ROMANS L: CIVIL OBEDIENCE IN CONTEXT Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. March 21, 2010 Listen PDF INTRODUCTION: As we begin the task of unpacking this crucial part of Romans, always remember the context. In the latter part of chapter 12, we saw that Paul was arguing from Dt. 32 that Moses had predicted that God would be avenged upon the Jews, and that He would use a nation that has no understanding to do it (Dt. 32:21, 35). That
COALS OF FIRE ON THE HEAD (Romans 12: 9-21) Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. February 28, 2010 Watch Listen PDF INTRODUCTION: Having discussed some of the gifts of the body, Paul moves on to exhort the Roman Christians in how the parts of the body should function together. What does it look like when the saints are being knit together in love, as they ought to be? Paul gives us a distinctively Pauline expression of a Sermon on the
TRUE MEMBERS (Romans 12:4-8) Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. February 21, 2010 Watch Listen PDF INTRODUCTION: Paul now moves into a discussion of body life—a theme he treats in detail elsewhere as well (1 Cor. 12-14). This body life is organic and alive, and is not to be confused with simple administrative organization, although it is organized. With living organisms, the organizational principle arises from below, and is not imposed externally. A body forms in obedience to the mysterious instructions
A LIVING SACRIFICE (Romans 12: 1-3) Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. February 14, 2010 Watch Listen PDF INTRODUCTION: As we have worked through this epistle we have seen certain characteristics of Paul’s turn of mind. We now come to another one, very much in evidence throughout his letters. His pattern of teaching is this—doctrine precedes ethics, and is foundational to it. He teaches us what we must believe (credenda, things to be believed), and then he goes on to teach
ROMANS XLI: AND THE REST WERE BLINDED Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 29, 2009 INTRODUCTION: So we have learned that there are two Israels, formed as a result of two different ways of “hearing” the Word of God. One hears the Word in a way that quickens true faith, and the other hears (after a fashion) in a way that hardens the heart in a persistent but wrong-headed pursuit of God—because it is a pursuit of
ROMANS XL: SEVEN THOUSAND BY GRACE Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 15, 2009 INTRODUCTION: In times of spiritual declension—which we are certainly in—it is very easy to fall into the trap that Elijah fell into. Flatterers and false teachers always tell us that things are far better than we think, but when we work our way past their lies, we often have to be reassured by God Himself that things are not nearly as bad as
ROMANS XXXIX: AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 8, 2009 INTRODUCTION: In this portion of Romans, we start to see the intersection of two realities—decretal realities and covenantal realities. This will come to full flower in the next chapter, but we see it begin here. God is utterly sovereign, and rightly understood, this means that when He chooses to use created instruments to accomplish His purposes, we do not have
ROMANS XXXVIII: THE GOSPEL STONE Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. November 1, 2009 INTRODUCTION: If Christ is the stone, then the message of Christ is the message stone. People confess with their mouth and are saved, and people stumble over the words of grace and are lost forever. Preaching the stone is therefore a preaching of a gospel stone, and not a gospel cushion or pillow. The stone, when it is good news, is a stone. The
ROMANS XXXVII: THE END OF THE LAW Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. October 18, 2009 INTRODUCTION: We have already seen that Christ is the foundation stone and the stumbling stone, depending. For the one who believes, He is the foundation of all. For the one who does not believe in Him, He is the rock of offense. ROMANS 10: 1-4: THE END OF THE LAW Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. October 18, 2009 Watch
ROMANS 9:30-33: THE STUMBLING STONE Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. October 11, 2009 Watch Listen Outline INTRODUCTION: Why is the issue of faith and works so complicated? The answer is that it is not—it is the sinful human heart that is complicated. Because of that, we take something straightforward—trust God in all things—and tie it up into knots. But the issues outside the heart are simple. They binary. Either you will build your life on the cornerstone that is Jesus
ROMANS 9:25 – 29: SAVING THE REMNANT Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. October 4, 2009 Listen Outline INTRODUCTION: In order to understand Scripture rightly, we have to understand the flow of redemptive history. God’s revelation to us is progressive, and it unfolds over centuries. If we treat the Bible as the book that fell from the sky, we are going to have a terrible time comprehending it rightly. The works of God’s judgments and deliverances are sequential. THE TEXT:
ROMANS XXXIV: BAD PUPPET! Romans 9:14-24 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. September 20, 2009 Listen Outline INTRODUCTION: We now come to some hard words, whether they are hard to understand or simply hard to take. And as we seek to be faithful to what God has given us here, we have to be mindful of Peter’s caution—there are places in Paul’s epistles where it is not safe for ignorant or unstable people to go (2 Pet. 3:16). But if we
ROMANS XXXIII: JACOB I HAVE LOVED Romans 9:7-13 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. September 13, 2009 Listen Outline INTRODUCTION: We come now to the central lesson of all evangelical religion. We come now to the glorious revelation of the sovereign grace of God, as revealed in the gospel, and only through the gospel. We come now to the promises, which are great and precious. THE TEXT: “Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but,
ROMANS 9:1-6: NOT ALL ISRAEL IS ISRAEL Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. September 6, 2009 Listen Outline Introduction It may not be immediately obvious, but it appears as though the apostle Paul painted himself into a corner. He began to wax a little too eloquent at the end of chapter 8, showing how absolutely nothing can separate the elect of God from the love of Christ. Who can lay a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
REFUGEES AND APOSTLES Lev. 19:27-29; 1 John 2:15-17; Heb. 5:13-14 Douglas Wilson Christ Church – Moscow, ID A.D. August 30, 2009 Listen Outline INTRODUCTION: As we seek to live our lives as faithful Christians, informed by the Word of God, we soon discover that it is not a simple process. It is not as though the Spirit gave us a rule book, in outline form, fully indexed. He gave us laws, principles, stories, and parables, strewn across various ages and
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