Romans 1:8-15 (ESV)
Recurring themes:
• Those who have died with Christ are now enabled to live a new life.
• God’s promises to Jews and Gentiles have all been fulfilled.
• It is only through faith in Jesus that we can be saved.
What are we focusing on in the text today?
• What is the proper way to pray?
• Believers are an encouragement to one another.
• Paul’s eagerness to preach the gospel.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
o “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me”. John 14:6
o “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” 1 Timothy 2:5
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you 10 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— 12 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
• Romans 8:11 “But if the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
Hebrews 3:1
“Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him”
Summary:
Pray for others; it works
It is only through faith in Jesus Christ that we have a relationship with our God.
We are strengthened by one another