Roman 1.1-7

Greeting = Paul and Ambassador/Jesus is Lord/ via 2-stage life thru resurrection (applied throughout rest of letter)/Great Commission

Romans 1.8-12
Thanksgiving and prayer for the Romans/wants to visit

Romans 1.13-17

Obligated to preach Gospel even to Barbarians in Spain (so whatf ollows will be an object lesson in humility and need to love and give to the nations) as well as to Romans where Paul wants to make new home. Because Paul is not ashamed of the Gospel (i.e. to be explained–not ashamed that God led Israel to break covenant in order to fulfill the covenant promise of using Israel to bring salvation to the nations), because it is the power to save because it reveals God’s faithfulness in fulfilling his promise of salvation to the benefit of those who believe.

Romans 1.18-3.20

Gospel is power to save from = God’s wrath is snowballing as the world, Jew and Gentile alike, rides straight down to hell in a handbasket/ (and Israel under God’s wrath means that there is no hope to be found in Jewish righteousness)/ In fact, if there is any hope in Israel, it is in their apostasy, but we have no right to judge God for working in this way because he is our judge.

Romans3.21-4.24

God has demonstrated his faithfulness in the faithfulness of Christ in making propitiation in the midst of this wrath and redeeming all who believe, Jew and Gentile/ Thus the law is not to be kept in perpetuity but faith is what matters, just as it did for Abraham who was right with God when he believed but before he was a Jew.

Romans 5.1-11

No more slide to hell in a handbasket. We know we have hope and glory, yet via weakness, not triumphalism.

Romans 5.12-21

So the sin and death spreading from the one trespass of Adam is now all going to be overwhelmed by the much greater righteousness and glory spreading from the one obedience of the New Adam and the many trespasses of Israel brought about through the Law.

Romans 6
But we must not infer that we are to increase sin in order to spread more salvation. Rather, being baptized into the new order, we are now to embrace weakness in the death of Christ that we might walk in the new age of obedience/ Whereas before all lives were characterized by bondage to sin in that old age (even OT believers in comparison to Christians), now we can be assured that our obedience will grow and count towards a glorious future by God’s gift.

Romans 7.1-6
The death and resurrection of Christ freed us from the age of the Law.

Romans 7.7-25
(Romans 5.12ff redux) So Israel was, while under law, always prone to be driven to greater sin by the greater grace it was shown. Thus, many realized that the promises given to Israel to be a light of the world were never going to happen because Israel constantly weakend and fell and came under judgment

Romans 8.1-39
(Romans 3.21ff + 5.1ff redux) So now all that wrath and increasing sin has been absorbed by Jesus so that sin is condemned and we can fulfill the law in the Spirit where the flesh was too weak. Our weakness, on the other hand, will only work for good as we are patterned after the death and resurrection of Christ by the Spirit.

Romans 9.1ff
[Ran out of steam/stopping with this] (Redux Romans 3. + 5.12ff +7.7ff) God is not unrighteous in using Israel because it is consistent with his electing sovereignty that just as he chose to harden Pharaoh to proclaim his power throughout the world so he hardened a controlling part of Israel to display his wrath on sin in Jesus flesh and proclaim his power of God to salvation in the Gospel. …