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Life-Study of Romans

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A Foreword _{msg. 1}

I. The position of Romans in the Bible
A. The Bible — a romance of a universal couple
1. God in Christ as the Bridegroom
2. God’s redeemed people as the Bride
3. This romance in the Old Testament
a. The story of a marriage
b. God as the Husband and His people as the wife
c. The full romance in Song of Songs
4. This romance in the New Testament
a. Christ as the Bridegroom in the gospels
b. The husband and wife in the Epistles
c. The marriage of Christ and His people in Revelation
5. The universal couple and the universal man
B. The Old Testament as a prediction
1. Prophecies of Christ
2. The church in types, figures, and shadows
C. The New Testament, the fulfillment of the Old Testament
1. The individual Christ in the Gospels
2. The corporate Christ in Acts
3. The full definition of the corporate Christ in Romans
II. The sections of Romans
A. Introduction — the gospel of God
B. Condemnation — the need of salvation
C. Justification — the accomplishment of salvation
D. Sanctification — the life-process in salvation
E. Glorification — the purpose of salvation
F. Selection — the economy of salvation
G. Transformation — the life-practice in Salvation
H. Conclusion — the ultimate consummation of salvation
III. The major structures of Romans
A. Salvation
B. Life
C. Building

The Gospel of God _{msg. 2}

I. Promised in the Scriptures
II. Concerning Christ
A. Come out of the seed of David
B. Designated the Son of God out of resurrection
III. Preached by the sent ones
A. In spirit
B. By prayer
C. With eagerness
IV. Received by the called ones
A. Through the obedience of faith
B. Unto grace and peace
V. The power of God
VI. The righteousness of God revealed in the gospel
A. Out of faith to faith
B. The just have life and live by faith

The Source of Wickedness and the Way of Restriction _{msg. 3}

I. The condemnation on mankind
A. The source of wickedness
1. Holding down the truth in unrighteousness
2. Disapproving of holding God in full knowledge
3. Not glorifying God and not worshipping Him
4. Exchanging God
B. The result of giving up God
1. Being given up by God
2. Having fornication — confusion in order
II. The condemnation of the self-righteous
A. The way of restriction
1. Knowing God by His creation
2. Holding the truth in righteousness
3. Obeying the laws of nature
4. Listening to the conscience
5. Caring for the proper reasonings

The Vanity of Religion and the Totality of Hopelessness _{msg. 4}

I. The condemnation on the religious
A. Having an outward name
B. Knowing God in outward knowledge
C. Having the Scriptures outwardly
D. Keeping the outward form in letter
E. Lacking inward reality in spirit
F. Doing evils as the unreligious
II. The condemnation on all the world — the totality of hopelessness

Justification in God's Way _{msg. 5}
The Example of Justification _{msg. 6}

I. The called one
II. The believing one
A. God who calls things not being as being
B. God who gives life to the dead
III. His faith reckoned as righteousness
IV. Circumcision received as a seal
V. Made the father of faith
VI. The promise given for him and his seed to be the heirs of the world
VII. The proof of God’s justification

The Subjective Experience of Justification (1) _{msg. 7}

The experience of God in justification
God’s purpose in justification
The issue of the subjective experience of justification

The Subjective Experience of Justification (2) _{msg. 8}

The transfusion of God
Faith as a reaction
The process of transfusion
The transfusion in the gospel
God’s appearing to Abraham
Abraham’s further experience
The believer’s experience
The fulfillment of God’s purpose for God’s satisfaction
Back to the tree of life

The Result of Justification—the Full Enjoyment of God in Christ _{msg. 9}

I. Justified and reconciled
II. With God’s love poured out
III. Standing in the realm of grace
IV. Enjoying God by boasting, exulting, and glorying in Him
A. Boasting in tribulation
B. Boasting in hope of sharing the glory of God
V. Being saved in Christ’s life

