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August 14, 2020
Live from the historic parsonage of the 19th century gospel minister George Norcross in downtown Carlisle, Pennsylvania, it's Iron Sharpens Iron. This is a radio platform in which pastors, Christian scholars, and theologians address the burning issues facing the church and the world today.
Proverbs chapter 27 verse 17 tells us iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Matthew Henry said that in this passage we are cautioned to take heed with whom we converse and directed to have a view in conversation to make one another wiser and better.
It is our hope that this goal will be accomplished over the next two hours, and we hope to hear from you, the listener, with your own questions. And now here's your host, Chris Arnzen.
Good afternoon, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Lake City, Florida, and the rest of humanity living on the planet Earth, who are listening via live streaming at ironsharpensironradio .com. This is Chris Arnzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Friday on this 14th day of August 2020.
And I'm thrilled to have back on the program a returning guest, Dr. Jeffrey C. Waddington. He is the new pastor of Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania. He's an author, a conference speaker, vice president of the board of directors for the Reformed Forum, and articles editor for the Confessional Presbyterian Journal.
Today we are beginning a new series with Dr. Waddington on the Book of Romans. We will probably feature Dr. Waddington two or three times a month, continuing on this series. And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. Jeffrey C. Waddington.
Well, thank you, Chris, for having me back on. You already discussed the commentaries that was there.
Amen. And this is quite an important book. Obviously, every word of the inerrant God-breathed scriptures is important. But this book does hold some unique places of being used extraordinarily of God in history and in the Protestant Reformation.
And it's also a book that, although easy to understand, it's not a cryptic, symbolic book like the Book of Revelation, filled with allegory and pictures that defy the imagination that we need some in-depth study to discover what is really being addressed.
In the Book of Romans, although it is a very, I believe, easy to understand book, for some reason, the body of Christ is very divided over its meaning. We have differences of opinion on the Calvinist versus Arminian controversy, the Protestant versus Roman Catholic controversy.
Even within reform circles, we have derived different understandings of biblical apologetics, even though we have the same book in front of us. Quite an interesting phenomenon. And we're going to be, in the series, we're going to be covering the Bible as the Word of God written, and Paul's narrative, thought, world, the background story of this book, creation, fall, redemption, and consummation of Romans in church history.
Why did Paul write to the Romans? Paul's greeting to the Romans, and other main elements of this book. But first, before we even go into our first session on the Book of Romans, if you could tell our listeners about Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Foreign Grove, Pennsylvania.
I'd be happy to do that, Chris, which you've had the opportunity to visit, and you came to my end as a happy person. Now for over-benefit in the congregation, and to slow down, and...
Well, I've interviewed John, too, but not on this issue. I interviewed John MacArthur years ago, probably 2006 or so.
Well, I had asked Phil, specifically, I was, you know, because I've gone back and forth on preaching from a manuscript, preaching from an outline, or preaching with nothing, all of them, and I'm comfortable, and that's it, is that, so I'm now in chapter 9, and you know, of course, I'm right.
I had a friend who loves, perhaps he still does, I haven't seen him in years, but he loved James White, and loved to see James White debate, but he hated James White's Calvinism. And one day, he came to the church where I was a member in New York at the time, and he wanted to pick up some posters for another one of my debates on Roman Catholicism that James was involved in, and he started in on his tie right against Calvinism, and I just said to him, look, I want to read you something, and I just want you to respond, and tell me what you think it means.
I read Romans 9, and he said to me, you know who believes that? The biggest growing cult in the world, the religion known as Islam. And I said, you're aware that I just read directly from Paul's epistle to the Romans, aren't you?
This is from the Bible. He goes, yeah, but it's what you read into it. And I said, I didn't read anything into it, I just read it. I didn't give my commentary, I didn't exegete it, I just read it. But that's what I was saying before.
I think it's a very easily understood book, but it is amazing how much division there is over this book.
And given its importance, it's quite clear, even though St. Peter said there were some, we can understand that, so many things, I think why the Law of Formations and the Romans, and it's important to remember that it is a letter.
It's written for, no doubt he did. But he did have, they were members, even though he had never met this congregation, useful for correction and for rebuke and for the God's word, he already mentioned, while he may not say it, we might call it the Holy Spirit.
In the very beginning of the book, the first chapter of Romans, we find, among other things, that there are no, in reality, there are no atheists. That is something that many will balk and scratch their heads in disbelief when they hear that.
But according to the word of God, we are held accountable for our beliefs and our actions, minimally, by the very sheer fact that God's creation shows us and proves to us the existence of God, and we just suppress that truth.
I'm talking about when I say we, I'm talking about humans in their natural state before regeneration, when we are conceived and born into this world totally depraved. Uh, we, uh, know that God exists and we know that, uh, what he, uh, claims is true, but we suppressed, we suppress the truth before we are miraculously rescued from our delusion and our damnation, uh, by God himself and given a new heart.
But if you could go into that a little bit further.
