ROMANS OVERVIEW CHAPTERS 1:1 THROUGH 5:11

Lets look at some introductory things in the book of Romans. 
Then, we will look at some of the concluding things Paul says, 
Then, we will start looking at the body of the epistle to the Romans.

Could we start off with Romans 1, verses 9, through 11.  

Have you ever heard it said when people are coaching others about
how to give a spoken lesson?  

They say that, “first, you tell them what you are going to say.  
Then, you say it.  
And then, you tell them what you have said.

Well, that is kind of what Paul did in Romans.  
May we look in Romans 1, verse 9, 
9,  	For 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;

This is introduction, with Paul beginning to speak to the Romans 
in his epistle to the Romans, 
and he says in Romans 1, verse 10, 
10,  	Making request, 
if by any means now at length 
I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God 
to come unto you.

Romans 1, verse 11, 
11,  	For I long to see you, that I may

and here is why he was writing to them, 

that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, 
to the end ye may be established;

We will come back to that, but we are continuing on to keep in the context, 
Romans 1, verse 12,

12,  	That is, that I may be comforted together with you 
BY the mutual faith both of you and me.

That is Paul’s desire, that their faith would become mutual. 

Romans 1, Verse 13,
13,  	Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, 
that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, 
(but was let hitherto,)

or,restrained hitherto.  The word, “let”, not meaning allowed, 
but meaning restrained, 
as you let a bucket down a well, with resistance.  
You restrain it. 
You keep it from falling all at once.  

He was let hitherto.  
He was kept from it.

that I might have some fruit among you also, 
even as among other Gentiles.

So here, he is talking to Gentiles.  
We find out later in chapter 2, verse 17, that 
they were Gentiles that had come to God on the basis of 
Genesis 12, verse 3,.  
3,  	And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: 
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

They were resting in the law, 
trusting that Israel's law would bring them a blessing, 
if they blessed Israel by resting in the Law. 
Romans 2:17, 
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, 
and makest thy boast of God,

So, lets go back to 
Romans 1, verses 10, and 11,
10  Making request, if by any means now at length 
I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

11  For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, 
to the end ye may be established;

Well, that's not the canned thought of what a spiritual gift is.  
He goes on to tell what the result of the gift is, 
to the end ye may be established.  

What he is giving them will establish them.  
So the spiritual gift that he is talking about, is this letter.  
That is what Paul is giving them.  
He is sending them this epistle 
and that's the spiritual gift that will help establish them 

Romans 1:12, 
That is, that I may be comforted together with you 
by the mutual faith both of you and me.

Now this mutual faith 
that he talks about in verse 12, 
that he desires of them 
that he may be comforted together BY the mutual faith. 

They had a faith.  
But it wasn't a faith in the gospel that he was teaching, 
Or, he was about to teach them. 
He was introducing them, and calling them to be SAVED,
as we will soon see.  

Look in Romans chapter 1, verse seven.  
We see that he says, 
7,  	“To all that be in Rome”

So, he's writing to all.  
	Not that it will get to all that be in Rome, 
	but Paul is teaching doctrine that applies to all that be in Rome.

So then, there is going to be a variety of lessons in his epistle to Rome.
	As Paul goes through his epistle,
	he addresses the various segments of people in Rome  

Romans 4:1 
	What shall we say then that Abraham our father, 
	as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

Also, in Romans 4:1, Paul refers to the Jews that he writes to.
	Speaking for himself, and those in his Roman audience,
	Paul calls Abraham “OUR FATHER”
	So, those who Paul was then speaking to,
		Descended from Abraham, like Paul did.
		In other words, that segment were Jews.

So, some lesson are for Jews, sanctified to God, 
but in the Jewish faith at that time.  
Some lessons are for Gentiles that 
are proselyted to Judaism, and
call themselves Jews, and rest in the law.
Some lessons are for people that read the epistle, and 
believe the gospel of Christ to be saved. 
So, some lessons are for saved people. 

Some of them had heard, that the Messiah had come.  
And, some of them probably had not yet heard that news, authoritatively.  

