Romans 15:16 - How We Are Made Believer-Priests, Pt. 1 (10/30/2022)

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Good morning everybody. We are missing brother Ron today because he's not able to be with us and I'm not going to lead singing so Glenda just led singing for us.

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Thank you. That was beautiful by the way and brother Paul is out ill today as well so we miss him and both

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Huber families on their way back from a family vacation. The Huber seniors are not though.

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They're staying a little longer with their daughter up in the Virginia area so they won't quite be heading this way but Katie and Dave will be back late tonight so we'll be happy to have them back next

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Sunday and tell Ron I said hello. I know he's making progress with his treatments.

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I got a great report from all of our school teachers and Paul and Glenda were off to Florida last week for the teachers.

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What do you call it? Not training I guess but I mean I'm sure they have a fancier word than that for it at Pensacola but it's a great time of refreshing for them but also they get all kinds of great new ideas, educational ideas to bring back with them and bring into the classroom here at Park Meadows Academy and so Glenda told me they're really fired up.

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They got some great new ideas. They got a lot of encouragement and they're ready to hit it again

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Monday and I hope Paul feels better by tomorrow. Paul if you're listening we hope you're getting some rest and feel better because they traveled a lot of miles in a van this week to Florida and back and while they were there it was really compacted and a whole lot of information and I'm sure they're all very tired so I hope they'll be refreshed today and they'll all be back with us next

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Sunday Lord willing. Rest of you guys glad to see you. I got to speak with a few of you about how your weeks went and it seemed like it was a busy week for a lot of us and that's okay.

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We get to come in and rest today and that's what Sabbath means, a rest in the Lord. Of course we get to do that every minute of every day while we're having a busy week too don't we because we wouldn't make it through that busy week.

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We didn't have that ability but I hope that this would be a time of refreshing for all of you today.

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I need it today. Most of you know I'm bivocational which means

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I have several jobs that I do other than preaching and so I had a busy week too and kind of you know you go through a week sometimes where you feel just a little bit beat up by the world the flesh and the devil and you need refreshing and so I need it you need it so let's go

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Lord in prayer and he will bring it to us from this right here. That book that's where the refreshing comes from.

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Let's pray. Lord thank you so much for your word. Thank you for the beautiful music we've already heard together today and Lord we pray for those who are traveling.

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Thank you so much for bringing our teachers and brother Paul and Miss Glenda back safely.

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We ask you to bring our other travelers back safely today so we can all be back together next Sunday and Lord we thank you for still having freedom in this nation.

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We can only sense that it's dwindling. It's hanging by a thread and so we just simply pray for your will

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Lord that you would show it to us show us what we're supposed to do as salt and light in this time in your history and Lord we appreciate so much that you have preserved your word and kept it for us.

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We just would have nothing if we didn't have your word today and thank you that we do.

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Thank you for the beautiful words you gave us in Sunday school this morning. The encouragement seeing a bit of the future and seeing the fact that we win and we thank you for that in Jesus name amen.

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You heard me didn't you? We win. Just keep that in mind. Now you sometimes have to go through a bit of a battle to win but we win.

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Well we're in Romans chapter 15 verse 16 offering up of the Gentiles is acceptable to the

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Lord and we've talked about how the Lord has made us to be believer priests and we've had several sections.

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First preliminary duties and we found there's about 24 of them in the passages we studied. 24 preliminary duties.

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Things that we need to be praying the Holy Spirit would work through us in our lives to make us be good believer priests.

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Secondly we talked about promises to the believer priests which were just magnificent.

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I mean you could spend a year just talking about those things and the fact that we are chosen by him to be believer priests.

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It was his choice according to his will not because of anything we've done to deserve it and all these wonderful things and we talked about a lot of that and then last time was kind of interesting to me.

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We talked about well what is the purpose of those who reject the Messiah because in the same passages in first and in second

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Peter we're kind of going back and forth from second Peter passage to first Peter passage.

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That's almost hard to say but in these in these passages where it talks about the believer priest it also talks about people who reject the

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Messiah and why they do it and we talked about that a little bit last time. If you remember in first Peter chapter two you could be turning there if you want to.

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First Peter chapter two. Last time we looked at verse eight where it talks about a stone of stumbling.

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The same Messiah that we love and look forward to his coming is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense to the lost is he not.

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So the same gospel that is good news to us will be used in judgment on those who don't receive it who don't obey it and when

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I say obey the gospel I mean what is there to obey it but to believe right but to those who don't choose to obey it woe unto them because they reject the

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Son of God and God the Father will have no mercy on those who reject the

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Son of God and so we talk about these people who are like that though in verse eight there first Peter chapter two verse eight it says a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense even to them which stumble at the word one of the first symptoms of these kinds of people

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I mean they can come into church with you and talk the talk and you might even think they're a brother or sister but one of the first things you'll notice about them is they will stumble at the word like you'll show them clear passage and they say

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I don't think it means that or they sometimes you say I don't believe that you say well well I mean this is

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God saying this right here what do you mean you don't believe it because they claim to be a Christian oh well I just don't believe that well let me read it again you read it

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I don't believe that well you know what you're talking to a goat or a lost sheep at best because they're stumbling at the word and then it says they are disobedient and if you remember last time we talked about how that word comes from the root word root word root word in greek pistis which means believe or trust or and so forth so it's not really disobeying like we would use the word today so what it really means is disobeying the gospel they're refusing to believe is what the word means that makes sense so so they have two symptoms they stumble at the word of God and they can't they don't believe

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God they find impossible to trust God they find it impossible to depend upon Him and part of what the

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Greek word means is they're unpersuadable you can't talk them into believing it isn't that interesting you've all noticed that though because you've all got loved ones that you've talked to and it's like you're hitting a deaf ear right well sometimes you just quit talking to them the holy spirit doesn't lead you to talk to them anymore just quit talking to them but if he leads you to talk to him again then talk to him again and you just go by what the holy spirit leads you to do and so these are these unbelievers that we talked about now as far as why they are unbelievers uh

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I think we touched on that too but here in first Peter chapter 2 verse 8 the first part of the verse is the verse that says that he is the stone of stumbling and a rock of offense but look at the second part of first Peter chapter 2 verse 8 it says wherein to they also were appointed now that's that is phenomenal information because 98 percent of the