McClurg Ministries- Romans

I. Introduction (1:1-17)
A. Theme (1:16-17)
II. The guilty world (1:18-3:20)
A. The wrath of God revealed (1:18)
B. The universe a revelation of the power and deity of God (1:19-20)
C. The seven stages of Gentile world apostasy (1:21-23)
D. The result of the Gentile world apostasy (1:24-32)
E. The Gentile pagan moralizers no better than other pagans (2:1-16)
F. The Jew, knowing the law, is condemned by the Law (2:17-29)
G. The advantage of the Jew works his greater condemnation (3:1-8)
H. The final verdict: the whole world guilty before God (3:9-20)
III. Justification by faith in Christ crucified, the alone remedy for sins (3:21-5:11)
A. Justification defined (3:21-28)
B. Justification a universal remedy (3:29-30)
C. Justification by faith honors the law (3:31)
D. Justification by faith illustrated (4:1-4)
E. Justifying faith defined (4:5-8)
F. Justification is apart from ordinances (4:9-12)
G. Justification is apart from the law (4:13-25)
H. The seven results of justification (5:1-11)
IV. Sanctification: indwelling sin, and the Gospel remedy (5:12-8:13)
A. Through Adam, sin and death (5:12-14)
B. Through Christ, righteousness and life (5:15-21)
C. Deliverance from the power of indwelling sin (6:1-8:13)
1. By union with Christ in death and resurrection (6:1-10)
2. By counting the old life to be dead, and by yielding the new life to God (6:11-13)
3. By deliverance from the law through death, and by the Spirit (6:14-7:6)
4. The believer is not made holy by the law (7:7-14)
5. The strife of the two natures under the law (7:15-8:1)
6. The new law of the Spirit delivers, makes righteous (8:2-4)
7. Conflict of the Spirit with the flesh (8:5-13)
V. Full result of the Gospel (8:14-39)
A. The believer a son and heir (8:14-17)
B. The creation, delivered from suffering and death, kept for the sons of God (8:18-25)
C. The Spirit an indwelling Intercessor (8:26-27)
D. The unfailing purpose of God through the Gospel (8:28-34)
E. The believer secure (8:35-39)
VI. Parenthetic. The Gospel does not set aside the covenants with Israel (9:1-11:36)
A. The apostolic solicitude for Israel (9:1-3)
B. The sevenfold privilege of Israel (9:4-5)
C. The distinction between Jews who are mere natural descendants of Abraham, and Jews who
are also of his spiritual seed (9:6-13)
1. The distinction illustrated (9:8-13)
D. God's mercy is under his sovereign will (9:14-24)
E. The prophets foretold the blinding of Israel, and mercy to Gentiles (9:25-33)
F. The apparent failure of the promises to Israel explained by their unbelief (10:1-21)
G. But spiritual Israel is finding salvation (11:1-6)
H. National Israel is judicially blinded (11:7-12)
I. The Gentiles warned (11:13-25)
J. Israel is yet to be saved nationally (11:26-36)
VII. Christian life and service (12:1-15:33)
A. Consecration (12:1-2)
B. Service (12:3-8)
C. The Christian and those within (12:9-16)
D. The Christian and those without (12:17-13:7)
E. The law of love toward the neighbor (13:8-14)
F. The law of love concerning doubtful things (14:1-3)
G. Jewish and Gentile believers are one in salvation (14:4-13)
H. The apostle speaks of his ministry and coming journey (14:14-15:33)
VIII. The outflow of Christian love (16:1-27)