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Romans 1:1-4 - Corps - October 24,1978

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Publication Date: October 24, 1978

On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.}

And I noticed again that some of the things that were stated are just so beautifully and logically presented, I'm truly thankful for, not only Walter, but the whole Research Department. I think our Biblical Research Department is just second to none. And it' s even going to be better by God' s mercy and grace next year and in years to come than it is at this time. And right now I do not believe that our Biblical Research Department needs to take a back seat for any academic institution or work in the world.

And I thought today, I have never... I've never thought of Walter Cummins in any other capacity than to be my assistant. I know Vince Finnegan, you know, on the books is my assistant. And that' s great. But I've never thought of Walter Cummins in any other capacity for so many years as always being my assistant. And I think he' s just the most wonderful person that any president could have as his assistant. And also to be chairmen of the Department of Greek, and then the coordinator of the Biblical research of The Way International. For any one man to have that position and that responsibility is an awesome reality and I'm real proud of Walter and real thankful for him. But I am also thankful for the rest of our wonderful men and women in the Research Department.

I would like for the Corps all over the country to go to the Magazine and find "The Spoken_Word," that's the title of it, dealing with Ephesians 4:25 and other scriptures, and before the next Corps meeting next week, you endeavor to master that great piece of work by Walter Cummins. It's just, you know, the spoken Word. Over fifty Greek words are used in the New Testament in connection with the faculties of utterance. Over fifty. And then he takes the most important ones and he lists them and it' s just. .. it' s just a piece of research work that you should really as a Corps master in your heart and in your life.

Ephesians 4:25 in the King James reads, Wherefore put away lyin g, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

The ' putting away' was interesting to me again because of the Greek word aniko, a-n-i-k-o.

And this word is ' the putting away,' this word ' put away,' aniko, is the same root word as in 4:22, where we use the word ' rest,' meaning ' to rest.' Is that right? Yep, that is right. I taught you that,

didn't I? Did I or didn't I? Doesn't look right to me. It is the same root. What chapter am I missing? Am I missing anything? I don't know. Right now I'm screwed up, ha ha. First time today. You check the word again and I'll do that, too and see what I'm missing here.

But a-n-i-k-o is the word for ' putting away from you. ' To put away. And it' s the same root as the word ' rest.' I don't know where the word appears, but it's got to be in there.

Now, that word ' speak,' every man speak. That word ' speak ' is from the Greek word

laleo, l-a-l-e-long-o. And that' s where Walter' s article on "The Spoken Word"_c omes in because that is.. .he uses that word laleo in here, which I teach in Corinthians when I teach the Foundational Class. And he says the word is employed 24 times in I Corinthians chapter 14. I had forgotten that.

This word is truly significant. I couldn' t quite understand it Research Department, what  you said on page 26B 16, where you defined it ' to make vocal utterance,' ' to babble,' 'to talk,'  'to  exercise the faculty of speech without reference to the words spoken.' I just wondered if there might not be another word that could be substituted or utilized at this point. I know that Zachariah 8:16 is the quotation that is used here, or spoken of. And that Zachariah 8:16 adds force to what is said by using a quote, a quotation. That' s why my question to the Research Department is, How can it be without reference to what is spoken if it is truth plus the quotation of the Word of God that's given. It doesn't quite fit for me.

'With his neighbor' has to be a believing neighbor. This 'speak truth with his neighbor' is a figure of speech gnome, g-n-o-m-e, which simply is a citation. And that' s a citation from Zachariah 8:16.

There are a series of figures of speech, Corps, in chapter four which just put the 00mph, the highlight, to the particular things that are set whereby you put off the old man. This phrase here 'speak every man truth with his neighbor'  is one of them. The other one appears in verse 26, 'be  angry and sin not.' ' Steal no more' is another one. 'Corrupt communication' is the fourth one.  'Grieve not the  holy spirit' is the fifth one. ' All bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking' is  the sixth. And  then  ' be kind' and so forth, is the seventh.

