Letter 042 — The Sender: Paul at the Apex (Romans 8)
Paul wrote thirteen letters. Romans is the longest and most carefully built. Romans 8 is the apex. And he wrote it from the other side of twenty-five years of beatings, shipwrecks, and prisons.
In this letter
- Paul's background — Saul the Pharisee, the Damascus road
- Paul's missionary career
- Romans written from Corinth, late 50s AD
- The Roman audience and why Paul was writing to them
- The structure of Romans — problem, justification, sin and law, resolution
- Why chapter 8 is the apex of Paul's argument
- 2 Corinthians 11 — Paul's list of sufferings, which makes Romans 8 autobiography…
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