And some lessons are for people that 
get saved, by 
reading, and 
BELIEVING 
Paul's gospel, in this epistle.

And, 
7,  	“To all that be in Rome”
would include unbelievers too, 

And by saying,
7,  	“To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, CALLED TO BE SAINTS:”
He is calling them to be Saints by this epistle.
	Paul wants them to GET SAVED

Romans 1:5-7 was written in Acts 20. 
Since, in Acts 18, 
Paul had already received his apostleship to all nations,
then, “all that be in Rome” are 
also among those being called of Jesus Christ.

Romans 1:5-7, 
5,
By whom we HAVE RECEIVED grace and APOSTLESHIP, 
for obedience to the faith AMONG ALL NATIONS, for his name:
6,
Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
7,
To 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.

Romans 1:7, says Paul writes “to all that be in Rome”
	And describes all of them as “called to be saints”
	They are not saints yet, but Christ is calling them to be saints, 
by believing the gospel in Paul’s epistle to the Romans.
And that fits with other doctrine to us, from Christ, through Paul, 
	Where Paul says that by Christ’s faith,
	God’s own righteousness is available unto ALL,
	But that God’s righteousness is only UPON all that believe.
So, on that basis, Jesus Christ is calling all that be in Rome to be saints.
Look at the verses:
Romans 3:21-22,
21,
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, 
being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22,
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ 
unto all and 
upon all them that believe: 
for there is no difference:

And he goes on in verse eight to say 
8,  	“First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, 
that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.”
So, Paul praises them for having a faith in something, 
	A faith in what they had heard so far, whether
	they had only heard the ancient Jewish faith, or whether 
	Some had heard that Messiah had come, died and resurrected,
		And that He was Jesus, of Nazareth.

So, there were Jews that he was talking to.  
And there were others, that you could call 
“Jew blessers,” or 
“Jewish associates,” or 
Greeks.  

They were Gentiles that came to God by blessing Israel.  
They came into the synagogues to learn the law of Moses, 
and to come to God in that way, at least until they had heard Paul's gospel.  

So, Paul was writing to them. 
Romans 1, verse 12, confirms that interpretation of 
7,  	“called to be saints” 
that he was calling them to be saints, 
because he wanted to be comforted. 

Romans 1:12, 
That is, that I may be comforted together with you 
by the mutual faith both of you and me.

In Romans 1, verse 12, he was writing this in order to stablish them.  
That he may be comforted by their mutual faith.  
He wanted to be comforted that they come into a mutual faith.  
Because they didn't yet have a mutual faith. 
They were unaware of what Paul was writing to them, 
thus the need for the epistle.  

That sums up the “tell them what you are going to say” part.  
Let's go to the end now, 
and lets look at how he “tells them what he told them.” 

In Romans 16, verses 25, and 26, we will start with verse 25.  
25,  	“Now to him that is of power to stablish you“

So, he is closing out the book, and he is praying, and he says, 
25,  	“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to”
and he go on to tell them the things that will establish them. 
“My gospel” 
is the first one of them.  

These are things that he had talked about. 
He talks about “my gospel” in Romans chapter 1, through chapter 5. 

Next, we see the first connective word (conjunction)
	“and”
Then the second thing, in the series of three things that stablish you, is, 
“the preaching of Jesus Christ, 
according to the revelation of the mystery, 
which was kept secret since the world began, 
26,  	But now is made manifest” 

So, that's the mystery.  
And, it was given unto Paul to reveal that mystery, 
and to preach Jesus Christ, 
not according to Matthew Mark Luke and John, 
not according to Israel,s gospel, 
not according to Jesus first coming, 
or the way He was sent. 

