The Gospel Will Be Preached (Romans 1:1-17, Jeff Kliewer)

Cornerstone Church

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June 3, 2024

Sermon Notes: notes.cornerstonesj.org The Gospel Will Be Preached

01:23: Good morning Greetings good morning. Hello Bob's ready let's go.
01:33: We don't do flag waving during worship Yeah, you can wave your
01:39: Bible that's fine All right We're gonna have a couple of announcements here And then we're gonna open in a word of prayer and begin to worship our
01:47: Lord because he's worthy of all of our praise So tomorrow morning at 6 a .m.
01:54: There is a men's breakfast doesn't that sound appealing 6 a .m. You get to get up early
02:00: No, I'm not a morning person here, but if you are morning person 6 a .m. Right here in the building for a men's
02:07: It's not really a breakfast actually the food is only it's not physical food, but you're being fed the
02:12: Word of God so 6 a .m. Men's meeting We have a big event next
02:20: Sunday Okay next Sunday on the field out here right after the second service
02:26: There's going to be a baptism and a picnic we're gonna try and get that Korean barbecue going again
02:32: And just have a wonderful time hanging out after second service, so please stick around you're gonna want to hear the testimonies of those getting baptized
02:41: It's always one of the most exciting days of the year So next Sunday mark your calendar right now put a note in your phone, so you don't forget baptism time right after second service
02:54: We have a congregational meeting on June 23rd so It's right after a
03:02: Sunday service that week We're not going to do a Monday night meeting, but just stay after second service for Congregational meeting which we have every few times every year
03:12: So with that I think that's all the announcements I've got let's go to the Lord in prayer, and that gives me extra time to preach long so Short announcements, and yeah, you know me
03:24: Let's pray Gracious Heavenly Father we come to you now in the name of your
03:29: Son Jesus Christ And Lord you know our hearts And you know what's on our minds just as we came in the service today a woman approached
03:37: Asking for special prayer for the youth that there was a burden on her heart that that the enemy is trying to take a stronghold over the youth of this church and In general over the youth in this culture that are being led after lies
03:53: And so Lord we come together as a congregation to pray for the youth We ask for the teenagers the young people even the children of this church that they would be raised in the admonition of the
04:05: Lord That you would hold on to their hearts that you would deploy more angels to fight off the demons that are trying to attack them
04:12: God that you would wrestle and fight for the hearts of the youth and that of course you would be triumphant in that battle
04:21: You're the God of angel armies, and we pray that you would defeat the enemy who's seeking to Devour like a roaring lion
04:31: The youth of this church and of this country so Lord God we pray for a mighty revival amongst the youth revivals almost always start with with young people and We pray
04:44: God that there would be a revival in the youth of this church that spreads Throughout New Jersey and really touches to the ends of the earth that there would be missionaries sent out kids that grew up in this church
04:57: That there will be power in their lives to overcome the enemy That they would resist temptation they would flee temptation and that they would stand strong for you
05:08: Empower them to preach raise up preachers among them missionaries and faithful Christians Amongst the young people we do pray for them and now father we lift up this worship service and ask that you would be glorified
05:22: Through the singing of praise unto your name you are worthy of the best that we can bring you so Lord We ask now that you would fill us with your
05:30: Holy Spirit that we could worship you in spirit and in truth in Jesus name Amen Would you please stand as we sing our opening song?
05:54: I was My shame
06:06: Till I Oh It was
06:40: You call
06:59: It's you You call
07:16: It's you See I say my soul
07:38: Is all Jesus Oh It's you
08:06: You call me
08:19: Yes I Miss you my sin was heavy, but chains break at the weight of your glory
08:43: I need a shelter. I was an orphan Now you call me a citizen
08:52: When I was You Oh It's you
09:28: We're out of that Darkness into your glorious day
09:49: Amen can you say It is good to be in the house of Lord today
09:58: And we're gonna stick that next we're gonna sing in a house of We worship the
10:26: God who was we worship the God who is we worship the
10:32: God He opened the prison doors he parted the agency
10:41: My God he holds the victory There's joy in the house of the
10:49: Lord There's joy in the house of the Lord today And we won't be quiet We shout out your praise
10:58: There's joy in the house of the Lord Our God is surely in this place
11:04: And we won't be quiet We shout out your praise Oh We sing to the
11:20: God who is we sing to the God who stays We sing to the
11:25: God who always makes a way To the hung up on that cross
11:35: My God There's joy in the house of the
11:43: Lord There's joy in the house of the Lord today And we won't be quiet We shout out your praise
11:52: There's joy in the house of the Lord Our God is surely in this place
11:58: We won't be quiet We shout out your praise We shout out your praise
12:11: We were beggars Now we're royalty
12:17: We were the prisoners Now we're running free
12:23: We are forgiven Accepted, redeemed by His grace
12:28: Let the house of the Lord sing praise We were, we were the beggars
12:36: Now we're royalty We were the prisoners Now we're running free
12:44: We are forgiven Accepted, redeemed by His grace
12:50: Let the house of the Lord sing praise
12:56: There's joy in the house of the Lord There's joy in the house of the
13:01: Lord today And we won't be quiet We shout out your praise
13:07: There's joy in the house of the Lord Our God is surely in this place
13:13: And we won't be quiet We shout out your praise There's joy in the house of the
13:20: Lord There's joy in the house of the Lord today And we won't be quiet We shout out your praise
13:29: There's joy in the house of the Lord Our God is surely in this place
13:35: And we won't be quiet We shout out your praise
13:43: We shout out your praise We shout out your praise
13:54: We shout out your praise He is good,
14:09: He is a faithful God He takes care of our needs And so as we sing this next song,
14:14: Great is Thy Faithfulness I pray that we would, we would focus on His love for us
14:20: And His care for us And His provision for us 5, 6
14:51: Great is Thy Faithfulness O God my
14:58: Father There is no shadow of turning with Thee Thou changest not,
15:14: Thy compassions they fail not
15:20: As Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be
15:39: Summer and winter and springtime and harvest
15:49: Sun, moon and stars in their courses above Joy with all nature in manifold witness
16:08: To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love
16:19: Great is Thy faithfulness Great is
16:25: Thy faithfulness Morning by morning new mercies
