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Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Jim Hamilton to discuss Romans 15:3, where we hear Paul make mention of Christ in a way that calls our attention back to Psalm 69.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• In Romans 15:3 we hear Paul make mention of Christ in a way that calls our attention back to Psalm 69. Could you shed some light on what’s happening here?
• How should we understand this to work mechanically? Is Paul going back into Psalm 69 and is he uncovering something there that could not be ascertained apart from the work of illumination and inspiration? Or is what he is doing congruent with the work of illumination?

Guest Bio:

Dr. Jim Hamilton is Professor of Biblical Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the author of several books, including but not limited to: What is Biblical Theology?, The Bible’s Big Story: Salvation History for Kids, and the recently released two volume commentary on the Psalms from Lexham Press and the forthcoming Typology: Understanding the Bible’s Promise Shaped Patterns. He also serves as the senior pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 15:3, Psalm 69, Romans 14-15, Philippians 2:7-8, Matthew 2:15, Hosea 11:1, Hosea 10:15, Exodus 4:22-23

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by author, Bible teacher, conference, and retreat speaker Courtney Doctor. Together they discuss Romans 6:1-14 and union with Christ.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Paul’s use of rhetorical questions to advance his argument: “What shall we say then?” Why would Paul ask and answer this question at this point?
• Should we understand this to mean that if you are a Christian you can’t sin and if you sin you couldn’t possibly be a Christian?
• What does it mean to be “baptized into Christ Jesus?”
• What is the doctrine of union with Christ?
• How is this tied to the actual historical events of Christ?
• How do we consider ourselves “dead to sin?”

Helpful Definitions:

• Union with Christ: When we are in Christ, all that he has done, all that he has accomplished; those become ours too. It is our salvation; he saves us by uniting us to himself in a way that what has happened to him; his death, his burial, his resurrection, his victory over sin, it is in Christ that those are ours.
• Historio Saludis: History of salvation accomplished.
• Ordo Saludis: Salvation accomplished and applied.

Guest Bio:

Courtney Doctor is an author, Bible teacher, frequent conference and retreat speaker, and periodic blogger. She received an MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary in 2013 and is the author of From Garden to Glory: A Bible Study on the Bible’s Story; Steadfast: A Devotional Bible Study on the Book of James); and In View of God's Mercies: The Gift of the Gospel in Romans (coming soon). She currently serves as the Coordinator of Women's Initiatives for The Gospel Coalition. Her greatest desire in all of this is to be able to faithfully study, apply, and teach the word of God and help others to do the same. God has blessed Courtney and her husband, Craig, with four wonderful children, as well as two amazing daughters-in-law, and five sweet grandchildren.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 6:1-14, Romans 5:20, Romans 3:8, Romans 7, Matthew 3:11, John 3:1-2, Romans 12:1-2
• “In View of God’s Mercies: The Gift of the Gospel in Romans” by Courtney Doctor
• TGC Women’s Conference

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Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Brian Vickers to discuss Romans 5:9 and answer the question: Why the blood?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Romans 5:9 says, “Since therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.” Here is the question: Why the blood?
• Propitiation 101.
• Why was blood necessary for the forgiveness of sins?

Helpful Definitions:

• Propitiation: Christ’s atoning sacrifice as our substitute, Christ is both the sacrifice and the place of sacrifice. It is through that particular sacrifice that God’s just wrath against sin is addressed and is averted by Christ’s death for us.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Vickers is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the author of Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Imputation, Justification by Faith: Finding Freedom from Legalism, Lawlessness, Pride, and Despair, and most recently the ESV Expository Commentary on Acts. He also serves as assistant editor of the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 5:9, Romans 5:1, Romans 4, Romans 3:25, Romans 1:18-3:18, 

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley look at Romans 5:12-21 and discuss the Adam-Christ Typology. 

