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DM#3: Established by a Spiritual Gift

Doctrine of the Mysteries #3

Rom 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

Established by a Spiritual Gift

The ‘spiritual gift’ that Paul was to impart upon the church at Rome was not the kind of miraculous powers that operated in the early church under the apostleship of the 12. Miracles had a specific purpose in the Jewish church at that time. Like the miracles that Jesus did, God’s power through the 12-apostles was to confirm to Jews that they operated under the ministry and blessing of God. Remember, Jews required signs for this very purpose, Joh 4:48; 1Cor 1:22.

In the verse above, Paul’s gift, as stated, was to be spiritual in nature, affecting the spirit of man and not his physical body or circumstances. The verse continues to inform that the purpose of this gift was to establish them. So, we have a spiritual gift that can establish one. With these clues, it is not hard to identify the gift. Paul, in the next verse says, “That I may be comforted together by the mutual faith”. From this it is clear that he desired to be among them to establish them in the gospel. Moreover, the first half of Pauls letter to Rome fully lays out the gift of the good news of the grace gospel.

Rom 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  

Rom_5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

Rom_6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The letter of Romans is the foundational epistle for the believer today. The entire curriculum of faith and spiritual growth, from Romans to Philemon, starts with the principles of ‘the faith’ found in Romans. Romans establishes us in ‘the faith’. This is confirmed in how the epistle ends in Rom 16:25 with a statement of stablishment, in which a believer is made stable and strong by the foundation that Romans lays, and that which is later built upon the foundation, concerning the mysteries and the prophets.

Romans is indeed a spiritual gift. Its contents is at the absolute core of a believers faith. Until we have a firm understanding of the content of Romans, there is not much ability for a believer to grow past being babes in Christ, or at most being children in their faith towards God. We are to become established on Romans, but then we are to mature from children towards sonship as we mature in the rest of Paul’s curriculum, as laid out in the order that the Bible provides.

For more detail on this curriculum, see these posts,



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