Thank you to our Love Ladies last week!

Stacey Marshall Heather PhippsCaroline Seay Christy GarrissKarri Compton Stacey JordanAmy Brinkley Robin NicholsEmily Kampschroeder

Before Care: Linda Nipper, Judy Busick, Nina HillAfter Care: Erica Lang

• The Revealer of Righteousness – the Gospel Romans 1:1-17

• The Rejection of Righteousness – Unbelief Romans 1:18-3:20

• The Imputation of Righteousness – Justification Romans 3:21-5:21

• The Reign of Righteousness – Sanctification Romans 6:1-8:39

• The Source of Righteousness – Sovereignty Romans 9:1-11:36

• The Evidence of Righteousness – Service Romans 12:1-15:13

• Paul’s Ministry, Greetings, Admonition, and Benediction Romans 15:14-16:27

Mythbusters!Myth #1: Righteousness comes by Religious

Affiliation (Romans 2:17-24)

Myth #2: Righteousness comes by Following Rituals (Romans 2:25-3:8)

Myth #3: Righteousness comes by Keeping the Commandments (Romans 3:9-20)

Myth #1

Righteousness comes by Religious Affiliation (Romans 2:17-24)

“With great power comes great responsibility”

-Uncle Ben (to Peter Parker, aka Spiderman, in Spiderman 2002)

Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom

they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

-Jesus, circa 30 AD, Luke 12:48b

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a

people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:6

It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make

you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:6

What About Us?

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him

who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:9

Myth #2

Righteousness comes by Following Rituals (Romans 2:25-3:8)

But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man

but from God.

Romans 2:29

Myth #3

Righteousness comes by Keeping the Commandments (Romans

3:9-20)

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, The Lord is one. You shall love The Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul

and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be

on your heart.

Deuteronomy 6:4-6

And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great

commandment of the law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your

mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your

neighbor as yourself. One these commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 22:34-40

None is righteous, no not one; no one understands; no one seeks after God. All

have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good,

not even one.

Romans 3:9b-12

No one understands: Sin of our Mind

No one seeks after God: Sin of our Heart

No one does good: Sin of our Will / Might

Romans 3:13-14 Sinner’s SpeechDISEASE: Luke 6:45, Matthew 12:34, 37CURE: Psalm 19:14

Romans 3:15-16 Sinner’s FeetDISEASE: Matthew 7:13CURE: Matthew 7:14, Ephesians 6:15

Romans 3:17 Sinner’s MindDISEASE: Romans 1:21, 28CURE: Romans 5:1

Romans 3:18 Sinner’s PrideDISEASE: Romans 3:18CURE: Proverbs 1:7