The Gift in Christ Surpassing the Heritage in Adam _{msg. 10}

I. Two men, two acts, and two results
A. Two men
1. Adam
2. Christ
B. Two acts
1. Adam’s transgression in the garden
2. Christ’s obedience on the cross
C. Two results
1. The result of Adam’s transgression
a. Sin entered
b. Many were constituted sinners
c. All men were condemned unto death
d. Death reigned over all men
e. In Adam all die
2. The result of Christ’s obedience
a. Grace came
b. Many were constituted righteous
c. Many were justified unto life
d. Grace reigned through righteousness unto life eternal
e. In Christ all shall be made alive
II. Four reigning things
A. Sin
1. Having entered through the first man
2. Dwelling in man’s fallen body
3. Having the law as its power
4. Reigning in death
B. Death
1. Having come through sin
2. Reigning through one man over all men
C. Grace
1. Having come through the second man
2. Abounding and reigning through righteousness unto eternal life
D. The believers
1. Having received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
2. Reigning in life through the man Christ

Identification with Christ _{msg. 11}

I. Identified with Christ in His death and resurrection
A. Baptized into Christ
B. Baptized into His death — grown together with Him in the likeness of His death
C. Walking in newness of life
II. Knowing and reckoning
A. Knowing by seeing
B. Reckoning by believing
III. Cooperation by rejecting and presenting

The Bondage of the Law in Our Flesh (1) _{msg. 12}

I. Two husbands
A. Man’s original position — a wife’s position
B. The self-assuming position of fallen man
C. The law of the old man
D. The position of the regenerated man — a genuine wife’s position
1. Having the old man crucified
2. Freed from the law of the old man
3. Married to Christ, the new husband
4. Taking Christ as the head
5. Bearing fruit to God
6. Serving the Lord in newness of spirit

The Bondage of the Law in Our Flesh (2) _{msg. 13}

II. Three laws
A. The law of God
B. The law of good
C. The law of sin (and death)
D. The body of this death
E. The wretchedness of man trying to fulfill the law

The Freedom of the Spirit in Our Spirit (1) _{msg. 14}

I. The law of the Spirit of life
A. The Spirit of life
B. The fourfold life
C. The law of the Spirit of life
D. Three lives with three laws
E. God in our spirit
F. The enjoyment of Christ as the life-giving Spirit

The Freedom of the Spirit in Our Spirit (2) _{msg. 15}

II. The freedom of the law of the Spirit of life
A. Now no condemnation
1. The condemnation outside of Christ
2. Now no condemnation in Christ
B. The Freedom of the law of the Spirit of life
1. In Christ
2. Daily
C. The impossibility of the law
D. Sin condemned
E. The righteous requirement of the law fulfilled
F. The mind as the key

The Freedom of the Spirit in Our Spirit (3) _{msg. 16}

III. The indwelling of Christ the Spirit
A. The flesh
B. The indwelling of Christ the Spirit
1. The indwelling of the Spirit of God
2. The indwelling of the Spirit of Christ
3. The indwelling of Christ
a. The indwelling sin bringing death to the body
b. The indwelling Christ bringing life to our spirit
C. The imparting of life
D. Our cooperation
1. By not living according to flesh
2. By putting to death the practices of the body

Sanctification in Life _{msg. 17}

God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory
Life and sanctification in Romans
God’s purpose in sanctification

Heirs of Glory (1) _{msg. 18}

I. The blessings of sonship
A. The Spirit of sonship
B. The witnessing of the Spirit
C. The leading of the Spirit

Heirs of Glory (2) _{msg. 19}

D. The firstfruit of the Spirit
E. The helping of the Spirit
F. The interceding of the Spirit
G. The full sonship

Heirs of Glory (3) _{msg. 20}

II. Heirs conformed for glorification
A. Many brothers of the firstborn
B. Joint-heirs of Christ
C. Conformed to the image of the firstborn
1. Inwardly by the working of the Spirit

