THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 16 - THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL OF PAUL

Mike teaches today. 03/27/21

THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 16
THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL OF PAUL

VERSES: Romans 2:16,11:25,16:25; Matthew 21:43; Acts 28:26-27; 1st Peter 1:9

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Romans 16:1-2 “Now I commend unto you Phebe our sister…” What is remarkable in Paul’s final address and salutation is the number of women he commends as in the service of the Lord; some 10 of them. This one, Phebe, in particular is worthy of honor and respect because of her service in the body of Christ as a deaconess, and help is due to her as she has been a helper to others and to Paul himself. Seems that these women are set in contrast to Eve in the Garden. They were being commended as faithful helpers to their spiritual husband, the Second Adam, as opposed to Eve to the first Adam.

VERSES 3-4 “Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus.’” These are the same two helpers of Paul and the Lord in Acts 18.

VERSES 5-16 Many of these salutations are to Jews, and not a few are said to be relatives of Paul. What is marked is the loving harmony that is to be found in Christ Jesus in Believers.

VERSES 17-20 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.”

The practical application of the Truth that Paul has been teaching is unto the sincere right-minded Christian to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. Being on guard for the serpent’s wiles is an allusion to the Garden of Eden, and the sure word of prophecy that the Seed of Woman (Jesus) is completing what He begun, “through their continued obedience now in the revealed Truth of these doctrines”. We are to beware also of the serpent’s days of deceiving and disturbing by planting religious tares among them who serve themselves and not the Lord, who would bring them back into the flesh either under the Law on the one hand or presumptuous freedom on the other, robbing them of their kingdom inheritance (“…causing hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the such like… that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5 with Proverbs 6:16-19) These who are dividing and not uniting in love are to be anticipated and watched out for. Note that the Lord said (in Matthew 13:27-30) not to kill them, persecute them, or even to debate and argue with them, but to leave them alone. As Paul says, also to avoid them (compare that with “…after the first and second admonition, reject... Titus 3:10-11, Revelation 22:11)

The Tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden is alluded to here as well. Some take almost a sense of pride of ‘knowing’ what evils are being perpetrated in the World. They keep abreast with those who are eating of that tree to see what they are doing. But the Word and Spirit direct us to ignorance of the works of evil, and direct us to have the wisdom to focus on what is good. If we truly had wisdom of what is good, we wouldn’t look in on the evil to see what is happening. It’s not our responsibility to inform all those around us as to what’s going on. We only need to focus on what’s good, and renew our minds on Him via His Word. We don’t have to look under the rug to see what is going on in the world. The exhortation is that evil and satan are in the working out of the purposes of God. We are to be patient and wise as He is, in this time of His calling out a people to overcome the flesh and satan in the power of the Atonement of Him Who has overcome. It is the time of satan’s bruising of the Believer, but soon He Whose feet he bruised will crush satan’s head under foot. Christ will return and His Wrath shall be poured out on all His enemies, and those who refuse to serve Him.

The next 5 verses discover to us the one who wrote down this Epistle for Paul… Tertius. And then the 24th verse is the benediction… “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, Amen.”

Romans 16:25-27 “Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and 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, and by the Scriptures of.......

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