Son in power declares spiritual salvation to His chosen people
1. The Spirit declares the glory of the hope of the gospel of Christ’s crucified and risen? (Rom 1:1-4)
2. The Spirit imparts and empowers faith-life in the church through the Gospel (Rom 1:5-23)
AIM: The Son saves us from penalty and power of sin through the Spirit’s illumination of the Glory of the Gospel of God through spiritual rebirth, by and through which the Holy Spirit resurrects a sinner and indwells and imparts living hope in the sinner
Applications
1. As sons and daughters, what blessings and inheritances of Christ Jesus abundantly supplied by Him (sin being forgiven, adoption, God-man as our mediator, King, Great High Priest, Prophet, spiritual gifts, ability to overcome the power of sin, Kingdom of God) have you received by faith and hope in Lord Jesus Christ this side of heaven?
2. In what ways have you engaged in your new obedient faith-life (spirit-filled, grateful and thankful, God-glorifying, Christ-exalting, grace-filled, peace-loving, faithful, pure, loving, mutual encouragement, considerate, merciful) to overcome your old disobedient soul-life (unbelief, sexual immorality, futile thoughts, prideful, selfish, foolishness (money, power)) to live victoriously by the power of the Spirit?
Scriptures:
Rom 1:1-23 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God– (2) the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures (3) regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, (4) and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. (5a) Through him we received grace and apostleship (5b) to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. (6) And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ. (7) To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (8) First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. (9) God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you (10) in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you. (11) I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong– (12) that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. (13) I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. (14) I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. (15) That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. (16) For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. (17) For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed–a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” (18) The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, (19) since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. (20) For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. (21) For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. (22) Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools (23) and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.