16:35: I see All I have needed
16:42: Thy hand has provided Great is
16:49: Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me
17:04: Pardon for sin and a peace that endures
17:16: Great is Thy faithfulness, mercy and love
17:26: Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow
17:36: Blessings all mine with ten thousand besides Great is
17:48: Thy faithfulness Great is
17:53: Thy faithfulness Morning by morning new mercies
18:03: I see All I have needed
18:10: Thy hand has provided Great is
18:18: Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me
18:25: Great is Thy faithfulness Great is
18:33: Thy faithfulness Morning by morning new mercies
18:43: I see All I have needed
18:50: Thy hand has provided Great is
18:58: Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me
19:36: In this time, in this place, God we thank you for the opportunity Because you have been faithful to us, you have been faithful to your promises
19:44: And God we love you and we thank you for this time God I pray that you bless the rest of this worship service
19:52: I pray that you bless communion That we would be reminded of your sacrifice for us
19:58: And I pray that you bless the preaching today That the words from Romans would pierce our hearts
20:04: And that we would be transformed because of that I pray this all in Jesus' name, amen
20:09: You may be seated Well good morning church, family, brothers, sisters
20:21: Good morning Good morning It is our June communion
20:28: Six months down, six months to go Now is not the time to be spiritually idle
20:33: I know we have summer, you know But the world is changing quickly More so than ever in my lifetime
20:41: The gospel needs to be preached And you know these days, these months, these years
20:47: Seem to go by so quickly Even when we think about our own mortality You know death seems to be so far off And yet the world hates us
20:59: Why? We seek truth We want truth and we speak truth
21:05: We are prone to think of death as following birth But people are born to live their lives and then die
21:12: Spiritually, however, it's actually the other way around Peter, by divine inspiration, says that we must be born again
21:18: Because since you have been born again Not of perishable seed, but of imperishable
21:24: Through the living and abiding word of God For all flesh is like grass
21:29: All its glory like the flowers of grass The grass withers, the flowers fall or fail
21:37: But the word of the Lord remains forever And this word is the good news that was preached to you
21:42: That's in 1 Peter 1, 23 -25 This new birth is a spiritual matter
21:49: Necessitated by the fact that by nature Men are dead in trespasses and sin You know, thus as believers
21:55: We are not born again the same way as we were first born But are born again, given a new life
22:02: By believing the word of God, his truth Yet, paradoxically, we live in a world that is a burning house
22:13: And most of humanity is still arguing over its drapes We trade a truth for the fleeting high cost of acceptance
22:21: Exchanging it for the moment's peace In the arms of culture that celebrates its own demise
22:27: They call it feelings We call it for what it is, lies
22:32: But we can be so spiritually lazy That we exchange how we are feeling as truth
22:39: Supposedly God's truth Dr. Buck Parsons from St. Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Florida Sums it up this way
22:47: Even we as Christians can sometimes be deceived by our own feelings We can fall into a deep unhappiness, loneliness, despair or shame
22:56: And feel as if we are not truly saved This can occur when we are beaten down by our sin
23:03: Or as our enemies constantly accuse us We must remember that sometimes our feelings are the greatest liars
23:10: And we must not allow our feelings to override what we know to be true
23:15: We must preach the gospel to our feelings Ask the Lord to help us to not forget that we are in Christ We must never allow our doctrine to conform to our feelings
23:26: But we must always make our feelings conform to our doctrine In other words, we've been given a new life
23:33: You made the most important decision in your life to follow Jesus What happens next?
23:43: Have we been so fretful about the world That creates us as spiritually lazy with feelings
23:48: That we dismiss that we live and move And our whole total being is with God That we cannot even raise our hands without God's power behind it
23:59: The world, the pagans call it secondary causes But here we call it
24:05: His creation So how do we combat spiritual idleness? Well, this communion today is a welcome check and balance for us
24:14: As we reflect on the past year And are we progressing in Christ?
24:21: And that's the question for us As He sealed us in His eternity You know, how are we? That check and balance there
24:28: Have we used idle moments to read and meditate on His word Or to pray to our Lord Or has our lethargy caused us to do what is rather easy
24:39: Than to what is best And prevented us from storing the word of God within our hearts Always be on alert
24:46: In today's world, the wicked will deny truth God's truth and claim its importance Of their feelings against the church judgmentalism
24:54: So do not be lazy Always seek truth I leave you with this, a poem called
25:00: The Wicked Flee, F -L -E -E The wicked flee Who no man pursueth
25:06: But the righteous are bold as lions Proverbs 28, 1 In the shadows deep, the wicked cower
25:12: Though none give chase, they flee the hour A phantom dread, a nameless fear
25:19: Drives them to flight Though none is near But righteous hearts With lion's might stand firm
25:26: And fearless in the night No lurking terror shakes their soul
25:31: Their faith a fortress Strong and whole For God their shield
25:36: Their strength their guide They walk with courage, side by side No whispered threat
25:42: No haunting doubt Can dim the fire that burns throughout So let the wicked tremble and flee
25:48: While the righteous souls Stand tall and free With lion's heart
25:54: They face the fray For God's own power Lights their way Ushers Thank you
26:41: Lord for this church Who come together in the name of the Lord To speak through one voice
26:47: That you are our Lord and Savior Thank you Lord for Pastor Jack And he's preaching on a very important Issue here in Romans And we pray that he will be
26:57: Touched by his sermon Lord Throughout this day Lord we pray that you would continue
27:03: To have us honored There's capsules there
27:19: To weigh her on top As Paul writes in the church of Corinth Let a person examine himself
27:49: Then and so take the bread and give it to God For I received from the
29:49: Lord When with yet given thanks he broke it
29:58: And said this is my body Which is for you This cup is the new cup
33:38: Let's pray God in heaven
33:44: The true and living God We call upon the name of Jesus Christ This morning
33:52: Asking for your help Lord I ask that you would help me to proclaim Your word as I ought to speak
33:58: Give me clarity Boldness A filling of your Holy Spirit For the preaching of your word
34:05: Pray also for those who Hear your word Lord that you would make each of us Ambassadors Sent out to proclaim your word