When Jesus Christ came the first time, 
He was sent as a minister of the circumcision, 
as it says in Romans 15, verse eight.  
8,  
“Now I say that Jesus Christ WAS a minister of the circumcision 
for the truth of God, 
to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:”

But now, Paul has been sent to preach Jesus Christ, 
according to this secret, this mystey, 
which was not made known when Jesus was still on Earth.  
It was not made known until after his ascension.  
But it has been made known now at the beginning of Romans 16, verse 26,
Romans 16, verses 25, and 26.
“the preaching of Jesus Christ, 
according to the revelation of the mystery, 
which was kept secret since the world began,
26,  	But now is made manifest”

Then, there is the second conjunction,
“and” 
followed by the third thing which stablishes those Romans, and us too is 
“by the Scriptures of the prophets 
according to the commandment of the everlasting God 
made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.” 

and that third means of stablishing us, is the same as 
what Paul said in Second Timothy 3, verses 14, through 16.  
Talking about Timothy learning the scriptures before Paul was saved, 
In Second Timothy 3, verse 15, 
Paul says that 
15,  
“from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, 
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation 
through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”

Its through faith though, and the through faith part, is what he was teaching, 
that what counts is, what their faith was in. 
Faith is to be in Christ, that he died for our sins. 

What do the Scriptures of the prophets tell us?
See Romans 1:1-2.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, 
called to be an apostle, 
separated unto the GOSPEL OF GOD, 
(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

So, the Scriptures of the prophets tell us about 
the facts of the GOSPEL OF GOD

The Scriptures of the prophets, 
are a means of stablishing someone, 

From Acts 9 through Acts 19,
Paul started with the Gospel of God, 
from the scriptures of the prophets,
when introducing Jews and Greeks 
to the gospel of their salvation.

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So, when we sum this up we see that in Romans 16, verses 25, and 26, 
he says the three things that establish a person, 
that bring you to establishment would be, 

firstly, 
25,  
“my gospel”, 

“and”

secondly, 
“the preaching of Jesus Christ, 
according to the revelation of the mystery, 
which was kept secret since the world began, 
26,  	But now is made manifest“

“and”

Thirdly, “
“by the scriptures of the prophets, 
according to the commandment of the everlasting God, 
made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:”

By applying the outline in Romans 16, verses 25, through 26, 
we see that “My gospel” is taught by Paul 
in Romans chapters 1, through 5, verse 11
.  
So, starting in chapter 5, verse 12, you see “the preaching of Jesus Christ, 
according to the revelation of the mystery, 
which was kept secret since the world began, 
But now is made manifest.” 

You see Paul teaching about the power of God in us, 
and the new creature. 
You see him talking about how we….. 

(I don’t think he uses the word “mortify,” 
like he does in Colossians 3, verse 5….
But he tells us that we )

are dead to sin, and dead to the law, 
and that we should reckon ourselves to be so 
instead of falling back into that same pattern of sin. 

Because we are dead to sin, 
we should reckon ourselves to be dead to sin.  

He tells us that we are not under the law. 
These are all things that are involved with the mystery. 
I don’t think that he uses the term, mystery, in explaining it, 
in chapters the 6, 7, and 8, 
but those are the chapters that handle the new creature. 

Then we will go on to the second “and.” 
In Romans 16, verse 26, we will start after the first five words. 

26,  
“and” 
(we are stablished)
“by the Scriptures the prophets 
according to the commandment of the everlasting God….” 

So, the prophets had prophesied for Israel, and Israel's future.  
Here, Paul is handling those prophecies, 
and why we can't be saved by believing what Israel was told to believe,
and what happened to Israel in chapters 9, and 10, and 11.  

He says that these things stablish you. 
So what he is doing is prepairing these people. 

Then in the rest of the epistle, chapters 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, 
he teaches them what this establish life is, 
and what it produces,  
the way to live, in other words, as an established believer. 

So he starts off in Romans 12, verse 1, and he says 

1,  
“I beseech you therefore.” 

In other words, by all of this that has preceded, 
by these ways that God stablishes you, 

“present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, 
which is your reasonable service.” 

God has done the work in you, now here is how to live.  
And he goes on with several chapters of exhortations to Godly living. 

