Sermon Tone Analysis

I.Subject to Government

A.Read the scripture multiple times

B. Pull Method

1. P= Place it

2. U= Understand it

3. L= Love it

4. L= Live it

C. Romans 13

II.

P=Place It

A. Where is the scripture written?

1.

Also quite certain is that Paul’s time in Greece was spent either at Corinth or its port city of Cenchrea.

In a letter to the church at Corinth written toward the end of his stay in Ephesus (and less than a year before; cf. 1 Cor 16:8), Paul wrote: “After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you.…

Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter” (1 Cor 16:5–6).

Also supporting Corinth as the place of origin for Paul’s letter to the church in Rome are several indications in the greetings of chap.

16.

In v. 23 Paul passed along the greetings of Gaius, his host.

This could well have been the Gaius Paul baptized in Corinth (1 Cor 1:14).

Erastus, whom Paul called the “city’s director of public works” (Rom 16:23), probably is the same Erastus mentioned in a Corinthian inscription as “procurator of public buildings.”

The identity is strengthened by Paul’s statement in 2 Timothy that “Erastus stayed in Corinth” (2 Tim 4:20).

And Phoebe, whom Paul commended to the church at Rome, is called “a servant of the church in Cenchrea” (Rom 16:1).

These considerations have led the vast majority of scholars to accept Corinth as the city from which Paul wrote to the believers in Rome.

2. People

a.D. G. Miller finds three general groups in the church at Rome: the legalists, who thought that righteousness was a human achievement; the libertines, who abandoned the law even as a guide for the response of faith; and the spiritualists, whose pride destroyed the true sense of community and made them indifferent to the demands of civic order.

From the greetings in 16:3–16 we may garner some interesting details about the membership in the church at Rome.

For example, some had been Christians longer than Paul (v. 7), others had houses large enough to serve as meeting places (v.

5), and although many undoubtedly were slaves, some probably came from the higher echelons of society.

One example would be Pomponia Graecina, the wife of the Roman general who commanded the British expedition in A.D. 43, who was tried and acquitted on the charge of having embraced a “foreign superstition,” most likely Christianity.

b.Another suggestion is that Rome was evangelized by the missionary outreach of Antioch, but there is no evidence of this.

A more reasonable suggestion is that the church at Rome was founded by believers, both Jewish and Gentile, who for a variety of reasons traveled back and forth to the capital city or who had taken up residence there

B.What does the Scripture mean to the original audience?

1.

How to deal with roman government

2.

Love your neighbor which is Rome

3.

Pay your taxes and owe no one nothing because of indenture slavery

4.

Put on Jesus like a robe

III.

U=Understand it

A.What does the Scripture tell us about God?

1.

Always forgiving

2.

God is good

3.

God is the authority

4.

Just God

5.

God is righteousness and we must put it on

B. What Does this Scripture say about man?

1.

That we want to do what we

2.

we like to be indebted

3.

We think of ourselves

4.

We surrender to the Flesh

III.

L=Love It

A. Read the Scripture over and over again

B. What does the Scripture demand of me?

1.

Government has authority

2.

love one another as Christ loved us

3.

Put on the armor of God

4.

Owe no one anything

5.

Put on the Lord Jesus Christ

IV.

L=Live it

A. How does the Scripture change the way I relate to people?

1.

By being model citizen we are the example to all people

2.

Love thy neighbor as they self

3.

Pay your bills so those can see you being a good stewart of what God gave you.

4.

Make sure to honor those who have authority

B. How does this prompt us to pray?

1.

That I learn to be a good citizen

2.

That I be a good stewart of my money paying all my debts

3.

That I put on the full armor of light or Of God.

That means to put on Jesus

4.

Pray I understand that God has all Authority

C. Reflecting on the Previous 6 Questions,how can I apply this scripture to my life?

1.

Make my political opinions Gods opinions

2.

Pay my debts and my taxes

3 .

Every morning have either scripture read or read scripture to start the day off right.

4.

V. Conclusion

A. Pull your self through scripture.

B.P=Place It

U=Understand It

L= Love It

L= Live It