WE HAVE JUST COVERED THE HISTORY OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
AT THIS POINT WE GO INTO THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PAULINE EPISTLES (LETTERS TO THE VARIOUS CHURCHES IN ASIA) BEGINNING WITH THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS.
THERE ARE 21 EPISTLES (OR LETTERS OF INSTRUCTION) WRITTEN BY THE APOSTLES TO INDIVIDUALS AND CHURCHES BEFORE WE GET TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION, WHICH IS THE LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE.
PLEASE READ THE EPISTLES CAREFULLY FOR YOURSELVES! UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT YOU READ IN THIS SERIES IS CLEARLY DIRECTED AT EVERYONE ON EARTH! FOR THE GOSPEL HAS GONE TO ALL NATIONS!
THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
THIS LETTER WAS WRITTEN FROM CORINTH TOWARD THE END OF PAUL’S STAY RECORDED IN ACTS 20:3.
ROMANS CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL MAKES IT CLEAR—
“FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES, FOR THE JEW FIRST AND ALSO FOR THE GREEK. FOR IN IT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH; AS IT IS WRITTEN, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”
PAUL TELLS US THAT THE GUILT OF GOD IS UPON THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF PEOPLE
- THOSE THAT SUPPRESS THE TRUTH
- THE UNTHANKFUL TO GOD.
- PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE WISE, BUT ARE REALLY FOOLS. (NOT KNOWING HIM.)
- IDOLATORS
- THOSE WHO LUST OUT OF CONTROL OF THEMSELVES.
- THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE CREATED MORE THAN THE CREATOR.
- UNNATURAL SEXUALITY (MAN AND MAN OR WOMAN AND WOMAN)
- FORNICATORS
- COVETORS
- THE MALICIOUS.
- THE ENVIOUS.
- THE MURDERERS.
- THE DECEIVERS.
- THE GOSSIPS.
- ATHEISTS
- THE PRIDEFUL.
- BOASTERS
- ANYONE WHO INVENTS EVIL THINGS.
- THE DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS.
- THE UNTRUSTWORTY
- THE UNLOVING
- THE UNFORGIVING
- THE UNMERCIFUL
- COVENANT BREAKERS
PAUL DESCRIBES THE TRULY WICKED IN SOCIETIES —
“WHO KNOWING THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD THAT THEY WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH, NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM THAT DO THEM.”
ROMANS CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
GOD WILL RENDER EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.
“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 CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
MAN IS JUSTIFIED THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS BY FAITH IN CHRIST.
ROMANS CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS:
MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH AND GRACE IN CHRIST.
ROMANS CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS:
WE ARE TO GLORY IN OUR TRIBULATIONS KNOWING THAT TRIBULATION WORKS PERSEVERANCE, CHARACTER, AND HOPE.
ROMANS CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS:
“WE ARE BURIED WITH HIM (CHRIST) 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.”
“FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.”
ROMANS CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS:
BUT NOW WE HAVE BEEN DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, HAVING DIED TO WHAT WE WERE HELD BY, SO THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN THE NEWNESS OF THE SPIRIT AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER.
ROMANS CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS:
THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST BRINGS FREEDOM FROM SIN AND DEATH.
“TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE.”
(SPIRITUALLY MINDED IN CHRIST PEOPLE!)
“BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD . . .”
“THE SPIRIT (HOLY) ITSELF BEARS WITNESS WITH OUR SPIRIT, THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD: 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.”
(YES, WE ARE THE HEIRS OF GOD IF WE TAKE UPON US THE NAME OF CHRIST BY RIGHT.)
“AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.”
“WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST? SHALL TRIBULATION, OR DISTRESS, OR PERSECUTION, OR FAMINE, OR NAKEDNESS, OR PERIL, OR SWORD? AS IT IS WRITTEN, FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.”
“FOR I AM PERSUADED, THAT NEITHER DEATH, NOR LIFE, NOR ANGELS, NOR PRINCIPALITIES, NOR POWERS, NOR THINGS PRESENT, NOR THINGS TO COME, NOR HEIGHT, NOR DEPTH, NOR ANY OTHER CREATURE, SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD, WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.”
ROMANS CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS:
THIS CHAPTER DETAILS HOW FORE-ORDINATION OPERATES FOR ISRAEL IN RECEIVING THE BLESSINGS OF THE GOSPEL. IT ALSO TELLS HOW THE JEWS MUST SEEK THEIR BLESSINGS BY FAITH, JUST AS THE GENTILES HAVE.
ROMANS CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS:
SALVATION FOR MAN COMES THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN CHRIST.
…IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH THE LORD JESUS AND BELIEVE IN HEART THAT GOD HAS RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, YOU WILL BE SAVED.
SO THEN FAITH COMES BY HEARING, AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD.