34:14: To everyone Around us We pray for a fresh filling of your Holy Spirit That the power of the gospel
34:20: Would be made manifest in our lives That you would strengthen us
34:27: To speak The word of God And Lord I pray that If there's anybody here this morning
34:33: That has not yet been saved They have not yet repented and believed in Jesus That you would open their eyes
34:40: This morning through your word And save them Lord We pray that as we study through the book of Romans We would see many many people
34:50: Coming to saving faith And that the baptism down the shore Later After the summer is over in September We would have so many people
34:59: To be baptized And all this for your name's sake That the name of Jesus would be
35:05: Lifted high Do a great work in our congregation now Through your word, through the book of Romans In Jesus name,
35:12: Amen There is no evidence In the earliest 150 years
35:18: Of church history That the Roman bishop Was primary
35:24: Over the other bishops In Christianity There's no evidence of a pope
35:31: Arising Until centuries in To Christianity In fact when the bishop of Rome Clement Wrote a letter to the
35:39: Corinthian church To try to help them with the dispute They were having He did not take authority over them
35:44: But rather he interceded And sought to appeal to them
35:50: By their authority To take control of the situation But here's when
35:55: Everybody in the world Should have known That the pope, the so called pope
36:01: Does not speak for God Here's the Decisive turning point
36:06: After which no one should ever Claim that the bishop
36:12: Of Rome Was God's spokesperson Who can speak for God At the level of scripture
36:20: It was in the Late 800s Near the late 800s in the 9th century
36:25: That Pope Stephen VI Was angry At his predecessor
36:32: Formosus The previous pope And Stephen VI Actually ordered
36:38: That the dead body Of the previous pope Be exhumed
36:45: From his grave And the decaying corpse be brought in And seated
36:50: In a place of judgment So that the new pope Could judge the old pope
36:56: For the wrongs he committed It seemed like something out of a horror movie
37:02: Not something that ought to be done In the name of the Holy God But he did this
37:10: They even had someone Supply the voice of the dead pope Reading quotes
37:16: That that person had Answering the living pope After which The first pope who was dead
37:23: Was declared to be a heretic And they mutilated his body And threw it into the river
37:29: At this particular point Every person in Christendom And around the world should understand
37:35: That this is not The vicar of Christ This is not the
37:41: Holy father for Jesus said Call no one on earth father Let alone to take the term
37:47: Of holiness as a title But all people Should have known
37:52: That this is an imposter It didn't get better, it got worse The 10th century has been called
37:59: The pornocracy Because of the sexual debauchery Of the papacy at that time And worse still
38:06: In the year 1545 At the council of Trent The official pope
38:12: And all of the bishops And deacons actually Anathematized The gospel of Salvation by grace alone
38:22: Through faith alone You say what is anathema? It is to curse and to send to hell
38:28: Anybody who says That the only way of salvation Is through faith in Christ alone
38:37: Salvation by grace Through faith They thus Proclaimed the reformation
38:43: To be anathema Martin Luther and John Calvin and all Of the leaders of the protestant reformation
38:50: Were deemed To be heretics And they actually denied the gospel Itself Last week an ordinary
38:59: Argentinian man Who puts his pants on one leg at a time Just like the rest of us
39:05: But now he lives in a Nation state called the Vatican A monstrous edifice
39:11: That was built To the exaltation of a man They call him
39:17: Pope His name is Francis He fancies himself To speak for God and on 60 minutes
39:24: He said this We are all Fundamentally good
39:32: Yes there are Some rogues And sinners But the heart itself
39:38: Is good He went on to say we must meet One another doing good
39:44: But I don't believe father I am an atheist But do good
39:50: We will meet one another there The Lord has redeemed all of us All of us with the blood of Christ All of us not just Catholics Everyone Having proclaimed this heretical
40:02: Teaching which is a Universalistic idea That one need not
40:08: Have faith in Christ In order to be Saved Muslims can come through their
40:15: Islamic method And Buddhists through theirs And that all people will be redeemed
40:20: Through the blood of Christ Because ultimately people are good According to this man
40:26: He then turned His attention To the idolatry
40:32: Of calling on A dead person He invoked Saint Rita Of Cascia Saying let us ask of her
40:42: This grace, this grace that all All, all people Would do good and that we would
40:47: Encounter one another In this work Church Francis preached
40:55: Not the gospel of God But the anti -gospel Of man
41:02: The anti -good news Of man To proclaim to people that all are good
41:08: And to open The door of heaven A false door that gets you nowhere
41:14: But ultimately to hell Is to lead people astray Invoking Saint Rita Of Cascia is to violate
41:22: Deuteronomy 18 .11 Where necromancy is forbidden Inquiring of the dead and calling
41:28: Upon the dead In prayer is forbidden And to preach
41:36: A way of salvation Other than Christ alone
41:41: Is itself anathema According to Galatians 1 .6 -9 For if anyone
41:47: Whether he claims the title Of holy father and vicar of Christ And priest and altar
41:53: Christos Which in their ordination vows Of priestliness They claim themselves to be
41:59: Another Christ Even if someone takes a title Like this to themselves
42:05: And yet preaches another gospel Other than the one Delivered by God in His Holy Word Let him be anathema
42:14: Let him be cursed According to the Apostle Paul Galatians 1 .6
42:19: -9 Open in your Bibles please To the book of Romans And Paul will not make it through The first verse
42:26: Before he proclaims The gospel Not of man
42:34: But of God The gospel of God As we study the first 17 verses of Romans today
42:42: There are three Essential takeaways Every Christian in here
42:48: Needs to hear this Every unbeliever needs to hear this For the sake of your eternal soul
42:53: That believing in Christ alone You can be saved But every
42:59: Christian Needs to understand These three things Number one The content of the gospel
43:07: Because if you Like a so called Pope Go out and preach another Jesus And another way of salvation
43:14: Even if you have a lot of the material right But you err in one crucial point
43:20: You are preaching a false gospel And I don't know about you But I don't ever want to be found guilty Of doing that So you need to know the gospel
43:29: And to know it right To get it right It is absolutely essential
43:35: That every Christian Handle the gospel And be able to get it right That's the content
43:40: The second thing Is to identify yourself as a messenger Unless you realize that God has not appointed
43:48: A man in Rome Which a billion people Listen to On this planet
43:54: But God has appointed you As an ambassador of Christ A sent one
