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00:01 >>BILL: WELCOME TO TODAY'S "IT IS WRITTEN" PROGRAM.
00:02 TODAY WE BEGIN A JOURNEY THROUGH THE BOOK OF ROMANS 00:04 WITH OUR SPECIAL GUEST, DR. GEORGE KNIGHT. SO 00:09 HERE'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO DO. YOU'RE 00:10 GOING TO WANT TO GO GET YOUR BIBLE, YOU'RE GOING 00:13 TO WANT TO TURN TO THE BOOK OF ROMANS, GET A PAD 00:14 AND A PEN, AND GET READY TO EXPLORE ROMANS LIKE 00:16 YOU'VE NEVER EXPLORED IT BEFORE. "IT IS 00:20 WRITTEN" WILL BE BACK IN JUST ONE MOMENT. 00:27 (MUSIC) 00:37 >>ANNOUNCER: IT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME . . . 00:39 GOD'S BOOK, THE BIBLE 00:42 STILL RELEVANT IN TODAY'S COMPLEX WORLD 00:46 IT IS WRITTEN 00:49 SHARING MESSAGES OF HOPE AROUND THE WORLD. 00:54 (MUSIC) 01:05 >>BILL: WELL, LET ME WELCOME OUR SPECIAL GUEST, 01:06 DR. GEORGE KNIGHT. DR. 01:08 KNIGHT, WELCOME BACK TO "IT IS WRITTEN". >>DR. 01:09 KNIGHT: IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE, BILL. >>BILL: WE HAD 01:10 THE PRIVILEGE OF HAVING YOU ON LAST SEASON AND WE 01:13 TOOK A JOURNEY THROUGH THE BOOK OF HEBREWS AND I HAVE 01:15 TO TELL YOU THAT THAT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST 01:18 POPULAR SERIES THAT WE HAVE EVER AIRED. >>DR. 01:23 KNIGHT: I'LL TELL YOU, HEBREWS IS A GREAT BOOK 01:24 >>BILL: SO, WE HAD A CHANCE TO TALK AND YOU 01:26 ACCEPTED OUR INVITATION TO COME BACK AND THIS TIME 01:30 YOU SUGGESTED WE GO THROUGH THE BOOK OF 01:31 ROMANS. AND SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS 01:34 AND I'M GOING TO PASS THE TIME OVER TO YOU AND LET 01:40 YOU BEGIN OUR EXPLORATION OF THE BOOK OF ROMANS 01:41 >>DR. KNIGHT: WELL, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU RIGHT 01:44 NOW, PROBABLY WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND, MORE 01:47 THAN ANYTHING, IS THE FACT THAT ROMANS IS PROBABLY 01:48 THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DOCUMENT. SINGLE DOCUMENT 01:52 IN THE HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD. >>BILL: WHY 01:55 WOULD YOU SAY THAT? >>DR. 01:57 KNIGHT: WELL, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT HISTORY ITSELF, 01:59 NOT ONLY AT PAUL'S EXPERIENCE, BUT WITH THE 02:00 SHAPING OF THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD WITH ST. AUGUSTINE, 02:04 WHO SHAPED BOTH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE 02:09 PROTESTANT CHURCH THROUGH HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE 02:10 BOOK OF ROMANS. AND THEN, OF COURSE, MOST 02:17 OF US KNOW, THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. MARTIN LUTHER 02:20 PICKED UP THE BOOK OF ROMANS AND IT CHANGED THE 02:21 WESTERN WORLD AND ALSO SEPARATED THE CHURCH INTO 02:25 TWO SEPARATE PARTS. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PART OF THE 02:30 WESTERN CHURCH AND THE PROTESTANT PART. JOHN 02:31 WESLEY COMES ALONG, TWO OR THREE HUNDRED YEARS LATER, 02:36 AND THE GREAT METHODIST REVIVAL. OF COURSE, WESLEY 02:40 HIMSELF BELONGED TO THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, NEVER 02:41 CEASED FROM IT. BUT THE BOOK OF ROMANS STARTED 02:44 A REVIVAL IN HIS LIFE IN MINISTRY. AND THE 02:50 TWENTIETH CENTURY, IT'S THE BOOK OF ROMANS IS WHAT 02:51 STARTS WHAT IS KNOWN AS NEO-ORTHODOXY. THE 02:56 REFORMATION, YOU SHOULD SAY, A MODERN REFORMATION 03:00 OF PROTESTANTISM AND A DRIVE BACK TO SCRIPTURE 03:01 ITSELF. >>BILL: WOW. >>DR. 03:05 KNIGHT: THE BOOK OF ROMANS HAS TRULY BEEN A SHAPING 03:06 BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN CULTURE. >>BILL: 03:13 INCREDIBLE. NOW, WHEN WAS THIS ACTUALLY PENNED? 