Heirs of Glory (4) _{msg. 21}

2. Outwardly by the working together of all things
D. Glorification
1. The revelation of the sons of God in the freedom of glory
2. The sharing of God’s glory
III. Heirs inseparable from God’s love

God's Selection, Our Destiny (1) _{msg. 22}

I. Of God who calls
II. Of God’s mercy
III. Of God’s sovereignty
IV. By the righteousness of faith

God's Selection, Our Destiny (2) _{msg. 23}

V. Through Christ
A. Christ, the end of the law
B. Christ, incarnated and resurrected
C. Christ, near to you
D. Christ, believed in and called upon
E. Christ, preached and heard
F. Christ, received and rejected

God's Economy in His Selection _{msg. 24}

I. A remnant reserved by grace
II. The nations saved through Israel’s stumbling
III. Israel restored through the nations’ mercy
IV. A praise for God’s selection

Transformation In Practicing the Body Life (1) _{msg. 25}

I. Transformation for the Body life
A. Transformation
B. The Body life
1. The practicality of the church life
2. A corporate life
II. By the presenting of our bodies
A. The begging of the Apostle
B. Presenting our bodies as a sacrifice
1. Many bodies, one sacrifice
2. A priestly service which is most reasonable
III. By the renewing of our mind
A. Do not be conformed to this age
B. Be transformed by the renewing of the mind
C. To test and prove the will of God

Transformation In Practicing the Body Life (2) _{msg. 26}

IV. By the exercising of our gifts
A. Not thinking highly of ourselves, but thinking soberly according to the measure of faith
B. Realizing one body with many members having different functions
C. As members coordinating with one another
D. Exercising our different gifts according to the grace given to us
1. Prophecy according to the proportion of faith
2. Service in the service
3. Teaching in teaching
4. Exhorting in exhortation
5. Giving in simplicity
6. Leading in diligence
7. Showing mercy in cheerfulness

Transformation In Practicing the Body Life (3) Transformation In Subjection, Love, and Warfare _{msg. 27}

V. By the living of a normal life
A. Toward others
1. Loving
2. Showing honor
3. Communicating and showing hospitality
4. Rejoicing with those who rejoice and weeping with those who weep
5. Being of the same mind
B. Toward God
1. Not slothful
2. Burning in spirit
3. Serving as a slave
C. Toward ourselves
1. Rejoicing in hope
2. Enduring in tribulation
3. Persevering in prayer
4. Abhorring and conquering what is evil and cleaving to what is good
D. Toward the persecutor and enemy
1. Blessing and not cursing
2. Repaying no evil for evil
3. Not avenging ourselves
4. Heaping coals of fire on them by feeding them and giving them drink
5. Living in peace with all men
E. In general: taking forethought for things honorable in the sight of all men
Transformation in subjection, love, and warfare
I. In subjection
II. In love
III. In warfare
A. To be raised out of sleep
B. To cast off the works of darkness and put on the weapons of light
C. To walk seemingly as in the day
D. To put on Christ
E. Making no provision for the flesh

Transformation in Receiving the Believers (1) _{msg. 28}

I. According to God’s receiving, not according to doctrinal concepts
A. Receive him who is weak in faith
B. Not passing judgment on reasonings
C. Receive him, for God has received him
D. All are the Lord’s and all live to the Lord
II. In the light of the judgment seat

Transformation in Receiving the Believers (2) _{msg. 29}

III. In the principle of love
IV. For the kingdom life
A. Not letting your good be slandered
B. Living the life of the kingdom of God
1. The church — the kingdom of God in this age
2. A matter of exercise and discipline
3. What the kingdom life is
C. Serving Christ in this
D. Pursuing the things of peace and the things which build
E. Not breaking down the work of God
F. Doing everything in faith without doubting
V. According to Christ
A. Bearing the weaknesses of the weak
B. Pleasing our neighbor unto building as Christ did
C. Being likeminded one to another according to Christ
D. Glorifying God with one accord and with one mouth
E. Receiving one another as Christ received us
F. Christ, a servant for the circumcision and for the nations
G. Christ, the root of Jesse for the nations

