Hello and welcome to a deeper systematic study of the book of Romans. A keen eye is given to details to ensure clear understanding of the book. We will be doing a verse daily until the completion. Let's be blessed together.
Rom 1:1-
Author: Paul
Contents: Encouraging statements to the congregation at Rome. The universe a disclosure of the power and deity of God. The disgraceful state of a lost world.
Characters: God, Jesus and Paul
Verse 1
Paul servant of Jesus Christ. "Servant" here signifies "bondman," communicating the way that Paul actually had a place with Jesus Christ, as opposed to benefit for His sake. Another word passes on the last sense. Any obnoxious idea associated with the previous thought is expelled by the character of the Master, Jesus Christ. This term of modesty and reliance is the most noteworthy of all titles.
Called to be an Apostle. Here he just declares the reality of his biblical nobility and expert; in keeping in touch with the Galatians, he was compelled to protect his apostleship (comp. the broadened portrayal of the word in Gal 1:1). He got the approach the best approach to Damascus (Act 9:15; Act 26:17); his call corresponded with his transformation; it was affirmed in the sanctuary at Jerusalem (Act 9:28; Act 22:17-21). His separating at Antioch (Act 13:2-3) was not the call, but rather a formal acknowledgment of the approach the piece of the Church there, and for a unique mission. The title is an official one, and keeping in mind that it may at first allude to any emissary, in the early Church it was soon confined to the Twelve and to Paul, as picked observers of the resurrection, chose to establish the framework of the Christian Church. Paul was not one of the Twelve, but rather spoke to the free apostolate of the Gentiles (Gal 2:9). As ministers and preachers the Apostles must have successors, however as propelled and definitive observers for Christ, called specifically by him for the entire world, they have none.
separated unto the Gospel of God. This may respect either God's interminable reason concerning him, his destiny of him from endlessness to be a minister of the Gospel, to which he was isolated from his mother's womb, Gal 1:15; or the partition of him to that work made by the request of the Spirit of God, Act 13:2. The expression utilized is either in suggestion to the Priests and Levites, who were isolated from their brethren the offspring of Israel, to their sacrosanct vocations; or rather to the messenger's having been "a Pharisee", which means "one isolated", as he was presently; just with this distinction, before he was isolated to the law, however now "to the Gospel", to lecture and guard it, which he did with all steadfastness and uprightness; the excellency of which Gospel is connoted by its being called "the Gospel of God": he is the creator of it; his beauty is the subject of it; and he it is who confers it to men, qualifies them for the proclaiming of it, and succeeds them in it.
Blessings. To be continued...