er to Ephesus. They must have already had churchesstarted in Rome because We can safely assume that thechurch was not planted by an apostle(Schreiner pg.11). TheChurch was most probably started by Jewish Christians. Thusleading into the text.The literary context is thought to be easilyidentified. The target text is part of a letter which iswritten in the same genre as the rest of Pauls letters. The style of Romans fits with Pauls other letters that areaccepted as authentic...(Schreiner pg.2). The text alsofits in very easily with the rest of the scripture aroundit. It starts off the section about the savingrighteousness of God which continues from there(3:21-4:25).The theological context is very broad since Biblicalprinciples are built from the target text. There are manytexts which involve salvation in the Scripture. Some of theobvious texts are John 3:16, Ephesians 1:4-8, some otherparts of the Romans road, and the list goes on. This isdue to the fact that there are many different parts of textswhich also add to the Salvation texts but are not directlyrelated. Salvation is the most important concept intheology. It is the key concept which opens up the rest ofthe scriptures.Just as important as context, content must be carefulylooked at in this target text. A basic outline and list ofterms defined of this passage follows:The Great Turning Point-But Now(D.M. Loyd-Jones pg.23)1)Intro to salvationa)howb)who is it available to2)God prepaired this 3)faith comes ina)not by worksb)not by keeping the Law4)Jews and Gentiles fit into the plan5)We must establish the LawA list of terms:righteousness - the following of Gods rulesfaith - trusting something unable to be seenredemption - turning something into anotherall - everyone, including Gentilesdemonstrate - to show, give a guidelineprinciple - something generally followed by a specific group, pre-planned ruleuphold - to keep, stay with a pre planned ideaPaul wrote this passage so ...
