How to live as a Christian highlights the importance of love in fulfilling our civil and spiritual duty.

How to live as a Christian looks at being a citizen of heaven in the world.

How to live as a Christian is now focused on how the Christian responds to enemies and evil.

Paul begins his section about how to live as a Christian. Turns out, it is characterized by love.

God gives gifts as an act of grace and as a measure that is beneficial for his church.

Christians present themselves as living sacrifices, who are alive only because Jesus died in their place.

As Paul reflects on God's sovereignty and how he has worked in history, doubt, and the faith of others to fulfill his promises, he arrives at the conclusion of praise to an awesome God.

God's has a plan and purpose to bring Israel mercy via the Gentile believers. God's sovereignty is on display in salvation.

God has a plan to save his people Israel in the future, when Jesus returns and many of them accept them as their Messiah.

Gentile Christians are included in the people and promises of God. To highlight this, Paul uses the image of a wild olive tree and grafted in branches to note how God accomplishes this.

Paul anticipates a day in his end times theology when the Israelite people will respond in faith to Jesus Christ, which will occur at or around the time of the second coming.

Israel stumbled that by God's grace, salvation would be brought to the Gentile people.

Paul grounds his argument that believing Hebrews are the remnant of their day is defended using Old Testament Scripture.

In the Old Testament, remnant theology is the belief that God has kept a group, a remnant, despite the unbelief of his people. Paul applies that to speak of the Hebrew people in his day who have believed.

Paul addresses the stumbling block of spiritual complacency and unbelief.

A person can't call on Christ if they don't believe in him. They can't believe in him, if they've never heard about him. And, they can't hear about him if those who already believe, don't go.

The Hebrew Scriptures are quoted to show that we must rely on Jesus and his righteousness to be saved.

Paul, as a Jew who has believed in Jesus, shares his desire for Israel to put their faith in Jesus, their Messiah.

Israel's point of stumbling was comfort and complacency as the chosen people of God.

Paul quotes the prophet Isaiah to highlight God's saving based on God's desire to save his people and not their works. Likewise, it introduces notions of remnant theology, which he will develop later.