You see, the last phrase in that verse, in King James, For we' re members one of what? [Another] And it' s relative to the neighbor. Now you just look at that. Wherefore put away  lying, speak  every  man truth with his what? [Neighbor] For we are members  one of  another.  That  doesn't  mean just  a neighbor who lives next door, but it has to be a believing neighbor because  we are members  one of what? [Another]. You could not be a member ' one of another' ifhe  was an  unbeliever.  That's how I know this is going to  work. This tells me that the neighbor  is  a  believer.  And  this  ' we' re members one of another' continues the imagery of the Body of Christ.

The literal  according  to  usage of this verse is as follows:   Wherefore  put away the  lie... and I believe in my heart, before I go on with the literal that until man is born again, it's all a lie anyways. And that' s why I believe that this translation will fit in the light of that knowledge. Because when  a man is not born again, his whole  life is just a  lie. Now you're  born again,  and that ' s  why  I think the text states it ' wherefore put away the lie,' the life you' ve been living , the screwed up life you have lived outside of God. It' s been just a life of a lie. It' s not truth. It' s just the opposite of truth and that's my reason for translating it this way... Wherefore put away the lie.

You've got to go with that translation. You have no other text to go by both from Aramaic and Greek it's 'lie.' Not 'lying.' If the Research Department has anything to share in the light of that, I'd be blessed to hear, but you' ve heard my reasons for translating it, Research Department, this way.

Now since they're born again, their whole life is changed, so the life of lying, and living a lie, and being a lie, and being false, is to be put away.

And every man... this is the translation ... and everyone, everyone. The word ' man' you could use because it's an inclusive noun, but I prefer to use the word ' one.'

Wherefore put away the lie and everyone speak the truth with his neighbor for we are members one of another. That is literal according to usage.

Now for the expanded according to understanding. It's not bad. Because of this... What we coughing for? Everybody sick?...Because of this... and the reason I went in the expanded along this line is because verse 24 last week told us that we are created by God in righteousness and in true purity, through holiness. Twenty four.

That's why 25, Wherefore ... 'wherefore' can be translated 'because of this.' Because of this what? Being created in righteousness and truly pure. See it's an inside job.

Because of this being created in righteousness and truly pure by the grace and the love of

God.. .Because of this being created in righteousness and truly pure, you put away, completely lay to rest the lie that you have been and were living and each one of you speak the truth using a quotation from the Word with his believing neighbor for we are members one of another in the Body of the Church.

Robinson {Edward} said, he translated, 'speak every man truth with his neighbor' and he said it's from Zachariah 8:16 which adds force to what is said by using a quote. That's why I translated that. I think that' s great. It adds force to what is said. If you're speaking to someone, it adds force to what you say by using a quote, a quotation from God's Word. In other words, ' you share the Word with them.' That' s why I went with that translation. I want to give it to you again in this sense.

Speak the truth using a quotation from the Word, which means 'share the Word.' Quote the Word to them. Tell them what the Word says, with his believing neighbor. Why? For we are members one of another in the Body of the Church. This verse is just mind blowing.

Here, you have a born-again believer neighbor who needs to grow up a little more. So what do you do? Each one speak the truth to that neighbor, that believer, using the Word, quoting the Word because we' re members one of another in the Body of the Church. It's a real positive thing to do.

Verse 26 in King James reads, Be angry.. .ha ha... we like that one, don't we. Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Here is a verse of Scripture that' s very, very difficult for most people. And it' s not too easy for us either. But I think we are able to share the truth of the greatness of this and it's been burning in my heart for a long time to do this with our people.

Everybody has problems with ' how can you be angry and not sin?' You know, how can raise hell with something and not be sinful in doing it? Teed off and not be sinful. And how can you go... and what does it mean 'don't let the sun go down upon your wrath?' See.

In the context, here, verses 26 and 27 deal with your believing neighbor, specifically. Then the Greek word for ' anger' which is from the root orge, o-r-g-long-e means 'anger together with the desire of revenge .' That' s bad. That' s a heavy. The Hebrew word means ' to kill, and all the tumults of passion that terminate in killing.' So it's a real heavy word when it said ' be angry.'