44:01: To preach the gospel To your family and friends You won't go unless you know Who you were called to be
44:08: A messenger And then third The power of the gospel I think it's sad that In our day and age
44:17: Christians are discouraged Maybe not in this room Because there's a room full of courageous
44:23: Lion like believers Thank you Ivan for reading that poem And for what you shared Because it reminds us of who we are in Christ That we don't have any power in ourselves
44:33: But the power of the gospel Is mighty For the tearing down of strongholds
44:39: What you have Is far greater than what the world has Greater is he that is in us
44:46: Than he who is in the world We have the gospel of God We will not lose
44:52: This culture war We will not lose in the end
44:57: Because Christ is with his people The power is in the gospel Let's begin reading in chapter 1 verse 1
45:03: We'll take 6 verses And then from verses 7 to 15
45:09: Will be about us as messengers And lastly 16 and 17 Is about the power of the gospel
45:15: First The content of the gospel See if you can learn from this passage
45:21: What is the essential content Of the gospel Paul Servant of Christ Jesus And isn't it noteworthy there
45:30: He doesn't call himself a vicar Or a priest even Let alone a father or a holy father
45:37: He calls himself A servant That word in the Greek Actually means slave
45:43: And what he's communicating here Is it's not about him His willfulness
45:49: His greatness as a man As a leader Is completely relegated
45:55: To irrelevancy And he is exalting the master And himself as nothing but A slave
46:02: He is surrendered to the will of God That's what's at issue here He's a servant Of Christ Jesus He's called to be an apostle
46:11: He's given the authority to speak For God because Like the twelve
46:18: Matthias replaced Judas Because Judas was a traitor Paul was abnormally born As one who saw the risen
46:25: Christ On the road to Damascus The light was so blinding He was blind for three days
46:32: But he encountered directly The living Christ and now he is Appointed an apostle To speak for God But here's the key of verse one
46:42: That sets the context of the entire book And that is The last phrase in verse one
46:49: Set apart For the Gospel of God You'll see that word
46:56: Gospel repeated in verse nine In verse fifteen And then in verse sixteen
47:01: So the theme of my message is The gospel The word is oengelion
47:08: Oengelion in the Greek You hear that word angel in the middle of it Angelos Oengelion An angel is a messenger
47:18: The o The e -u at the beginning, that prefix Means good A good message
47:26: The gospel Means good news The gospel
47:31: Is of God That means that it comes From him, not from man
47:37: God is the source of this gospel It's his news To the world
47:43: And we are stewards of that Now as we read verses two to six We will see
47:50: Five elements Of the gospel And by elements I mean the content
47:56: The ingredients If you go to share the gospel With your friend and you leave one of these out
48:02: You've preached an incomplete gospel At best Every one of these things is essential
48:09: To the good news That God gives us Verses two to six Which he promised
48:16: Beforehand through his Prophets in the Holy scriptures Concerning his son
48:25: Who was Descended from David According to the flesh And was declared to be
48:30: The son of God In power according to the spirit of holiness
48:36: By his resurrection From the dead Jesus Christ our Lord Through whom we have received
48:43: Grace and apostleship To bring about the obedience Of faith
48:48: For the sake of his name Among all the nations Including you
48:53: Who are called to belong To Jesus Christ The first element
49:01: Of the gospel Is the person of Christ In verse four he is called
49:07: Jesus Christ our Lord And that name Is above every name
49:14: He is the gospel To preach the gospel Is to proclaim to the world
49:19: That Jesus Christ is Lord In the Roman Empire People would have to Swear their allegiance to Rome By pinching incense
49:30: And putting it on the altar And saying in that moment Caesar is Lord Kaiser Curios But Christians Refuse to pinch
49:41: The incense and drop it on the altar And say Caesar is Lord Because we proclaim
49:47: The true Lord the one and only Lord of glory Jesus Christ And the
49:54: Romans would have Accepted Christians And even Jesus himself As a deity to sit alongside
50:01: Apollo and the other gods Of the Roman Pantheon Why not add another one to the mix
50:07: But what infuriated Them was the refusal Of Christians to say
50:13: Caesar is Lord They wanted The obedience of the populace
50:19: And Christians just couldn't do that Because we have one proclamation Jesus is
50:25: Lord The first element of the gospel Is the person of Christ Now notice that in these verses
50:31: Paul expounds he doesn't just Say a name without giving meat To that meal
50:36: He describes who this person Is Fully human
50:45: Fully God In verse 3 Concerning his son who was Descended from David According to the flesh
50:54: The full humanity of Christ Some Gnostics In early centuries thought that A spirit of God came over A mere mortal man
51:04: Docetism, Gnosticism Gnosticism denied The true humanity of Christ But Paul refutes
51:12: That here pointing out that He was descended from David A man, a human Later on, actually way
51:20: Later on In the year 1854 The Pope at the time
51:26: Named Pius Would proclaim the immaculate Conception of Mary And in that Encyclical Speaking with the authority of God So he said
51:39: He claimed that Mary Was conceived without sin In that same
51:46: Encyclical, speaking Ex cathedra from his seat He declared that she was a
51:51: Comediatrix with Jesus And Conciliator between God and man
51:59: By proclaiming an immaculate Conception, the Pope was saying That Mary was conceived
52:05: Without sin But this is blasphemy Against the
52:10: Son of God Because the very point of verse 3 Is that Jesus alone Descended From David is uniquely
52:20: The Son of God Verse 4, declared so In power as the
52:25: Son of God According to the Spirit of holiness by His Resurrection from the dead
52:32: Listen to me Church, Christ Descended physically
52:39: From David Mary Was a Descendant of David In the ordinary way
52:48: In fact that word descendant If you see who was descended From David is spermatos
52:54: In the Greek Sperma is the root there It means seed A physical fleshly
53:02: Human descendant from David And so Mary is Fully human and for Jesus to be born of Mary Means He has 100 %
53:12: Real humanity From That line But sin is inherited seminally
53:20: Passed down from Adam as Paul Will teach in Romans 5 And so that means Mary Had inherited sin
53:27: She was not immaculately conceived To give this kind of glory To a sinner
53:35: Is to Devalue the uniqueness Of who Jesus Christ is
53:40: And this is the point here In verses 3 and 4 He is human flesh
53:46: Born of Mary But look at verse 4 He is more than that He is not a human
53:52: In the same way That we are He is born of a virgin
54:01: Not sinful Different How so? Because He is the Son of God And notice in verse 4
54:08: That each member of the Trinity Is present in that verse alone The Son The Son of who?
