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Lord would become evident to us and that it would be for your glory Lord.

Always For Your Glory in Jesus name.

Amen.

So all right move over here.

We're going to preach through the first part of Romans chapter 1 today.

So if you got your got your Bibles were going to be in Romans 1 we're going to be in verses 1 through 17 today.

We've all heard the word the gospel right that mean we've we hear it's quite a bit in our in the in our churches, but how precisely if we were actually asked to Define it could we to find it now?

We know that the Greek translation of gospel is good news.

It's the good news, right?

But there's a lot of good news.

I mean, you know getting a raise at work that's good news.

There's all sorts of things that are good news.

What what makes the gospel good news and I think in order to truly understand why the good news is so good.

We have to understand why the bad news is so bad.

And Romans is a book that will illustrate that for us.

Very very well.

When we distribute these little New Testament psalms and Proverbs on college campuses.

We we asked the students as they walked by would you like us all new testament proper been the response and I use this to understand.

It's a cultural responses.

I'm good.

I'm good.

Thank you, but it's kind of a telling response.

I'm good.

I'm good.

Well, are we really in good shape?

The Book of Romans is an epistle written by Paul that's unlike most of the other letters that Paul wrote were address to Church's to address specific issues something going on in the church.

The Romans is just a general epistle not written to a specific location, but it's outlines the entire rest of God's word I've heard

The Book of Romans described as the commentary on the rest of the Bible and I think that's pretty accurate description of it It's it's historically been a very powerful book.

There's a man that most may be familiar with Saint Augustine Augustine of Hippo in the fourth Century.

He was crucial in establishing the doctrine of grace and works.

He fought against the heresy at the time known as pelagianism, which is a heresy that you know, was it works if there's nothing new Under the Sun Play Jesus m is still alive and well, but he fought especially hard against against this in the in the 4th and 5th Century.

If you know much about him some of the books that he wrote the confessions is an amazing book.

There's one the city of God written by Augustine that was written right about the time that Rome was falling is contemporary Jerome was there with him and a lot of people put their trust rather than in God.

They put their trust in the state enrollment living room was too big to fall and when it did this that book the city of God know this was written by Augustine is is a Incredible Book on on some of the you know, how God's sovereignty actually work.

So this is this is what Augustine brought us.

But Augustine in his early life was he kind of likes in he really liked he was very promiscuous.

He loved it.

This is what he said is he boasted of sins?

He had not had the opportunity to commit rather than seem to have fallen behind his ear.

So he really loved the world.

He loved to live.

In those in the flash he was born to a Christian mother and a pagan father and if his mother prayed for you salvation, no Augustine was deeply stirred by Paul's Epistles loved Paul's Epistles, but he also looked into platonism all sorts of different.

Worldview's I guess you would say and then one day he he had kind of Hit the end and he was set down in Detroit open up the Bible.

We will probably all been there where you open up God's word and if it's not coming off the page like a does sometimes and that's what happened to Augustine.

So he began to weep threw himself onto fig tree needs any tried how long O Lord and his heart answered why not now and then it's said that a child's voice came to him clearly repeating over and over take it and read it take it and read it take it and read it and Augustine opened up to the Book of Romans and read Romans 13 13 and 14 and it says let us behave decently not in orgies and drunkenness not in sexual immorality and debauchery not in dissension and jealousy rather clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

so

with that Augustine became a Christian and God used him to bring some incredible.

He's he's actually viewed is probably one of the chief.

That's not what you in a bit of a Orthodox Christian doctrine today.

So Romans chapter 1 starting in verse 1 it says Paul a servant of Christ.

Jesus called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God the gospel.

He promised before hand through His prophets in the Holy scriptures.

So we know right off the bat here that is impulse introduction.

He says that he is a servant of Christ.

Jesus called to be an apostle now.

What he is claiming there is that he is a capital a apostle which is something that we need to understand that the Apostle one of the criteria for being an apostle was that you had to be a witness of the Risen Lord Jesus.

We are familiar with Paul with his Damascus Road experience.

