Notes on Romans 2

March 1, 2010 11:04 PM

Wow, today was amazing! Except that I found out I was failing. Yup failing. Oh joy. Reading the Bible on my knees with my back turned toward darkness. Dear God, please help me overcome my fears.

3:25-26--God decided on this course of action in full view of the public-to set the world in the clear with himself through sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured.

I just felt this verse call so I wrote it down. I guess the most interesting part of it is the whole--God decided on this in full view of the public--God wasn't ashamed -and why should he be-technically he should be ashamed to call me his own. . .heck I would be

3:27-28--. . .Our lives get in step with God and all others by letting him set the pace, not by proudly or anxiously trying to run the parade.

Isn't it just like us to decide when the best time is? So often I've thought about how I should have a boyfriend now but that's on MY time. Look at all the different times--Luigi's a sophomore and he's still single, Lindy is a senior and she's still single. Leah and Daric started going out two years ago I think. . .Darren and Courtney got married in August they've been together 4 years. Aaron and Stephanie just got together. The point I'm trying to make is that they are all going on God's time and when your time and God's time match up then your happy.

3:31 But by shifting our focus from what we do to what God does, don't we cancel out all our careful keeping of the rules and ways God commanded? Not at all. What happens in fact, is that by putting that entire way of life in it's proper place, we confirm it.

I don't know if you saw that or not but uuummm. . .by putting that entire way of life in its proper place, We confirm it. Yeah by living a Godly life and turning back from our old ways we confirm everything that God is that Christians are supposed to be. I can be the best of myself in God.

NOTE: Be like Abraham: dare to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw HE COULDN'T do. but on what God said he WOULD do. Romans 4:17-18ish. . .

4:19-25 . . .

But Abraham did doubt! thats where Hagar fits in!

5:3-5--. . .We continue to shout his praise even when we're hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we're never left feeling short changed. Quite the contrary--we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit.

I just felt the need to write this passage down.

5:20--When it's sin vs. grace. Grace wins hands down.

6:23--Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is REAL LIFE, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

And with that I end. Romans Chapter 7. #58 disc 2.

Notes on Romans

March 1, 2010 1:12 AM
I've got so much going on Luigi told me to read Romans. To take notes. So here I got. I'm starting over, reading in the message so it may come in passages.

1:1 Christians are God's friends. --interesting cuz I've always pictured him as more of a boss than a friend.
1:2-7 You are who you are through this gift and call of Jesus Christ.--if I'm a bad person----scratch that there is a good person in each of us we are innerently bad though in Christ we are Good.

I'm looking at the headings of different passages and the next one reads "Ignoring God Leads to a Downward Spiral" I wanna say AMEN to that but wouldn't that be admitting that I've ignored God? No one WANTS to admit that blatantly. . .but if its true than shouldn't I acknowledge it? Fine, unfortunately I've ignored God. And it DOES in fact lead to a downward spiral. Now lets go up.

1:18-23 People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn't treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction in their life;
Isn't that what we do today? We know God but we don't want to put him high enough in our lives for him to actually do something so our lives turn into something silly and confusing with no real direction to it.
They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life.
Okay hold up--I'm pretty sure I've done that! So many times I've just figured I'm smart I can figure this out myself. But that's my biggest problem--I really can't figure it out by myself! That's why I've got all these people behind me. That's why I'm constantly talking to Luigi and why I've started going to Aldersgate for counseling. Because I really can be illiterate about life.
1:26-27 And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it--emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.
Can anyone say The World As We Know It? We are a nation that defiles ourselves and in this we have become godless and we are absent of His TRUE LOVE, We are godless therefore loveless.
1:28-32 . . . . .worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best.
No words--because again this is the world as we know it.
2:4 God is kind but not soft. In his kindness he takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.
talk about 180
2:12-13 Merely hearing God's Law is a WASTE OF YOUR TIME if you don't DO WHAT HE COMMANDS. DOING NOT HEARING IS WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO GOD.

Another heading: "Religion Can't Save You"
Hold up a sec. I though that's what salvation was for. Didn't Christ die on the cross to SAVE us from our sins? Or is there a difference between religion and salvation? Isn't all religion a form of salvation?
So upon further reading it's like religion as your mask you hae to REALLY mean it, really believe it. And with that I sleep though I don't want to. Okay 15 more minutes

2:29- And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics.
It doesn't necessarily matter what others think of you. On one hand, yes you should live a Christ-like life. On the other hand it is God that is the rightful judge, not anyone else.
3:2-6 (gonna paraphrase this first part differently, its supposed to say Jews) So, what if, (in doing this) They (some of the Jews) abandon their post? God didn't abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness? Not on you life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth.
Gives a whole new meaning to God never fails. I mean seriously--God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth! God is the ONE constant in this world that will NEVER EVER CHANGE. When all else fails he never will.

So here I leave it. Romans 3:2-6 page 2035. Music an Appreciation Disc 2.