And the way I believe it's used in God' s Word, ' be ye angry' means ' it's a long time anger with your believing neighbor until a change has ensued.' The desire to... of revenge is a change. And I, knowing the Word in the light of the new birth, it's where a change finally comes about. Until that time, you just, long-term, you just stay put witnessing the Word, sharing the Word. You do not dislike the believing neighbor; you simply dislike that he is not fully accepting the Word and walking on it. So it' s a long-term anger until a change has ensued. You just stay faithful.

I don't know what else to do with those words. It is a righteous anger. Yet it is a righteous anger without sin.

Among the scholars, there is a disagreement on these words. Well, I don't know about my being a scholar; that I don' t anything about being about. But it's simple to me because righteous anger is commanded by God's Word when it says ' be ye angry.' Well, the scholars can fight about it. I don' t care. It' s a command. Not just permitted to get teed once in a while when somebody' s off of God' s Word, a believer is off of God's Word. You' re always teed off righteously at any believer, born-again believer, who is off of God' s Word. And for those of us in the Way Ministry, it' s been a lifetime.

Get into it with them on... Oh what subject do you want to talk about? Baptism? Food? One God? See. All that stuff.

The Aramaic is accurate in the words ' and sin not.' It literally translates ' and you will not sin.' Again, this ' be angry and sin not' is that figure gnome. Quotation. A citation from the Old Testament. It' s from Psalm 4:4. But in King James, Psalm 4:4, it's translated 'stand in awe.' The real sense of the Hebrew is ' one of admonition;' sin not. Where we' re admonished to not sin. Sin not.

' Let not the sun go down on your wrath. ' Ha ha. That again is beautiful. People went to bed when the sun went down, when it got dark. That's when they went to bed. So what that simply is saying, ha ha, ' don't go to bed teed off.' Don' t let the sun go down on your wrath. In other words, go to bed; don' t go to bed mad. ' When you go to bed' is what it means. Let not the sun go down when you go to bed. And they went to bed when the sun went down. When it got dark, they went to bed, see.

' Upon your wrath.' And the word ' wrath' here is basically ' irritation.' Ha ha. Previously when I taught Ephesians, I made mention of this fact, ' don' t let righteous anger shake you, wondering if it was right on. When you go to bed, go to sleep.'

Now, this is what we have done with it in the literal, ha ha, according to usage. I got more papers up here than Carter has liver pills, or something. Then, I can' t find my... whatever it is I take off of it.

Okay, verse 26. You be righteously angry.. .this is literal according to usage.. .and you will not be sinning. Don't go to bed even with a momentary irritation, ha ha.

I don't think you get nearly as much fun out of this as I do. It's neat. It's absolutely scrumptious, see. At the opening, is that heavy word, remember? Anger. So it's a real heavy time. So what he is saying, in the heavy time, when your standing on God' s Word  and sharing that with the  believing  neighbor, you' re righteously angry... you're not sinning. And  you don't  even go to  bed with a momentary irritation. In other Words, when you go to bed, thank God the day is over. Say your last prayer and start snoring.

Boy, that would save a lot of sleeping pills, wouldn' t it? Practicing that principle. Boy, oh boy, what a tremendous Word. And hardly anybody understands verse 26. They argue about it, but they don' t get the understanding.

Now this is the expanded one according to understanding, I hope. And again, I would like to just lay some things before the Corps, and especially before the Research Department. I translated the first part of verse 26, You always stay angry with an all-out desire to have them to change which anger will not be sin on your part.

Then I have another translation of that first part of it: You be righteously angry, 'teed off' with sin... 'Teed off' I put in quotes. But don't  you sin  by acting  ' holier than thou'  vaunting  yourself  by acting so righteously like you never sin.

I do not know which one of those two the Research Department feels would be the better. The last part of the phrase that I translated which would go with both of these that I have given you here on the expanded one for understanding. This, the last part, goes with that first one and with the second ... also.. .even if it is only a momentary irritation.  When you go to  bed, go to sleep. That's what I did with it.