Paul was Saul and was a huge persecutor of the church.

But then on these on the way to persecute the church on the Damascus Road, the Lord knocked him off his horse and took that same tenacious personality and turned it around for the gospel in 1st Corinthians.

Paul himself says, he says then he referring to Jesus appeared to James then to all the apostles last of all as to one untimely born he appeared also to me for I am the least of the Apostles unworthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the Church of God.

One of the things one of the reasons it's really important that we understand capital a apostle is because there was certain criteria that you had to be a eyewitness of the Risen Lord Christ.

But that also the the Canon of our New Testament scripture was established by the capital A Apostles.

They either had to endorse or have written those books they cease to exist with John about the end of the first century.

So, you know, you'll hear all the time these there's what things will come up they called it.

The Jesus seminar comes in, you know, you've got these old gospels that are found the Gospel of Thomas all these these new books that you know, somehow we've missed that come in Gospel of Barnabas The Apocalypse of Peter.

There's all these new books that are most of them are 3rd 4th Century Gnostic writings that come in.

And the reason we can dismiss him in our in our context mean they're really old writings and he's our third Century.

These are several hundred years old.

Obviously, they were closer than us.

Why would we not trust them?

Well, they were not endorsed by an apostle.

They were they were not part of the original Canon of scripture.

So

And then in verse to we see he says that he is an apostle set apart for the gospel of God.

The good news the gospel.

He promised before hand through His prophets in the Holy Scripture.

So God's Plan of Salvation his good news has gospel was not plan B when Israel screwed up plan a it was always plan a Christ was always plan a and that's what Paul was appointed to do in the Book of Romans actually contains over 60 Old Testament scripture quotes.

So continuing on and verse 3 it says Regarding his son who has to his Earthly life was a descendant of David and who threw the spirit of Holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead Jesus Christ Our Lord through him.

We received Grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to The Obedience that comes from faith for his namesake and you also are among the Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ to All In Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

so Paul after he introduces himself and gives his credentials of being an apostle waste no time.

Just jumping right into the deep end of the pool, which was I think pretty

Kind of went with his personality.

So he says okay.

I'm an apostle.

I'm here to proclaim the gospel set apart by God that he clipped declared beforehand and this gospel is about and then he jumped right into the the deep end of the pool with the christology of Christ regarding his son who has to his Earthly life was a descendant of David and who threw the spirit of Holiness was appointed the Son of God, so we jumped right in and says, oh and by the way is Jesus 100% man hundred percent God

You waste no time.

Just jumping right into the deep end by I remember I took a little class one time on hermeneutics of interpretation going through the Bible and the professor said Polly goes, you know, when I read through poly, but I'm not sure we would have got along too good because you know the professor take a Leo.

I'd like to take a break.

I like to go fishing go hunting York to enjoy some downtime cuz I'm not sure Paul actually had the ability to do that.

He was just such an intense personality mean and we can see that in in his personality prior to his salvation.

He was he was intense persecuting the church.

And then once he became a Christian, he was intense standing up for the truth of God's word.

So that's one of the things that God God does work created with a certain demeanor certain personalities.

And God doesn't change those God just uses those like you did with Paul.

So continuing on here.

Versace that says Paul says first I think my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because your faith is being reported All Over The World God whom I serve in my spirit and preaching the gospel of his son is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayer at all times and I pray that now At Last by God's will the way may be open for me to come to you I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong that is that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.

I do not want you to be unaware brothers and sisters many times to come to you but have been prevented from doing so until now in order that I might have a harvest them on you just as I have had among the other Gentiles, I am obligated both the Greeks and non-greek both of the wise and the foolish that is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

so we going to see Paul's passion right and his tenacity and how he would stand up and we see this and other portions of the Bible where Paul is not ashamed to stand up for the truth, but he stands up for truth in love as well.

If you see here the the softer side of all the loving side of Paul because he's a new creation in Christ Jesus.

It says I long to see you in person 11 so that I may impart to use some spiritual gift to make you strong.