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Study Section 3 - Chapter 1 – Christ’s Redeeming Ministry – Salvation
Explained - Chapter 2 - The Law Revealed Sin

3.1 Connect

There are some denominations that state that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality and
that believers in Christ can be gay without shame. In fact, entire denominations such as the
Episcopal church in the USA have split over such a claim. The questions we must ask are, “Have
these pastors and religious leaders read the first chapter of Romans? How can they come to such
conclusions?” A person does not have to be a seminary trained scholar to casually read the first
chapter of Romans and realize that man is a sinner who, if he rejects the light God gives him, God will
condemn him in his sin.

The second and third chapters build a strong case for the fact that man is lost in sin. Every man is a sinner
and there is not one person who is righteous. We all fall short of God’s glory. Every man deserves God’s
wrath because of his willful sin.

The first three chapters of Romans demonstrates mankind’s predicament. We are all lost. But the good
news is that we can be redeemed by Jesus Christ because of His love and grace. Let’s get into this….

3.2 Objectives
1. Students should be able to explain how God is an impartial judge who will hold all men
accountable because of His revelation to man through the creation.

2. Students should be able to describe that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile and that
both are guilty before God of disobedience.
3.3 The Passage

Romans 1:1-17
Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called an apostle being set apart into gospel of God, who
promised beforehand through his prophets in Holy Scriptures concerning His Son who
became out of seed of David according to flesh, the one designated Son of God in power
according to a Spirit of holiness out of resurrection of dead ones, Jesus Christ the Lord of us,
through whom we received grace and an apostleship unto obedience of faith in all the nations on behalf of
his name, among whom you yourself also are called of Jesus Christ, to all those who are in Rome beloved
of God, called saints, grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

I, Paul, the apostle am writing this letter to you the Roman saints about the gospel of Jesus Christ that
connects us to one another.

First I thank my God through Jesus Christ concerning all of you because your faith is proclaimed in the
whole world. For witness of me is God, who I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, how unceasingly
remembrance of you I make, always in my prayers asking if somehow already at last I might succeed in the
will of God to come toward you. For I long to see you, so that I might impart a gift to you spiritual unto the
strengthening of you, now this is to be mutually encouraged in you through the in one another faith of you
and me. Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I have planned to come to you, and
have been prevented until now, so that some fruit I might have also in you just as also in the rest of the
nations. To the Greeks and the barbarians, to wise one and foolish ones I am under obligation, thus the
according to me eagerness also to you who are in Rome to proclaim the gospel.

I am thanking God for your faith in Christ and am praying that I may be able to visit you so that we can
encourage each other in our faith in Christ.
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