The Romans Road

The Romans Road

1)  Who God Is.

A)   Romans 1:20; For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,^[a] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

B)    ³³ Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

^{34 "}For who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or who has been his counselor?"
^{35 "}Or who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?"

³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

What does it matter who God is? The above scriptures tell you only some of who God is. It is essential to keep these scriptures in mind when God tells you who he is, Exodus 34:6-7, ⁶ The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, ⁷ keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."

The LORD God almighty proclaimed Himself to be abounding in love, to be merciful, gracious, and slow to anger. This is the part everybody wants to remember. But what about the second part? "but who will by no means clear the guilty." OH, OH! This is why we need an accurate assessment of who we are before a righteous Almighty God.

2)  Who Man Is.

A)   Romans 1:25, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

B)   Romans 3:10, as it is written:

"None is righteous, no, not one;

C)  Romans 3:23, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

The three scriptures above tell us only some of who we are before God. Romans 3:10-18 says,  ¹⁰ as it is written:

"None is righteous, no, not one;
¹¹     no one understands;
    no one seeks for God.
¹² All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
    no one does good,
    not even one."
^{13 "}Their throat is an open grave;
    they use their tongues to deceive."
"The venom of asps is under their lips."
^{14 "}Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
^{15 "}Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶     in their paths are ruin and misery,
¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known."
^{18 "}There is no fear of God before their eyes."

In 1 John 1:8 we read, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

So, if you are telling yourself, I'm a good person, and God will judge me based on the good I do there is this, Isaiah 64:6, We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

We are wholly wretched and guilty before a Holy, Righteous, All-Powerful God.
3) Who Christ Is.

A)   Romans 1:1-4, 1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, ² which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, ³ concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh ⁴ and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

B)   Romans 8:3, For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,^[a] he condemned sin in the flesh,

C)  Romans 8:31-32, ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

To who Christ is I will simply add. Philippians 2:5-11, ⁵ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷ but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. ⁹ Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

4)  What Christ Has Done.

A)   Romans 3:22-26, ²² the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ²⁶ It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

B)   Romans 5:8, but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

C)  Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Before Christ died for us, He first lived for us. What does that mean? It means that Christ fulfilled all righteousness on our behalf. He lived the law perfectly so that we could receive His righteousness. Then he, having lived perfectly, became the perfect sacrifice, and atoned for our sin on the cross. When he died, he didn't stay dead; he rose again, victorious over Satan, Sin, and Death. If you are a believer in Christ, you are victorious in Christ and only in Christ, not in works. So, on the cross, 2 Corinthians 5:21, For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

What does that mean? It means that our sin was imputed on Christ on the cross so that His righteousness would be imputed on us. If you are saved, God has seen you as righteous since before the foundations of the world because of what Christ did for us, Ephesians 1:4, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love.

Which is why we have something to do.

5)  What You MUST Do.

A)   Romans 10: 9-13, ⁹ because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame." ¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. ¹³ For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

When God regenerates your lost and dead, heart, soul, and mind, I say it that way because God never saves halfway. God always saves the whole person. We are responsible for responding to the work that he has begun. We must seek Jesus Christ with all our hearts, with all our Minds, with all that we are, every fiber of who we are. When we do this, we should not stop seeking until we have the assurance that comes from above, even then we should not stop seeking until the great and terrible day of God's wrath and judgment.

So, pray now and pray without ceasing, Honor God with all your heart soul and strength. Make sure of your salvation, do not rely on a card signed and dated, or a prayer someone else said as you repeated. The only real repentance comes from your heart.