54:17: Theos, God, the Father And declared To be this unique one
54:27: By the Spirit Capital S Of holiness Three members of the
54:34: Trinity Because Jesus always was With the Father in glory And with the
54:39: Spirit It's that He was born of a woman In order to take on flesh If you preach
54:46: That Jesus was created by the Father Like the Jehovah's Witnesses preach You have another
54:51: Jesus That cannot save you If you preach as the
54:57: Mormons do That Jesus is the spirit brother Of Lucifer Procreated from Elohim And a spirit mother
55:06: Who themselves had Spiritual parents An infinite regression of God You have a different Jesus That cannot save you
55:14: You must have this Jesus to be saved The Jesus that the
55:19: Word of God proclaims This is the Gospel of God Not the Gospel of man And there will be many man -made religions
55:26: Proclamations Like in 1854 By a man who calls himself
55:32: Holy Father That deter people from The true and only
55:37: Son of God Jesus Christ The first thing you must know And master in your mind
55:44: In terms of the content of the Gospel Is the person of Christ You must preach the true
55:50: Genuine Christ The second is the work of Christ Without His work
55:57: You have no Gospel Verse 4 says He was declared who He is By His resurrection
56:04: From the dead You need a Christ who died And in Romans 3 21 to 25
56:14: We will understand the meaning of that death It is to make propitiation for sin That the
56:19: Father Will dole out the punishment That we deserve In the body of the
56:26: Son He will die the death that we deserve Propitiation means To turn away wrath The death of Jesus Was for our sins
56:36: That He died for our sins But you can't leave Him dead If you want to preach a pure Gospel You need to go on to tell your friend
56:45: Your loved one Your neighbor That He is alive The resurrection
56:52: From the dead In verse 4 the Gospel includes The death, burial and resurrection
56:57: Of Jesus Christ That He rose from the dead bodily Not just spiritually
57:02: But He bodily rose from the dead On the third day The third point of the Gospel Is according to the
57:11: Scriptures I began my sermon this morning By discussing
57:18: The opinions of man And oh 60 minutes Loved what this man
57:25: Francis had to say Everyone is good And everybody will
57:31: Essentially make it Because that's the philosophy Of the world But let
57:36: God be true And every man a liar The authority is not in man
57:42: In verse 1 when it says The Gospel of God The second verse actually Underscores the authority
57:48: From which we speak It says God promised
57:53: Beforehand through His prophets In the Holy Scriptures The writings
58:00: The Graphae It's not even Paul And the Apostles who were inspired
58:05: It's what they wrote The Scriptures That were given by God And specifically here
58:12: Paul is referring to the Old Testament Do you notice that? What was promised beforehand
58:18: Through the prophets When we go out We stop preaching Christ We proclaim
58:24: Him crucified Buried and risen And we tell people you ought to believe this
58:29: You must believe this Because God foretold it Before He did it
58:36: And if I were to ask you Well where did He say Messiah must suffer and die
58:42: And rise from the dead Where would you go in your Old Testament To tell somebody
58:48: The truth of this point To ground your argument In objective fact
58:54: That comes from God And not just your mere opinion They have enough of people's opinions When you go out preaching
59:01: You do not bring your religious opinion You bring the authority
59:06: Of God's Holy Scripture And so you must know Where the Old Testament speaks To the realities that unfold in Christ I'll give you my top ten quickly
59:16: You might have to listen later And take notes from online Because I'm going to have to move really fast But my top ten
59:22: Are Isaiah 53 He was crushed for our iniquities
59:27: The punishment that brings us Peace is laid upon Him By His stripes we are healed
59:33: The substitutionary atonement of Christ In Isaiah 53 Number two,
59:38: Psalm 22 My God, my God Why have you forsaken me Christ speaking through The father
59:46: David The son of David Proclaims in Psalm 22
59:52: They have pierced me through my hands And my feet My bones are out of joint My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth
59:58: I'm surrounded by wild dogs Psalm 22 talks about the very crucifixion
01:00:04: Of Christ Number three, Leviticus 17 11 Life is in the blood
01:00:10: And God has given the blood To make atonement on the altar It is the blood of Christ That saves
01:00:17: Because His life is in the blood And God makes atonement By the shedding of the blood
01:00:23: Of the innocent lamb As Leviticus 17, 11 foretold And Hebrews 9 expounds upon Number four,
01:00:32: Psalm 110 The Lord said to my Lord Sit at my right hand Until I make your enemies a footstool
01:00:38: For your feet The deity of Christ With the father In verse four of that chapter
01:00:43: We learn that He is a priest That makes atonement
01:00:49: And it's according to the order of Melchizedek Melchizedek of Genesis 14
01:00:54: Who brings out bread and wine The body and the blood Whose name means
01:00:59: King Of righteousness Who is a priest
01:01:05: Of the most high God Psalm 110 Number five I have Genesis 22
01:01:12: Abraham In type, in shadow Brings his son Isaac To be the sin offering
01:01:19: But he's not the sin offering Because Isaac himself is a sinner And so a ram caught in the thicket
01:01:26: Is substituted in that place Still pointing forward To the son Who is the sin offering
01:01:34: Isaac would carry The wood of his own sacrifice Up the hill, on the mountain of the Lord It will be provided But this only typifies
01:01:43: It's only a foreshadowing Of Jesus with the cross on His back Going up the mountain
01:01:49: To provide salvation The Lamb of God Provided for sinners
01:01:55: Like us Genesis 22 My number six Is Psalm 16
01:02:04: Psalm 16 You should know it Peter preaches it in Acts 2 That David and his son
01:02:11: Because David is speaking prophetically Of the son of David Will not suffer decay
