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Good morning, Gateway Chapel!
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Prayer
I need to be honest with you all this morning…I’m not into weight lifting.
I just gotta clear the air.
I’m not currently into weight lifting, and I don’t plan on being into weight lifting anytime soon.
If you look at some pastors on YouTube, you may think this is a disqualification according to some part of 1 Timothy you haven’t read before.
I remember this guy in college who seemed to be doing bicep curls since he came out of the womb.
And he clearly really enjoyed doing bicep curls because whenever I went to the gym to do a light job on the treadmill as us golfers do, this guy was just moving heaven and earth.
But he looked...strange.
Have you seen this before?
Like Arnold Schwarzenegger but just his arms.
No one had sat him down and asked, “Have you heard of squats?”
He’s like no I haven’t heard of that.
It was obvious to all of us which part he was emphasizing because he thought it was the most important and yet it made him look strange.
How in the world is this going to turn into a sermon.
Throughout the New Testament, we are told that we are the body of Christ.
Because of Jesus, there is one body and many members.
We are the body.
Cue the Casting Crowns song.
Is it possible that we make the body of Christ look like bicep curl guy?
Is the body of Christ all arms?
If we looked at the body of Christ, would we say, “That looks strange.
It’s like a Veggie Tales character with no hands, feet, or ears.”
Just like your body suffers if one part is emphasized over another, so it is with the church.
This morning we’re in Romans 12:3-8 where Paul is saying, “Because of Jesus, don’t be proud!
Rather, humbly serve one another.”
Don’t be puffed up, Paul says in verses 3-8, but because of Jesus, humbly serve one another with the gifts God has given you.
Paul gives us a command, an illustration, and a call to action.
A command, an illustration, and a call to action.
Prayer
Paul first gives us a command…don’t be puffed up! Don’t be proud.
Why?
Why is that so bad?
Aren’t we supposed to have some pride?
Isn’t that called self esteem?
What’s wrong with self-confidence?
Our world is run by self-confident people who take life by the horns and run businesses, run countries, run organizations, run churches.
What’s wrong with pride?
Before we dive in let’s back up...
We’re in Romans 12, which is a part of the letter to the Romans by Paul the apostle.
Romans is in the New Testament which is the part of the Bible that reflects on Jesus.
His life, teachings, death, and resurrection and proclaims all the good things that have come and points forward also to his return.
We’ve been looking this whole year at the Biblical story as a whole, seeing how the Bible is a library of texts, both divine and human, with a unified story that leads to knowing and growing in Jesus.
And here is an oversimplified illustration of the Bible.
The Old Testament points forward to Jesus giving us the need for a Savior and showing us glimpses of what he’s like.
And we’re calling this sermon series, “Because of Jesus” because you could summarize the entire New Testament with the phrase, “Because of Jesus.”
Because of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, because he is coming again soon…here is how we are to live.
Romans is tells us all about what is true because of Jesus.
For 11 chapters Paul has gospel highlights throughout, we read them last week in Romans 3:23-24, Romans 5:1-2, Romans 8:37-39, so many others, and then he comes to this crescendo at the end of chapter 11...
Which leads us right into where we were last week…THEREFORE!
Because of Jesus…because of all this…here is now how we live.
And last week we saw that because of Jesus, Paul invites us to be like Jesus as he offered himself fully to God and to be like Jesus and have our minds renewed.
What does it look like to have a renewed mind?
Well, as we see here in verse 3, it means to not be proud.
What’s wrong with being proud?
Three reasons:
Pride forgets grace
Romans 12:3 (ESV)
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