Here is Today's Message
Romans 15:14-21 Exploring The Message
Romans 15:14-21 Personally, I've been completely satisfied with who you are and what you are doing. You seem to me to be well-motivated and well-instructed, quite capable of guiding and advising one another.
So, my dear friends, don't take my rather bold and blunt language as criticism. It's not criticism. I'm simply underlining how very much I need your help in carrying out this highly focused assignment God gave me,
this priestly and gospel work of serving the spiritual needs of the non-Jewish outsiders so they can be presented as an acceptable offering to God, made whole and holy by God's Holy Spirit.
Looking back over what has been accomplished and what I have observed, I must say I am most pleased--in the content of Jesus, I'd even say proud, but only in that context.
I have no interest in giving you a chatty account of my adventures, only the wondrously powerful and transformingly present words and deeds of Christ in me that triggered a believing response among the outsiders.
In such ways I have trailblazed a preaching of the Message of Jesus all the way from Jerusalem far into Northwestern Greece.
This has all been pioneer work, bringing the Message only into those places where Jesus was not yet known and worshiped.
My test has been, Those who were never told of him--they'll see him! Those who've never heard of him-- they'll get the message!
Ephesians 1:15-19 That's why, when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn't stop thanking God for you--every time I prayed.
I'd think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask--ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ,
the God of glory-- to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,
your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do,
grasp immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him--endless energy, boundless strength!
Romans 11:13-14 But I don't want to go on about them. It's you, the outsiders, that I'm concerned with now.
Because my personal assignment is focused in the so-called outsiders, I make as much of this as I can when I'm among my Israelite kin, the so-called insiders, hoping they'll realize what they're missing, and want to get in on what God is doing, If their falling out initiated this worldwide coming together, their recovery is going to set off something even better; mass homecoming!
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life.
I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families.
Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"?
That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God.
Everything that we have--right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start--comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.
That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."
Acts 15:12 There was dead silence. No one said a word. With the room quiet, Barnabas and Paul reported matter-of-factly on the miracles and wonders God had done among the other nations through their ministry.
Romans 15:14-21 Exploring The Message
Romans 15:14-21 Personally, I've been completely satisfied with who you are and what you are doing. You seem to me to be well-motivated and well-instructed, quite capable of guiding and advising one another.
So, my dear friends, don't take my rather bold and blunt language as criticism. It's not criticism. I'm simply underlining how very much I need your help in carrying out this highly focused assignment God gave me,
this priestly and gospel work of serving the spiritual needs of the non-Jewish outsiders so they can be presented as an acceptable offering to God, made whole and holy by God's Holy Spirit.
Looking back over what has been accomplished and what I have observed, I must say I am most pleased--in the content of Jesus, I'd even say proud, but only in that context.
I have no interest in giving you a chatty account of my adventures, only the wondrously powerful and transformingly present words and deeds of Christ in me that triggered a believing response among the outsiders.
In such ways I have trailblazed a preaching of the Message of Jesus all the way from Jerusalem far into Northwestern Greece.
This has all been pioneer work, bringing the Message only into those places where Jesus was not yet known and worshiped.
My test has been, Those who were never told of him--they'll see him! Those who've never heard of him-- they'll get the message!
Ephesians 1:15-19 That's why, when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn't stop thanking God for you--every time I prayed.
I'd think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask--ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ,
the God of glory-- to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,
your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do,
grasp immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him--endless energy, boundless strength!
Romans 11:13-14 But I don't want to go on about them. It's you, the outsiders, that I'm concerned with now.
Because my personal assignment is focused in the so-called outsiders, I make as much of this as I can when I'm among my Israelite kin, the so-called insiders, hoping they'll realize what they're missing, and want to get in on what God is doing, If their falling out initiated this worldwide coming together, their recovery is going to set off something even better; mass homecoming!
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life.
I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families.
Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"?
That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God.
Everything that we have--right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start--comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.
That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."
Acts 15:12 There was dead silence. No one said a word. With the room quiet, Barnabas and Paul reported matter-of-factly on the miracles and wonders God had done among the other nations through their ministry.
Here is Today's Message
Romans 15:14-21 Exploring The Message
Romans 15:14-21 Personally, I've been completely satisfied with who you are and what you are doing. You seem to me to be well-motivated and well-instructed, quite capable of guiding and advising one another.
So, my dear friends, don't take my rather bold and blunt language as criticism. It's not criticism. I'm simply underlining how very much I need your help in carrying out this highly focused assignment God gave me,
this priestly and gospel work of serving the spiritual needs of the non-Jewish outsiders so they can be presented as an acceptable offering to God, made whole and holy by God's Holy Spirit.
Looking back over what has been accomplished and what I have observed, I must say I am most pleased--in the content of Jesus, I'd even say proud, but only in that context.
I have no interest in giving you a chatty account of my adventures, only the wondrously powerful and transformingly present words and deeds of Christ in me that triggered a believing response among the outsiders.
In such ways I have trailblazed a preaching of the Message of Jesus all the way from Jerusalem far into Northwestern Greece.
This has all been pioneer work, bringing the Message only into those places where Jesus was not yet known and worshiped.
My test has been, Those who were never told of him--they'll see him! Those who've never heard of him-- they'll get the message!
Ephesians 1:15-19 That's why, when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn't stop thanking God for you--every time I prayed.
I'd think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask--ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ,
the God of glory-- to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,
your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do,
grasp immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him--endless energy, boundless strength!
Romans 11:13-14 But I don't want to go on about them. It's you, the outsiders, that I'm concerned with now.
Because my personal assignment is focused in the so-called outsiders, I make as much of this as I can when I'm among my Israelite kin, the so-called insiders, hoping they'll realize what they're missing, and want to get in on what God is doing, If their falling out initiated this worldwide coming together, their recovery is going to set off something even better; mass homecoming!
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life.
I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families.
Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"?
That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God.
Everything that we have--right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start--comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.
That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."
Acts 15:12 There was dead silence. No one said a word. With the room quiet, Barnabas and Paul reported matter-of-factly on the miracles and wonders God had done among the other nations through their ministry.
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