The Consummation of the Gospel _{msg. 30}

I. The offering of the nations
A. Through the ministering of Christ
B. In the wide-spread preaching of the gospel
C. Sanctified in the Holy Spirit and accepted by God
II. The communication in love
A. Between the Gentile and Jewish saints
B. For the sharing in the fullness of the blessing of Christ
III. The fellowship of concern
A. Among the saints, between the churches
B. For the crushing of Satan
C. For the grace of Christ to be dispensed to all the saints
IV. The concluding praise

A Closing Word _{msg. 31}

I. The God in Romans
II. The consummation of God’s work
III. A practical view
IV. The stations in Romans
V. The warning concerning division

The Basic Concept of Romans _{msg. 32}

The basic thought of Romans
The major sections
Personal salvation
The Body, the expression of Christ
Our deeds exposed
Constituted sinners
God’s righteousness reckoned to us
God’s holiness worked into us
Glorification with God’s glory
The heart of God

The Basic Points in Chapters Five through Eight _{msg. 33}

Two facts and two experiences
In Adam
In Christ
In the flesh
In the spirit

Being Freed from Sin, the Law, and the Flesh _{msg. 34}

Four stations
Taking care of what we have done and what we are
The experience of being in Adam and in Christ
Put into Christ
Our old man having been crucified with Christ
The body of sin being made of none effect
The problem of the law
The problem of the flesh
Freed from the flesh by walking according to the spirit

Being Freed from Death (1) _{msg. 35}

Sin entering into our being
The results of sin
Freed from sin, the law, and the flesh
The working of death
“This death”
The body of sin and the body of death
Life for our mortal bodies
Christ making His home in us
Giving Christ the ground
Being liberated people

Being Freed from Death (2) _{msg. 36}

Death entering and reigning
Death, the wages of sin
Sin killing us through the commandment
The body of this death
The law of sin and of death
Setting the mind on the flesh
The Spirit making home in us
Our body being dead, but our spirit being life
The flesh of sin
The effects of death
The way to be freed from death
Death being the last enemy
Caring for life in the spirit

Law in Romans Seven and Eight _{msg. 37}

Four laws
Another law
Three persons and three lives
Every life having a law
Three lives and three laws
Living by the law of life

Life and Death in Romans Five through Eight _{msg. 38}

Knowledge, good, and evil
The line of life and the line of death
The reign of life and the reign of death
Newness of life
“This death”
A fourfold life
Caring for life
Life in our spirit and death in our flesh
Setting our mind on the spirit
Developing a new habit
Dead to sin and alive to God
A universal battle

Abiding in Christ by Minding the Spirit _{msg. 39}

The Spirit in Romans 8
Life and death
Three questions concerning abiding in Christ
Christ in us
Experiencing Christ as the life-giving Spirit
Minding the spirit
Setting the mind on the spirit by prayer
Satan as sin dwelling in our flesh
Our spirit being life
The indwelling Spirit giving life to our mortal bodies
The place of the mind

Saved in Life from Sin and Worldliness _{msg. 40}

The progressive revelation of life
Justification and life
Saved in His life
Saved in life from the law of sin
The law of the Spirit of life
Sanctification in life
The best way to grow in life

Saved in Life from Naturalness _{msg. 41}

Saved in the Person of Christ
A metabolic change
Transformed for the building up of the Body
All things working for our transformation
The renewing of the mind
Ministering life

Saved in Life from Individualism _{msg. 42}

Seven negative things
Justification, life, and building
The greatest hindrance to the building
Opening to the Lord
Dealing with the mind, emotion, and will
Allowing Christ to live in us
Exposed and saved

Saved in Life from Divisiveness _{msg. 43}

The element of divisiveness
Receiving the saints
Christ as the reality of the shadows
Types and shadows of Christ
Taking care of weaker believers
The divisiveness among today’s Christians
Taking the Lord’s way
Our standing
The need for growth in life

Saved in Life from Self-Likeness (1) _{msg. 44}

The expression of the self
Conformed to the image of the Son of God
Sanctification, transformation, and glorification
The process of glorification
An organic, metabolic change
God working all things together for good
The interceding Spirit
The goal of glorification

Saved in Life from Self-Likeness (2) _{msg. 45}

Designated according to the Spirit of holiness
All things working to transform us metabolically
Organic transformation
Conformation for glorification
Bringing many sons into glory
God’s holy essence impossible to eradicate

Reigning in Life by Grace _{msg. 46}

Grace reigning unto eternal life
A continuation of the Gospel of John
Ruling over the three major enemies
God dispensed into us to be our portion
Two kings
Receiving abundance of grace
Opening to be filled

The Meaning of Reigning in Life _{msg. 47}

Grace and sin
Sin and evil
God’s three enemies
The Spirit — God living in us
The work of God’s enemy
Victory and reigning
The process of becoming kings
Reigning in life related to oneness

Reigning in Life Over Death _{msg. 48}

The present working of death
The sting of death
A contrast
The Spirit and the experience of life
The sense of death
Cooperating with the law of the Spirit of life
Contacting the throne of grace
Death subdued and swallowed up by the uncreated life

Reigning in Life Over Satan _{msg. 49}

Satan, sin, and the flesh
The way to overcome Satan
A matter of life and the Body
Satan crushed under our feet
The reborn spirit keeping us
Our protection from the evil one
Overcoming Satan by abiding in Christ
Built up in the Body

The Flesh and the Spirit _{msg. 50}

Satan, sin, and death meeting in man’s flesh
Our fundamental problem
The flesh in chapters seven and eight
A sinful compound
Desperate to turn to the spirit
God’s use of our failures in the flesh
Turning to the spirit

Serving in the Gospel of His Son _{msg. 51}

The gospel in Romans
Promised in the Old Testament
Concerning a wonderful Person
Many sons conformed to the image of Christ
The power of God
Ministering Christ in the gospel

Designation _{msg. 52}

God’s desire to have many sons
Christ as the model and pattern
The two natures of the many sons
Designated by resurrection
Processed through our failures
Four aspects of resurrection
Sanctification
Transformation
Conformation
Glorification

Sonship in Romans _{msg. 53}

Christ designated the Son of God
According to the Spirit of holiness
How the many sons are brought into being
Grafted into Christ
Not correction but resurrection
Sanctification and transformation
The process of sonship
The Body built up with sons

Designation in Resurrection _{msg. 54}

The process of resurrection
The experience of resurrection
Christ as life-power
The functions of resurrection
Conquering negative things
Swallowing up death
Producing growth, transformation, and shaping
Releasing the positive things
The power to rise up
Our experience of resurrection
The Spirit as the reality of resurrection
The process of designation
According to the Spirit
The manifestation of the sons of God
Subjective sanctification
The consummation of transformation
Shaped into the life-form
Enjoying the designating Spirit

Designation by the Spirit of Holiness _{msg. 55}

Holiness, the divine essence
The application of the Triune God
Christ being the life-giving Spirit
Applying the heavenly electricity
Calling on the name of the Lord
Experiencing what is related to the Spirit
Holiness
Life
Law
Peace
Joy
Hope
Love
Power
Service
Preaching the gospel

Designation by the Mingled Spirit _{msg. 56}
Righteousness — the Power of the Gospel _{msg. 57}

The requirements of God’s righteousness fulfilled by Christ’s death on the cross
Impossible for God to change His mind
The foundation of our salvation
God’s righteousness manifested and shown forth
Looking at the ascended Christ
The foundation of our experience of Christ
Christ, the end of the law unto righteousness
Constituted the righteousness of God
Standing on God’s righteousness