ROMANS CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS:
“HAVE THEY (THE JEWS) STUMBLED THAT THEY SHOULD FALL? GOD FORBID: BUT RATHER THROUGH THEIR FALL SALVATION IS COME TO THE GENTILES, FOR TO PROVOKE THEM (THE JEWS) TO JEALOUSY.”
“FOR I WOULD NOT, BRETHREN, THAT YOU SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY, LEST YOU SHOULD BE WISE IN YOUR OWN CONCEITS; THAT BLINDNESS IN PART IS HAPPENING TO ISRAEL, UNTIL THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN. AND SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED: AS IT IS WRITTEN, THERE SHALL COME OUT OF SION (ZION) THE DELIVERER (JESUS), AND SHALL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.”
ROMANS CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS:
“I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YOU PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE.”
“SO WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, AND EVERY ONE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER.”
(COMMENTARY: THE CHURCH = THE MEMBERS = THE BODY OF CHRIST = ONE. THIS IS THE ONLY ONENESS IN THIS WORLD! IN SPITE OF WHAT NEW AGERS, METAPHYSICS TEACHERS, GLOBALISTS AND EVIL CORPORATION ADVERTISEMENTS SAY, THIS WORLD IS NOT ONE! WE CAN ONLY BE ONE IN CHRIST.)
PAUL FURTHER INSTRUCTS ~ (IN PARAPHRASING)
- DO NOT CONCEAL LOVE.
- ABHOR EVIL/CLEAVE TO THE GOOD.
- BE AFFECTIONATE IN BROTHERLY LOVE.
- BE NOT SLOTHFUL IN DILIGENCE.
- REJOICE IN HOPE, BE PATIENT IN TRIBULATION.
- GIVE TO THE POOR
- PRAY ALWAYS.
- BE HOSPITABLE.
- BLESS THEM, WHICH PERSECUTE YOU.
- REJOICE WITH OTHERS
- WEEP WITH THE MOURNERS.
- DON’T BE CONCEITED.
- GIVE NO MAN EVIL FOR EVIL.
- SHOW PEOPLE WHAT IS GOOD IN LIFE
- LIVE PEACEABLE WITH ALL MEN.
- DO NOT AVENGE YOURSELF, THE LORD WILL REPAY THEM.
- FEED YOUR ENEMY, (IN DOING SO YOU SHALL HEAP COALS OF FIRE ON HIS HEAD).
- DON’T LET EVIL OVERCOME YOU, OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.
ROMANS CHAPTER 13 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL TEACHES MEN TO BE SUBJECT TO HIGHER POWERS (SECULAR GOVERNING AUTHORITIES).
HE ALSO REMINDS US TO “OWE NO MAN ANYTHING, AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER. PAUL ALSO REMINDS US TO FOLLOW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
“AND THAT, KNOWING THE TIME, THAT NOW IT IS HIGH TIME TO AWAKE OUT OF SLEEP: FOR NOW IS OUR SALVATION NEARER THAN WHEN WE BELIEVED. THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT, THE DAY IS AT HAND: LET US THEREFORE CAST OFF THE WORKS OF DARKNESS, AND LET US PUT ON THE ARMOR OF LIGHT. Let us walk honestly, as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, NOT IN CHAMBERING (WHORING), AND WANTONNESS, NOT IN STRIFE AND ENVYING. BUT PUT YOU ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND MAKE NO PROVISION FOR THE FLESH, TO FULFILL THE LUSTS THEREOF.”
ROMANS CHAPTER 14 SYNOPSIS:
“FOR IT IS WRITTEN, AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.
SO THEN EVERY ONE OF US SHALL GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD.”
(COMMENTARY:LET ME PUT IT TO YOU THIS WAY, IF THE DEMONS OF THIS WORLD RECOGNIZE CHRIST, HOW MUCH MORE SO, AS A MUCH HIGHER CREATION THAN THEY, ARE YOU BOUND TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND GIVE ACCOUNT OF YOURSELF?)
ROMANS CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS:
“WE THEN THAT ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR THE INFIRMITIES OF THE WEAK.”
PAUL SPEAKS OF THE PURPOSE OF THE SCRIPTURES —
“FOR WHATSOEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN AFORETIME WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING, THAT WE THROUGH PATIENCE AND COMFORT OF THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT HAVE HOPE.”
ROMANS CHAPTER 16 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL CLOSES HIS LETTER TO THE CONVERTED ROMAN CHURCH WITH THIS WARNING—
“NOW I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, MARK THEM (BEWARE OF THEM) WHICH CAUSE DIVISIONS AND OFFENSES CONTRARY TO THE DOCTRINE WHICH YOU HAVE LEARNED; AND AVOID THEM.”
NEXT . . . THE EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS