A WORD ABOUTBIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS USEDFor the sake of readability & getting at what I believe to be the truest essence of the text, I’m using a combination of the:

* NRSV* The Kingdom New Testament

A WORD ABOUTBIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS USEDFor the sake of readability & getting at what I believe to be the truest essence of the text, I’m using a combination of the:

* NRSV* The Kingdom New Testament

A BRIEF REVIEWThe condition of those OUTSIDE God’s family ROMANS 1

The condition of those INSIDE God’s family ROMANS 2

The power of Jesus to redeem, show mercy & declare us innocent & welcome us into His covenant family

ROMANS 3

We’re ALL a part of the same family God has been growing since Abraham, a family marked by FAITH in JESUS

ROMANS 4

A WORD ABOUTBIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS USEDFor the sake of readability & getting at what I believe to be the truest essence of the text, I’m using a combination of the:

* NRSV* The Kingdom New Testament

A BRIEF REVIEWThe present AND future hope we have is secure through Jesus’ death (and resurrection)

ROMANS 5

Therefore, since we are declared to be in the right on thebasis of faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; through Him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces patient endurance, and patient endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

Romans 5:1-5

For while we were still weak, at the right time The Messiah died for the ungodly. Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners The Messiah died for us. Much more surely then, now that we have been declared to be in the rightby His blood, will we be saved through Him from the coming anger of God.

Romans 5:6-9

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son; if that’s so, how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life. But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus The Messiah, through Whom we have now received reconciliation.

Romans 5:10-11

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, so death spread to all because all have sinned— you see, sin was indeed in the world before the law, even though sin is not calculated when there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as Adam had done; Adam who is an advanced prototype of the One who was to come.

Romans 5:12-14

But it isn’t “as the trespass, so also the gift.”For if the many died through the one man’s trespass, how much more has the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the One man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. And nor is it, “as through the sin of the one,so also the gift.” For the judgment following one trespass resulted in a negative verdict, but the free gift following many trespasses results in a positive verdict.

Romans 5:15-16

For if, because of the one man’s trespass, death reignedthrough that one, how much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of covenant membership reign in life through the One man, Jesus The Messiah. Therefore just as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all, so through one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all. For just as by the one man’s disobedience the many received the status of “sinner”, so by the one man’s obedience the many will receive the status of being “in the right.”

Romans 5:17-19

But law came alongside, so that that the trespass might be filled out to its full extent; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so God’s faithful covenant justice might also reign through the age to come, through Jesus The Messiah, our Lord.

Romans 5:20-21

SOUL TRAININGEXERCISEIn light of God’s extravagant generosity:Give a tangible gift this week to someone who doesn’t “deserve” it

If you owe someone something, try repaying MORE than you owe or vice versa

If someone left a dish at your place, return it with something new inside it