The Selection of Grace _{msg. 58}

God’s selection
Selection, predestination, and calling
God’s arrangement of our lives
The proof of God’s selection
God’s selection and the preaching of the gospel
All a matter of God’s mercy
Worshipping the Lord for His mercy
Trusting in the Lord’s mercy
The gospel of grace

The Practice of the Body Life _{msg. 59}

Sonship for the Body
The body presented, the soul transformed, and the spirit burning
Talk and practice
Receiving the believers
A general attitude
Differences between churches
A matter of the Spirit
The locality of the church
Showing hospitality to the church
The church in the house

The Dispensation of the Triune God for the Fulfillment of His Purpose _{msg. 60}

God’s eternal purpose
Triune for dispensation
God blessed forever
God sending His own Son
The death of God’s Son
Designated the Son of God in resurrection
Interchangeable terms
Christ in us
The Spirit making home in us
Implied revelation
Process and dispensation
The dispensation of the Triune God issuing in sonship
The firstfruit and the interceding of the Spirit
The ultimate issue of God’s dispensation

The Dispensation of the Triune God according to His Righteousness, through His Holiness, and Unto His Glory _{msg. 61}

Righteousness being the base for God’s dispensation
The requirements of God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory
Three sections
Becoming righteous by dying
God dispensing Himself only into those who have died
Holiness and resurrection
Ascension and glorification
The subjective experience of righteousness, holiness, and glory
The ultimate goal of the Triune God in His dispensation

The Life of the Triune God Dispensed into the Tripartite Man _{msg. 62}

The highest righteousness
Holiness in action
Glorification, the issue of sanctification
The more sanctification, the more glory
The life of the Triune God dispensed into our whole being
The life that is dispensed into us
A long process
Our spirit being life
Not the bright virtue, but the Triune God as life
Our mind becoming life
Life imparted into our mortal bodies
Seeing the vision
Men of life

Not an Exchanged Life, but a Grafted Life _{msg. 63}

The most wonderful created life
Image, likeness, and reality
A vessel to contain God
The capacity to be godly
Dispensation, not exchange
Vessels of honor and glory
A union of life
Grafting
The grafting of similar lives
Uplifted through grafting
Dispensing, mingling, and abiding
One life with one living
Swallowing up our defects and shortages
The principle of incarnation
God’s revelation and our experience

Transformation and Conformation by the Grafted Life (1) _{msg. 64}

Our destiny
A grafted life
The grafting of similar lives
Qualified to come into us
Two complicated lives
Terminated, resurrected, and uplifted

Transformation and Conformation by the Grafted Life (2) _{msg. 65}

God’s goal
The human life and the divine life
The process and the goal
The compound Spirit
An all-inclusive dose
Growing together with Christ
A life of baptism
A heavenly antibiotic
The process of transformation
Growth and sanctification
Four characteristics of life
Shaped into the pattern of the firstborn Son
Discharging the negative element
Resurrecting God’s creation
Uplifting our faculties
Supplying the riches of Christ
Saturating our being

God Condemning Sin in the Flesh _{msg. 66}

Two kinds of condemnation
No condemnation
How God dealt with sin
Two worlds, two realms
Walking according to spirit

The Processed God Being the Law of the Spirit of Life _{msg. 67}

The Triune God processed to become the law of the Spirit of life in us
Imparting life to every part of our being
A scientific concept of law
The law of the Spirit of life working in us

God Condemning Sin in the Flesh That We May Be In the Spirit _{msg. 68}

The righteous requirements of the law fulfilled in us
Walking according to spirit
Speaking in faith
Three questions
Two crucial facts
Position and condition

Being in the Spirit to Experience the Work of the Spirit _{msg. 69}

Declaring that we are in the spirit
Acknowledging the proclamation of the gospel
Distracted from the spirit
The mingled spirit
The work of the indwelling Spirit

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