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Paul knew his calling.
Do we know ours?
Timothy Stackpole was a New York Firefighter, who was severely burned in a 1998 fire.
After he recovered, he returned to the force despite the advice of some friends and family and the fact that he could retire comfortably.
He was a great fire fighter and passionate about his work and was soon promoted to captain.
Timothy was one of the fire fighters that ran into the second tower to try to save some people.
When he did, it collapsed and took his life.
He knew his calling—to save people.
The Holy Spirit has called us to a life of service.
We should live for Him.
Paul Identification
Paul identifies himself as a servant.
The primary identification of any believer is Servant.
Every calling is lateral to this first and most primary identification.
Rabbi is not higher… nor is Pastor.
Paul was sought out of God for the calling of apostle.
Called to be an apostle
Paul states that his authority is based upon his call and not his call based upon his authority.
In fact, as far as Paul was concerned he was the least of those who were called to this purpose of “Apostle”.
Separated to the Gospel
Unlike the Pharisees who made their name because they separated themselves to study the law.
Of course Paul was formerly a part of their group.
Now God has separated Paul for a Gospel purpose.
Paul was now entirely committed to the Gospel of God and more specifically to the Gospel of grace.
Paul’s Message Described
It is a part of an ancient Gospel
This was a gospel that was promised by the prophets.
This was not a new gospel.. it was just a new revelation of the gospel.
By the prophets Paul obviously meant via the Scripture.
It is a Christ Centric Gospel
The prophets and the apostles all bear witness to Christ the cause and only reason there is a gospel, at all.
Christ is then real treasure his in the field.
Paul calls Him His Son, Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
He goes on to express his love for Christ by describing His nature.
As far as His human nature is concerned, He is of the seed of David by way of Mary
And born to Joseph who is, also, from David’s lineage.
Why David?
Because God always keeps His promises.
Everytime.
When G. Campbell Morgan was a young man he visited two elderly ladies each week to read the Bible to them.
When he read Matthew 28:20, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
He said, “Isn’t that a wonderful promise?”
One of the ladies quickly replied, “Young man, that is not a promise.
It is a fact!”
All of God’s promises are fact.
Then we come to His divine nature, He is Declared to be the Son of God… How or according to what?
The spirit of holiness declares His divine nature.
The Spirit is the power that quickens or makes alive.
This is the proof according to Paul that Jesus is the Son of God.
The greatest and most undeniable proof of such power is that the resurrection of Christ from the dead.
By Paul’s account if that doesn’t convince you… nothing will.
The same is true today.
If the proof/proofs of Christ’s resurrection are not enough nothing is.
It is a productive Gospel
When Adoniram Judson was lying in a jail in Burma with thirty-two pounds of chains on his ankles which were tied to a bamboo pole, another prisoner asked, “Dr.
Judson, what about the prospect of the conversion of the heathen?”
Judson replied, “The prospects are just as bright as the promises of God.”
What does this gospel produce?
It produces grace and apostleship or in other words the privilege to become a servant of God.
The life of an apostle was a life of trouble, tribulation, and peril, they were “killed all the day long” but Paul’s says it is a privilege.
What ever place or your position within the work of God… whatever difficulty or danger you must face… it is a privilege.
What purpose does this apostleship serve?
Obedience to the faith among all nations… literally means that the apostles recieved grace so tat they could bring others to obedience to the faith.
For Paul specifically it extends to every nation.
Obedience to the faith is not simply conscious knowledge or basic acknowledgment, much less the ability to convincingly argue your opinion, but actualobedience.
Obedience to the faith finds it subject in the law of faith.
This means first the obedience of our understanding to what God has revealed, but, also, the obedience of our will to God’s command.
Many attempt to somehow apply this to the Old Testamant obedience to the Levitical law, but it literally tells you the only act of obedience necessary is to faith.
End of story.
Paul’s Audience
This is written to all who be in Rome first, then to the beloved of God, and more specifically those who are called to be saints.
He counts them here as privileged obviously.
They are beloved of God does it get any better… They are a part of a body in which God delights and loves.
God’s love is abundant and He expresses it toward all mankind in Christ Jesus, but He has a particular love for the saints.
He goes on to instruct them as to their duty in light of that love.
They are called to live up to their calling as saints.
Quit living down to this world’s definition of a saint and start living up to God’s biblical definition of a saint.
Paul’s Blessing
Grace and Peace are Paul’s blessings here and in most Epistles.
This is not a simple “good luck”… this is a blessing bestowed by a minister of the Gospel of Grace and should be take, as such.
There is only one way to have agreement between these two passages and that is to accept a change of dispensation.
Without it … Where does Paul get off calling for Grace and Peace?
Grace and peace in the Old Testament it was always only peace…but her Paul precedes it with Grace.
As it should be how else could we ever have peace with God other than by the grade of Jesus Christ.
Peace implies all peace, Peace with God, peace with others, and peace with self are all based on grace.
From whence come this grace and peace?
From God our Father.
Paul makes it clear that unless God is your father you will have no peace.
From our Lord Jesus Christ He further clarifies that with our Christ as your mediator simply having God as your father would not be enough for peace.
A young girl, unaccustomed to traveling, was taking a train ride through the country, and it happened that in the course of the day her train was obliged to cross two branches of a river and several wide streams.
The water seen in advance always awakened doubts and fears in the child.
She did not understand how it could safely be crossed.
As they drew near the river, however, a bridge appeared, and furnished a way over.
Two or three times the experience was repeated, and finally the child leaned back with a long breath of relief and confidence.
“Somebody has put bridges for us all the way!” she said in trusting content.
That is life.
We fear so many evils, so many troubles look dark ahead, so many difficulties seen insurmountable as they loom before us; but as we advance we find that there is a way through them.
God has built bridges for us all the way.
I cannot tell you whether you have placed your faith in Christ, but I can tell that if you have then you have complete and total peace… nothing to fear… if you are in Christ Jesus.
Paul’s Gratitude For Them
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