Now, verse 27. King James says, Neither (or neither) give place to the Devil. The word 'place' is simply a portion, a part. No believer will give full place to the Devil, but he may be giving a part, a portion. He' ll mark off a spot, ' this is Devil' s permission over here, over here, no permission, you know. And you really give the Devil a portion or a spot if you stew about it after you go to bed and you toss and you tum and can' t sleep.

This word 'the Devil,' ' the Devil' in the Aramaic is a very interesting and exciting Word to me and it blesses my heart. It' s a compound word where the first part means ' to eat' or ' to devour.' The latter

' to slander' or ' to accuse. '  So when I got to translating  this, literally according  to usage, verse 27 reads: Do not give any portion or space or an opportunity to the Devil. So I used those three words synonymously: portion, space, opportunity. Do not give any portion or space or an opportunity to the Devil.

The expanded according to understanding: And you will not give a toehold, an opportunity or an occasion for the Devil to eat you. Ha ha. I get more fun than you ever will out of working this stuff, huh.

You see, and to me, that communicates to my understanding. John 10:10. The thief cometh not but for to what? [Steal, kill, and destroy] Right. To eat you out. To beat you. And that's why that Aramaic word, on the word ' Devil' really thrilled me.

And that ' s why I put it into the expanded translation: And you will not give a ' toehold.' Now, at L.E.A.D., you know how important it is to get a what? [Toehold] Ha ha. And when you' re really climbing in, you' re blessed for a toehold. How thankful you are when you get a foothold. Now the adversary can never get a foothold in a believer' s life until he first has a toehold. That's why I translated it that way.

Do not give... and you will not give a toehold ... shave all the rocks off... an opportunity or an occasion for the Devil to eat you. And that' s exactly what he likes to do to believers.

Now we go to verse 28. King James says, Let him that stole steal not more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. And here again, is another great work that I believe should be in our research journal GMIR, Walter' s work on " Workers for God."

It' s just tremendous where he... you know... he just goes into God' s men are called many things in the Word. They' re called: fellow workers, ministers, or servants, slaves, fellow slaves, partners, messengers, soldiers, fellow soldiers, athletes, fellow athletes, stewards, ambassadors, witnesses, all of those. And he covers them so beautifully. And I love very much how he covered the word ' slave,' because it' s a much stronger word than to be a minister, or to be a servant. It is to be one who is branded, marked out, sold out. And baby, from that day on, there are no ifs, and' s, or but' s. You never budge on it. You are branded. Most believers are never branded. They may be servants, they may be ministers, but they are not branded. When you' re branded, you stay faithful. You do not budge. You do not change. You stay put. If all hell breaks loose, you still live the believing Word.

I think the prophet once said, If I was in the midst of hell, God I know you' d be there. (Psalm 139:8) He' d be there. That' s the doulos. That, of course, is just a tremendous piece of work.

And the other great part that I think... and this is a second piece that I want the Corps to master before next Wednesday night, " Workers for God," the work on ' witness.' You see, it's the same word basically that's translated ' martyr,' see. And we got a lot of those canonized. That's not at all what a witness is. A witness is a living example, not a dead one. The word 'martyr' simply means that you lay down your life in witnessing. And boy, when you put the doulos together with ' witness,' then you' ve got power for abundant living. It's just a fantastic work by Walter and I' m real grateful that it was published. Because once it' s in print, people can take a look at it if they want to.

I'd like a cup of coffee, please.

Now, we are in verse 28. The Aramaic translation is ' and he who was stealing.' I understand it from the English, ' let him that stole,' past tense. The Aramaic is real simple, real strong. ' And he, the one who is born again, who was, past tense, stealing.'

Thank you.

His whole life was one of those before he was born again.

Whenever you bring a cup of coffee to a right-hand man, you put the handle to the right. When you serve a cup of coffee to a left-hand man, you put it on the left-hand side and put the handle to the left. Corps principle number seven or something, ha ha. Mrs. Wierwille would say, Well, be thankful you even get a cup of coffee. [Laughter] Ah, you're wonderful.

