity in religion, ethnicity, culture, etc.