In the summer of , a young man wept in the backyard of a friend. Take up and read! Thinking God had a message to him in the words of the children, he picked up a scroll laying nearby and began to read: not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires Romans b In August of , a monk lectured on the Book of Psalms to seminary students, but his inner life was nothing but turmoil. In his studies he came across Psalm In Thy righteousness deliver me. Therefore I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise⦠This passage of Paul became to me a gateway into heaven.
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for my salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken my sins away, even mine. The Book of Romans has life changing truth but it must be approached with effort and determination to understand what the Holy Spirit said through the Apostle Paul.
Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God. Paul : The life and ministry of the Apostle Paul also known as Saul of Tarsus is well documented in Acts chapters 8 through 28, as well as Galatians 1 and 2, and 2 Corinthians 11 and It is almost universally agreed that Paul wrote Romans from the city of Corinth as he wintered there on his third missionary journey as described in Acts This is based on Romans and along with 1 Corinthians A variety of commentators pick the date of writing anywhere from A.
When Paul wrote the Book of Romans, he had been a Christian preacher for some 20 years. On his way to Jerusalem, he had three months in Corinth without any pressing duties.