Yes, like you tell when we get to verses 18 to 32 of chapter one, where Paul lays that out, but it's very clear, um, that we as Christians, by which we preach it, brother, preach it, Paul.
Let us know about how this book, this great book of scripture, has impacted you as a former uh, leader in the Salvation Army denomination, which, uh, I mean, I mean, they are our brothers in Christ, but they are, uh, in many ways, polar opposites when it comes to this book, at least some of the key passages in this book, uh, now that you have become a theologically reformed Christian.
Yeah, it, it's, uh, it's, interestingly enough, it wasn't Romans that was key in, by God's grace, the Reformed faith, it'd be, it opened up, uh, windows, or even 60-some years after, uh, in this theology as men.
In fact, we have to, we have to pick up right there, where you left off, because we have to go to our first break. If you'd like to join us, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com. Chrisarnson at gmail .com.
Give us your first name, at least your city and state of residence, and your country of residence if you live outside the USA. Only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter.
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Go to nasbible .com. That's nasbible .com to place your order. Welcome back. This is Chris Arnzen. If you just tuned us in, our guest today for the full two hours is Dr. Jeffrey C. Waddington, the pastor of Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania, and we are beginning today the first part of a new series on Romans that Dr. Waddington, God willing, will continue to conduct two to three times a month on this show.
If you have questions of your own about the book of Romans, our email address is chrisarnzen at gmail .com. Chrisarnzen at gmail .com. Please give us your first name at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence if you live outside the USA.
Only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter, and if you could pick up where you left off, Dr. Waddington.
I don't know, again, for some reason whenever we have you on,.
Sometimes you get very muffled. You get very muffled.
Then making his way to Rome, way different from what he envisions later.
In fact, let me take a listener question that sort of involves, in fact, it does involve what you just said. We have John in Bangor, Maine, who says, Do you have any theories as to why the book of Hebrews does not open the way that the book of Romans does, leaving us with a great mystery as to who wrote the book of Hebrews.
Many do believe it was the apostle Paul. Some say Luke, but nobody knows definitively because there is no clear identification of the author. Do you have any theories why this is in the book of Hebrews, and do you have any theories as to who you believe most was the author of that book?
Well, I think because of a chapter that escapes me, that clearly distinguishes whoever you think that particular flavor of the book of Hebrews, even if he's the early church father with whom I rarely agree.
But on this point, I do. I do note something that I actually saw last night in watching a video a few years old of James White and talking about the earliest manuscript we have. And interestingly, we know that whoever put together that many of the great end of the day are cleared up.
And do you have any theories as to why the author doesn't identify himself?
Well, there could be various reasons why that the letter...
By the way, we have to go to our midway break right now. Sorry to interrupt you.
That's okay.
Folks, this is a longer break. Please be patient with us. Use this time to write down the information provided by our advertisers so that you can more successfully and more frequently patronize them because we need our advertisers to exist.
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We are going to be returning to our discussion on the Book of Romans, the first in our series in the Book of Romans that we started today with Dr. Jeffrey C. Waddington of Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania.
But before we do that, we just have some important announcements to make. I hope as many of you as possible will join me on Friday night and all day Saturday until 5 p .m. on the 28th and 29th of August, the last weekend of August, for the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors Conference titled The Basics of Biblical Counseling.
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Send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com and put advertising in the subject line. Chrisarnson at gmail .com and put advertising in the subject line. Also, if you are in need of a church, you do not know of a solid Bible-believing church near where you live, I may be able to help you.
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So we ask of you, if you are having a hard time finding a church, send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com. I have lists of biblically faithful churches all over the world and I have helped many people find churches, even when they're just going on vacation and they need a church, or if they have loved ones who don't have biblically sound churches that they are aware of in their area, send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com.
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Sure, we were, we had just read through one which is Paul's introduction or greeting or sometimes referred to as a salutation. Paul up front identifies himself Paul a servant of Christ Jesus, a bond slave, a servant is a more genteel translation of the Greek word doulos, but the doulos can be translated as slave.
In fact, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, first year cadets are called doulis because of the similar to plebe at West Point. You're at the bottom of the rung, you know, when you're starting out at the Air Force Academy.
I've been there, by the way, I visited there back in the 1980s, maybe the early 90s with my late wife. I can't remember if we visited her friends in Colorado before we were married or after we were married.
But I remember, well, we did both because I know that we went there several times. But I did, yeah, very unusual architecture.
Did you, you saw the chapel where they used, you may remember.
Yes, mainly glass.
Yep, yep. Very, very campus. I was there in 1984 years ago. Paul is not afraid to identify himself as a servant of Christ. He notes here that he is an apostle on the road to Damascus. He ended up there and, but didn't end up there.
Now that would be apostle Paul, isn't it? He says, set apart God, you create a godliness. It was verses five to 11. You may be familiar with that. To pull themself to the point. And that's, that is free information who gives us.
In fact, we, I don't know if you want to just conclude that sentence. I just have another list.
Okay, well, that is through the Lord who has been self elsewhere. You are, have a question.