See, ' let him who stole, steal no more.' 'Stole and steal,' that' s a figure of speech and is polyptoton p-o-l-y-p-t-o-t-o-n. It' s a repetition of the same root word in different parts of speech or reflections. But, that's not earth shaking right now in my heart.

You see, in some Eastern culture, it was not considered a sin or a shame to steal because that's the way they lived, the only way they lived. Somebody told me... or not only told me, one of our people, but it was in a national magazine, that the basic culture of Russia today is to steal. And in some respects I can understand this. If you don't have anything and you're starving to death and there' s a loaf of bread you can get a hold of... steal the dam thing. I understand that.

So this verse is really sharp, really sharp. Let him who stole, even though that man previously considered it the way to live and there was no shame in it, no sin in it. He said, Well, let that fellow who stole, steal no more. Something has happened on the inside of that man. Something that happened, where He is able to meet all of our need according to His riches in glory. Christ in you, the hope of glory. More than conquerors.

A record in the Old Testament, I forget where it is, but it's in there, that it' s never, you never need to borrow or steal bread or... what is that in the Old Testament? Begging bread. One person stand and tell me. {Psalm 37:25, I have been young and now am old; yet have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor His seed begging bread.} Psalm 27:25 who? {Psalm 37:25} 37:25. All the years, he's never seen the righteous to have to do what? {Beg bread} Beg bread.

First of all, I wish the Christian world could hear this. Secondly, I wish our government in the United States could understand it. The Word says, If you don't work, you don' t eat. A lot of that stuff. Well, what we've been doing is stealing from the people who are willing to work to give to the people who don' t want to work. That's a bunch of crap. That's stealing. That's why this verse is so hot in my soul tonight. Let him who stole, quit stealing, dang it. See.

Many years ago I was really knocked for a loop along some of this line in India, from Dr. Williams. I think he loved India maybe like I love the United States, I don' t know. Because only a man knows how much he loves his own country, I guess.

But... as we were traveling together, he said to me, Dr. Wierwille, I hear you have whores in the United States.

You know, I never had given it a thought. I just took it for granted. [Laughter] And I said, yeah. He said, Why does a rich country like the United States have whores?

And I said, I don't know.

And he said, I can't understand it. Cannot your women make enough money to live? Yeah, but they figure that' s cheaper and more pleasurable or something, I don' t know. And he said, Well, I think it's sinful that the United States has whores.

And I said, What do you mean?

And he said to me, why, I can understand India. He said we don' t enough food, we don' t have enough of anything hardly for a lot of people. And we have whores because that' s the only way they can continue to live physically.

And I thought to myself, well boy, that' s slapping me in the face good. And I took it as a wonderful lesson. There is no excuse in the United States for any women being a whore because she doesn' t need to get screwed and paid for it in order to get money so she can live. There's plenty of work available and if there isn' t she ought to get born again, then there' s a guarantee of work. ..other work, available. I tell you, when you' re honest, some of these men in other countries have some real logic behind their thinking. How would you have liked to have handled that? I just simply admitted, Well, I think we' re wrong in the United States. But I said, I think you' re wrong in India, too, because no reason to have whores here if you get them born again.

So I don' t know. But this verse today as I worked the final working on this verse 28 is when my heart really went back and burned with that truth that Dr. Williams had stated. Because in many Eastern cultures, it was not considered as sin or as shame to steal, if it was a matter of livelihood. You sometimes wonder who will live in the greatest condemnation before God and justice and judgment when the time comes.

For in most of what are called poor countries even, there is sufficient money, food, and other things for the people to live if those in positions of authority were not so selfish and egotistical, and want it for themselves , and let the rest of the world die... or a country die.

The word ' labor' in verse 28 is the word which literally means ' hard work resulting in fatigue.' That's how I felt coming from the woods last night. And I didn' t do anything. It was just hard work being there with the rest of you. Today I got so tired of being with some, I came home. Ah, you' re wonderful.

