Weekly Sermon Reflection Questions

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Context- Paul was addressing both Gentile and Jewish Christians within the Roman Church. The Jews were expelled in AD 41 and AD 49 by Emperor Claudius but were allowed to return in AD 55-57. […]

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The apostle Paul exhorts us to respond to God’s mercies by becoming a living sacrifice. We are called to live a counter cultural lifestyle which turns away from a life of the flesh to

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Paul appealed to the Roman Christians to live in a way based on God’s mercy.  God withheld the judgement that we deserved.  Jesus Christ, His beloved son, suffered the punishment that was meant for

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Paul had a burning desire that the Jews would enter into salvation by recognising the truth of Jesus Christ. They were God’s special people and Jesus Christ was one of them and yet they

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Jesus fulfills God’s covenant, and saves us to proclaim the Good News! God who has mercy on those who seek and love Him, fulfills His covenant through Jesus Christ in whose righteousness both Jews

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l By the time he wrote Romans 9-11, Paul would have been preaching and teaching God’s salvation plan for more than 20 years. He had encountered these frequently asked questions that he needed to address:

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l In Romans 9 to 11, Paul touched on how God dealt with the election of Israel and God’s plan for salvation with a total of 45 quotations and references from the Old Testament Scriptures.

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l A life in the Spirit entails suffering. (Rom 8:17)Is the suffering that we go through worth it? Three spiritual realities: Present Suffering (v 18-27) The suffering in the current age is not worth comparing

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The first half of Romans 8 describes how believers are to live by the Spirit, ending with the truth that “we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l At the end of Romans 7, there is a desperate cry, “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24). If the book were to end at

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Romans Recap: This letter was written to address differences in the early Church between Jews and Gentiles in aspects such as food offered to idols, Sabbath practices and circumcision. A divided Church does not

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l The Gospel of Jesus sets people free from sin and to be alive in God.  The good news is Jesus has come, died, and risen.  He now lives in our heart through the Holy

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Christ has liberated us to fulfill God’s law which gives true freedom. We who abide by earthly laws, what is our attitude towards God’s laws? Are we legalists who fear the law and are

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l We have been justified and made right with God by His grace through faith in Christ. However, our discipleship journey does not stop here. Although believing in Christ changes our status, our substance and

READ | SERMON NOTES The key verse: “So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:11) We Must Consider Ourselves In Christ In verse 5 Paul said that we are “united

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary | Why do we need the righteousness of God? Our journey in studying Romans so far shows us that we need to be justified because of our depravity in spite of knowledge of God (1:18-32);

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary |  The Greek word for grace is “charis” which means undeserved gift or unmerited favour. 5 areas of God’s grace when we are justified in Christ: 1. Grace of Peace of God (V1) Justification is

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Abraham, the father of all believers, led a life that is not totally blameless. Following God’s call and promise to make him into a great nation, at 75 years of age, Abraham left in

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Humans are under the wrath of God because of our ungodliness and unrighteousness.  Romans 1-3 tells us that God shows no partiality as we have all sinned and fallen short of His glory.  Paul

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l How does a faithful God save us from His righteous wrath? It angers God that the people He had made in his image and designed to walk with him, have strayed. All of us

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l In His mercy, Holy God withholds His righteous judgment and atones for mankind’s guilt by the blood of Jesus. Though undeserving, we are made righteous by His grace. Such is the amazing Good News

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Following the first sermon in the Romans series “Made Right to Walk Right”, which highlighted the sin in all humankind, we move on to the failure of the Jews (Rom. 2:17,19,20,24) and God’s determined

READ | SERMON NOTES Exploring what it means to make right with God and to walk right with Him. Paul’s assertion of man’s sinfulness to the posture of his Jewish brethren.  Paul presented three rhetorical questions: What advantages, then, to

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l John Wesley’s heart-warming experience (received assurance that his sins are forgiven and he is saved through trust in Christ alone) came about from hearing a reading of the preface to Martin Luther’s commentary on

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Paul’s letter to the Church in Rome is his longest and most doctrinal letter, written in Corinth around 60 AD. It has been at the centre of many spiritual awakenings including those of St

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l We cannot surrender all on our own strength. That is why the biblical understanding is that it is the grace of God that we give. This discipleship principle is captured in today’s passage. The

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Corinth was a very rich city because of its vibrant trades and ideal location.  Living standards increased as people were more affluent.  With affluence came a sense of individualism that values self-sufficiency, i.e. greedy

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l Stewardship is re-directing earthly resources using eternal perspectives. It is an integral part of God’s mission whereby we share what we have, with glad, generous and grateful hearts. All that we have – time,

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l God entrusts and expects His disciples to steward every resource He gives. To diligently fulfill this high calling beyond financial tithing and giving, we need to understand the big picture of stewardship. We manage,

READ | SERMON NOTES Summary l A story is told of someone who fell into a village well. To rescue him, someone had to go down to the well, secured by a rope while several others had to hold on