SNT 0450 Romans 1
Romans 1 May 3, 1970 SNT 450 Rom 1:1-5; (2Co 7:1; 1Th 3:13; Rom 10:9) Rom 1:5-16 Rom 1:17-25 Rom 1:26-32 ___________________ DRAFT snt-0450_romans-1(vpw) DRAFT SUMMARY KEYWORDS: reasoning, holiness, Romans, called, spirit, son, spiritual gift, grace, believing, Jesus Christ We could take your Bibles, please and turn to the book of Romans. The Book of Romans is the first great revelation that was given to the Church of the body. I think you could literally call the book of Romans, the Magna Carta of Christian freedom or Christian liberty. I want to handle the first chapter of this book with you tonight. And I trust that if you have the time, or take the time, that this week, you're just sit down and read it. Just read the whole book. You don't have to work it down, like I'm going to do tonight. But you ought to get the impact of it. The Book of Romans will show you the great grace of God. Most of the Christian believers are still tied up in work. They say they're saved by grace, but they act like they're saved by works. And if this is true, then nothing is left in the Christian field. The Book of Romans is very pointed, very specific. It's very direct. Verse one, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, the word servant, basically as the word slave, the Greek word doula, Paul, a slave, you've got to sell out. If you're going to really carry the greatness of God's word, you got to be sold out to that word. It's not just to be a servant, it's to be a slave. One who is bonded, one who is committed one who is absolutely sold out. And the word Jesus Christ are accurate in their usage. Whenever a person is sold out to the Lord, he is a slave on an horizontal plane for Jesus, the Christ. As you know, from former teaching in the word and from other places in the word, that it never says that the Christian is in Jesus Christ. We are never Jesus's. We are always in Christ, Jesus. The Bible said that we were in Jesus Christ the
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Seminary from which he received a Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. Later he completed his work for the Doctor of Theology degree. Dr. Wierwille taught the first class on Power for Abundant Living in 1953. Books by Dr. Wierwille include: Are the Dead Alive Now? published in 1971; Receiving the Holy Spirit Today published in 1972; five volumes of Studies in Abundant Living— The Bible Tells Me So (1971), The New, Dynamic Church (1971), The Word's Way (1971), God's Magnified Word (1977), Order My Steps in Thy Word (1985); Jesus Christ Is Not God (1975); Jesus Christ Our Passover (1980); and Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed (1982). Dr. Wierwille researched God's Word, taught, wrote, and traveled worldwide, holding forth the accuracy of God's "wonderful, matchless" Word. DOC AUDIO