Romans

Question 1

179 - What is not mentioned in Romans until chapter 16?

Answer 1

A person by name.

Question 2

180 - Has Paul been to Rome at the time of the letter?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

180 - What Paul not refer to in Romans?

Answer 3

The Lord’s Supper.

Question 4

180 - What is there an extensive treatment of in Romans?

Answer 4

A righteous relationship before God.

Question 5

181 - What relationship is key in Romans?

Answer 5

Between Jews and Gentiles.

Question 6

181 - When and where does Paul write Romans?

Answer 6

On his thrid missionary trip at Corinth.

Question 7

182 - Who is the bearer of the letter to the Romans?

Answer 7

Romans 16:1 - I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, 2 that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.

Question 8

182 - What is the theme of Romans?

Answer 8

The righteous shall live by faith.

Habakkuk 2:4 -

4 “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,

but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Question 9

183 - How many OT citations in Romans?

Answer 9

Over 50.

Question 10

184 - The theme of chapters 1-4?

Answer 10

Righteousness is by faith.

Question 11

184 - Why are chapters 5-8 critical for understanding Paul’s theology?

Answer 11

Now/not yet aspect.

Justified by faith are now at peace with God.

Future day of judgement we will be saved from His wrath.

Question 12

184 - Romans 6:8 summarizes the now/not understanding of Paul’s theology.

Answer 12

Romans 6:8 - Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

Question 13

185 - What does Romans 10 illustrate?

Answer 13

How God allows Himself to be resisited.

Romans 10:2-3 - For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Question 14

186 - What does the Law do?

Answer 14

Romans 3:19-20 - 9 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Question 15

186 - What is the key summary of Paul’s teaching?

Answer 15

Romans 3:28 - For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Question 16

187 - What does Paul quote to show what God established long before the Law, Abraham, and circumcision?

Answer 16

Faith as righteousness.

Genisis 15:6 - And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

Question 17

188 - What happened in Baptism?

Answer 17

We died to sin and were buried with Christ.

Question 18

192 - How is Romans 8 show a both/and situation?

Answer 18

10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Question 19

193 - Who is “all Israel?”

Answer 19

9:6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

Question 20

194 - How does one come to believe?

Answer 20

10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Question 21

194 - What does confess mean?

Answer 21

To say the same thing.

Romans 10:8b-10 “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Question 22

194 - In Romans 10:12 - 13 Paul obliterates the difference between Jew/Israel and Gentile.

Answer 22

12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Question 23

195 - How did Israel stumble?

Answer 23

Romans 9:31 - 33

31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is written,

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;

and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Question 24

199 - What is Christ doing at the right hand of God?

Answer 24

8:34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Question 25

200 - What is substitutionary atonement?

Answer 25

Christ suffered death in our place to make make amends, or make things right between God and sinners, or to restore a right relationship with God.

Question 26

202 - What did God give OT believers?

Answer 26

Credit until Christ came and paid for their sins.

Question 27

202 - What is key to the metaphors in Romans?

Answer 27

Everything comes from the outside of us.