ssm romans week 3 083009

2 credit hours

WEEK THREE• SIN, 3:9-20

• SALVATION, 3:21-31

• TRYING, 4:1-17

• TRUSTING, 4:18-25

Session Overview

HOW DOES GOD SEE THE WORLD?

I. How to Handle Humanity, 3:9-20

HOW DOES GOD GET US SAVED?

I. Trying for Salvation, 1-17

II. Trusting for Salvation, 18-25

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ROMANS 3:9-12: REVELATION OF RUBBISH

THE CONCLUSION Verse 9

THE PROOF Verses 10-12

Racial Prejudice

VERSE 10

No Righteousness Psalm 14:1

VERSE 11

No Understanding

No Seeking Psalm 14:2

VERSE 12

No Walking

No Profit-Making

No Good Psalm 14:3

Point 2.

Not all people are as bad as

they could be, but all

people are as bad off as

they could be

Point 3.

The various experiences of life that

lost men and women go through are

the attempts of God to get their

attention long enough to get them to

listen to the gospel one time.

Point 4.

The final end of mankind is proof

positive we have a disease.

Point 5.

It is because all the

world is guilty that

every sinner must

come individually

and surrender to

Jesus Christ or else

never get to heaven.

Point 6.

All legalism does is give you a

standard that brings out the

carnality that is in you.

Thesis:

There is no way man can attain

righteousness with God by

starting from himself.

Point 1.

The one sin people go to Hell for is

rejecting the righteousness of God.

Definition:

Justification is righteousness

provided by means of a legal

declaration.

Definition:

Redemption is the

payment of the

price required to

set a prisoner free

from sin.

Definition:

The word propitiation means

a payment that makes God

pity us because it satisfies

his offended justice.

Point 2.

God was

satisfied by the

divine blood of

the Son of God,

not just by his

death.

Point 3.

When God dealt

with sin publicly

he dealt with it

permanently.

Point 4.

In order to be saved, you have to let

God select what satisfies him.

Definition:

The word

remission

literally

means to

send back or

send away.

Definition:

Forbearance is God’s self-restraint in

the Old Testament at punishing sin

because of his foreknowledge of the

cross.

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WHAT ROME BELIEVES IN CONTRA WHAT ROMANS TEACHES

1. Inspiration, but not of scripture ALONE Rome adds tradition

2. Intercession, but not of Christ ALONE Rome adds dead Catholics

3. Salvation, but not by grace through faith ALONE Rome adds sacraments and sacramentals

4. Forgiveness, but not through Christ ALONE Rome adds the priests and bishops

5. Headship, but not of Christ ALONE Rome adds the Pope and his Cardinals

6. Righteousness, but not by Christ ALONE (justification) Rome adds religious merit

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

• For the Jew, "by faith" meant faith

formed the basis for his works in

bringing a sacrifice

• For the Gentile, "through faith"

means salvation by faith apart from

ANY works of the law

Point 5.

You are saved by grace so

you can live by grace.

Definition:

Reconciliation

means to bring

two parties back

into union.

THE SCEPTER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

1. Salvation: deliverance to get God's health2. Redemption: purchasing to get God's freedom3. Reconciliation: uniting to get God's fellowship4. Propitiation: satisfying to get God's mercy5. Expiation: purging to get God's cleansing6. Sanctification: setting apart to get God's holiness7. Imputation: accounting or reckoning to get God's merit8. Justification: declaring righteous to get God's life

Thesis:

Under the old dispensation

somebody could fake the works if

they did not have the faith, but God

closed that loophole with grace.

Definition:

• Justification by faith is the way sinners

are declared righteous because they are

provided the righteousness of Christ to

establish a relationship with God.

• Justification by works is when God deals

with you in time (not eternally), so men see

what you do, and what you do before men

demonstrates your relationship to God.

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Point 1.

Justification by works is for the

benefit of men, not the benefit of God.

Point 2.

Salvation in any dispensation is

always the same, it is always by faith;

salvation is always linked to believing

what God says enough to do it.

Point 3.

Work gives you the right to demand,

and God will never be put in a

position where man can demand

anything of him.

If I were asked, “Why is a man damned?” I should answer

as an Arminian answers, “He destroys himself.” I should

not dare to lay man’s ruin at the door of divine sovereignty.

On the other hand, if I were asked, “Why is a man saved?”

I could only give the Calvinistic answer, “He is saved

through the sovereign grace of God, and not at all of

himself.”

My God is not a mere omnipotent being, who can rule dead

materialism; but he can rule free agents, leaving them

absolutely free, and yet effecting all his purposes with them.

God’s eternal purposes are accomplished, and yet men

remain responsible free agents both in their beginning and

in their ending.

—C.H. Spurgeon

8/28/2009

Point 4.

God takes the posture of God, but

he does it from a position of love

and purpose.

Definition:

Counted (or reckon) means to credit

to your account; to take an inventory

and calculate.

Point 5.

God forgave David on the basis of

his faith in God, not on the basis of

what he could offer.

Point 6.

It is possible to have the internal

reality without the external sign.

PUTTING TOGETHER THE TYPES

• Abraham is a type of the Father,

needing an heir

• Isaac is a type of the Son, needing

a bride

• Daniel is a type of the Holy Spirit,

needing nothing

DEFINITION:

Faith is walking by the

word of God instead of

walking by sight; hope is

believing the word of God

instead of believing the

circumstances.

FOUR STAGES IN ABRAHAM'S FAITH

1. Not weak in faith, v 19 (Gen 12)

2. Not staggering at faith, v 20 (Gen 13)

3. Strong in faith, v 20 (Gen 17)

4. Fully persuaded, v 21 (Gen 22)

DEFINITION:

Faith is being persuaded of

God’s promise so as to

usher in God’s

performance.

Point 7.

The perfection of the object of our

faith makes up for any imperfection

in the believer.

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