03:16 >>DR. KNIGHT: WE DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DATE BUT WE 03:17 KNOW ABOUT THE DATE. HOW DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE DATE? 03:23 WELL, THERE'S BOTH JEWS AND GENTILES IN THE CHURCH 03:28 AND THAT'LL BECOME A MAJOR ISSUE. CLAUDIUS, THE 03:30 EMPEROR CLAUDIUS, ROMAN EMPEROR CLAUDIUS EXPELLED 03:36 ALL THE JEWS FROM ROME IN AD49. YOU'LL FIND THAT 03:43 WITH SOME OF THE OTHER NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS. SOME 03:44 OF THE JEWS ARE OUT THERE BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T LIVE 03:48 IN ROME ANYMORE. CLAUDIUS DIED IN AD54. AND SO YOU 03:57 HAVE AD54 TO AD64 AND IT'S IN THAT TIME PERIOD 03:58 THAT ROMANS WAS WRITTEN. 04:05 >>BILL: AND HAD PAUL BEEN TO ROME? >>DR. KNIGHT: 04:06 PAUL.IN FACT, THIS IS THE WHOLE THING, WHY IS THE 04:10 BOOK WRITTEN? >>BILL: YEAH, WHAT PROMPTED HIM 04:14 TO.>>DR. KNIGHT: BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU THINK 04:15 OF THE CORINTHIANS OR THE EPHESIANS.>>BILL: SURE. 04:17 >>DR. KNIGHT.OR THE GALATIANS, PAUL HAD NOT 04:21 ONLY BEEN THERE, HE STARTED THE CHURCH 04:22 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 04:23 KNIGHT: AND SO, PAUL'S BOOKS ARE REALLY DIVIDED, 04:24 MOST OF THE BOOKS ARE DIVIDED INTO 04:28 TWO CATEGORIES: THOSE HE WROTE TO INDIVIDUALS LIKE 04:31 TIMOTHY AND TITUS OR TO THE OWNER OF PHILEMON 04:32 THOSE BOOKS WERE WRITTEN TO INDIVIDUALS, OTHER 04:43 BOOKS WERE WRITTEN TO CHURCHES HE'D FOUNDED AND 04:46 HE SAID, LOOK IT, YOU'VE KIND OF GOT THE MESSAGE 04:47 STRAIGHT BUT YOU'VE GOT THESE, YOU KNOW, HERETICS 04:49 COMING AND IN ON THE SIDE AND THEY'VE GOT SOME FALSE 04:53 TEACHINGS, THEY'VE GOT ANOTHER GOSPEL OR 04:54 SOMETHING ELSE. AND SO, HE WANTS TO STRAIGHTEN THEM 04:58 OUT, HE WANTS TO CAUTION THEM. >>BILL: YES. >>DR. 05:00 KNIGHT: ROMANS.>>BILL: COMPLETELY.NONE OF THAT. 05:01 >>DR. KNIGHT:.NEVER BEEN THERE BUT HE TELLS US 05:06 THAT HE'D LIKE TO GO. AND, OF COURSE, THE QUESTION 05:09 BECOMES, WHY WOULD PAUL WANT TO GO TO ROME 05:10 >>BILL: YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: WELL, OVER HERE IN THE 05:13 15TH CHAPTER, HE TELLS US IN VERSES 22 AND 23, "THIS 05:24 IS THE REASON WHY I'VE SO OFTEN BEEN HINDERED FROM 05:25 COMING TO YOU BUT NOW SINCE I NO LONGER HAVE 05:28 ROOM TO WORK IN THESE REGIONS", WAIT A MINUTE. 05:34 SO, HE'S PRETTY MUCH.PAUL WAS A PIONEER MISSIONARY 05:35 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 05:39 KNIGHT: YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME GUYS THAT TURN 05:40 OUT.SOME PEOPLE, I SHOULD SAY, THAT TURN OUT TO BE 05:43 PASTORS. PAUL WAS NOT A PASTOR. HE WAS A FOUNDING 05:44 EVANGELIST. WHAT WE WOULD CALL A PIONEER MISSIONARY 05:45 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 05:50 KNIGHT: HE'D WORKED IN GREECE, HE'D WORKED IN 05:51 TURKEY, HE'D.IN TERMS OF PIONEER WORK HE'D PRETTY 05:52 MUCH USED UP THE EASTERN