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is Paul saying that the world is broken because one person sinned?
• Is Paul saying Adam sinned, I sinned, or we all sinned? 
• Isn’t that unfair: That Adam’s sin is counted as our sin?
• What does it mean that sin is not counted where there is no law?
• Who is Adam a type of?
• How is the free gift different from the trespass?
• There is lots of “reigning” language in this passage isn’t there?
• “So one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.” (V. 18) Does this mean that all of humanity is gifted justification?
• How would you paraphrase this phrase: “Now the law came in to increase the trespass”?

Helpful Definitions:

• Federal Headship: There are two humanities, those in Adam and those in Christ. You are either represented by Adam and his sinfulness or by Christ and his righteousness.
• Christology: Doctrine of Christ
• Typology: A shadow/picture of what is to come.
• Adam-Christ Typology: In Adam we see a shadow of the ultimate picture of fulfillment we see in Christ.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 5:12-21, 1 Corinthians 15, Genesis 1:26-28, Colossians 1:15-16, John 1:17
• “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion” by John Calvin
• J. I. Packer’s Famous Essay on Christ’s Death
• Knowing Faith Episode #121 – The Righteousness of God
• “His Mercy Is More” by Matt Boswell & Matt Papa

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Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Stephen Yuille to answer the question: What is mystical union and how is it at play in Romans 6:1-11?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is mystical union and how is it at play in Romans 6:1-11?
• In what way am I united to Jesus in death and resurrection?
• Is our union with Christ affected at baptism?

Helpful Definitions:

• Mystical Union with Christ: What it means for Christ to baptize us with the Holy Spirit into His body, whereby we become one with Christ. 
  • Puritans like to describe it as an indissoluble union whereby we are one with Christ in God's estimation.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Yuille is Associate Professor of Biblical Spirituality at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the author of several books, including but not limited to: William Perkins: Architect of Puritanism, A Hope Deferred: The Blessings of Adoption, and The Inner Sanctum of Puritan Piety: John Flavel’s Doctrine of Mystical Union with Christ.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 6:1-11

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley look at Romans 5:1-11 and discuss justification by faith. 

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is justification?
• What does it mean to be justified “by faith?”
• Why is peace with God a benefit to justification?
• What does it mean to “rejoice in hope of the glory of God?”
• Rejoicing in our sufferings (V. 3-5)?
• Has there been a season of life that you walked through suffering and what did it produce in you?
• Is there a more beautiful verse than Romans 5:6?
• What is Paul trying to do in V. 7-11?
• What is the kind of person Christ died for?
• Discuss the phrase “shall we be saved.” Am I saved or will I be saved?

Helpful Definitions:

• Justification: To have God’s righteousness accounted to us. Because of what Jesus has done on the cross our sin was accounted to him and His righteousness is accounted to us.
• Imputation: Jesus’s righteousness has been imputed (or given, or granted) to us through our faith in His Lordship.
• Faith: Being able to say and confess Jesus Christ is Lord. Includes giving your whole self away to Jesus as King. The instrument of our salvation. Faith receives everything from the work of Christ and contributes nothing to it. A gift that God gives so that we can receive more of God’s gifts, namely, the grace of salvation. Faith does not actualize something, it is a belief in something that has already been actualized. 
  • Our agreement, our affections, and our allegiance.
• When we are justified by the blood of Christ, we are saved from sin’s penalty. As we are being sanctified, we are being saved from sin’s power. When we are glorified, we are finally and fully saved from sin's presence.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 5:1-11, Romans 1:16-17, Romans 3:11
• Knowing Faith Romans Episodes
• Storyline Church Romans Sermon Series
• Mosaic Church Romans Sermon Series
• The Village Church Institute Romans Bible Study
• Knowing Faith Episode #117 – The Righteous Shall Live By Faith

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Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Stephen Presley to answer the question what did Irenaeus have to say about Paul’s Christology?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why should I care about what Irenaeus has to say about Paul? 
• What did Irenaeus have to say about Paul’s Christology?

