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Pauline Literature Class 3

Pauline Literature Class 3. Fr. Chris Shocklee, MA. Come Holy Spirit.

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Pauline Literature Class 3

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  1. Pauline LiteratureClass 3 Fr. Chris Shocklee, MA

  2. Come Holy Spirit • Come, Holy Spirit,Fill the hearts of us,Your faithful, and kindle in us the fire of Your Love.Send forth Your Spirit and we shall be CREATED.And You shall renew the face of the earth.Oh, God, Who by the Light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful,grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in His consolations,through Christ our Lord. Amen

  3. Today’s Plan • Romans • Ephesians 2:11-3:21

  4. Romans Intro • Authorship/Date • No major questions of authorship • 3rd MJ • Circa late 57 AD or early 58 AD • Community • Eusebius has Peter in Rome around 42 AD but other accounts have him continuing to travel • Mixed community of Jewish & Gentile believers • Majority Gentiles • Still closely connected to the Synagogues • Themes • Salvation in Christ • Restoration of Israel • Christian Living

  5. Romans • Prologue (1:1-15) • Salvation in Christ (1:16-8:39) • Restoration of Israel (9:1-11:36) • Christian Living (12:1-14:23) • Epilogue (15:1-16:23)

  6. Prologue (1:1-15) • Greeting (1:1-7) • Vss 1-6 Long intro – Why? • Vs 7 – “To all God’s beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” • Prayer of Thanksgiving (1:8-15) • Vs 8 – how well does Paul know the Romans? • Vs 14 “to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish”

  7. Salvation in Christ (1:16-8:39) • The Righteousness of God (1:16-17) • Faithfulness of Yahweh • Grace that establishes the faithful in a right covenant relationship with God • Vs 17 “through faith for faith” • Condemnation: The Universal Corruption of Gentiles and Jews (1:18-3:20) • “Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;” – Who is he talking about? • Vss 1:24-25 “Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.” • Vs 1:32 “Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.“ • 2:3-4 “Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? “ • 2:1-29 Condemnation of Jews by the Law • Natural Law 2:14 “When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.” • 3:5 “But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) “ • 3:10-18 citations of OT – Ps 14:3; 4:9; 140:3; 10:7; 59:7-8 • 3:20 “For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.”

  8. Salvation in Christ (cont.) • Justification: The Gift of Grace and Forgiveness through Faith (3:21-5:11) • 3:23-25a “since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. “ • Are we saved, being saved, or to be saved? • 3:26 “it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.” • Ch. 4 Abraham Justified by faith (See James 2:17) • 5:8 “But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.” • 5:10 “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. “ – SHALL BE SAVED? • Jesus Christ: The New Adam (5:12-21) • 5:12 – sin/death entered through one man • 5:20 – “where sin increased, grace abounded all the more” • Sanctification: Holiness in Christ (6:1-8:11) • 6:1-2 – Should we sin more to have more grace? • 6:13 – Let God be master/Lord, not your body • 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. “ • Ch 7 – The Law helped us understand sin – it did not cause sin • 8:11 “If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit whoh dwells in you.” • Glorification: The Spirit, Sonship, and suffering (8:12-39) • 8:26 “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.” • 8:29-30 – Predestination

  9. Restoration of Israel (9:1-11:36) • Israel’s Election (9:1-29) • 9:7 “Through Isaac shall your descendants be named.” why does this show that it’s not descendants of the flesh? • 9:15 – God shows mercy on who He wills? Equality? • Israel’s Rejection of the Gospel (9:30-10:21) • 9:32 – trying to earn salvation • 10:9-10 “because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved. “ • Israel’s Resurrection and Salvation (11:1-36) • 11:29-32 – Discussion – Salvation for Israelites/Jews ?

  10. Christian Living (12:1-14:23) • Christian Conduct in the Church (12:1-21) • Each using his own gifts • 12:9 – genuine love, hate what is evil • Christian Citizenship (13:1-7) • What is Paul saying? • Love Fulfills God’s Law (13:8-14) • 13:9 “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” • 13:11 – thoughts? • Christian Fellowship and Flexibility (14:1-23) • 14:14-15 – What does it mean for something to be unclean?

  11. Epilogue (15:1-16:23) • Admonition (15:1-7) • 15:7 – Benedictine tradition • Summary of the Epistle (15:8-13) • Paul’s Ministry and Travel Plans (15:14-33) • Paul hopes to come to Rome • “The God of peace be with you all. Amen. “ • Personal Greetings (16:1-24) • 16:1 – deaconess – what is that? • Closing Doxology (16:25-27)

  12. Ephesians • Reconciliation of Gentiles and Jews in the Messiah (2:11-22) • Paul’s Commission to preach God’s secret plan (3:1-13) • A prayer for divinization (3:14-21)

  13. Reconciliation of Gentiles and Jews in the Messiah (2:11-22) • The Gentiles previous status as outsiders (2:11-12) • Vs 11 – Uncircumcisionvs circumcision • Vs 12 – “strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.” • Reconciliation for all through Jesus’ death on the cross (2:13-16) • Vs 13 “have been brought near in the blood of Christ.” (How?) • Vs 15 – abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, one out of two • Vs 16 – Reconciled through the Cross • Peace and access to God in the Spirit through Jesus resurrection (2:17-18) • Vs 17 – “peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near” • Vs 18 “in one Spirit” • Fellow citizens, members of God’s house hold, a holy temple (2:19-22) • Vs 19 “members of the household of God” • Vs 20 “foundation of the apostles and prophets” • Vs 21 “the whole structure” • Vs 22 “in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit”

  14. Paul’s Commission to preach God’s secret plan (3:1-13) • Paul and his ministry (3:1-3) • Vs 1 “a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles” • Vs 3 “how the mystery was made known to me by revelation” • The mystery of Christ (3:4-6) • Vs 6 “how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel” • Paul’s role (3:7-10) • Vs 7 “Of this Gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace which was given me by the working of his power.” – which Gospel? • Vs 10 “that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.” • God’s eternal purpose (3:11-13) • Vs 11 “This was according to the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord”

  15. A prayer for divinization (3:14-21) • Introduction (3:14-15) • Five petitions (3:16-19) • Vs 16 “that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man” • Vs 17a “that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;” • Vs 17b-18 “that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,” • Vs 19a “to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge,” • Vs 19b “that you may be filled with all the fulness of God.” • Doxology (3:20-21) • What’s probably happened here?

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