Category Archives: Paul’s Letter to the Romans

The Jews had reached the point where they thought much and practiced little. We are reminded of what Jesus said of the Jewish leaders: “they say, and do not”. No one should be guilty of adultery, and certainly the man who preaches against it should not be guilty of it.  Part 16 “For the name […]

Has God set limits on His love towards us? What lengths has He gone to prove His love? Should we respond to His love with our love towards Him? Instead we insult Him. We have turned aside from Him when He calls us and draws us to Him, He has run Himself unto us, and […]

Paul shows his admiration for the Gentile when considering they required no law, and yet exhibited all the actions of the Law, having the works, not the letters, graven upon their minds. Paul does not say that the gentiles lived up to their natural law anymore then the Jews lived up to the reveal law. […]

Part 13 “For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law” (Romans 2:12). Here Paul shows us the equality of the Jew and the Gentile. He also shows that the Jew had a heavier burden by the gift of […]

It was an easy matter to get the Jew to agree that the gentiles were sinners; but, for his own good, it was necessary for the Jew to see himself as a condemned sinner, else he would not see his need of the gospel.   Part 12 To convince the Jew that he was a sinner […]

Nothing ruins a man as much as slipping from this anchor. Consider what safety we shall enjoy by having God before our eyes! Even the Devil himself will hesitate to attack us when we are so conditioned.  Part 10 “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them […]

Even Paul grew brighter out of those that thwarted him and plotted against him, Job out of the many scourges, Jeremiah out of the miry pit, Noah out of the flood, Abel out of the treachery, Moses out of the bloodthirsty Jews, and Elisha, each of the worthies of old, not out of relaxedness and softness, but […]

“And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things” (v. 23).  Part 8 The Romans made many errors in not intuitively knowing God. They did not think to know the creator, although they seemed to be wise and had worldly knowledge, […]

Therefore, he begins this way, but afterwards he introduces the subject of Christ’s judgment. “Against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” Here he shows that the ways of ungodliness are many, and that of truth, one.   Part 7 “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; […]

They (the Romans) were thus puffed up, but Paul was going to preach Jesus, who was thought to be the carpenter’s son, who was brought up in Judea, who had no body guards, who was not encircled in wealth, but even died as a culprit with robbers, and endured many other shameful things; for this reason he says, “I am not […]