END OF PART 1 OF 3 - THE OVERVIEW OF ROMANS
START OF PART 2 OF 3 - SALVATION, THE 1ST OF 5 chapters OF ROMANS

As we look back in Romans, we see this introduction, 
And, then Paul goes ahead and gives them the gospel. 
So, we can look again in 
Romans 1, verse 13, 
and hit some high points, 
as we go through this first, gospel portion, 
my gospel that Paul preaches. 
He says, 
13,
“Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, 
that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, 
and we will continue on down through Romans 1:18. 
(but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, 
even as among other Gentiles
14,
I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians 
both to the wise and to the unwise 
15,
So, as much as in me is, 
I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also

Going back to Romans 1:14, 
As he says later, 
the gospel of Christ had been charged to him, 
it was committed to him to preach to Gentiles. 

The Gentiles that he went to 
according to the record in acts,
were the Greeks, those Jew blessers in the synagogues 
Paul went from synagogue, to synagogue, to synagogue. 
At least 10 times in Acts 9, through 19, he went to synagogues, 
And, at least one other time, 
he went, and he found where the Jews met.  
The Bible didn't say they had a synagogue in that town. 
But he went where they met, and found Lydia, etc. 

Eventually, he got put in jail, and then released in Acts 16. 
But, he went to whom he was sent to, and, 
And, he wrote to whom he was sent to. and
at his first sending, he went to the Jews and Greeks. 

Romans 1:16 
	For 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.

He said in Romans 1:16, that, 
he is 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,.the Jew blessers in the synagogues. 

And, that’s who he went to, 
trying to get the Jews that were not part of the little flock, 
to come into the body of Christ 
by believing this gospel of Christ, 
gospel of Messiah that he was preaching. 

But we see an apparent conflict here, 
and I just wanted to help us to 
remember the meanings of the words in the text, which clarifies it.  
Look back in Romans 1:14.  He says  
I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians, 
those barbarians were the non-Greek Gentiles 
both to the wise, and to the unwise.
In other words, both to those who had sought the Scriptures, 
sought God from the Scriptures, 
and come to realize that, back then, they had to bless Israel 
to be blessed, as it says in Genesis 12:3. 
Genesis 12:3 
	And I will bless them that bless thee, 
	and curse him that curseth thee: 
	and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

And, not just to the Greek though, 
he says I am debtor also to the Barbarians. 

Well I don't know how many of you own a house. 
but if you own a house, you’re a debtor. 
If it's paid off, then you are not a debtor anymore, right?  
At least not, in that area. 
But when you buy a house, you become a debtor, 
and you owe that money, and 
THAT'S ALL TO BE PAID OFF IN THE FUTURE. 

That's what this is talking about. 
Paul wrote to the Romans in Acts 20. 
He had already received that Temple vision 
in which Christ told him that 
he in the future would be sent to all men 
including Barbarians, the wise, and the unwise. 

He hadn't yet received that second sending. 
He would a few verses later after this. 
He knew that a dispensation of the gospel had been committed to him. 
He did it willingly.  
That was a goal in his life that 
he had to finish his course, 
and the ministry that had been committed to him. 

So, he was a debtor, in the future to dispense the gospel to all men. 
Then he goes on in Romans 1:15, to say, 

So, as much as in me is, 
I am ready to preach the gospel 
to you that are at Rome also.

and he's talking to these Gentiles, as it said in verse 13, 
talking to Gentiles that rested in the law, according Romans 2:17. 
Those who rested in the law would be the PROSELYTES..  
So, he was still talking to the Jews, and Greeks. 

But, it was sent to a variety of people in Rome, 
as we saw in Romans 1:7. it was sent, 
to all that be in Rome 

So, he addresses them all, separately, 
in different areas, 
as we go through the epistle.  

We also find a nugget here that we don't want to miss.  
At that time, the gospel that saved people, was called the gospel of Christ. 
But, in chapter 1, verse 1, he was talking about the gospel of God, 
and he goes on to describe it in verses 3, and 4, 
it's that Jesus is the prophesied, resurrected Christ, the Messiah. 