HALF OF THE MEDITERRANEAN 05:58 AND SO WHERE'S HE WANT TO GO? VERSE 24, "I HOPE TO 05:59 SEE YOU IN PASSING AS I GO TO SPAIN." >>BILL: OH, 06:06 OKAY. >>DR. KNIGHT: NOW, INTERESTING ENOUGH, BILL, 06:09 HE RAISES THESE SAME ISSUES IN THE FIRST 06:11 CHAPTER. KEEP YOUR FINGER OVER HERE, HE RAISES 06:15 THE SAME ISSUES, IN THE BEGINNING AND IN THE END, 06:21 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THEY KNOW THAT HE'S COMING 06:22 TO VISIT AND TO TEACH THEM THE GOSPEL. THEY ALREADY 06:28 KNOW THE GOSPEL BUT HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE. WHY? 06:33 BECAUSE HE WANTS THEM TO HELP HIM IN HIS MISSION 06:34 TO SPAIN. THIS WOULD BE, REALLY, THE FIRST TIME 06:40 THAT WE KNOW OF, PROBABLY NOT THE FIRST TIME, 06:45 BECAUSE THERE WERE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT 06:46 WERE AT PENTECOST, BUT IT'S THE FIRST TIME THAT 06:50 WE HAVE A REFERENCE IN SCRIPTURE THAT THE MISSION 06:54 OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS MOVING BEYOND THE 06:55 ITALIAN PENINSULA, OVER TO THE FAR CORNER.>>BILL: 06:59 TO THE IBERIANS. >>DR. 07:00 KNIGHT.OF THE WORLD. THE IBERIAN PENINSULA. AND SO, 07:04 WE HAVE PAUL WANTING TO GO TO SPAIN AND HE WANTS SOME 07:10 HELP FROM THE HOME CHURCH IN ROME. >>BILL: 07:11 WOULD ROME BE THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION, AT THIS 07:17 POINT, OF BELIEVERS? >>DR. 07:18 KNIGHT: WELL, LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY, OBVIOUSLY 07:22 A LARGE CONCENTRATION BUT AN IMPORTANT PLACE BECAUSE 07:28 ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME. 07:29 REMEMBER, THIS IS A WORLD DURING THE PAX ROMANA THAT 07:34 IS THE ROMAN PEACE, IN WHICH THE ROMANS CREATED A 07:35 SYSTEM OF ROADS THAT WENT THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE. 07:40 SO, IT'S VERY TRUE THAT ALL ROMAN ROADS CROSSED 07:47 THROUGH ROME. AND SO, THAT'S SUCH A COSMOPOLITAN 07:48 GROUP IN ROME. AND YOU REMEMBER EARLIER, IN 07:53 THE BOOK OF ACTS, PAUL USED ANTIOCH, IN EASTERN 07:59 MEDITERRANEAN AS A MISSIONARY BASE. THEY WERE 08:00 KIND OF HIS HOME SUPPORT GROUP. SO, WHAT WE'RE 08:05 GOING TO FIND HERE IS THAT PAUL WANTS TO USE SPAIN, 08:10 EXCUSE ME, ROME AS A BASE AS HE MOVES OUT TO SPAIN 08:11 AND IF HE WOULD HAVE LIVED LONGER, WHO KNOWS TO 08:18 WHERE. >>BILL: ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? NOW, IS IT 08:22 FAIR TO SAY, PEOPLE HAD HEARD OF PAUL. MANY HAD 08:24 NEVER MET HIM AND HE HADN'T MET THEM, HAD THEY? 08:27 >>DR. KNIGHT: WELL, HE MET SOME OF THEM. BECAUSE, 08:32 REMEMBER, OF ALL THE TIMES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, 08:33 THE PAX ROMANA ALLOWED FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL. 08:38 >>BILL: OH, OKAY. >>DR. 08:39 KNIGHT: THAT'S, YOU KNOW WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS OVER 08:42 IN MARK AND GALATIANS THAT THE TIME WAS RIGHT, WELL, 08:46 IT WAS TIME FOR RIGHT THE SPREADING OF THE 08:47 GOSPEL BECAUSE ONE LANGUAGE.REALLY, IF YOU 08:50 KNEW GREEK YOU COULD JUST ABOUT GO ANYWHERE IN THE 08:56 WORLD, THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 08:57 IT HAD THE ROADS, IT HAD THE.IT WAS THE TIME WHEN 09:00 THE GOSPEL COULD BE SPREAD QUICKLY. SO, PAUL 09:01 UNDOUBTEDLY KNEW THE PEOPLE THERE. IN FACT, 09:06 WHEN HE GETS TO CHAPTER 16, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND A 09:11 WHOLE CHAPTER JUST NAMING PEOPLE. >>BILL: OH, OKAY. 09:12 >>DR. KNIGHT: AND THERE'S SOME VERY INTERESTING 09:15 PEOPLE IN THAT LIST >>BILL: OH, OKAY. HOW LONG 09:18 IS THIS, ROUGHLY, AFTER PAUL'S CONVERSION? MAYBE 09:19 ABOUT TWENTY YEARS. IS IT ABOUT 15, 20 YEARS 09:23 AFTER.