Chapter six portrays the ideal situation for a living Christian. What God’s grace and righteousness should accomplish in a believer’s life is nothing short of perfection. However, this requires a complete mindset shift in the person himself, namely, that a believer is dead to sin and its power (Romans 6:1-4). This occurs immediately at salvation, […]
Chapter five begins the second half of the first major section of Romans. Having shown our need for God’s righteousness (chapters 1-2) and that it is accessible only through faith (chapters 3-4), Paul used the next four chapters to explain further what takes place in us when we are saved. The first major change is
Chapter four serves two purposes in Paul’s explanation of salvation as God’s gift of righteousness that comes only through faith. First, by quoting from two passages from the Hebrew Scriptures, he ensured that his Jewish readers could not escape the knowledge that this truth had in their grasp the whole time. Second, by using two
