My exposition on Romans Chapter 1 – 9

My exposition on Romans Chapter 1 – 9 

1:17 …righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith… the righteous shall live by faith.

1:18 wrath of God is revealed against those who suppress the truth because they didn’t honour God.

1:19-31 those whom God has shown himself but they did not honour him became foolish and blind-minded to go into idolatry, lesbianism, gay and all manner of evils.

1:32 the following will die: those who know God’s commandment but ignore to do evil; those who approve the evil doers; those who don’t approve but engage in it.

2:4-7 God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance (and not for continuation in sin) because He shows no partiality and will render to each one according to his works.

2:14-15 Those who don’t live by law but does what is necessary, they are law to themselves; work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience bears witness and their thoughts accuse or excuse them. They will judge who live by the law but didn’t keep it.

3:3 God is faithful even when we are not.

3:9-10 We are bound to make errors. No one is perfect.

3:19 Law speaks to those who are under law so that no man will boast and all will be accountable to God (since no man can fulfill all that law says, no one will be justified by works of the law).

3:22, 24, 26 We are justified by God’s grace through redemption in Jesus. The faith in Jesus to all believers is the righteousness of God in this present time.

3:25 Jesus was put forward to be received by faith. He won the favour by His blood. Former sins had been passed over.

3:27 Our boasting is not by a law of works but by the law of faith.

3:31 Do we juxtapose the law by faith? No! We uphold the law.

4:2 If Abraham boasts of his works, not before God; “works” mean you deserve it.

4:5 The one who does not work but believes in Jesus who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.

4:8,16 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will not count his sin against him, whose lawless deeds are forgiven and sins are covered, whom God counts righteous without works.

4:11 Abraham received the seal of righteous while he was uncircumcised so that righteousness may be counted to hi seed.

4:13 God’s promise to Abraham came through righteousness of faith and not the law.

4:14 If law is adherents of those who are to be heirs, then faith is nothing and powerless.

4:16 -25 The promise rest on grace – both to the law abiding and those who shares of Abraham’s faith in God (the giver of life to the dead: (i) raising dead sex organs of Abraham and dead womb of Sarah giving birth to Isaac; (ii) raising Jesus from the grave for our justification).

5:1 We have been justified by faith and have peace with God through Jesus.

5:2 Through Jesus we have obtained access to this grace (by faith).

5:5 We received God’s love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that God gave us (our seal of hope).

5:3-5 We stand by grace and rejoice in the hope of God’s glory; we rejoice in suffering which produces endurance, good character, and hope which does not fail or put to shame.

5:8 God shows his love for us; while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

5:9 We have been justified by his blood and saved from the wrath of God.

5:10 we were reconciled to God by Jesus’ death and we are saved by his life.

5:13-19 Death (condemnation) came through one man Adam and life (justification) came through Jesus.

5:20 Law came in to increase the sin but grace increased the more leading to eternal life.

6:1-2 We are dead to sin to walk in newness of life and never to continue in sin.

6:6 Being baptized into Christ removed our our old self (sinful nature) so that the body of sin is brought to no effect and we are no longer enslaved to sin.

6:7 We have been set free from sin.

6:9,11 Death (wages of sin) no longer has dominion over Jesus so also we are dead to sin and alive to God in Jesus.

6:12 Let no sin reign in your body. How? By not obeying its passions.

6:13 Don’t present your body to sin as instruments for unrighteousness but to God as instruments for righteousness.

6:14 Sin will not dominion over you because you are under grace.

6:17 We must become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching.

6:19 Just as you once presented your body as slaves to lawlessness, so now present your body as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification which ends to eternal life.

6:21 the fruit of sin is death

7:4 We are dead to law through the body of Christ in order to bear fruit for God.

7:6 We are released from the law to serve the in the new way of the Spirit.

7:7 The law taught us the knowledge of evils so that sin hijacked the opportunity. Our sins increased by our knowledge of the law (the do’s and don’ts). If there was no law, there won’t be sin to account against us.

7:14-24 The law is spiritual and is delighted by the mind while sin is spiritual too and is delighted by the flesh. Flesh is a slave to sin and that is why we do what we don’t want.

7:25 Thanks be to God for Jesus.

8:1 Now, no more condemnation for those who are in Jesus and also walk in the Spirit.

8:9 Those who walk in the Spirit are those who Holy Spirit dwells in and are led by Him.

8:8,4 Those who are not in spirit are in flesh and cannot please God because flesh is hostile to God and cannot submit to the rules of God but those who walk according to the Spirit will fulfill the requirement of the law.

8:3 This is why God sent Jesus in the likeness of our sinful flesh to condemn sin in the flesh.

8:11 Holy Spirit will empower our flesh to cooperate.

8:12,13 We are not debtors to the flesh. Therefore kill the lust of flesh by the spirit.

8:15 Don’t give up to slavery in fear since you have been adopted by God to cry to Him as your Father. He will help you.

8:14 Walking according to the Spirit or being led by the Spirit proves you as son of God.

8:17-18 The suffering you went through because you ignore the opportunities to sin are incomparable to the glory ahead.

8:24 We were saved in the hope of rapture

8:26-27 Pray to know the mind of the Spirit. He will tell you the right prayers which will help you to escape temptations.

8:28-30 But no matter what happens, all things work together for our good. God has known you before He chose and called you. If He called you, it means you are justified and glorified. If God is for us, nothing can be against us; no one can lay charge against us, the God’s elect; no one can condemn us when Jesus in interceding for us.

9:5-10 What then shall we say? That gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it by faith but Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law because it was not pursued by faith but as if it were based on their works.

9:33 Whoever believes in Jesus Christ will not be put to shame (present and eternal).

My summary is that whosoever is born again is holy and righteous through the washing blood of Jesus. His blood destroys the gripping power of sin, blots out sinful records and crushes the covenant of sin. Nothing else can make us holier other than his blood, not even our works.

Now that we are made holy, we are to continue in righteous deeds (doing right according to God’s commandments) and not to see that as an opportunity to sin. And if anyone deliberately continues in sin, there is no other blood to save such. God never tolerates such. Such has denied and abused grace and taken grace for granted. We are eternally saved but must walk in Spirit in order not fulfill the deeds of the flesh which will in turn birth sin and end the defaulters in death (hell). So walk in the Spirit.

-TOBI OLAITAN

© Bible texts extracted from English Standard Version (ESV) and Kings James Version (KJV)