' Working with his hands' is an Eastern cultural type of thing. Today in our culture, you could have it, you know, the truth is working with your mind or working with your hand, whatever you' re working at. But in Eastern culture, every son was to be trained to work with his hands, even if he was the son of a king. Had to learn a trade, a profession of business.

Jesus Christ was a saddle maker. He made them to ride, I guess, what do you want? Tennessee Walkers , or? See. I think not only did he do that, Paul did it, too, you know. Someday I'm going to find a...or Walter, or some of those, are going to find me a manuscript to prove it. .. and a wonderful carpenter by trade. Many times doing carpentry work and being a saddle maker were sort of in the same household, because building carpentry and having saddles to use for their business and carrying on, were very, very closely aligned. Well, I won' t argue the point, but I wish we' d keep looking.

II Thessalonians.. .Do your hands ever get so dry you can hardly hold anything? Golly, mine are so dry tonight, I wonder why? II Thessalonians, chapter 3:10... this we commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he what? [Eat] Right. Even unemployment is no excuse for stealing. He just doesn' t eat. Goes and gets work. Boy, when I first saw the greatness of these principles many years ago, and then of course, I uniquely by God' s grace, inculcated that into our W.O.W. program and very dynamically in the Corps leadership.

ROMANS 1:1-4
October 24, 1978
Romans 1:1
I handled with you in great detail all of these words, but I’d like to reiterate that the word
“unto” is eis, which means with a view to, which indicates an immediate purpose. It’s like
a line starting at one designated point and reaching another designated point over here.
That’s the word “unto.” Paul did not fall short of being an apostle. Separated unto. From
this definitely defined point to that definitely defined point is an apostle. Separated apostle.
Unto the gospel of God. The emphasis is on God. The gospel is fantastic, but it couldn’t be
fantastic without God giving it. That’s why it’s in the genitive case. Gospel of God. God’s
gospel – that’s how you would have to emphasize it.
I’m going to hold verse 2, because it’s a parenthesis, and I don’t want to handle it yet.
Romans 1:3, 4
The gospel of God is concerning His son. You can’t see this in King James, but you can
see it in your critical Greek texts. “Jesus Christ our Lord” do not follow “His son” in verse
3. This “concerning His son” the gospel of God concerning His son, now it’s explained
who the son is.
(rest of verse 3 and verse 4)
By the resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead – That’s where the words really
fit. It’s really significant. Really great. The words “Jesus Christ our Lord” should be
inserted just preceding the word “from,” between “resurrection” and “from.”
Concerning His son. Here is the explanation of who the son is. Son of God with power,
according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ our
Lord. Or resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead. It can fit either place, but it
never fits at the beginning.
Then it goes on in verse 5, “By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for
obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name.”
Romans 1:6
For our teaching tonight I want to handle some of these great truths concerning His son.
First of all, according to the flesh he was the seed of David. According to the spirit of
holiness, he was the son of God, with power by resurrection from the dead.
This word “holiness” is used in II Corinthians.
II Corinthians 7:1
Perfecting holiness in the fear, reverence of God, as it relates back to his being the son of
God according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead.
I Thessalonians 3:13
Unto establishing your hearts – It’s a participle form, coming = parousia
Establishing your hearts unblameable in holiness. Whose holiness? Jesus Christ. That’s
why concerning His son in Romans 1:3, that whole thing is explained concerning His son.
Why the seed of David? It says in verse 3. I believe because it talks here about the
resurrection, I believe the seed of David is mentioned because David was very emphatic
regarding the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 2:25, 29-34
David is very specific regarding the resurrection. This is why I believe it speaks here of the
seed of David in Romans 1.
Furthermore, to David there were promises made that could only be fulfilled in Christ.
Acts 13:22-23
Acts 13:36-37
The rebuilding of the tabernacle of David is a third great reason why I believe David is
spoken of here in Romans. It’s so closely connected with the salvation of Gentiles.
Acts 15:16-17
