LESSON - ROMANS
3:27-4:17 (NIV based)
THEME - Illustrations of
Justification
Q: Does mankind play any part in this
justification/salvation process? Do we
do anything to facilitate our justification before God?
vv.27-30 see 2 Cor. 6:2 = God helps us in our time of
salvation
v.27 a work exclusively
by God - no room for boasting
v.28 based on faith
completely apart from observing the Law
vv.29-30 for everyone -
both Jews & Gentiles
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Q: Does justification by faith nullify
the Law? How do we determine which
laws/commandments we are going to keep and which to ignore?
v. 31 does not nullify
the Law but upholds it: the Law is designed to lead us to Christ. UPHOLD = (GRK #2476) to establish, confirm;
to cause to stand, to place
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ILLUSTRATION OF ABRAHAM
(Rom. 4:1-5):
v.3 Man is without
righteousness; if he is to be just in God's sight, God must reckon His own
righteousness to man's account through trust in Him.
v.4 if man worked for or
earned his righteousness, he would have something to boast about
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CONFIRMATION OF DAVID
(Rom. 4:6-8):
v.8 "...whose sin
the Lord will never count against him."
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ILLUSTRATION OF
CIRCUMCISION (Rom. 4:9-12):
Q: Does circumcision save a person? If not, what significance does it have?
v.11 circumcision is a
sign - a seal of the righteousness
v.11-12 righteousness by
faith is for both the circumcised & the uncircumcised - i.e. for both those
who observe the ritual & those who do not
Q: Based on the illustration of
circumcision, would baptism fall into the same category in terms of it's saving
merit?
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ILLUSTRATION OF HEIRSHIP
(Rom. 4:13-17):
Q: Heir means what? A: Someone who inherits
Q: Have you ever met someone who claims he
or she was born saved - that because his or her parents were saved, therefore
he or she was at birth physically born into the family of God, thus saved at
birth? A: rebuttal: vv.13-17 humans do
not just inherit by natural birth righteousness from God
v.16 by grace -
guaranteed
Q: What does the phrase in v.17 God
"calls things that are not as though they were" mean? A: we are not righteous in & of
ourselves. We have the righteousness of
Christ credited to us by faith = JUSTIFICATION (imputed righteousness). We are not completely holy and righteous yet
but are viewed as such through Christ - we are in the process of being made
holy and righteous = sanctification
v.8 the Lord will never
count our sins against us
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BIG IDEA: Some of us may
at times believe a falsehood that we are personally an unworthy, unacceptable,
sin-sick person who will never amount to anything in God's eyes. This thinking may commonly occur right after
we have sinned in a major way.
Believing this falsehood will lock you and I into a defeated, fruitless
life. But God says in Romans 3 that you
and I true believers in Jesus are saints whom God has declared
righteous. Believing God's truth about our true identity will set you and I
free.
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Works Cited:
Bible. “The Holy Bible: New International Version.” The Bible Library CD-ROM. Oklahoma
City, OK: Ellis Enterprises, 1988.
“Strong's Greek Dictionary.” The Bible Library CD-ROM. Oklahoma City, OK: Ellis
Enterprises, 1988.
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