01:02:17: Although buried Dead and buried He will rise from the dead
01:02:23: Psalm 16 Is about the resurrection Of Jesus Christ You should know that Exodus 12 is number 7
01:02:32: The Passover Lamb And the blood of the lamb was marked
01:02:39: On the doorpost and on the lentil And the angel of death passed over And in this we see
01:02:46: The meaning of the cross That God will pass over Our sins, not counting men's sins
01:02:52: Against us, on account of The blood, not the righteousness Or the goodness of the people inside But that we are under the blood
01:02:59: Protected by the blood The Passover Lamb speaks to Christ And that is revealed
01:03:05: In Exodus 12 Number 7 Is Numbers 21
01:03:13: When Jesus preaches the gospel In John chapter 3 You know the famous verse, John 3, 16
01:03:19: For God so loved the world Just the previous verse He likens this
01:03:25: To Moses in the wilderness Lifting up a bronze serpent The serpent represents sin
01:03:33: To be cursed And anyone who looks To that serpent lifted up on a pole
01:03:39: Will be healed And that looking is faith It's to trust
01:03:45: And Jesus Became sin for us That in him we would be the righteousness
01:03:51: Of God. The serpent on the pole In Numbers 21 Pictures Christ Lifted up on a cross
01:03:59: Treated as the cursed one Bearing the sin of the world
01:04:05: Number 9 is Zechariah 12, 10 Zechariah 12, 10
01:04:10: The Jewish people will look upon the one They pierced and mourn for him
01:04:16: The Messiah of the Jews Would have to be pierced And only in time would they come to look upon The one they pierced
01:04:24: And mourn for him Zechariah 12, 10 And lastly, Deuteronomy 21, 23
01:04:31: As I just mentioned Cursed is anyone who is Hung upon a tree That Jesus would take our curse
01:04:39: To the tree To be hung upon a tree To take
01:04:45: The sin Of those who believe in him Onto his body
01:04:51: On the tree Deuteronomy 21, 23 So far we have three crucial elements
01:04:58: The person of Christ The work of Christ And the scriptures
01:05:03: As the ground for your preaching The fourth element Is forgiveness of sin
01:05:09: And eternal life Given not ubiquitously And indiscriminately
01:05:15: But given to those who Belong to Christ Let's look at verse 6
01:05:21: It includes You Who are called And that term call will become important At the end of Romans 8 and into chapter 9
01:05:31: But here it is those called To belong To Jesus Christ Salvation is to belong to him
01:05:40: And to belong to him Is to be treated Like Innocent ones
01:05:49: His righteousness given You are forgiven of your sin And you're given eternal life
01:05:54: Because you belong to him But lastly The fifth point of the gospel And many never make it this far
01:06:02: Often because people don't want to listen this long, right? You guys are listening well
01:06:07: I appreciate that But someone who doesn't want to hear the gospel Will often turn away
01:06:12: Before you call them to repentant faith The fifth element Of the gospel
01:06:18: Is repentant faith The necessity Of genuine faith
01:06:24: That a person must truly believe Sincerely believe Paul here calls it in verse 5
01:06:31: The obedience Of faith The obedience of faith
01:06:37: He says We have received grace and apostleship To bring about the obedience
01:06:42: Of faith And the rest of Romans Will expound upon salvation
01:06:48: By this kind of faith A genuine Obedience That is turning from sin
01:06:55: Repenting of sin And obeying God's gospel call To believe in the son
01:07:03: Very often people don't make it To true genuine saving faith Because they don't know that they're lost
01:07:12: Sadly that Argentinian man Said Everybody's good In their hearts
01:07:18: You might have some rogues and some sinners But everybody's good When the fact of the matter is
01:07:24: The book of Romans will teach us No one is good No not one All of us
01:07:31: Are conceived in sin And our mouths are poisoned
01:07:37: Our throats are an open grave Nobody knows God Nobody serves or loves
01:07:44: God Sinners by birth And in practice We've got to get them lost
01:07:51: Before we can ever get them saved People picture themselves And they know they're entangled with stuff
01:07:56: They're in a jungle But they assume they're in this jungle of sin And they know they're a little lost
01:08:01: But they think just around the corner They're going to make it out If I just get past that tree over there
01:08:08: And there's a little river with leeches in it If I could swim across that And then I'm going to make it out
01:08:16: Of this jungle of sin You've got to come along and tell them Listen This jungle of sin
01:08:24: Is one million miles By one million miles And you're dead in the center of it
01:08:31: You'll never make it out You are lost And by lost
01:08:36: I mean helplessly Harassed Like a sheep without a shepherd You will never make it
01:08:43: That sounds harsh But you can't preach the gospel Until you preach the law
01:08:48: You bring the law to them first That they feel the weight of their sin And then you tell them
01:08:56: The way of escape And it's not to make it through the jungle To save yourself No, it's to look up From the one to the one
01:09:04: Who can rescue and save you The heaven sent one Who comes down to earth, born of the virgin
01:09:11: And by faith You're united to him You're lifted and rescued out You can't save yourself
01:09:18: So you've got to get them lost Before they can be found
01:09:24: This is the gospel You go out preaching like that Most people will consider
01:09:30: Your words the aroma of death You'll sound like a babbler
01:09:36: To them But to the ones being saved The power of God will be revealed
01:09:43: They'll know their sin They'll turn in Obedient faith That's the content of the gospel
01:09:49: Next, this part will be quicker Verses 7 to 15
01:09:54: I just want you to see That Paul does not exalt himself As the messenger He does want to bring the message
01:10:03: But he exalts Christ And calls them Mutually to preach the gospel
01:10:09: Look at his first point It's not the first in terms of importance He says in verse 8
