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“Serving in God’s Will” part 1 -a glimpse of God’s Sovereignty
I remember my days beck in seminary when Dick Mayhue was speaking on expository preach and discussed that you can tell how good of an expository preach one is is how they handle certain passage. In the NT, many preachers consider some verses as ‘throw away passages.’ Those usually at the end on the book in which the author talks about greeting certain people and plans which they plan to do. Dick Mayhue said that if you can mine the depths of the verses to find what gold nuggets there, you can find the core meaning of any passage. Today we come to one of those passages. For many preachers, these are some throw away verses. Paul is beginning to conclude these great epistle and now makes some personal remarks and plans to the believers who are at Roman. Paul have just spend 15 in depths chapter defining and clarifying the powerful and life changing work of the gospel and now he begins by opening up his heart and sharing is his readers what he feels what God wants him to accomplish in the up coming months. I’ve read a number of commentaries and some seem to jump over these verses and others just pull out a couple of thoughts. I felt the best that I’ve seen was how John MacArthur handled these set of verses. Some passages the meaning is explicit. Others passages the meaning is implicit. You have to dig a little deeper and when you do, the entire meaning of what Paul writes outs up and become clear. And I want us to look tonight at verses 22 through 33, a section that basically will deal with ministry in the will of God. At first glance it seems like Paul piles up a number of insignificant things, all of which rather non-life changing. John MacArthur states that the key to this passage is found in verse 32 32 so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God Because of this phrase, it spreads its implications over the whole passage because you see in this passage the attitudes, the perceptions and the viewpoints of a man who functions in the will of God. The rest of the passage leads up to that statement concerning’ the will of God.’ As Paul bares his heart to a group of believers, most of whom he has never met and who loved in a place where he had never been, he provides some valuable principles for us.
Christmas through the Eyes of the Relatives
Luke 1:5 tells us two of the key characters of the coming Messiah. Most people at sometime in their life have one event, one chance to do an extraordinary thing. When we watch the Olympics, we dream of ourselves participating in certain events for the glory of our country while striving after the gold. Our minds play on these things while we grow up as a part of youthful wonder. May be it is accomplishing something great and we are on the evening news. For Zacharias it would have been to accomplish a special priestly duty in the temple. Being from a priestly family, one day he may have the privilege to offer incense for the Lord. There would be a day that would be the most important day of his life. As we shall see, not only is it the most important day of his life, but the most important moment of his life.
A Psalm of Thanksgiving
David nears the end of his life. He's on the run. Now as He endures his current situation in his life. He grows weary and he remembers the lessons on how his God has been faithful in the past. Summary statement: 50"Therefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD He is able to endure his circumstances and able then to gives thanks, because of who God is and how he has worked. This is a song of praise for God’s deliverance and protection for His people.
“Understanding "Our Liberty, in the Midst of Our Unity” - Building Up One Another pt. 3
We must take great care not to offend or look down on any other believer. Now I believe that Paul picks this theme up and it brings us now to Romans chapter 14. And Paul's great concern here is that we learn as believers in the church how to get along. We’re all aware of the fact that sin causes a rift in the fellowship. Sin fractures the fellowship of the church. But there is another area that can create great chaos and confusion and struggle and strife and conflict in the church and that's not so much in the area of overt sin as it is in the area of strong and weak believers being in conflict over preferential issues. Not issues that are moral issues or biblical issues that are clear-cut, but preferential issues. And we talked about the fact that in the church you have people who prefer certain things and other people who prefer different things. And the potential for clashing is very great. The church is a mixture of Christians at all levels of spiritual growth, from brand new babies to very, very mature men and women in Christ. People from all kinds of backgrounds, people who come from a wild kind of lawless background and people who come from a very traditional, very rigid, very ritualistic legalistic background. And we all come to Christ and we all wind up in the church and there's a potential clash when our preferences for say external forms of worship, preferential styles of life vary and can create some problems.
“Understanding Our Liberty, in the Midst of Our Unity” -Receiving One Another with Understanding pt. 1 (Romans 14:1)
Perhaps one of the greatest challenges Christians face today is maintaining their unity. The last thing God want to see between believers is a break in the fellowship. In every church, there are people from a wide variety of backgrounds who have been exposed to different denominational influences. And there are those who understand their Christian liberties, yet others who feel it’s necessary to impost strict rules for the sake of holiness. How can we keep all those factors from causing rifts in the fellowship? Tim Malvaso discusses four key principles for spiritual oneness.
