Romans Lesson 1 Workbook Unashamed

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1 Romans Lesson 1 Workbook Unashamed Romans 1: Of what does Paul state he is unashamed? 2. According to this verse, what is the Gospel? 3. Who can enjoy salvation? 4. What does the Gospel reveal, according to verse 17? 5. That righteousness is enjoyed by those who do what? THE GOSPEL Workbook Activity The Gospel in 90 seconds Explain the gospel in just one or two sentences.

2 FAITH Romans 1: What is the connection between righteousness and faith? 2. What do you think the righteous shall live by faith means? Habakkuk 2:4 1. In this verse, what is the opposite of someone living righteously by faith? 2. What is worse: being arrogant and prideful or having evil desires? 3. How would Paul's original listeners have heard this command? What would it have looked like for them to live by faith? 4. How many of you know someone who is a really great person but is very proud of that fact who thinks of him or herself as better than everyone else? How does that attitude defy the command, The righteous shall live by faith? 5. How many of you know someone who is just out of control, lives for selfish desires, and is a jerk? How does that lifestyle defy the command the righteous shall live by faith? Romans 4: What sticks out to you about that passage?

3 2. How does it make you feel to know that you can be credited with righteousness no matter what you've done wrong if you place your faith in Jesus? _ PEACE Romans 5:1-5, 1: What in these two verses should bring us peace? 2. When Paul writes in verse 5:1 that we have been justified through faith and thus have peace, what does that mean to you? 3. How have you experienced peace with God through your life of faith? Romans 15:13, 16:20 1. How do the challenges of this section of Romans settle with you? 2. What s one thing you are wrestling with as an action point? 3. What s one thing we can pray about for you? Homework Memorize Romans 1:16-17 Allow the Gospel to change you. Do not be ashamed of your faith in Christ, share your faith and the peace that it brings with those who don't know Him.

4 Romans Lesson 2 Workbook Free to Live Romans 6: What do these verses say to you? 2. According to verse 16, how do you know to whom you are enslaved? 3. What does verse 18 specifically mean to you? Romans 6:18 1. In what ways have you experienced freedom from sin since you have chosen to follow Jesus? 2. How can you be a slave to something like righteousness? 3. What is the difference between the behavior of a slave to sin and a slave to righteousness? 4. According to verse 18, what is one of the prerequisites to being enslaved to righteousness?

5 Romans 6:4-5 Romans 6:8 Romans 6:11 Romans 6:14 Romans 7:4 Romans 7:6 Romans 8:1-2 Romans 8:5 Romans 8:9 Romans 8: Why do you think Paul goes through all the trouble to state and re-state this truth so many times? 2. Do you think the Romans were listening? Do you think they got it? Do you? 3. How do you live a life free from the shackles of sin but bound to Christ? Romans 8:9 1. What do you think it means to be controlled by the Spirit? 2. How is this different from being controlled by your sinful nature? 3. How can you surrender the Spirit of God in a greater way? Romans 8:10 1. What does it look like to have Christ in you?

6 2. What is required of you to make this happen? Is there anything you haven t done yet? 3. How can you have a dead body but a Spirit-filled life? 4. How can righteousness bring you to life? 5. Do you think that life comes form your righteousness or Jesus righteousness? Romans 8:11 1. How did the resurrection of Jesus change our source of hope? 2. Who raised Christ from the dead? 3. Who will give us life? 4. What does it mean to you to know that the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead is the One who empowers us to live a liberated-from-sin life? Homework: Memorize Romans 6:18 Are there any negative behaviors that currently enslave you? Break the shackles of sin and instead submit your life fully to Jesus Christ. Meditate on the fact that living indebted to God is not slavery in any physical sense. Instead, your loyalty to God gives you the most empowering, freeing, liberating position you could have.

7 Romans Lesson 3 Workbook Action! Romans 12: How do these verses relate to living for God? 2. What do you think it means to offer your bodies as living sacrifices? 3. What would you say is the pattern of this world that Paul warns the Romans (and us) not to conform to? 4. How is it that we are transformed? Romans 12: What are some of the gifts listed in this passage? 2. How does God give these gifts? 3. How should we exercise these gifts?

8 Romans 12: What are some of the things Paul says to do? 2. What are some of the things Paul says not to do? Romans 13:1-14, 14:1-15:33, 16: What were some of Paul's instructions in these passages? 2. How might those same objectives be lived out today? 3. Do you sense that these are suggestions or commands? Why? Homework: Memorize James 2:26 Make a conscious effort not to conform to the ways of the world. Allow the power of God to work through you, living your life with fresh purpose and action.