>>DR. KNIGHT: A GOOD TWENTY-SOMETHING YEARS. 09:28 YEAH, A GOOD TWENTY PLUS. 09:29 PAUL WAS AN EXPERIENCED EVANGELIST BY THIS TIME. 09:33 HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING. 09:34 HE ALSO KNEW THE PROBLEMS HE WAS FACING. AND SO, IF 09:40 WE MIGHT SAY THAT THE PRACTICAL PURPOSE OF 09:41 WRITING THE BOOK OF ROMANS WAS TO CREATE A MISSIONARY 09:46 BASE. HE HAD A PROBLEM. 09:47 THESE PEOPLE WERE SPLIT. 09:53 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE HAVE SPLIT CHURCHES 09:54 TODAY >>BILL: YEAH. >>DR. 09:56 KNIGHT: SOMETIMES THEY'RE SPLIT ON LINGUISTIC 09:57 LINES, ETHNIC LINES, AND THEOLOGICAL LINES. THIS 09:59 GROUP WAS SPLIT ALONG SEVERAL OF THOSE LINES. 10:03 AND SO, THE SECONDARY PURPOSE WAS TO GET THESE 10:04 PEOPLE TO WORK TOGETHER. 10:08 AND, OF COURSE, ANY READER OF THE NEW TESTAMENT KNOWS 10:09 THAT THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WAS ALWAYS BETWEEN 10:14 THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES. 10:15 WHO WAS TO RUN THE CHURCH? 10:20 WHOSE THEOLOGY WAS TO PREDOMINATE? AND SO, WHAT 10:21 WE FIND IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH IS 10:26 FIRSTLY, WHEN THE CHURCH WAS FOUNDED, PROBABLY IF 10:34 WE GO BACK TO ACTS II WITH PETER'S GREAT SPEECH 10:35 AT PENTECOST, YOU HAVE ALL THESE JEWS.IT SAYS IN ACTS 10:40 II THAT THERE WERE JEWS THAT HAD COME FROM ROME 10:48 AND THERE WERE ALSO GENTILE BELIEVERS THAT HAD 10:49 COME FROM ROME. OUR GUESS IS THAT THE ROMAN CHURCH 10:53 WAS FOUNDED BY BELIEVERS GOING BACK AFTER 10:59 PENTECOST. ALL OF THEM HAD BEEN JEWS BUT SOME OF THEM 11:00 WERE GENTILE JEWS AND SOME OF THEM WERE HEBREW 11:06 JEWS AND THE HEBREWS WERE UNDOUBTEDLY IN CONTROL OF 11:15 THE CHURCH. BUT THEN COMES AD49, CLAUDIUS SAYS 11:16 EVERYBODY'S A JEW HAS GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE. TELL 11:22 ME, BILL, WHO'S LEFT TO RUN THE CHURCH? >>BILL: 11:26 THE GENTILES. >>DR. 11:27 KNIGHT: THE GENTILES. 11:28 OKAY, FIVE YEARS PASS. THE GENTILES HAVE BEEN VERY 11:30 HAPPY RUNNING THEIR CHURCH AND THEY'RE PROBABLY DOING 11:32 THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 11:34 EVEN TEACHING A FEW THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. AD54, 11:38 CLAUDIUS DIES, HERE COME THE JEWS. >>BILL: HISTORY 11:39 COMES BACK. >>DR. KNIGHT: NOW, THEY HAD BEEN USED TO 11:46 RUNNING THE CHURCH AND NOW THE GENTILES ARE ALSO USED 11:52 TO RUNNING THE CHURCH. 11:53 WHO'S GOING TO OPERATE THIS BABY? >>BILL: YES. 11:56 >>DR. KNIGHT: SO, PAUL HAD A VERY PRACTICAL THING TO 11:58 DEAL WITH. THAT IS, HE HAD A DIVIDED CHURCH. SOME 12:02 SAID WE NEED TO BELIEVE THIS, SOME SAID WE NEED TO 12:07 BELIEVE THAT, WE NEED TO KEEP THIS JEWISH HOLIDAY 12:08 OR WE NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM CEREMONIAL.YOU KNOW, 12:11 DON'T TOUCH THIS TYPE OF THING. AND SO, YOU'VE GOT 12:16 A DIVIDED CHURCH AND THIS DIVIDED CHURCH PAUL HAS TO 12:17 