WSB STUDY · "WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL" · SEASON 1

Week 2 · Not Ashamed

Romans 1:1-17 · Memory verse: Romans 1:16

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Seventeen verses, and the whole letter is in them the way an oak is in an acorn. Paul names himself, names his gospel, names his readers, and then writes the sentence the Reformation was fought over. And the sentence this platform is named for lives eight chapters downstream of it: the gospel is "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." This week you slow from sixteen chapters to seventeen verses. The speed limit drops; the seeing begins.

ROMANS · 1:1-17

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gospelcalledevery one that believeth

¹Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, ²(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) ³Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; ⁴And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: ⁵By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: ⁶Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: ⁷To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. ⁹For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; ¹⁰Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. ¹¹For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; ¹²That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. ¹³Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. ¹⁴I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. ¹⁵So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. ¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. ¹⁷For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

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From last week's teaching and notes: from which city did Paul write, on which journey, and which two destinations shaped the letter's purpose?

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TEACHING & NOTES · NOT ASHAMED

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