Peter Barnes | Romans 16:3-16, 21-23
SERMON NOTES
AFFECTIONATE GREETINGS
(Romans 16:3-16, 21-23)
– we are not ‘consumers’!
1. Paul’s affectionate appreciation of his Christian friends.
– 16:3-4 (perhaps referring to the riot in Acts 19), 6, 12-13; not Matt.25:21
– affection in vv.5, 8, 9, 12
– 16:16; see Luke 7:44-45; 1 Pet.5:14; unlike the kiss in Songs 1:2.
– like John 13:12-17
– 16:22, see Gal.6:11
2. Paul’s relationships with women.
– Paul was unmarried (1 Cor.7:7), but Rom.16:3, 6, 12, 13, 15 refer to women, and verse 7 may well do so (Junia, not Junias)
3. The missing name.
– it is Peter, perhaps expelled from Rome in A.D. 49
– in Roman Catholic circles, Peter was supposed to be the bishop of Rome and over and above the other apostles
– Peter was in Rome in 1 Peter 5:13, but surely wasn’t when Paul wrote Romans 16