SEEK TO UNITE. AND WHEN WE COME TO THE THEMES OF 12:25 THE BOOK OF ROMANS, IN A FEW MINUTES, THEN WE CAN 12:33 REALIZE HOW CENTRAL THE WORD "ALL" IS. WE'RE ALL 12:34 IN THIS TOGETHER, KIND OF THING. AND PAUL IS GOING 12:36 TO TRY TO UNITE THESE TWO GROUPS. >>BILL: HOW OLD 12:41 WOULD PAUL BE AT THIS TIME? >>DR. KNIGHT: OH 12:42 BOY, WE DON'T KNOW BUT HE WAS PROBABLY A YOUNG MAN. 12:44 EXCUSE ME, NOT NOW, HE WAS PROBABLY A YOUNG MAN WHEN 12:52 HE WAS CONVERTED. HE WOULD PROBABLY BE IN HIS 12:53 50'S HE'S A MAN OF GREAT EXPERIENCE. >>BILL: 13:01 AND HE'S HAD A SUCCESSFUL CAREER AS A MISSIONARY AND 13:03 HE FEELS BURDENED THAT HE HAS.THAT'S KIND OF 13:04 AMAZING. YOU WOULD THINK THAT HE WOULD SAY, LISTEN; 13:08 LET ME LEAVE THAT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO RESOLVE. 13:15 >>DR. KNIGHT: YEAH, IT'S TIME FOR ME TO RETIRE. 13:16 >>BILL: YEAH, LET ME GO FIND MY LITTLE PLACE THERE 13:20 IN SPAIN AND RELAX.>>DR. 13:21 KNIGHT: IN THE SUN. 13:23 >>BILL.YEAH, LET SOMEBODY ELSE WORRY ABOUT THIS 13:24 THAT'S INCREDIBLE TO ME THAT HE FELT, HE FELT THE 13:30 CALLING THAT I'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING HERE. THANK 13:32 GOD HE DID. >>DR. KNIGHT: WHEN THE CALL OF GOD HAS 13:33 BITTEN YOU.>>BILL: YES. 13:34 >>DR. KNIGHT:.THERE'S NO ESCAPE FROM IT. I MEAN, 13:35 I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT RETIREMENT 13:38 MEANS.I'VE BEEN RETIRED FOR SEVERAL YEARS BUT I 13:46 TELL PEOPLE THE ONLY DIFFERENCE NOW IS THAT MY 13:47 WORK DAY STARTS AT FOUR INSTEAD OF SIX IN THE 13:50 MORNING AND I GET PAID HALF AS MUCH. >>BILL: 13:56 MAYBE WE CAN MOVE ON TO SOME OF THE THEMES HERE 13:57 >>DR. KNIGHT: LET'S DEAL WITH THE THIRD PURPOSE 13:59 FIRST. >>BILL: OKAY, SURE, THERE'S THREE.>>DR. 14:03 KNIGHT: THE FIRST PURPOSE WAS THE PAUL WANTED TO 14:04 CREATE A MISSIONARY BASE. 14:05 THE SECOND PURPOSE WAS THAT HE HAD TO SOMEHOW 14:06 UNITE THESE PEOPLE, JEWS AND GENTILES. THE THIRD 14:10 PURPOSE WAS TO MAKE A THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT. 14:19 BECAUSE IF YOU GO BACK TO THAT PASSAGE THAT WE 14:20 LOOKED AT IN CHAPTER 15, PAUL SAYS, I'M GOING TO 14:25 COME TO YOU ON MY WAY TO SPAIN BUT FIRST I HAVE TO 14:32 GO TO JERUSALEM TO TAKE THIS WELFARE OFFERING 14:33 SO THAT THE HOME BASE OF CHRISTIANITY WILL BE ABLE 14:40 TO SURVIVE IN THIS VERY DIFFICULT ATMOSPHERE, 14:44 FINANCIALLY IN WHICH THEY LIVE. SO, PAUL HAD TO GO 14:45 TO JERUSALEM FIRST. AND THAT TRIP TO JERUSALEM 14:54 CHANGED THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH BECAUSE 14:58 PAUL DIDN'T KNOW IF HE'D MAKE IT OUT OF JERUSALEM 14:59 AND, OF COURSE, WHEN HE DID, HE DID GO TO ROME BUT 15:03 HE WENT AS A PRISONER. BUT PAUL RECOGNIZED THE DANGER 15:09 OF GOING TO JERUSALEM. BUT THIS ALSO WAS TO UNITE THE 15:10 CHURCHES. A GIFT FROM THE GENTILES TO HELP THE 15:16 JEWS, JEWISH CHRISTIANS. 15:17 WOW. WONDERFUL. JEWISH GENTILES, EXCUSE ME, 15:21 GENTILE CHRISTIANS HELPING JEWISH CHRISTIANS. THIS IS 15:30 ALL PART OF PAUL TRYING TO BRING THE ROMAN, THE 15:31 CHRISTIAN WORLD TOGETHER. 