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More formal than most of Paul's letters, Romans systematically sets forth the doctrine of justification by faith, expanding and explaining Paul's theme statement in 1:17: "The righteous shall live by faith." Jump into the New Testament's most substantial book of Christian doctrine!
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Keith L. Brooks
KEITH L. BROOKS founded the American Prophetic League of Los Angeles in 1930. He was the author of numerous Bible study courses, books, and tracts. Although Keith passed away in 1954, his wife, Laura, continued the ministry of the American Prophetic League until 1960. The League's Prophecy Monthly eventually merged with Moody Bible Institute's Moody Monthly. The published Bible study became the Teach Yourself the Bible Series from Moody Publishers.
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Romans- Teach Yourself the Bible Series - Keith L. Brooks
Life
LESSON 1
Introduction to Romans
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Place of writing
Probably Corinth, or nearby Cenchrea.
1. Who was Paul’s host while he was in Corinth?
ROMANS 16:23; compare I CORINTHIANS 1:14 ___________________
2. Who was probably the mail carrier who took Paul’s letter to the Christians at Rome?
ROMANS 16:1, 2 _______________________________________
Date of writing
About spring of A.D. 58. Paul had been a Christian about twenty years.
Occasion of writing
3. What great desire of Paul’s heart had long been unsatisfied?
ROMANS 1:9-13; compare 15:22-29 ___________________
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(The epistle was to pave the way for his coming and supply much-needed teaching material.)
Contents
A philosophy of the gospel, showing how it meets every human need and is the only answer to the problem of the guilt and power of sin.
4. What is the theme of the book?
ROMANS 1:16, 17 _______________________________
_____________________________________________
Simple outline
Chapters 1—8 Doctrinal
Chapters 9-11 Dispensational
Chapters 12-16 Practical
Detailed outline
(This course follows the outline below.)
Introduction or prologue (1:1-17)
Righteousness needed by sinful men (1:18—3:20)
Heathen (1:18-32)
Moralizer (2:1-16)
Jew (2:17—3:8)
World (3:9-20)
Righteousness provided by God (3:21-26)
Righteousness received by faith (3:27—4:25)
Righteousness experienced in the soul (5:1—8:17)
Righteousness guaranteed a permanent blessing (8:18-39)
Righteousness rejected by Jews (chapters 9—11)
Righteousness manifested in daily life (chapters 12—16)
Prologue (Romans 1:1-17)
One can hardly escape the fact that this letter is something infinitely more than a human production. It is an oracle of God, a revelation of eternal facts.
Read ROMANS 1:1-4 before answering the following questions.
5. Note expression in 1:1—gospel of God.
Three other keys using the title God
are found in verses 16, 17, 18.
_____________ of God (verse 16), ___________________ of God (verse 17), _______________ of God (verse 18).
6. To what extent was the gospel of an all-sufficient sacrifice promised afore
in the Old Testament?
ROMANS 1:2, 3; LUKE 24:26, 27 _________________________
___________________________________________________
7. What was seen by all the prophets
?
ACTS 10:43 _________________________________________
___________________________________________________
The hope of Israel was brought to an intense pitch in the days just prior to the birth of Jesus, yet the Jews, because of their misconceptions of such passages as ISAIAH 53, rejected Him.
8. The beginning of ROMANS (1:3), the beginning of the New Testament (MATTHEW 1:1) and almost its end (REVELATION 22:16), and the close of Paul’s ministry (II TIMOTHY 2:8), all emphasize that the Saviour is the son (or seed) of whom?
____________________________________________________
9. While Jesus on the human side was the seed of David, what contrasting truth do we have in ROMANS 1:4?
_____________________________________________________
10. Jesus declared (marked out by sure signs
) to be the Son of God with ________________ as demonstrated by His _________________ 1:4
Read ROMANS 1:5-13.
11. Who were equally the givers of eternal blessing?
1:7 _________________________________________________
12. What is every Christian called to be?
1:7 _________________________________________________
13. Who are defined as saints
?
PSALM 50:5 _________________________________________
___________________________________________________
14. What had Paul wanted to do for a long time?
ROMANS 1:13 _______________________________________
We find on more than one occasion that Paul’s most deliberate plans were subject to divine correction. It was not Paul who was inspired, but the record he gave us of divine truth.
Read ROMANS 1:14-17.
15. What were two familiar divisions of mankind in Paul’s day?
1:14 _________________________________________________
Barbarus—speaker of an unintelligible tongue—any language not Greek. Greek and Barbarian
comprehended the Gentile world.
16. What was Paul ready to do?
1:15 _________________________________________________
17. Did Paul recognize some limitations on his ability to do this?
1:15 _________________________________________________
The measure in which we are conscious of limitation is usually the measure in which we make possible the operation of the Holy Spirit through us.
18. Why was Paul not ashamed to preach this gospel anywhere?
1:16 _____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
19. If the gospel is foolishness to some people, what is it to others?
I CORINTHIANS 1:18, 24 ________________________
____________________________________________
20. In what therefore does the faith of a believer stand?
I CORINTHIANS 2:5 __________________________
The Greek word dunamis, here translated power,
gives us our word dynamite (explosive power). The gospel is the dynamite of God (PSALM 62:11). Moral reform and social schemes are impotent to penetrate human wickedness. The gospel overcomes the greatest resistance, penetrates the hardest conscience, softens the most obstinate heart.
21. By what do we have access to God?
ROMANS 5:2 __________________________________
22. By what are we justified?
ROMANS 3:28 __________________________________
23. By what do we live?
ROMANS 1:17 ___________________________________
24. Since man is incapable of attaining the righteousness of the law, the