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Theme: We need to go into “all the world” but we especially need to go into “our” world.
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Date: 07/09/17 File name: Romans46.wpd
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Date: 07/09/17 File name: Romans46.wpd
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One hundred and fifty years ago, the modern missions movement was just beginning, and Africa was the focus of the effort.
Africa was called the “Dark Continent” not merely because large swaths of it remained unexplored, but also because the Gospel had not penetrated into the interior.
Robert Moffatt, a well-known Scottish Congregationalist missionary to South Africa was back touring Scotland attempting to enlist more missionaries for the work.
He arrived in Blantyre, Scotland on a cold, rainy night to speak at a church.
To his dismay, the only people in the service that night were women.
He seriously considered canceling his message, but instead went ahead and preached to them from Matthew, chapter nine about the need for the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers.
He told those gathered, “Every morning when I get up and look at the horizon, I see the smoke from a thousand villages where the name of Christ has never been heard.”
Robert Moffatt did not know that there was a teenager in the service.
He was hidden up in the organ loft where his job was to pump the bellows for the pipe organ.
That young boy would be haunted by Moffatt’s description of “ ... the smoke from a thousand villages where the name of Christ has never been heard.”
That Christian teenager, that night, decided that he would become a missionary.
His name was David Livingstone.
I grew up learning about Livingstone in history class, but what I learned was that he was a great explorer ... the one who discovered the source of the Nile River, exploring and mapping much of central Africa.
It wasn’t until I was in college and had a class on the history of missions that I discovered that he was first, and foremost, a Christian missionary.
Always seeking to take the Gospel to new areas and new tribes Livingstone went deeper and deeper into the interior, finally losing contact with the outside world.
For six years neither family or friends heard from him, and the assumed he was “lost” and perhaps even dead.
Some of you know the rest of the story ... how the New York Times hired Henry Stanley, himself an explorer, to go and search for Livingstone.
Stanley searched for two years, and when finally finding him uttered the now famous words "Dr.
Livingstone, I presume?"
Stanley would later write, “He converted me to Christ, and he wasn’t even trying to do so.”
Livingstone would die a few years later.
His body was taken back to Great Britain and lies entombed at Westminster Cathedral.
His heart, however, was not buried with him.
According to his wishes, and written instruction, his heart was removed from his body, and buried in Africa.
He wrote, “My heart has always been here, and this is where I want my heart to stay.”
The Apostle Paul lived eighteen hundred years before the “modern” missions movement began.
Like Moffatt and Livingstone, and countless other missionaries, the Apostle was motivated by “ ... the smoke from a thousand villages where the name of Christ has never been heard.”
And in the closing paragraphs of his letter to the Christians at Rome he shares his passion.
In this passage I want you to see 1) Paul’s Position, 2) Paul’s Practice, 3) Paul’s Passion, 4) Paul’s Plan, and 5) Paul’s Prayer, and then some application for us.
I. PAUL’S POSITION: HIS IDENTITY WAS CENTERED ON MISSIONS v. 14-18
I. PAUL’S POSITION: HIS IDENTITY WAS CENTERED ON MISSIONS v. 14-18
ILLUS.
In American society, most people identify themselves to others by their position within the culture.
When someone asks, “Who are you?”
our typical response is, “I’m a banker,” or “I’m a teacher,” or “I’m nurse.”
In that regard, the Apostle Paul may have fit into our culture amazingly well.
1. if you would have asked Paul who he was, his first response would have been “I’m a missionary.”
missionary.”
a. the Apostle Paul was many things: an Apostle by the grace of God, Christian Apologist, Tent Maker, Church Planter, Author, Theologian, and Philosopher
Apologist, Tent Maker, Church Planter, Author, Theologian, and Philosopher
b. but first and foremost the apostle considers himself an missionary ... that’s his position in life
position in life
“ ... because of the grace God gave me 16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles.
He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.”
(, NIV)
2. but Paul is a missionary to a specific group of people
a. he is a missionary to the nations
b. the word translated Gentiles in these two verse is the word from which we derive the word ethnicity
the word ethnicity
c. Paul is God’s tool for reaching the Kaleidoscope of Gentile ethnic groups within the Roman Empire
Roman Empire
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Most of you know the story of Paul’s coming to Christ.
His name is originally Saul.
He is a Pharisee’s Pharisee, passionate — even fanatical — about his Jewish faith, and keeping the Law.
He hates the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He believes Jesus to have been a false Messiah who was leading Israel astray.
His disciples were just as bad, and Saul has made it his life-mission to destroy these people called “Christian.”
He is on his way to the city of Damascus, arrest warrants in hand, to detain all the Christians he can round up.
But something extraordinary happens.
In a vision, Jesus reveals himself to Saul.
He immediately falls to the ground and calls Jesus “Lord.”
It’s the next part of the story that many don’t know about, or forget about ... the intercession of a disciple named Ananias: “In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias.
The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!”
“Yes, Lord,” he answered.
11 The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
12 In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.”
13 “Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem.
14 And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.”
15 But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go!
This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.”
(, NIV)
1) the ethnic diversity of 1st century Europe was immense
2) customs and languages varied from region to region, from valley to valley, and sometimes from town to town
sometimes from town to town
ILLUS.
In the list of peoples present on the Day of Pentecost in , no less than 16 nationalities are listed.
But thanks to a conqueror named Alexander the Great, who had subdued much of the Mediterranean basin 300 years previously, virtually everyone spoke Greek, the language franca of the era.
It meant that wherever the Apostle Paul went, he could communicate the Gospel in the language of the people.
3. the Apostle sees preaching, and teaching, and sharing the Gospel with the Gentiles as his priestly duty so that, in their conversion, they become an offering acceptable to God
his priestly duty so that, in their conversion, they become an offering acceptable to
God
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PAUL’S PRACTICE: HE SHARED THE GOSPEL WHEREVER HE WENT v. 19
“by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God.
So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.”
(, NIV)
1. the apostle writes, from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel
ministry of the gospel
a. it’s a summarization of his missionary travels to that point, and describes the extent of his travels
extent of his travels
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