15:37 BUT, MEANWHILE, PAUL RECOGNIZES THAT HE MIGHT 15:38 NOT MAKE IT. AND SO HE WRITES A THEOLOGICAL 15:44 STATEMENT ABOUT HOW MEN AND WOMEN ARE SAVED. AND 15:51 SO, WE HAVE THE GREATEST THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT ON 15:53 THE HUMAN NEED AND GOD'S STATEMENT TO THAT NEED 16:04 IN THE PLAN OF SALVATION PAUL WROTE THAT, ROUGHLY 16:09 RUNNING FROM VERSES 16 OF CHAPTER ONE UP THROUGH, 16:11 AT LEAST, CHAPTER ELEVEN, VERSE 32 TO DEMONSTRATE 16:18 THAT THERE'S HOPE FOR ALL, BOTH JEW AND GENTILE IN 16:23 THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. SO IT'S ALSO A THEOLOGICAL 16:24 STATEMENT. WE HAVE A.IT'S NOT A SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 16:30 BUT IT'S CERTAINLY CLOSE TO IT. >>BILL: THAT'S 16:32 WONDERFUL. WOW, THAT'S INCREDIBLE. I GUESS IT'S 16:33 ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES THAT THESE IDEAS WERE 16:42 BROUGHT TOGETHER IN THIS KIND OF A, IN THIS KIND OF 16:45 A FORMAT. >>DR. KNIGHT: ACTUALLY, YES, IN ONE 16:46 SENSE. THE IDEAS HAD BEEN THERE. I MEAN, PAUL 16:52 HAD BEEN PREACHING THEM ALL OVER THE PLACE IN 16:54 EVANGELISTIC SERMONS AND YOU FIND IT EARLIER IN 16:55 GALATIANS. BUT GALATIANS WAS WRITTEN ABOUT A 16:59 SPECIFIC PROBLEM AND ALL THE WAY THROUGH YOU'LL 17:02 FIND LOCAL REFERENCES. 17:03 YOU GO ALL THE WAY FROM 116 TO, ACTUALLY THROUGH 17:09 CHAPTER 12, THERE'S NO LOCAL REFERENCES. THIS IS 17:10 A UNIVERSAL STATEMENT. IN MANY WAYS, THOSE CHAPTERS 17:20 ARE ACTUALLY A TRACT AND WHAT YOU FIND IS THE 17:27 LETTER PART IN THE FIRST CHAPTER AND THE LAST TWO 17:29 OR THREE CHAPTERS. >>BILL: INTERESTING. >>DR. KNIGHT: 17:33 ACTUALLY 14, 15, 16 AND THE FIRST HALF OF CHAPTER 17:38 1 YOU HAVE LOCAL STUFF. BUT, YOU KNOW, IN 17:39 CORINTHIANS, HE'S REALLY DEALING WITH CORINTHIAN 17:42 PROBLEMS. IN GALATIANS HE'S DEALING WITH 17:44 GALATIANS PROBLEMS, IN EPHESIANS HE'S DEALING 17:45 WITH THE ISSUES THEY'VE GOT OVER THERE. NOT HERE. 17:48 THIS IS A THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT. THE CLOSEST 17:51 THING WE HAVE TO THIS IN SCRIPTURE IS HEBREWS AND 17:52 ALSO JAMES. THEY ARE VERY GENERAL STATEMENTS TO THE 17:58 CHURCH AT LARGE. SO, IT'S A TRACT DATE WITH THE A 18:01 LETTER, WITH THE ELEMENTS OF A LETTER WRITTEN ONTO 18:02 THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING, WHICH PROBABLY 18:08 EXPLAINS WHY SOME OF THE MANUSCRIPTS WHICH WE HAVE 18:13 FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD DON'T HAVE THE LAST FEW 18:14 CHAPTERS THERE. >>BILL: OH, I SEE. >>DR. KNIGHT: 18:17 BECAUSE IT WAS CIRCULATED AS A TRACT BUT ALSO 18:19 CIRCULATED AS A LETTER. 18:20 SO, THE THIRD PURPOSE IS THAT PAUL WANTS TO MAKE A 18:25 THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT FOR TWO REASONS, ONE, HE MIGHT 18:26 NOT LIVE LONG ENOUGH AND TWO, HE WANTS 18:29 TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE PEOPLE IN ROME THAT HE'S 18:34 ORTHODOX. >>BILL: OH, OKAY. >>DR. KNIGHT: 18:35 BECAUSE YOU FIND THROUGHOUT THE LETTER THAT 18:37 SOME OF THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN COMPLAINING THAT HE 18:41 DIDN'T BELIEVE IN THE LAW AND THIS KIND OF STUFF 18:42 >>BILL: SO, HE WAS LABELED AS A BIT OF A LIBERAL. 18:46 >>DR. KNIGHT: OH, YES. HE WAS LABELED AS A LIBERAL 18:48 SO HE HAS TO SAY I BELIEVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT 18:49 IT'S BIBLICAL AND THAT ALL PEOPLE CAN ACCEPT 18:54 IT. >>BILL: WONDERFUL. 18:55 INTERESTING. SO WOULD IT BE A GOOD TIME NOW TO 18:58 MOVE INTO THESE THEMES? 