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Children's New Testament Book of Romans - Chapters 5-8

I have written this for children, based solely on the Word of God, but condensed for them... and used Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary for clarification of some words.  My added comments are in italics, and there are Memory Verses at the end of each Chapter.

Chapter 5

And so being made just by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: and by him we also have a way by faith into grace, and have joy in the hope of the glory of God.  And so we have glory when bad things happen to us too, because we know that in bad things we learn patience (through our trials) and hope.  And we are not ashamed because the love of God is given to our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us (when we receive the Lord Jesus as our Saviour).  Because in the proper time Christ died for the ungodly.  God showed his love toward us in that, while we were sinners, Christ died for us. And more than that, because we are made just by his blood, we shall be saved from God's punishment for sins, through him.. If we were brought back to God by the death of his Son, we shall be saved by his life.  And we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we  received the payment of the penalty for our sins (called atonement)

For by one man's disobedience (Adam) many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one (the Lord Jesus Christ) many shall be made righteous.  Where sin was, grace is much more. So as sin led to death, even so might grace rule through righteousness until (those who are saved through faith have) eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Memory Verse:  5:5 "God showed his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Chapter 6.

What should we say then? Shall we still sin because of the abundance of grace?  God forbid! How can we that are dead to sin, live any longer in sin? Don't you know that even as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, you should walk in a new life. You should not do sin things anymore, because you are freed from sin.   Think of yourself as dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. And so do not let sin have control in your body so you do sin things.  Give yourself to God, for sin shall not have authority over you, for you are under grace.   Before you became Christians, you did sin things all the time, but you obeyed from your heart the doctrine (the gospel) that was preached to you. and now you are made free from sin, and should be servants to God, and be holy, and have in the end, everlasting life.  For the wages (payment) of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Memory Verse:  6:23 "For the wages (payment) of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Chapter 7

My brethren, you are dead to the law, and you should bring forth fruit (good works) unto God.

We know that the law is spiritual, but I (the apostle Paul, who wrote the book of Romans) am fleshly, a slave to sin.  The things that I should do, those things I don't do, but those things that I hate, those are the things that I do. Now then it is not I that sins, but it is the sin that lives in me. For I know that in me (that is in my body) there lives no good thing: I want to do good, but I don't know how to do good. I take pleasure in the law of God, but I see another law in my body, fighting against the law of my mind.  O unhappy man that I am!  Who will deliver me from the body of this death?  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  So that with my mind I serve God, but with my body, the law of sin.

Memory Verse:  7:25 "O unhappy man that I am!  Who will deliver me from the body of this death?  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  So that with my mind I serve God, but with my body, the law of  sin."

Chapter 8

Therefore there now is no condemnation (that means punishment) for those that are in Christ Jesus, who walk after the Spirit instead of the flesh. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death, because God sent his own Son in the likeness of flesh (when Jesus lived on this earth), so that those who walk after the Spirit do the things of the Spirit. To be fleshly minded (to think of sin things) is death; but to follow the Spirit with your mind is life and peace. Because the fleshly mind is an enemy of God, so that those that are not Christians cannot please God. 

 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.  If Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  Those that are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: if we suffer with him, we may also be glorified together. The sufferings that we go through now are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be seen in us. 

All of the creation is in pain until now.  And not only them, but us too, which have the Spirit, even while we wait for the redemption of our body (when the Lord Jesus comes again).  We are saved by hope: but things that you can see are not hope, but if we hope for the things that we cannot see, then we wait for it patiently. And the Spirit helps us, because we don't know how to pray, and so the Spirit pleads for us with words that cannot be spoken.

  We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to those that are the called according to his purpose.  Those that he knew before (those he chose)  he also appointed before to be changed to the image of his Son (called predestination)  And those he appointed, those he called, and those he called, those he justified (made righteous. holy in their heart) and those he justified, those he also glorified.  So what can we say? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how can he not also freely give us all things?  

Who shall put anything against those who God has chosen (the elect)?  It is God that justifies (makes righteous).  Who is he that condemns?  It is Christ that died, and is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and pleads for us.   Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Memory Verse:  8:28 "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to those that are the called according to his purpose."

continued on Children's Book of Romans, Chapters 9-12

V. Gross/'06