From RJ in White Plains, New York. Who says, was Paul chosen to be an apostle by Christ himself after his death, resurrection and ascension? Because the other apostles were in error in choosing Matthias.
Oh, well, that's an interesting question. Making mention of the opening, the apostle together that they have to fill the vacancy left by Judas. And they, I think in the, in the text of Acts to suggest that what they did was right.
That, that word is used in the early church.
Another question from Harrison in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. And Harrison says, Paul identifies himself as the apostle to the Gentiles and even says that it is his duty to preach to them. Why is it, do you believe, that God chose a Jew, a Hebrew of Hebrews, a one who is at one time so zealous for Judaism that he round up men and women to be executed who are Christians before, of course, he was shown the light on the road to Damascus by Jesus Christ himself.
But why is it that, in your opinion, Paul would not have been chosen to be first and foremost an evangelist to the Jews? That's the way it seems the modern church thinks of things and does things. They think that somebody has to have some kind of similar background or experience to effectively reach the gospel but obviously God doesn't necessarily think that way.
That's correct. I mean, that's a good, another good question. Even though Paul is the apostle to the Gentiles, it's Peter who is typically referred to as the apostle to the Jews, one to have the privilege of leading a Gentile into the faith.
And that, of course, is not only just minus one Gentiles and Jews at that, and trained under Gamaliel, economic background, the gospel, in terms of irony.
Anonymous listener, who says, I have very close friends who are messianic Jews or Gentiles who serve in messianic ministries. And they believe that chapter six, I'm sorry, they believe that verse 16 of chapter one of Romans, for I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
They believe that that means that Jews have priority in our evangelism and witness and mission efforts. They should be first and foremost when we are bringing the gospel to anyone and Gentiles should be secondary.
I was wondering if that is correct or if that is merely a chronological way of explaining how the gospel spread first to the Jews and then later to the Gentile nations.
Again, another excellent question. I would say it's redemptive history, old testimony, Gentiles.
Yes, because if you interpret it the way that our listener is rightly describing the view of messianic Jews and many dispensationalists, then Paul, who actually says this to the Jew first and also to the Greek, he would be contradicting his own words.
Because he states.
That his first and foremost priority is to be an evangelist to the Gentiles. That doesn't mean that everybody is called to be that, but that was his calling. Correct.
And so we want to be careful that we don't...
A movement that you reject.
...the conversion, but...
And then to your right and those who embrace the new perspective have some dangerous ideas from what I understand that I have heard right from the lips of proponents of the new perspective is that they reject adamantly that Paul's letter to the Galatians was a rebuke to them and a warning to them for adding works to faith that justifies in order to receive justification.
That they had to add and include works, including what many reformed people would say is a precursor of rebukes that are due to Rome for adding in works to their sacramental system and their own understanding of justification and salvation.
They say that Paul was only rebuking the Galatians for an attempt to form a Jewish cult of Christianity where Jewishness was superior. Am I describing that correctly?
That's correct. Among evangelicals they treated that as a work. Even though nobody... and you don't have any... I mean, that's a whole utter nonsense. The idea that...
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Oh, okay, well that would sound nice, but I'm actually the first.
Obviously I was joking, but I just thought it sounded nice.
I did, but it would sound like Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's Island. I was trying to remember what show was that.
Gilligan's Island.
I should have the privilege of preaching.
Yeah, I've been there many, many times before the current pastor, when Bill Shishko was there for decades, and I had the privilege of hearing him preach and hearing his Bible conference speakers preach there on many, many, many occasions.
Yeah, so it's a lovely part of...
Well, we don't have that much time. Jim, perhaps you should wrap up what you most want to say about the first chapter of Romans, or at least this part of it, because we've only.
Really addressed... The intro, right?
Well,.
The one thing I wanted, going back to that author, and then the guy who was providing Ryan Parks, a little friend of Dr.
Did you mention a humidor? Dr. White is not a Presbyterian, he's a Baptist.
No, I mean, he's more human.
I know, I was joking.
Yeah, I know you were. I should be grateful that as hot as it may get, and as humid as it may get around here, and it does.
I don't know if we have time for one last quick question.
Go for it.
We have an anonymous listener who says, I do not understand why Romans 1 .17 was used in the mind and heart of Luther to cause him to finally make the break with the Church of Rome, but the righteous man shall live by faith.
It doesn't seem to be teaching anything contradictory to Roman Catholicism. It doesn't say the man dead in sin shall become alive by faith. It is saying the righteous man shall live by faith. Doesn't that just mean that righteous men live according to their faith?
Of course, the grace of God in Christ Jesus.
Right, they deny the sufficiency of grace or the sufficiency of the Scriptures.
Right, so there's all sorts of. I mean, that's why you have to that question is we can be grateful.
We are now out of time, and I just want to make sure that our listeners have your website. It's faithopc .net faithopc .net faithopc .net and for those of you who want to find out more also about the Reformed Forum you can go to reformedforum .org reformedforum .org.
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