18:59 >>DR. KNIGHT: I THINK SO. 19:00 >>BILL: OKAY. SO, WHAT WOULD BE SOME OF THE 19:02 THEMES HERE? >>DR. KNIGHT: PROBABLY THE FIRST THEME 19:04 WOULD DEFINITELY BE THE WORD "ALL". >>BILL: ALL. 19:12 >>DR. KNIGHT: ALL. 19:13 IF THERE'S.I MEAN, IT'S A THREE LETTER WORD, IN CASE 19:16 YOU HAVEN'T GOT IT FIGURED OUT. LET'S GO TO VERSE 16 19:17 OF CHAPTER 1, "FOR I'M NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL. IT 19:21 IS THE POWER OF GOD FOR SALVATION TO EVERYONE WHO 19:27 HAS FAITH. TO THE JEW FIRST AND ALSO TO THE 19:28 GREEK. FOR IN IT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS 19:35 REVEALED THROUGH FAITH, FOR FAITH. AND IT IS 19:39 WRITTEN THAT HE THROUGH FAITH IS RIGHTEOUS SHALL 19:40 LIVE". AND THE WHOLE ARGUMENT.AND WE'LL DEVELOP 19:45 THIS AS WE LOOK AT THE BOOK ITSELF, BUT THE WHOLE 19:51 ARGUMENT IS THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS CAN BE JUSTIFIED 19:52 BY FAITH. >>BILL: RIGHT. 19:58 >>DR. KNIGHT: IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE, BILL, 19:59 IF YOU'RE A JEW OR A GREEK AND THAT'S THE WHOLE 20:01 WORLD. EITHER YOU'RE A JEW OR A NON-JEW. >>BILL: 20:05 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: AND THAT THEME IS PICKED UP IN 20:06 MANY PLACES. PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PLACE IT'S 20:11 PICKED UP IS AT THE END OF CHAPTERS NINE THROUGH 20:13 ELEVEN. PAUL HAS THREE CHAPTERS ON, ACTUALLY, 20:14 PREDESTINATION. GOD PREDESTINED THE JEWS TO BE 20:19 HIS PEOPLE. THEN HOW DID THE GENTILES GET IN? WELL, 20:25 GOD CHOSE THEM TOO. AND SO WHEN YOU COME DOWN TO THE 20:26 END OF THOSE THREE MIGHTY CHAPTERS ON HOW COME THE 20:31 JEWS WERE CHOSEN AND HOW THIS FITS IN WITH GOD'S 20:36 PLAN FOR THE GENTILES, YOU COME DOWN HERE TO CHAPTER 20:38 11, VERSE 32, "FOR GOD HAS CONSIGNED ALL MEN FOR 20:42 DISOBEDIENCE THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL". I 20:48 REALLY BELIEVE, BILL, IF THERE WAS A THEME THAT 20:49 RUNS THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE BOOK IT WOULD BE 20:56 MERCY FOR ALL. MERCY FOR ALL. THAT'S PROBABLY THE 21:03 DOMINATING THEME OF THE BOOK. >>BILL: WE HAVE 21:04 ABOUT FOUR MINUTES LEFT. 21:10 >>DR. KNIGHT: OH MY. 21:11 THAT'S ALL. WE BETTER GET TO SOME MORE THEMES. 21:14 >>BILL: ABSOLUTELY. >>DR. 21:15 KNIGHT: WE'RE GOING TO COVER THESE IN THE BOOK 21:19 BUT A SECOND ONE IS SIN. >>BILL: OKAY. >>DR. 21:20 KNIGHT: THE PROBLEM IS, ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN 21:22 SHORT OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. THAT'S TWO WHOLE 21:25 CHAPTERS. MIDDLE OF CHAPTER ONE TO THE MIDDLE 21:26 OF CHAPTER THREE. ALL HAVE SINNED, THEREFORE ALL HAVE 21:30 TO BE SAVED AND JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. AND SO, WE FIND 21:37 SEVERAL THEMES HERE, ONE OF THEM IS THE LAW. MOST 21:38 PEOPLE DON'T THINK THAT LAW IS A THEME IN THE 21:42 BOOK OF ROMANS. NO, NO, NO. IT'S THE LAW THAT SAYS 21:47 YOU'RE A SINNER. IT DOESN'T HELP YOU GET SAVED 21:48 BUT CAN IDENTIFY SIN. THE LAW TO PAUL IS SPIRITUAL 21:53 AND GOOD IF IT'S PUT TO A GOOD USE. >>BILL: GOOD 21:59 USE, RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: BUT IF YOU TRY TO GET 22:00 TO HEAVEN BY IT, YOU'RE A DEAD MAN. >>BILL: THAT'S 22:01 RIGHT. >>DR. KNIGHT: OTHER