01:10:15: Verse 7 he's addressing those in Rome Loved by God Called to be saints There's a particularity
01:10:23: To this kind of love and calling That we'll get to In chapters 8 and 9 He blesses them
01:10:30: With a grace to you and peace From God our Father And then he says first I thank my
01:10:35: God through Jesus Christ For all of you Because your faith is proclaimed In all the world
01:10:41: Paul's been hearing about it He hasn't been to Rome He's praying for them
01:10:46: And he loves them He prays all the time Unceasingly Verse 9 For God is my witness
01:10:52: Who I serve with my spirit In the gospel of his son That without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers
01:11:01: Asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed In coming to you For I long to see you
01:11:08: That I may impart to you Some spiritual gift To strengthen you
01:11:15: Paul's gonna stir them up To love and good deeds He's gonna fan into flame
01:11:20: In the language of 2 Timothy 1 .6 The spiritual gifts that they have He's going to encourage them
01:11:26: But look at this In verse 12 he says That is That we may be mutually
01:11:34: Encouraged by each other's faith Both yours and mine I know
01:11:43: All of us here Desire to share the gospel Because we're Christians Those of us who believe
01:11:49: We wanna be messengers But you wanna know what really stirs people up To do it
01:11:57: Probably more than anything else I've seen It's to be Near A man or a woman
01:12:04: Who's on fire Fire is just very contagious
01:12:11: It's what Paul's saying If you spend some time with someone Who loves
01:12:17: Jesus so much Their heart is just ablaze With this passion for Christ And when you're out with them you hear them witnessing
01:12:23: Before long you wanna start witnessing too That's what Paul is saying When you start hanging around Christians Who have the fire of God in them
01:12:33: Before long that fire jumps Into you And what's so interesting about this passage is
01:12:39: Paul is super excited about Going to Rome Because their faith has been
01:12:45: Proclaimed in all the world What he's saying is He's hearing reports that the church in Rome Is on fire
01:12:51: Now later Rome will burn Because Nero will set it on fire And he'll blame the
01:12:56: Christians You see everything is turning upside down in Rome right now Because of a few
01:13:01: Christians Who are on fire Where'd they get that fire? It was at Pentecost Some Christians Were touched by the flame of God Some of that 3 ,000
01:13:14: That fire spread And they made it to Rome And now they're on fire Paul wants to get there because he wants more of that Have you ever felt your fire begin to burn out?
01:13:25: Or at least The fire just Dampens and Reduces in size
01:13:32: And you wish you could Return to your first love I think Paul Selfishly in a good way
01:13:39: Wants to get to Rome To be around Christians like that If you've never
01:13:45: Gone out witnessing Proclaiming Christ You need to tap Philip the Evangelist on the shoulder
01:13:51: And say, Phil I need to know how to do this Someone else who's going out witnessing
01:13:57: Go out with someone who does that And before long You'll feel that fire burning in you
01:14:02: That's what Paul wants Verse 13, I do not want you to be unaware brothers That I have often intended to come to you
01:14:09: But thus far I've been prevented In order that I may reap some harvest among you
01:14:15: As well as among the rest of the Gentiles What's Paul's concern? Reaping a harvest, that means for others
01:14:23: In Rome to come to faith Jesus said in Matthew 19 The harvest is plentiful
01:14:29: But the workers are few Pray therefore To the Lord of the harvest That he would send more workers
01:14:37: This is Paul's concern He wants to stir them up To go and himself
01:14:43: Be stirred up Then in verses 14 and 15 He says I am under obligation
01:14:49: Both to Greeks and to barbarians Both to the wise And to the foolish
01:14:54: So I am eager to preach the gospel To you also who are in Rome So to conclude this point
01:15:03: Paul doesn't Respect persons The Greek Like the philosopher
01:15:11: In Athens On Mars Hill The Stoics And the
01:15:17: Epicureans Who said to Paul What's this babbler trying to say They're so educated
01:15:23: Maybe you have a doctor living next to you In your neighborhood Some rich liberal
01:15:29: Who wants nothing to do with the things of God And it's intimidating to talk to him Because he's so educated
01:15:34: But the barbarian On the other side He might be a bank robber
01:15:40: I don't know who your neighbors are They might be out running around Just crazy kind of people
01:15:46: Barbarians Paul's point here Is that we don't make distinctions
01:15:52: Between people Because every single person However well they're put together
01:15:58: However good How good they look on the outside They're not good enough
01:16:04: They're not good Their hearts are corrupt Before a holy
01:16:09: God And the barbarians These are the northern tribes
01:16:14: Of Europe who would come down and ransack cities They had no morals They were pagan idolaters
01:16:23: But Paul treats them Just the same They need the gospel Listen church You're the messenger
01:16:28: And everyone in your neighborhood Needs Jesus Are you going to bring it to them?
01:16:36: Paul is saying this to us I am eager To preach the gospel He knows their need
01:16:44: The harvest They're like these harassed helpless sheep That have no shepherd And Paul is saying
01:16:51: I want to come and lead them to Christ Lastly The power For I am not ashamed
01:17:01: Of the gospel Can you agree with Paul in that? Because the world
01:17:08: Sure wants to make us ashamed They want you to be ashamed of nothing Sexually Or in any other area of your life
01:17:15: Ashamed of nothing Except one thing and that is the preaching of Jesus Christ That is what is
01:17:22: Shamed in our culture Everything else is celebrated For a month of pride But the preacher
01:17:29: Is shamed And considered intolerant And arrogant
01:17:36: But Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel Can you say that with him?
