This episode may be our longest episode in the Romans series and in the entire Boring Bible Podcast's archives. We encourage you to take your time with this one. Noah spends a lot of time on each of the individual verses in this passage and explains how powerful Paul's opening to this new section in the book of Romans can bring so much life and hope in our own lives. We hope this is a good conversation starter for you and your friends as you are continuing to deepen your relationship with God.

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This is a continuation of laws begun in chapter twenty one where Moses is giving several laws that are meant to handle more negative scenarios. This can be a triggering section of the book of Deuteronomy but it's also a section meant to handle a culture and time different than our own. Noah explained a lot of how to handle these laws in part one of this two part series so feel free to go back and refresh on that.

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This episode in the book of Romans we are looking at the story of Abraham in the Old Testament. Paul uses the story of Abraham to bring out the nature of the Jewish Old Testament faith in God's promise for the people of Israel. He then shows how that same faith is what Abraham had as an uncircumcised nomad. This then becomes his powerful conclusion: that the Gentile believers in Rome have that same faith when they believe in Jesus and thus they can call Abraham father as much as a Jew can call Abraham father. This means that the law from Genesis to Deuteronomy is fulfilled and not nullified because it's the faith of Abraham that becomes the faith of a Gentile and a Jew when they both believe in Jesus.

This episode we dive into a section of laws that deal with concessions that God has for the people living in the land of Canaan. He offers protections against people that could be mistreated when sins occurs in the land providing a helpful framework for understanding how God's love for all people works. This can be a harder section of the book to get through but it can still be life giving and as we work through these chapters the important thing to remember is how Jesus himself interpreted this section of Deuteronomy in a chapter soon to come! We'll save that reference for that chapter but we hope this episode brings you closer to God and Jesus as you continue to study his word.

In chapter three Paul addresses a few objections he foresees his listeners having. He continues his point from chapter two that being a Jew ultimately has no significance to the power of sin in the world, while also maintaining that being a Jew has a special significance to the honor and glory of God as well as a role in the upholding and treasuring of God's words. The story of Israel shows the faithfulness of God in a beautiful and powerful way.

Paul then works through how everyone has been overcome by sin, both Gentile and Jew, and the world needs the faithfulness of God to answer being enslaved to sin. He finishes this section by focusing on the redemption of Jesus and how both Gentiles and Jews have a new law of faith in their lives that has freed them from sin.

Paul then finishes the chapter by saying, even though both Gentile and Jew are unified under this new law of faith, that doesn't mean that the Old Testament law is nullified. In chapter four he will then discuss why. Stay tuned to find out why Paul sees the new law of faith as harmonious with the Old Testament law.

This episode Noah breaks down the hidden wisdom underneath this chapter's laws on war with other neighboring nations. This chapter has both hard and gentle policies that both allow us to wonder at the Old Testament's foresight and also challenge our own understandings of morality. The teachings in this chapter are part of the larger command for the Israelites to dispossess the areas surrounding the region of Canaan and how they were to handle treating other nations aside from the six nations mentioned in this passage. As always when talking about these sections of scripture it can be difficult but we really believe there is some hope and teaching in them still to be absorbed and processed. We hope this episode does so for you and that your day is filled with a peace from God.

This episode we dive into Paul's thoughts on the nature of the Jewish people's history. Paul saw how equally wicked his own people's history was in comparison to that of paganism and believed the hearts of the pagans could be closer to God than his own people. He calls attention to his own people's sins and shows that no one should feel they deserve special treatment from God. All have sinned, as he will say in the next chapter. This brings us to the precipice of a new thought that he will expound on more in chapter three. "What was the point of Israel then?" If Israel's goal was to save the rest of the world through the purifying of themselves, and becoming a light to the nations, but Jesus then became that for both them and the nations, what value do they still hold? Stay tuned for the next week's episode where Paul starts with just that question.

This episode we tackle more laws from the Old Testament story. This is a new section of the book of Deuteronomy where Moses turns to laws that govern the practices of people in relationship with other people. This will be a section that carries into chapter 25 of this book so come along for the next month and a half as we dive into the laws that governed ancient Israelite society!

Today we will be discussing cities of refuge, boundary markers, and witnesses at court cases.

Surprise! The Boring Bible Podcast will be walking through two books of the Bible to finish out season 2! These episodes on Romans will be labeled bonus episodes and will release every Friday whereas our normal episodes on Deuteronomy will release on Monday. The intent is to get you more of the Bible if you so desire but also you can still listen to the Deuteronomy episodes without fear of losing your place in the series! These episodes are meant to get a deep look into the heart of Paul in one of his most famous works. We hope this episode provides the context for the series as we journey through the book. This was a longer episode due to the nature of the setup as well as the nature of the content but it's well worth the listen. Not all the episodes will be this long but Noah is also taking his time to do each verse justice in this series as we work through Paul's rich text.

A few things to take note as a preamble:

Romans was not written to show how to save people from death and damnation, but instead written to unify a church struggling between a Jewish gospel and a Gentile gospel.

Romans offers us a look at how important unity is to the gospel of Jesus

Paul's heart is for both Jew and Gentile to see how similar they really are to one another

How did God ask Moses's own family to live? Why did God seem to make their lives harder than the rest of the people? What is a way that we can live like the priests of Israel today? Noah works through this section as well as a section on occult practices in the Canaanite religious and the reasoning behind God's strict rules on the people listening to His own prophets. This episode works through personal devotion to God and security in him which we hope is beneficial to your life!