Romans 1:1
	 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, 
	called to be an apostle, 
	separated unto the gospel of God,
Romans 1:2 
	(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
Romans 1:3 
	Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, 
	which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
Romans 1:4 
	And declared to be the Son of God with power, 
	according to the spirit of holiness, 
	by the resurrection from the dead:

Believing that, arms you, it enables you to understand, 
and believe the gospel of Christ 
that when he died and rose from the dead, IT WAS FOR YOUR SINS. 
That's part of the mystery, that when he died it was for your sins, and 
that by believing that, you will be saved from god’s wrath. 

So that nugget is in there.  
It's not fully explained in Romans 1:16, 
but it's named:  the gospel of Christ.  
And, it's called:  the power of God onto salvation to every one that believes. 
The ones that believe, they are saved.
 
Then he goes into it in more detail, later in that section, 
chapters 1, through 5. 
Lets get to Romans 1:17.  It's in the same section 

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: 
as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

And that's what God is interested in, isn’t it.
He can't have unrighteousness around him. 
He can't have in his presence, people that are not as righteousness as God. 
So therefore, in saving and justifying believers, 
he imputes to us his own righteousness. 
Therein is the righteousness of God revealed, from faith to faith. 
FROM CHRIST’S FAITH, that God would raise Him, 
and forgive us of all those sins. 
From Christ’s faith, TO MY FAITH in believing that He did it for me, 
which forgave my sins, 
that there are no more sins on my account to ask to be forgiven. 

So then, we kind of shift gears here in Romans 1:18, 
and Paul goes into the wrath of God being revealed 
Then, he goes into two chapters, 
and part of the third chapter about, 
the Jews, and the Gentiles. 

Paul starts with the Gentiles, and how they didn't have God, 
and how the Gentiles could find God from 
the invisible things from the creation of the world 
Romans 1:20,
For the invisible things of him 
from the creation of the world are clearly seen, 
being understood by the things that are made, 
even his eternal power and Godhead; 
so that they are without excuse:

One of the grace teachers was talking about the stars 
before Satan corrupted our assessment of them. 

They were given an understanding of different features in the stars 
that helped them to know God, 
helped them remember different things that related to God. 

By those things they could know that there was a God,
and that God was a blessing God, 
and was bountiful, 
and that they could put their trust in him, and in God’s grace, 
without actually knowing the name of Jesus Christ

Paul goes through that, how the Gentiles went their own way, 
and God “gave them up”,.”gave them up”, and “gave him over.”  
And they went deeper and deeper into sin.  

And as we know, by the seventh, eighth, or ninth generation after Adam, 
God had to destroy the world by the flood, 
Then, a few generations after that, 
he had to the level the tower of Babel, 
and scatter the people, confusing their speaking into languages. 

Man naturally goes from bad to worse. 
We are NOT good people. 
We are NOT born with a good streak through us.  
When unsaved people try to do good stuff, 
it's usually to prop up their name in front of people, 
or to try to appease God, 
thinking that their works can help them in relation to God, 
or for some other reason.  

But, the prophet Isaiah describes all that as filthy rags, 
and elsewhere, its described as dead works. 
works that don't count. 

END OF ROMANS 1
START OF ROMANS 2, 

So then he goes on in chapter 2 talking about Jews, 
the Jews that the Gentiles in Rome are blessing, 
the Jews that have the law, that those Gentiles are resting in.

so again, he's writing, as we saw in 
Romans 1, 7, 
To all that be in Rome
That would include a variety of people that are at Rome.  
He's talking to them, and calling them to be saints.

So we go on through Romans chapter 2, 
and in verses 23 through 29, he goes through some arguments, 
and says to these Jews, and proselytes that 
it's not just a Jew being physically circumcised that made them a true Jew, 
but it's the Jews faith in their heart that made them a true Jews. 

Paul is not saying that all people, 
like us alien Gentiles with a circumcised heart, 
then somehow become a descendant of Jacob. 
He's only talking about Jews in this part of the second chapter. 
the Jews that be in Rome, 
saying that those Jews needed the faith in the heart, 
as well as is the circumcision in the flesh,
to be true Jews. 
    