The other great truth that I see in the Word as to why he was made of the seed of David as
Romans 1:3 speaks about is that David was united with Abraham in the witness to the
essence of the gospel of God.
Romans 4:6
The first part of Chapter 4 deals with Abraham being justified not by works. So David is
united with Abraham and witness to the essence of the gospel. That is that you are not
saved by works; you are saved by grace.
Finally, David prophesied the failure of Israel.
Romans 11:9-11
table = food
Here in Romans 1 it talks about he being made of the seed of David according to the flesh.
The three things I see that we ought to be cognizant of in studying Romans here are: (1)
He’s of the seed of David; (2) He is also the seed of the woman; (3) He’s also called the
seed of Abraham.
Galatians 4:4, 5
adoption of sons = sonship
Galatians 3:16
So he’s the seed of David, called the seed of Abraham and called the seed of the woman.
Romans 1:3
All of this is so singularly significant because Jesus Christ never came to start the church
to which you and I belong. It has been a fantastic revelation in our research ministry as we
have learned this truth that I’ve just stated, that Jesus Christ never came to start the church
to which you and I belong. Yet, I believe all of us were taught that Jesus Christ started the
church. Among certain denominations today they have certain people who represent
Christ, who is the bride to that church. Can’t be true. As long as you believe that the
church to which you and I belong is the church that is mentioned in the gospels, you can
never put the Word of God together. But if you’ll accept the rightly divided Word as to
what it says about itself and the testimony it gives, then you’ll see the church of the
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gospels was basically and solely to Israel. When Jesus Christ came upon earth, he came to
Israel. God sent His son to His own, and His own, Israel, received him not. When Jesus
Christ sent out the twelve apostles, he sent them to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
When he sent out the seventy, he sent them to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
It was an unbelievably wonderful manifestation in all of our lives when we saw from
God’s Word the great mystery and that the mystery is God in Christ in you, and that the
Gentiles are fellow heirs, which could not happen until the day of Pentecost.
Romans 9:3
This is Paul speaking regarding Israel.
Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites? To whom the adoption, and the glory and the covenants and the giving
of the law and the service and the promises?
Romans 9:5
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh? Christ. (Romans 1 – made of
the seed of David) Who is over all? God. Blessed for ever. Amen.
They’ve really screwed this one up in punctuation mainly. (Dr. Wierwille gave the proper
punctuation as typed above.)
Look how beautiful those verses are.
(Dr. Wierwille repeats verses.)
Romans 15:8
Jesus Christ was a minister to the circumcision, Israel. That makes the Word of God fit like
a hand in a glove.
For God to be just to Israel, He had to give Israel the opportunity of receiving Jesus Christ
according to the flesh, which He did. He was therefore made of the seed of David, seed of
Abraham, seed of the woman.
The seed of David specifically Israel.
The seed of the woman, woman has no seed. The seed in Jesus was that God created soul
life within him. So you have David, or Israel. You have God in the conception. You have
Abraham for all the believers. That’s why later you’ll see that we are of the seed of
Abraham. Ties all three together.
God, Israel, Gentiles. When you’re born again of God’s spirit, you are neither Jew nor
Gentile. You are a new creation in Christ Jesus. He was a minister to the circumcision.
Everything Jesus Christ did basically was to fulfill the law. That’s why it says Christ was
the end of the law. The law was to Israel. He fulfilled it.
When you work this in your heart and mind, you see how fantastic it is. That’s why he was
in the grave three days and three nights. The law required that to be declared officially
dead, you had to have three days and three nights.
He was a minister to the circumcision. That’s why it talks about Jesus Christ as the
bridegroom. Not once after the day of Pentecost does it talk to the church of the body as
having a bridegroom.
To have a bridegroom, you have to have a bride. Jesus Christ was the bridegroom to Israel.
He is the head of the body to us. Jesus Christ was calling out from Israel the bride. He’s the
bridegroom; Israel the bride. That’s why he was a minister to the circumcision.
According to the flesh that Romans is talking about. According to the flesh he is of the
seed of David. But as the son of God he is not the seed of David. As the son of God he is
