Youth: Romans 11:33-12:3

Ice Breaker: (10 min)

Compare and Contrast the Worlds way with the Christian Way

Teaching: (15 min)

Story about a time i was tempted but how gods way is so much better…

You guys have all probably heard of Tim Tebow. He of course is best known for his time playing quarterback for the Denver Broncos and his strong faith in Jesus. He has won the Heisman Trophy when playing college football, and received a lot of attention while playing for the Broncos.

While many professional sports people are consumed with living immoral lives through living seeking after every earthy pleasure, Tim Tebow took a different approach, an approach of faith.

Did you know that the NCAA football league actually created a rule called that the media dubbed the Tebow Rule after him? Now this isnt because of something he did that was bad, but on the other hand this shows a great contrast in how the world lives and how Tebow lives. While most sports stars are getting busted for DWIs and Drug use, The NCAA Tim Tebow Rule dealt with something else entirely.

You have probably seen the eye black that many football players wear: the little black marks that they place under their eyes. These are used to reduce the reflection from the sun into their eyes. Well in a 2009 Championship game, Tebow wrote on these with silver sharpie. Under his right eye he wrote “John” and under his left, “3:16”. Now over the next 24 hours, google reported that “” was the most searched term with over 90 million searches.

Talk about an amazing way to share Jesus with people! Unfortunately, some time later, the NCAA banned writing on these eye blacks.

Lets take a step back now and look at another quarterback. I grew up in a Pittsburgh Steelers house, so Ben Rothlisburger was a big name in my house while growing up. At the age of 23, he became the youngest quarterback to win a Superbowl. Well if we skip forward to 2009, the same year that Tebow wrote under his eyes, we see that Rothlisburger was in trouble as so many pro football players often get in. In 2009, ben rothlisburger was facing charges for sexual assault. If I am not mistaken, in his career he also got in trouble for driving drunk as well as possession of pot.

As you look at these two athletes there is a strong difference, While Rothlisburger was facing criminal charges, here Tebow was sharing the gospel to tens of millions of people. You see the worldly way of living as a professional athlete is quite different than the christian way.

Romans 11:33–12:3 NASB95

33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? 35 Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again? 36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. 1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

Romans 11:33 NASB95

33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

11:33-36

This is a praise to God. Gods ways are so much higher than our ways

Romans 11:34–35 NASB95

34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? 35 Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again?

Romans 11:34-

The answer is obvious. No one! No one knows the mind of the Lord. No one is fit to be his counselor.

Romans 11:36 NASB95

36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

God is the creator of all things. Everything we have is a result of him. The food we eat, the house we live in, the air we breathe. Our Eyes, our hands, our feet, all from God.

Romans 12:1 NASB95

1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

So what should we do?

Romans 12:1–2 NASB95

1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:1

Romans 12:3 NASB95

3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

Discuss Passage (10 min):

As we look at the end of Chapter 11, we can see that God really is a good God. In a few words, what do you have to be thankful for?

Paul begins chapter 12 with a call for believers, in view of all that God has given them, to give themselves fully and completely—body, mind, and will— to God.

According to Paul, what is involved in doing this?

MacArthur Bible Studies: Romans Reflecting on the Text

The nineteenth-century Englishman Robert C. Chapman wrote, “Seeing that so many preach Christ and so few live Christ, I will aim to live Him.” What principle or truth in this lesson do you need to stop talking about and start living?

Robert Chapman, an english pastor from the 1800s is quoted saying “Seeing that so many preach Christ and so few live Christ, I will aim to live Him.”

What is is that you can do in your life in an aim to live with Christ?

Discussion where we are going (15 min):

Questions