END OF ROMANS 2
START OF ROMANS 3, 

so when we get to Romans, chapter 3, 
we see that he concludes all people to be under sin, 
Romans 3:10, through 12.
10,  
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11,  
There is none that understandeth, 
there is none that seeketh after God.
12,  
They are all gone out of the way
so Paul is summing up both Jew and Gentile here, everybody! 
they are together become unprofitable; 
there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13,  
Their throat is an open sepulchre;
so far, he hasn't left any room for any standing of anybody's argument: 
“you know, God, actually I’m pretty good.” 
Their throat is an open sepulchre; 
with their tongues they have used deceit; 
the poison of asps is under their lips:
14,  
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
so IF he hasn't already condemned everybody, 
he goes on to make sure, 

15,  
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16,  
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17, 
And the way of peace have they not known:
18,  
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
and some people balk at that one.  “There is no fear of God before their eyes,” 
and they talk about that heavy feeling, that some people have, 
conviction, or whatever, 
but in an unsaved person, 
that's a fear of hell. 
That's a fear of retribution. 
That’s a fear of what's gonna happen to me. 
Its self-preservation. 
According to Romans 3, verse 18, that is not a fear of God. 
It's a fear of what's gonna happen to them. 

that's the way things had been 
But, let's head into the now of the present time.
Look at what we get into, in verse 21, 
“BUT NOW.” 
 
But, you can't just jump over this next part. 
This is a 2 verse SUMMARY of man’s position in sin, before Christ.
Its so crucial in understanding God’s salvation. 

Romans 3:19,
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, 
it saith to them who are under the law: 
THAT every mouth may be stopped, 
and all the world may become guilty before God.

In other words, the Gentiles mouths were already stopped. 
They didn't have any standing before God anyway.  
But the Jews thought that they did.  
He says, “you had the law.” 
“It was written to you,” so that every mouth, including you Jews, 
your mouth may be stopped TOO, 
and ALL the world may become guilty before God. 

What was the purpose of the law? 
to shut every mouth. 
Nobody has an argument before God. 
Nobody has a foot to stand on.

Romans 3, verse 20,  
THEREFORE 
“Therefore”, in other words, God set it up that way!
So that,
by the deeds of the law there 
shall no flesh be justified in his sight: 
for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But, this is one of those places 
that we get into, in verse 21, 
where God steps in 
to make a change is our predicament. 
“BUT NOW.” 
That was the way things had been, 
but let's head into what God changed 

END OF PART 2 OF 3
START OF PART 3 OF 3

The law gives us,  gives everyone a knowledge that 
they come short of the glory of God. 
That is the bad side.
Here is the good side.
He goes on to say 
In Romans 3, verse 21,
“BUT NOW the righteousness of God”
that total purity and holiness of God 
without the law is manifested, 
being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
but not the people. 
That’s the trouble. 

Romans 3, verse 22,
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ

The “faith of Jesus Christ” Is Jesus Christ's faith 
unto all and upon all 
so that righteousness is onto all, it does reach all. 
But it's only 
UPON all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Think of a CARWASH: 
You pull your car into the CARWASH, 
When your car is in position to be washed OR waxed,
At that time, the wax is in the sprayer,
All the way, unto where your car is positioned.

Nothing yet has come out of the spayers.
Nothing yet has affected your car.
Then, depending on what you had chosen,
Either you get WAX with your wash, 
Or you get NO WAX with your wash.

The wax in those sprayers, comes UNTO every car.
But, the wax is only UPON those who had chosen it.

Pulling ahead until 
the stop light comes on when 
your TIRE touches the tire bumper. 
Your tire, and car, has been moved UNTO the tire bumper. 
The tire bumper is not a part of the tire, or car,
It doesn’t affect the tire, or the car.

Then, the carwash light changes,
And the carwash begins.
The thick, wet, drenching, soap covers the tire, and the car, 
including that tire which is UNTO the tire bumper..
The soap is UPON the tire. 
It is all over it, and has an effect on the tire.