the son of God. That by the spirit of holiness, indicated by the resurrection from the dead.
That’s why you and I are in the body. According to the flesh he was of Israel. But
according to God he is of the spirit of holiness. That’s how the Gentiles got in, by their
believing. Had God not raised him it would have all ended with Israel.
From the time of Malachi to John the Baptist, about 400 years. John just preceded Jesus
by six months. About 400 years, no prophecy until John the Baptist and then Jesus. The
ministry of John the Baptist, like the ministry of Jesus, basically to Israel.
God knows everything. God is omniscient. The word omniscient means knows all, all
smart. God is all wise. He knows everything from before the foundations of the world until
everything is fulfilled. Then Jesus Christ could not be God, because he did not know. He
only knew about Israel. He was a minister to the circumcision. He never knew the mystery.
If he were God he would have known the mystery. God kept that mystery of the one body
hidden in Him. Had Satan known that mystery he never would have crucified the Lord
Jesus Christ. Israel was rejecting the savior and the adversary would have beaten God in
the battle. But because there is only one God, and His wonderful son Jesus Christ, Jesus
Christ only knew what he read in the Word or what God gave him by revelation. He never
knew the mystery. Everything he did was a fulfillment of the Word, which makes available
the mystery, because God raised him from the dead.
According to the flesh he is of the seed of David. According to the resurrection he’s the
son of God. That’s why it says in Romans 1, concerning His son, made of the seed of
David according to the flesh and marked out the son of God, according to the spirit of
holiness by the resurrection. See why the resurrection is so important? Without the
resurrection you couldn’t have the mystery, the one body, the church. The resurrection is
the great basic foundational stone of Christianity. All the church architecture basically, all
of man’s talk magnifies the crucifixion. That’s not what Romans is talking about. He’s
declared to be the son of God by the resurrection. Why? Because God got him up. Had the
adversary known that, he never would have crucified the lord of glory. Most of the Bible
scholars indicate that there is an apparent contradiction between Peter and Paul’s message.
That Peter’s message was only to Israel and Paul’s to the Gentiles. I do not believe that. I
do not believe that there is a contradiction between Peter and Paul’s message regarding
David.
Acts 2:30
II Timothy 2:8
I do not see a contradiction. I only see an added enlightenment and unfolding in Paul. That,
I think, is the meaning of the word, “according to my gospel.” There was given to Paul the
mystery, that good news of the one body. That’s why he says according to my gospel. You
can’t get away from the facts and truths that according to the flesh he is of the seed of
David. According to the flesh he offered and made available to Israel all that God wanted
Israel to have. Israel rejected their messiah. God raised him from the dead. That was the
great dynamic.
Up until this time nobody ever was raised from the dead. You talk about Lazarus. It was
not a resurrection. He was simply gotten up. Later on he died again. A resurrection from
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the dead.
Romans 1:4
The resurrection of the dead. Resurrection refers to someone getting up who never dies
again. The only one that ever got up until this time in which you and I live in a resurrection
is the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s why the resurrection is that great dynamic foundation to
the church of the body to which you and I belong. Without the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ we couldn’t have the body.
Israel killed their messiah. God raised him up, not for Israel only, but for the Gentiles, so
neither Jews nor Gentiles need no longer be concerned except to do one thing. Made them
a new creation in Christ Jesus.
That’s why these verses here, concerning His son, this defines him. The Word defines it.
Made of the seed of David. Marked out the son of God. God raised him from the dead by
the spirit of holiness. That is how this great truth, or these great truths regarding Jesus
Christ as the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, and the seed of David all fit
together, and they deal basically according to the flesh.
Paul says some place, I no longer know Christ according to the flesh.
II Corinthians 5:16
There is no more a specific ministry to Israel. It’s over. It’s the ministry of the Word to
both Jew and Gentile. To every individual who wills to believe. Nobody is especially
favored. I’m real thankful for that.