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SLIDE 2
Rom 15:
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Rom 15.3-
Romans 15.
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INTRO:
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God wants his church, to live in harmony with one another.
This has been the theme behind the last two messages.
-Yes, we disagree.
-Yes we bring with us, the baggage of our past lives and our past experiences.
-Yes, we have differing convictions and opinions about things.
-And even when we feel strongly about our opinion or conviction, we also see, that God deals with different people differently when it comes to issues of conviction.
-Some of us hold to ideas that divide us politically… or maybe we are divided on a religious issue… or a questionably moral issue.
-Most likely, we will find things with each other, that we disagree with..
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We are called to be a community of faith, living in harmony with one another… all the while, being both incapable of such a thing… and incompatible to boot.
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In our logic, we would say that this is an unreasonable thing.
This doesn’t make sense.
This is a recipe for disaster.
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And we would be right.
It’s not logical..
It is, in fact, a recipe for disaster… which is why, much of church history is a disaster...
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And we don’t have to go back to the crusades, or the inquisition, or unified church and state to see how it’s a disaster..
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We can look at some of our own experiences… Some of us have been through church splits… horrible divisions… passionate battles… gut wrenching conflicts...
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Incompatible people… incapable of harmony… came together to be a community of faith… and they allowed the inevitable natural conflict to germinate and take root in their midst.
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And the reality is… God knows what He’s mixing together.
God knows that his recipe for every community of faith is susceptible to volatility.
He knows that he’s dumping vinegar and baking soda into the same pot.
He knows that he’s dropping a pack of Mentos into a bottle of diet Coke.
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Scientifically… his recipe should bubble over like a middle school science fair project…
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But God is in the business of confounding the world with the miraculous…
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So, to this volatile mix, that is Christian fellowship....
He adds the testimony of His Grace… - a healthy dose of the HS.... and a constant stirring of His Word.
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To the Roman church, an extensive lesson of grace has already been delivered… they heard about God’s grace on many levels as the first 11 chapters of this letter was written to them.
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By now, they are seeing how they, as individuals, and as a church… are to be shaped by that grace.
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Add to that, the internal work of the HS, and the ongoing testimony of the scriptures… - and the result is…
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a miracle.
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Not only a miracle, but a message.
God wants the church to demonstrate love and harmony in the midst of broken and incompatible people… - So that, His miraculous presence will be recognized, and He will be glorified.
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This is the thrust of today’s passage.
The outer layer of this story, focuses on harmony.
God wants His believers to experience it and display..
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And hee tells us how we can experience it… by actively serving one another, by the discipline of endurance, and by the encouragement of the scriptures..
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And finally, we will see again, the purpose that God has in all of this.
Because of the redemptive work of Jesus… Those who were religiously incompatible to the Jews, have been brought into a place of common faith.
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God changed things so drastically… that both Jews and Gentiles were able to break the historical barrier between them, and find unity with one another.
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The end result?
God is glorified… not only in the worship of both Jews and Gentiles together.... but He is glorified because He has done something miraculous.
He has brought together the incompatible… and created the harmonious.
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read again: vss 1-3
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First point:
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We find harmony in serving one another ()
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Verse one represents the principle we’ve been talking about for the past two weeks.
In fellowship, those with stronger convictions tend to judge those with freedom… and those with freedom tend to despise those with strong conviction.
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The examples that Paul used to demonstrate this principle centered around the eating of meat and the observance of religious holidays.
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The applications in our present day might be different…
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Paul emphatically begins this with the word ‘we’.
By doing this, he is building repore with some of his readers… recognizing that there are some in the church, like him, who matured in their understanding of faith and how the grace of Jesus applies.
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When the great leader calls other leaders to themself… it builds camaraderie.
With this one word ‘we’… and the context of it.. Paul is both, giving his personal example… and demonstrating, that is is perfectly reasonable that other leaders do as he is doing.
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This is what good leaders do… -They demonstrate servanthood, and call others to their side.
They don’t demand it… they don’t pontificate it… they don’t separate themselves from it.
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Though a leader’s responsibility might take them from the fields to the office… -True leaders are those who have demonstrated a willingness to do whatever is necessary to fulfil the end goal.
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Paul has demonstrated this.
His freedom to serve his own needs and his own wants… - has been set aside.
His entire ministry has been a demonstration of this… - And we looked at passages last week that highlighted this.
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Paul knew that he had an obligation to meet those who were weak in their faith… in the place where they were at.. - He did his best to become all things to all men… in order to save some.
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Now he’s making it clear… to those that he calls to himself… that they too share this same obligation.
He lays this principle out well in Gal 6.
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Gal 6:1-
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Gal 6:4-
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The heart of this passage is verse 2… but I read it all to give us the context.
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Bear one another’s burdens.
Why?
Because it fulfills the law of Christ.
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If you’re wondering what the law of Christ is… Jesus made it clear in
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add to that:
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This is the noble task that Paul is calling his fellow believers to.
-To restore those who are fallen, in gentleness.
- To bear one another’s burdens
-To be mindful of their own state, and their own condition, with humility
AND.. -To be honest, not so much about the labor, but rather, about the fruit of that labor… so as not to coax out compliments from others… but to quietly rejoice to themselves about the things God has done through them
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Helping a fallen brother/sister back to a place of restoration… is indeed, a labor of love.
It is a fulfillment of the commandment of Christ..
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The same applies… to those who are strong, bearing with the failings of the weak.
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The contrast to which.. is the pleasing of self.
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That’s how verse one ends.
- You can please yourself… that is: do what you want to do, for your own pleasure, for your own want, for your own comfort…
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Or, you can choose to set yourself aside, giving up the things that please self… and do what is profitable to help a weak brother/sister.
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Later on, in vs 5, the goal… the anchor of this passage is established.
- God is calling us as believers, to live in harmony with one another… in accord with Christ Jesus.
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Verses 4-7 will shed further light on how we accomplish this..
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But verses 1-3 finalize a principle that Paul has been taking a significant amount of time to establish…
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