Romans 3:22, says that 
	“the righteousness of God”
Is 
	“UNTO ALL”
	“and”
	“UPON ALL them that believe”

Do you see the qualifier that God placed there?
it's only UPON 
“ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE“
so it applies to you, if ye believe. 
If you don't believe, 
if you don't trust Christ as your Savior, 
by trusting that he died for your sins, 
then, it doesn't apply to you. 
It comes UNTO YOU, but its not UPON YOU, 
unless you believe. 
It's upon all them that believe. 
Romans 3, verse 23, and 24,
23,  
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24,  
Being justified freely by his grace 
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

That “all” applies there too, doesn't it, in verse 24? 

ALL have sinned
and
ALL are 
Being justified freely by his grace 
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus 
but, as we saw in verse 22, it only applies to those that believe. 

through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25,  
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation 
through faith in his blood, 
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, 
through the forbearance of God;
Past tense sins of old, had to be remitted. 
They could not be forgiven, 
UNTIL Christ had actually shed his blood, FOR their forgiveness. 
So, Paul says:
for the remission of sins that are past, 
through the forbearance of God;
26,  
To declare, I say, at this time

that is the but now 

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: 
that he might be just, and 
the justifier OF HIM WHICH BELIEVETH IN JESUS.

There is that belief needed again. 
The ones that are justified, are the ones that 
believe that Jesus Christ is their Savior, 
and that He saved them by his blood. 

He does that in a way that He remains just. 
He doesn't bend the rules. 

Romans 3:27,  
Where is boasting then? 
It is excluded. 
By what law? 
of works? 
Nay: but by the law of faith.
The working of faith, in other words, the operation of faith.

28,  
Therefore we conclude that 
a man is justified by faith 
WITHOUT the deeds of the law.
Isn’t that a precious verse? 

END OF ROMANS 3
START OF ROMANS 4, 

Let's go on.  
He hits us again, with his gospel in chapter 4. 
Paul says:

Romans 4:1,  
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, 
as pertaining to the flesh, 
hath found?
Paul says that “pertaining to the flesh” 
Abraham is his, and their forefather.  
(He says that Abraham is “our father.”)
So while Paul addresses this epistle “To all that be in Rome,”
He identifies the group 
to which he now turns his attention 
as being the descendants of Abraham, 
specifically, the Jews.

Romans 4, verses 2, through 4,  
2,
For IF Abraham were justified by works, 
he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3,  
For what saith the scripture? 
Abraham believed God, 
and IT (the belief) was counted unto him for righteousness.
4,  
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, 
but of debt.

So, you get hired.  
You make an agreement with your employer.  
You go to work, and do the work, and he pays you. 

He is not being gracious to you, is he?
If he says, “well I don't feel gracious today, I’ll give you half as much.” 
You would say, 
“No, we had an agreement.  
You agreed to pay me such and such an hour.”  
And he would have to pay you.  
He owes it to you.  

That's what its talking about there, 
4,  
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, 
but of debt.

5,  
But to him that worketh not, 
but believeth on him that justifieth the UNGODLY, 
his faith is counted for righteousness.
There is that imputation of righteousness to the believer. 

Lets summarize here.

we see in Romans 4, verse 20, 
He (Abraham) staggered not at THE PROMISE of God through unbelief; 
but was strong in faith, 
giving glory to God;
and next, Paul describes his faith 

Romans 4, verse 21,  
And being fully persuaded that, 
what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22,  
And therefore (because of that verse 20 faith, described in verse 21) 
it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Abraham had been promised something else 
other than what we have been promised.  
Wasn’t he?

But he believed. 
It was his faith that was counted as righteousness. 
And we are to have faith in 
what we were given to believe. 

We are to believe that gospel 
which he just gave in the chapter before, 
which is the gospel that Paul 
is going to present again, during the next few verses, 
and it is the same gospel that Paul preached in 
First Corinthians 15, verses 1, through 4. 

