Every Thursday starting January 7, 2010 (Note that
Feb. 18 and 25 will be missed because of the Olympic Games)
Location: SUB 212A
Time: 12pm
In the Fall term of 2009, we reviewed the first eight chapters of the epistle to the Romans. Beginning in January 2010, we will cover highlights in chapters 9 through 16. A schedule of topics is as follows:
| DATE | TOPIC | DATE | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 7 | Bible Study #1 – A Review of Romans 1-8 | Mar. 11 | Bible Study #7 – Proving What the Will of God Is |
| Jan. 21 | Bible Study #2 – God’s Selection | Mar. 18 | Bible Study #8 –Exercising the Gifts |
| Jan. 28 | Bible Study #3 – Chosen Vessels and How they are Filled | Mar. 25 | Bible Study #9 – Receiving the Believers |
| Feb. 04 | Bible Study #4 – Wild Olive Branches Grafted into the Cultivated Olive Tree | Apr. 01 | Bible Study #10 – The Body of Christ |
| Feb. 11 | Bible Study #5 – Many Bodies, One Sacrifice | Apr. 08 | Bible Study #11 – Overflow |
| Mar. 04 | Bible Study #6 – Transformation | ||
The epistle to the Romans is written to the believers in Rome (To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, the called saints... ~ Romans 1:7). Yet, to these believers, Paul said "So, for my part, I am ready to announce the gospel to you also who are in Rome" ~ Romans 1:15. This striking fact indicates that that there is something significant regarding our understanding of the gospel that we need to see in the book of Romans.
This book explains how the individual Christ revealed in the four Gospels could become the corporate Christ revealed in Acts, collectively composed of Himself with all the believers. By means of the facts in the Scriptures and the experience in the Holy Spirit, Paul shows us that God's New Testament economy is to make sinners sons of God and members of Christ to constitute the Body of Christ to express Him. This book offers a full definition of this, God's goal, unfolding a general sketch and details of both the Christian life and the church life.
As a book on the gospel of God (1:1), the entire book, from chapter one on the person of Jesus Christ the God-man and on the righteousness of God to chapter sixteen on the local churches as the expression of the Body of Christ, is the gospel, the good news and the glad tidings (Rom. 10:15), of God to men in its completeness. No other book presents us the gospel of God in such a complete way as Romans does. We have to realize that every chapter in this book is a part of the gospel of God.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him. ~ Ephesians 1:17
...our Savior God, who desires all men to be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth. ~ 1 Timothy 2:3b-4