Digital Logos Edition
Romans is perhaps the most influential and most widely-read book of the New Testament. It is international, forward-thinking, philosophical, and theologically rich. Ironside’s eleven lectures amount to nearly 200 pages of commentary on the entire epistle. He begins with a lengthy excursus on the central themes of Romans, before working chapter-by-chapter through the entirety of the book. The final two lectures emphasize the practical application of Romans for today.
“It seemed too much to believe that freedom from condemnation depended on being in Christ Jesus and not upon our walking after the Spirit.” (Page 95)
“He must learn to delight in Christ risen to reach the goal of his desires!” (Page 91)
“‘Our old man is crucified with Him.’ So untold millions were seen by God as hanging there upon that cross with Christ. And this was not merely that our sins were being dealt with, but that we ourselves as sinners, as children of Adam’s fallen race, might be removed from under the eye of God and our old standing come to an end forever.” (Pages 77–78)
“The word translated ‘instruments’ is really ‘weapons,’ or ‘armor,’ as in Chap. 13:12; 2 Cor. 6:7 and 10:4. My talents, my physical members, all my powers are now to be used in the conflict as weapons for God. I am His soldier to be unreservedly at His disposal.” (Page 80)
“But you do not feel dead!’ What have feelings to do with it? It is a judicial fact. Christ’s death is my death. Therefore I reckon myself to have died unto sin’s dominion.” (Pages 79–80)