But let's look at it here. 
Paul says,  
22, 
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23, 
now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him 
24, 
but for us also to whom it shall be imputed 
if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead 

And next, we have the same thing as in first Corinthians 15 three 
25,  
Who was delivered FOR OUR offences, 
and was raised again FOR OUR justification.	
It was our offenses, 
the PAYING FOR THE DEBT OF OUR OFFENSES, our sins, 
that put Jesus Christ on the cross. 
and he was raised again FOR OUR justification 
So we know that we believers are justified, BY his resurrection, 
when he rose from the dead. 

END OF ROMANS CHAPTER 4
START OF ROMANS CHAPTER 5 

Paul summarizes in chapter 5, verses 1, through 11. 

“therefore,” in other words, because of what we just went through, 
from Romans chapters 1, through 4, 
about how bad man is, all men, 
and that Christ imputes his righteousness to us, by faith 
Romans 5:1,  
Therefore being justified by faith, 
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

And it doesn't say, 
“therefore being justified by faith, 
we have PROBATION with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 
We have peace! 
And how much of it did we do? 
NONE OF IT!
We didn't do any of it, did we? 
It was the faith of Christ in going to the cross, 
knowing that God would raise him from the dead, 
having forgiven all of our sins 
Jesus Christ believed that all our sins would be forgiven by his death, 
and he went to the cross.
That is “the faith of Jesus Christ” 

and by our believing that, we come into the benefit of that. 
We are not only forgiven of all sins,
but we are imputed God’s own righteousness.

So, Paul goes on through,  and now lets look down in verse 6.
This is the result of what he's already written, and has told us about before 
Romans 5:6,  
For when we were yet without strength, 
in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
when the time was right, he went to the cross.
7,  
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: 
yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

8,  
But God.
But God. It's not “but I tried hard,” or “I pleased God.” 
It's “but God.”  God did it.  God did it.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, 
while we were yet sinners, 
not repent, not baptized, not going to church 

while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9,  
Much more then, being NOW justified by his blood, 
we shall be saved from wrath through him.
(shall be, when God’s wrath comes).
10,  
For if, when we were enemies, 
we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, 
much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11,  
And not only so, 
but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 
by whom WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED the atonement.
Its our’s.  The atonement is our’s.

12,  
Wherefore, as by one man, 
sin entered into the world, and death by sin; 
and so death passed upon all men, 
for that all have sinned:

So, he's making this very clear.  
It's one of the most detailed discussions of our condition, 
and what God did about it to save us, 
and how we can be saved 

That pretty well summarizes the overview of Romans.

In Romans 1, verses 11, and 12, 
Paul wrote to show the Romans how to be established. 

And that these are the three things that bring us to an established life: 
my gospel 
and
preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery 
and 
the inspired of God, Old Testament Scriptures. 

Don't let anybody tell you, that there are less than 66 books in the Bible, 
Or, more than 66 books in the Bible. 
Stay away from where you hear that. 
If you hear that, RUN! 

We have God’s Bible, 
brought down through the ages for us. 
God promised.  
God did promise that every word of God is pure. 
That's Proverbs 30, verse 5, every word of God IS pure! 

And, in Psalms 12, verses 6, and 7, God has also promised, 
to PRESERVE those words for us, 
to bring them to us, 
to reveal His will to you through His word. 

So, don't let somebody tell you that the Scripture is false, 
or that, the Scripture has been changed, 
or that, the Scripture doesn't apply today,
or that, “Well all translations have mistakes”

God does NOT MAKE MISTAKES.
God’s word is errorless.
God’s word was preserved for ever, 
IF God is not a liar. 

Those parts that are written to us today,  do apply to us today. 
And those parts that were written to Israel, 
applied while Israel was not yet cast away, 
and they will apply 
when the Israel of God is regathered by God into THE LAND, 
according to the promise of God.
He does bring to pass all that He promised, 
TO WHOM He promised it. 

We have looked at the overview, 
and we've looked at the first section of Romans, 
chapters 1, through 5, about my gospel, Paul's gospel, 
given to Paul by Christ, 
according to Galatians 1 verses 11 and 12.