Helpful Definitions:

• Adam Christ Typology: Understood through the lens of Doctrine of Recapitulation.
  • Doctrine of Recapitulation: All things are summed up in Christ. There is a unity to the entire divine economy that is found in the person and work of Christ. Christ is seen as the new Adam who succeeds where Adam failed. Not only is it just about one particular moment of salvation history but Christ sums up in himself all things, renews and restores creation, and restores humanity in the image and likeness of God.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Presley is Associate Professor of Church History and the Director of Research Doctoral Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and has written widely on the subject of early Christianity with a particular emphasis on Irenaeus.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 5:12-19, 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, Ephesians 1:10

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue in the book of Romans and discuss Romans 4:9-25.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What role did circumcision play among Jews and Gentiles?
• Why would it matter when Abraham’s faith was counted to him as righteousness?
• What were the signs and symbols of salvation in the OT?
• Not merely circumcised, but walk in the “footsteps of the faith…?”
• Abraham was counted righteous before circumcision, why is that significant?
• “Where there is no law there is no transgression,” what does that mean (V. 14)?
• Is Romans 4:20 a lie?
• “Raised for our justification” is an interesting phrase (V. 25)?

Helpful Definitions:

• Hilastérion (ἱλαστήριον): Greek word for propitiation.
• Session: What Jesus is currently doing.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 4:9-25, Genesis 11-25, Romans 3:24-25, Hebrews 10:11-14
• Knowing Faith Romans Episodes
• Knowing Faith Episode #117 – The Righteous Shall Live By Faith
• Knowing Faith Genesis Episodes
• “Ten Words to Live” by Jen Wilkin
• “Resurrection and Redemption” by Richard Gaffin

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Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Jonathan Pennington to answer the question is Paul’s gospel different from Christ’s gospel?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is Paul’s gospel different from Christ’s gospel?
• I wonder if the gap that we feel between the content of Paul’s gospel and the content of Christ’s gospel is exacerbated by the differences of genre?

Helpful Definitions:

• The gospel message: Is the message that God is coming into the world to restore his reign upon the earth and to bing flourishing and shalom to the whole earth, and that only comes through Jesus Christ who is king.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Pennington is Professor of New Testament at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the pastor of spiritual formation at Sojourn East Church in Louisville. He is also the author of several books, including but not limited to: Reading the Gospels Wisely, The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing, Jesus the Great Philosopher, and Small Preaching: 25 Little Things you Can Do now To Make you a Better Preacher. 

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Acts 28:30-31, Romans 14:17

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue their discussion in the book of Romans by looking at Romans 4:1-8.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• So the church hears that everyone is broken and everyone has fallen short and Paul predicts the question from the Jewish Christians: What about Abraham?
• What role did Abraham play in Israel’s story? Why invoke his name here?
• Paul pulls Abraham into the justification question: Why?
• What did Abraham believe? (V.3)
• Let’s talk about the fundamental difference between faith and works. Talk about “gift” language...
• Then we get a David name drop (V.6): What was David’s significance in Israel’s story? Why is invoking his name a big deal?

Helpful Definitions:

• Unmerited Gift: You cannot earn it, undeserved, or incongruent: doesn’t line up with what you have done, its disproportionate. Once we have received this grace that we do not deserve and we cannot earn it’s supposed to have an impact on us. Its unconditional but not without hope for impact or reciprocity.
• Unconditional Gift: A gift given without any conditions.
• Righteous -> Blessed: To have one’s lawless deeds forgiven, sins covered, and that the Lord will not count your sin against you.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Romans 4:1-8, Genesis 15:6, Romans 5:1, Romans 6:1-2, Galatians 3:3-9, Matthew 20:1-16, Psalm 32:1-2, Psalm 130:3
• Knowing Faith Romans Episodes
• Knowing Faith Michael Kruger Episodes

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