01:17:43: Do you believe that with him? Well why does Paul believe it? For it is the power of God for salvation
01:17:49: To everyone who believes To the Jew first and also to the
01:17:54: Greek Paul does not consider Our gospel to be wimpy
01:18:00: He doesn't believe we are going to lose This culture war He believes that In the time of Paul They are offering human sacrifices
01:18:12: In the Americas The Indians who would develop their cultures Here in New Jersey And all down into Mexico The Aztecs They are offering human sacrifices
01:18:27: They are killing one another Paul would believe That his gospel
01:18:33: Is the power of God That would one day bring forth A people that worships the
01:18:39: Lord Jesus Christ And guess what? He was right And we are losing it We are giving it back to the pagans
01:18:49: But Paul reminds us here Written in these words What we need to hear again Our gospel is the power of God For salvation
01:18:58: To everyone who believes Are you willing to preach that? Do you believe that?
01:19:04: Greater is he who is in us Than he who is in the world Not the other way around If they run into you in the supermarket
01:19:12: Or while you are out walking the dog Believe me You bring a pure gospel
01:19:18: It will be them running from you Not you running from them That is not our goal
01:19:23: Or the aroma of life to life To those whom God would save But the aroma of death to death
01:19:29: To those who are perishing Do you believe That it is your gospel that sets the tone?
01:19:36: You preach this pure gospel With the right content In the power of the Holy Spirit With love
01:19:42: That is the love of the Spirit That he will give you for the people As to sheep without a shepherd
01:19:49: You will see the people around you Not as good And good to go
01:19:56: But as harassed And helpless And on their way to hell And your heart will burn
01:20:02: To tell them what you know Because you understand You have the power
01:20:07: It is not yours You are the jar of clay But the all surpassing power Comes from God Not from you
01:20:13: That power in you Is the gospel To share with them Lastly verse 17
01:20:19: For in it the righteousness of God is revealed Martin Luther Was tormented by the guilt and shame
01:20:27: In himself He would confess sins for four hours a day Trying to follow the
01:20:32: Roman sacramental system To righteousness And never got there And then it was revealed to him from this verse
01:20:38: Romans 1 17 It is from faith for faith As it is written
01:20:45: The righteous shall live by faith And what that means Is that the righteousness of God Is credited to you
01:20:52: In the moment of your faith When you repent of sin And believe that Jesus died
01:20:59: For your sins Rose from the dead God counts you As righteous in his sight
01:21:06: But notice it's from faith For faith And this is what we'll get to As we study through the book of Romans It is for an ongoing faith
01:21:16: A real genuine saving faith A persevering faith That then transforms you
01:21:23: Romans 12 2 To do the will of God As Paul emphasizes
01:21:29: Doing the will of God As a slave to Christ The righteous go on to live
01:21:35: By this saving faith And so in closing Romans 1 1 to 17
01:21:43: Is about the gospel You've got to know the content
01:21:48: You've got to know it well You don't have a script in your mind Because the spirit will lead you
01:21:53: How to talk to each one But if you know the gospel And the elements of the gospel These will come together as you speak
01:22:01: You'll tell about his person And his work and the scriptures Forgiveness of sin Repentant faith
01:22:07: That will come out as you speak But you've got to know you're the messenger
01:22:12: And you've got to believe the power of God Is with those who preach this way Believe in the power
01:22:20: Of the gospel Let's pray Father we thank you for your word this morning
01:22:26: We're so blessed to be reminded From the book of Romans That this gospel is your gospel
01:22:37: It's not made by man It's delivered by you
01:22:43: The almighty God And so I pray for us That we would go out preaching this gospel
01:22:48: I even pray right now for someone in this room Who has not yet believed
01:22:54: The gospel That this day before they close their eyes And go to sleep They would close their eyes
01:23:01: And confess their sin And call upon the name of Jesus Christ For the forgiveness of sin
01:23:07: Eternal life They would repent of sin And believe in the son of God Pray that you would
01:23:14: Save somebody right now God In this room Open their eyes to see the truth
01:23:20: Of Jesus Christ And now Lord we pray that we would be Sent out into the harvest field
01:23:27: To preach to Greek and barbarian alike, Jew and Gentile All people Salvation through the blood of the
01:23:35: Lamb In Jesus name we pray Amen Would you please stand as we sing our closing song
01:23:53: I've heard A thousand stories Of what
01:23:59: They think You're like But I've heard
01:24:05: The tender whisper Of love In the dead
01:24:12: Of night And tell That you're
01:24:17: Pleasing that I'm Never alone You're a good
01:24:25: Good Father It's who you are It's who you are
01:24:32: It's who you are And I'm Loved by you
01:24:37: It's who I am It's who I am It's who
01:24:43: I am I've seen
01:24:51: Many searching For answers Far and wide
01:24:58: But I Know We're all searching
01:25:04: For answers Only you Provide because you
01:25:10: Know Just what we need Before we Say a word
01:25:18: You're a good Good Father It's who you are It's who you are
01:25:25: It's who you are And I'm loved by you
01:25:31: It's who I am It's who I am It's who
01:25:36: I am You are You are perfect In all of your ways
01:25:43: You are Perfect in all of Your ways
01:25:49: You are perfect In all of your ways To A You are
01:25:59: You are perfect In all of your ways You are perfect in all of your ways
01:26:08: You are perfect in all of your ways To us
01:26:20: Love so undeniable
01:26:25: I, I can hardly speak
01:26:30: Peace so unexplainable
01:26:35: I, I can hardly think As you call me
01:26:43: Deeper still as you call me
01:26:48: Deeper still as you call me
01:26:53: Deeper still into love Love, love, you're a good goodbye
01:27:02: It's who you are, it's who you are It's who you are and I'm loved by you
01:27:12: It's who I am, it's who I am It's who
01:27:18: I am, you're a good goodbye It's who you are, it's who you are
01:27:27: It's who you are and I'm loved by you
01:27:32: It's who I am, it's who I am It's who
01:27:38: I am You are perfect in all of your ways
01:27:45: You are perfect in all of your ways
01:27:50: You are perfect in all of your ways To us