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Morning church.

This morning scripture reading will be out of the Book of John, John chapter 15 verses 9 through 17.

John 15:9 through 17.

As the father loved me.

I also have loved you abide in my love.

If you keep my Commandments, you will abide in my love.

Just as I have kept my father's Commandments and abide in his love.

These things I have spoken to you.

That my joy May remain in you and that your joy may be full.

This is my commandment that you love one.

Another as I have loved you greater.

Love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

You are my friends.

If you do whatever I command you.

No longer do I call you servants for a servant?

Does not know what his master is doing.

But I have called you friends for all things.

I have heard from my father.

I have made known to you.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit.

And that your fruit should remain that, whatever you ask, the father in my name.

He may give you these things.

I command you that you love one another, just go to Lord in prayer.

Father.

What a great God.

You are.

Good morning church.

Please turn in your copies of Holy scripture to Romans chapter 14.

We're going to continue our verse by verse exposition of this great epistle and rejoice rejoice.

He isn't coming.

He's already came and he's inside you God, with us Emmanuel.

Praise God.

That he has made us sinners saved by his grace, is Temple.

His Temple.

Unbelievable, what?

God.

Jesus Christ has done for us.

Amen.

As we are studying through this great epistle, Romans chapter 14, recovering verses 14 through 23, but as a way of overview of want to go back in and a review a little bit because it is where we are at is in the middle of an onion.

If you will and middle of the onion, there's lots of layers that we have discovered the way back.

And in Romans 3, we know that the entire Epistle of the Romans is a valid justification by faith alone by his grace, the the indwelling of the Holy Spirit came into US cost us to be rebirth.

Regenerated and in that spiritual union, with Christ.

He placed us in Christ in God, the Father elected us before time.

Began in Christ.

And that became a reality for each of us manage at the point of Salvation.

And then, What is when we had faith in Christ?

When I when that reality came in the Holy Spirit, gave us the confidence in the faith to believe we were absolutely totally justified by faith alone and nothing else faith alone in Christ.

Because of the spiritual union between Christ and us.

As I said in Roman Roman 74, it's like is like a marriage.

Jesus, got everything that we have, and we get everything that he has, because of this spiritual union, because of our faith alone, he paid for all of our sins, but that's not enough to get you into heaven.

He pay for all of your sins.

He gave you his righteousness, and it because of faith, and because of the spiritual union, without the spiritual union with Christ.

There is no salvation.

There is no eternal life.

So the whole book of Romans from chapters 1 through chapter 12 is the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

And then we come to chapter 12 and, and we see that that God says, because of all of this because of his Mercy that he has had upon you because he has came into you and regenerated your spirit and the Holy Spirit has moved in because of that.

Then logical conclusion that God comes to and you and I should come to is that we be a living sacrifice for him.

Salvation is free.

People salvation is free.

Following Jesus will cost you everything.

Do you lay down your life?

Lay down your life, cuz he's worthy.

I don't want my life anymore.

I want what he wants for me.

I want righteousness.

Peace and joy is we're going to talk about today.

I beseech, you Romans 12:1, I beseech, you, therefore, Brethren by the mercies of God, that you present, your bodies, your whole being your soul, mind, your personality, everything to God, as a Living Sacrifice, which is wholly, acceptable, to God, which is your reasonable service.

So, chapters 12 through 16.

God is explaining what a Living Sacrifice, looks like that.

We went through that.

We need to be humble that we need to use our spiritual gifts, on our brothers, and sisters, and edify them.

That we need to help each other.

In Romans 12, have all of the, all of the characters, the virtues of Holiness as we as we went through this list on verses 9 through through, through through 23 in Romans 12 serve the Lord rejoice and hope be patient in Tribulation be constant in prayer contribute to the needs of the sink seek to show how Fatality and I said there's 28 different imperatives in there that that he wants us to help each other become more, like Christ.

And that is a part of the Living Sacrifice.

And we, we, we noticed that he spent bulleted those those points very short fashion, staccato, fashion that we should understand them and go back and study, and meditate up on them later.

Then he sent, he spent seven verses on loving your enemies.

7 vs 11 year annamese because he knew we struggle with that.

And now we're in the middle of, Romans 14 through, Romans, 15 7, 30 versus On how do you receive your brother and sister in Christ, the life within the church?

So that's where we are.

We're in the middle of being a just God describing to us.

What does this Living Sacrifice look like in church life when there's a stronger brother and a weaker brother?

In the face.

That is what we are in the middle of right now.

Let's go to slide, 3.

And let me remind you of last last 2 weeks ago, and thank you brother, Larry for filling in for us last week and his, his sermon on the pattern of church life.

I want you to think about that meditate on it and even think about where we at.

Where are you at in that life of church pattern?

That is a pattern of Church Life.

What we need to do to grow in those things that we need to always examine ourselves against the New Testament and see where we're at.

So this is the last last time that we, that we taught.

Romans first, half of Romans 14, I gave you this definition of Christian Liberty, Believers are free to act according to conscience and areas where scripture is silent.

That's true statement.

But you must consider another's conscience.

And if needed motivated by love, lay down your freedom or your Liberties, not to make your brother stumble.

As I said last time you have no right to judge your brother and sisters in areas of Liberty.

You have no right whatsoever.

Who are you to judge?

I mean, the emphasis was three or four times that the Holy Spirit, put it in the first half of Romans 14 again.

And again, who are you to judge?

You are not your brothers and sisters judge.