Two men, one book

... book of the Bible, that is.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones and John MacArthur on the book of Romans.

Lloyd-Jones commenting on 1:3-4, that Christ was declared to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead:

Read the four Gospels through. Read them and notice that whenever He takes His disciples aside and prophesies to them of His death, He never does it without adding that He is going to rise again. They never took it in; they did not understand it. They were so horrified at the thought of His death, that they did not hear Him saying that He would rise again. But He always said it. And therefore, when He rose again, His prophecy was fulfilled; His words were verified; His claims were substantiated. This is, therefore, you see, the very bedrock on which our whole gospel is erected. If there had not been a resurrection, I say, there would have been no gospel.


MacArthur commenting on 1:5, about being the recipients of grace and apostleship:

A believer has no cause for self-congratulation, because he contributes nothing to his salvation. Human achievement has no place in the divine working of God's saving grace. We are "justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:24), a redemption in which man's work and man's boasting are totally excluded (vv. 27-28)

There is a lot of doctrine being discussed in those opening verses of Romans.