WORDS, THEY'RE CENTRAL, 22:05 ARE FAITH, JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. JUSTIFICATION 22:06 THAT IS TO BE COUNTED RIGHTEOUS. THIS BECOMES A 22:14 MAJOR THEME. PAUL DEVOTES THREE CHAPTERS BUT PEOPLE 22:19 DO NOT THINK OF OBEDIENCE AS A THEME. THEY THINK OF 22:20 JUSTIFICATION BUT I WANT YOU TO READ VERSE 5 OF 22:28 CHAPTER 1, "THROUGH WHOM WE HAVE RECEIVED GRACE AND 22:33 APOSTLESHIP TO BRING ABOUT THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH" 22:34 NOW, YOU GO TO THE END OF THE BOOK AND THEY HAVE THE 22:40 OBEDIENCE OF FAITH. THIS IS NOT JUST OBEYING TO GET 22:48 SAVED BUT OBEYING BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED 22:49 >>BILL: RIGHT. >>DR. 22:57 KNIGHT: OBEYING IN A FAITH RELATIONSHIP. 22:58 THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK 23:01 FOR THE ENTIRE BOOK. AND IF THREE CHAPTERS ARE 23:04 DEDICATED TO JUSTIFICATION, SIX 23:05 CHAPTERS ARE DEDICATED TO OBEDIENCE. >>BILL: WOW. 23:07 >>DR. KNIGHT: PEOPLE SEEM TO MISS THAT. >>BILL: YES, 23:10 YES. >>DR. KNIGHT: BUT PAUL NEVER SEPARATES 23:11 THAT. OH, HE DOES FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSION BUT 23:13 IN YOUR LIFE. ONCE YOU'RE SAVED, YOU WILL WALK WITH 23:19 JESUS. >>BILL: SO THERE WILL BE AN EXTERNAL 23:20 MANIFESTATION. >>DR. 23:22 KNIGHT: THAT'S RIGHT. 23:23 >>BILL: OF WHAT'S HAPPENED ON THE INSIDE. >>DR. 23:24 KNIGHT: THAT'S RIGHT. 23:25 THAT'S HOW COME HE CAN ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THE 23:27 LAW AND JUDGMENT OVER HERE IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 13, 23:28 "FOR IT IS NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW WHO ARE 23:34 RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW WHO 23:36 WILL BE JUSTIFIED". THAT'S IN THE JUDGMENT. NO DOERS 23:38 OF THE LAW ARE JUSTIFIED FROM THEIR SINS BUT AT THE 23:43 END OF TIME WHEN GOD LOOKS BACK AND HE SAYS, WOW, YOU 23:50 NOT ONLY CLAIMED TO BELIEVE BUT YOUR LIFE 23:51 DEMONSTRATES YOU HAVE FAITH. YOU HAVE WALKED 23:53 THE WALK OF FAITH, THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH. AND 23:58 SO, PAUL INCLUDES THE JUDGMENT OF GOD IN 23:59 THIS BOOK ALSO. IT'S A TREMENDOUS BOOK WITH 24:01 ALL THE GREAT THEMES OF SALVATION, BILL. >>BILL: 24:06 WELL, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO US CONTINUING OUR STUDY 24:07 OF THIS AND I KNOW YOU'VE AGREED TO COME BACK AND 24:11 TAKE US STEP BY STEP THROUGH THAT AND WE 24:15 APPRECIATE THAT. WE'VE COME TO THE END OF THIS 24:16 PROGRAM AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO BOW OUR HEADS 24:19 AND HAVE PRAYER WITH OUR VIEWERS. HEAVENLY FATHER, 24:22 WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE BOOK OF ROMANS AND THE 24:23 INSTRUCTION THAT IS HERE. 24:25 WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR MEN LIKE DR. KNIGHT THAT 24:26 YOU HAVE ENLIGHTENED TO SHARE THIS TRUTH WITH 24:29 SO MANY. FATHER, WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL SPEAK TO OUR 24:33 LIVES THROUGH THE STUDY OF THIS BOOK. MAY OUR LIVES 24:34 BE TRANSFORMED. BE WITH EVERY VIEWER THAT MAY BE 24:38 WITHIN THE REACH OF OUR VOICE THAT THEY TOO MAY 24:42 EXPERIENCE A DEEPER WALK WITH YOU. I PRAY IN JESUS' 24:43 NAME. AMEN. >>DR. 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