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

Scripture

- Acts 9:1-19 (Damascus road, referenced)

- Romans 1:1-15 (Paul's introduction)

- 2 Corinthians 11:23-28 (Paul's sufferings, referenced)

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