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The Eternal City...
▾ Start:
▾ Entice: Rome.
Unity in diversity.
Order.
Peace.
Everything organized around the Emperor as "lord of all."
Rome was understood on many different levels…as is the
Entice:
Rome.
Unity in diversity.
Unity in diversity.
Order.
Peace.
Everything organized around the Emperor as "lord of all."
Rome was understood on many different levels…as is the case for any nation.
case for any nation.
Rome was a City
...a place.
The empire's capital, it's first city.
Already in Paul's time a city of renowned architectural and artistic beauty.
• Rome was a City, a place.
The empire's capital, it's first city.
Already in Paul's time a city of renowned architectural and artistic beauty.
• Rome was also an idea to embrace.
A totalizing context in which empire, religion, civic duty, and world order defined the Pax Romana!
Rome was an Idea
• Rome was also an idea to embrace.
A totalizing context in which empire, religion, civic duty, and world order defined the Pax Romana!
Rome served as an idea to embrace.
A totalizing context in which empire, religion, civic duty, and world order defined the Pax Romana!
• Rome was also a System to work…Patronage, favors, the rule of law,
• Rome was also a System to work…Patronage, favors, the rule of law,
Rome was a System
A way of being and doing in the world.
The way things got done.
From conquest to banking, and cultural and religious expression.
How things worked…Patronage, favors, the rule of law.
If you wanted to get ahead…you had to embrace and participate in that Roman system.
Engage: God's design and Paul's mission was not to recognize the fact of the Empire's unity in diversity.
The task was to bring this fallen world system beneath the Lordship of Christ.
▾ Engage: God's design and Paul's mission was not to recognize the fact of the Empire's unity in diversity.
The task was to bring this fallen world system beneath the
Lordship of Christ.
Was getting to Rome worth it?
When Paul and his team came into town where had they really arrived?
• Was getting there worth it?
Expand: Despite setbacks, shipwrecks, shakedowns, and savagery-Paul will be heard in Rome.
Luke can end his account with the assurance that in life or death, God has been in control guiding Paul's mission to the beating heart of the empire.
▾ Expand: Despite setbacks, shipwrecks, shakedowns, and savagery-Paul will be heard in Rome.
Luke can end his account with the assurance that in life or death,
God has been in control guiding Paul's mission to the beating heart of the empire.
And so in the last stages of the journey we read Luke's sigh of relief.
And so we came to Rome.
And so we came to Rome.
• And so in the last stages of the journey we read Luke's sigh of relief.
Excite: Paul did not go to all the effort to be overcome by Rome's splendor nor over impressed by his own abilities.
He did not go to Rome to change his tune or to
And so we came to Rome.
Excite: Paul did not go to all the effort to be overcome by Rome's splendor nor over impressed by his own abilities.
He did not go to Rome to change his tune or to
Excite: Paul did not go to all the effort to be overcome by Rome's splendor nor over impressed by his own abilities.
He did not go to Rome to change his tune or to
Excite: Paul did not go to all the effort to be overcome by Rome's splendor nor over impressed by his own abilities.
He did not go to Rome to change his tune or to make amends with those who were alienated by the Gospel.
He came all that way to ascend the grandest stage in the world to tell the most compelling story in the universe.
• Excite: Paul did not go to all the effort to be overcome by Rome's splendor nor over impressed by his own abilities.
He did not go to Rome to change his tune or to
make amends with those tho were alienated by the Gospel.
He came all that way to ascend the grandest stage in the world to tell the most compelling story in the universe.
make amends with those tho were alienated by the Gospel.
He came all that way to ascend the grandest stage in the world to tell the most compelling story in the
universe.
Explore:
• Explore: The bigger the stage, the more basic the message.
The bigger the stage, the more basic the message.
Explain: Paul's challenged his audience to embrace one of three aspects.
• Explain: Paul's preaching in Rome focused on three issues.
▾ Body of Sermon:
1 The Hope of Israel.
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▾ 1 The Hope of Israel.
When we understand that the gospel of Jesus best fulfills the hope of Israel share Paul’s
• 1.1 Ingegrity
1.1 Integrity
1.2 Continuity.
• 1.2 Continuity.
1.3 Opportunity.
• 1.3 Opportunity.
2 The Gospel of Jesus.
▾ 2 The Gospel of Jesus.
28.23-28
2.1 Proclaiming the Message 23-24
▾ Proclaiming the Message v. 23-24
• Expounding
• Expounding…
• Testifying
• Testifying
• Convincing
• Convincing.
2.2 Declaring Salvation.
25-28
• Declaring Salvation.
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