All Articles For Expostion of Romans 14,15

XII.  (Romans 15:14-21)  The last time we wrote on Romans 14, 15 was in the December 1st issue of The Standard Bearer. The attentive reader will have observed that we devoted two articles to the Gospel narratives dealing with the birth of Christ. 

X I I I  (R o m a n s 15:22-29)  We will now continue with our exposition of the last section of Romans 15. We noticed in the former essay of this section that this is really the close of the letter of Paul to the Romans. Paul is motivated only by the love of Christ in these labors, and by the consciousness of his exalted calling unto the office of apostleship. 

Romans 15:30-33 (14) In this conclusion to the great letter, this masterfully inspired treatise of Paul, we have a very beautiful recapitulation of Paul’s purpose and longing to come and preach the Gospel also in Rome. We have taken note of the rule according to which Paul labored. He always labored where none had preached the Gospel before him. This occasioned that Paul could not up till this time come to Rome. He had been prevented many times. 

The gospel is indeed a power of God unto salvation for every one that believeth, first the Jew and also the Greek. Thus we noticed in the former article on this passage from holy writ.  We now must notice what the word of God tells us here concerning the reason why the gospel is such a power of God unto salvation. We must not try to give the answer to this question from our own human reasoning, but we must listen to the word of God itself. We must also, in this matter, be swift to hear, slow to speak...