Putting Others First
Romans: The Just Shall Live by Faith • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 42:22
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1 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
Thesis / Central Idea: God calls His disciples to build one another up by putting others first.
I. Not to please ourselves
I. Not to please ourselves
The Spirit calls for the strong to bear with the weak...
1 As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
The Christian way is to seek the good of your neighbor that they might be saved...
24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
Love certainly does not seek out it’s own way...
1 cor
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
1 cor 9:22
4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Christians are called to be in the building business and our projects are one another...
philippians 2:4-5
Christians are called to be in the building business and our projects are one another...
1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
II. Build each other up
II. Build each other up
II. Build each other up
II. Build each other up
We will need building up for one another as we struggle with sin...
1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
Learn to do and or become what is necessary to build up for the Kingdom...
19 So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
19 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
Best practices for edification are found in scripture and found in Jesus...
III. Jesus our example
III. Jesus our example
We will need help if we are going to be like Jesus...
39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
mt 26”42
42 Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”
Putting others first can and should become a personal desire of the Christian...
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
We are sent as disciples of Jesus to do the will of the Father, keeping His commands and building the Church...
10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
25 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.
Putting Others First Leads Men to Salvation
Putting Others First Leads Men to Salvation
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.