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So the reason you study and learn all of these things is because you have a chance to see how God has dealt with His people over all those years and you’ll learn a little bit about the character of God. What God does, what God promises, how He can chase and He can discipline, He can bring all these things and God can work and people who listen. The testimonies of Lord are sure making wise the simple, believing what God says.

And as you read those testimonies in the Old Testament where different saints have said different things and what God said and those who obeyed and those who disobeyed, you can learn a lot of wisdom from them. If you don’t, you’re gonna have to learn those lessons on your own. But if you’ll learn from them, and then you can apply it to your life, and you’ll save a lot of time, you’ll grow faster and accomplish more, and you won’t make as many mistakes as what they’ve made.

Because you know that it’s not very wise to go against God. God resists at the plowsals, you to the Lord and do what God wants you to do. And that you may bound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Now in chapter seven of the book of Romans, you don’t have all of this. Chapter seven is just conflict, conflict between the old nature and the new nature. You just got a lot of conflict. So how do you solve this problem?

Well, this is what he’s telling you. You see, when you study the scriptures and you get this confidence of what God’s going to do, did you know there’s power and confidence? There’s power and love. There’s power and truth. And the Holy Spirit teaches you the truth of the Word of God. And because you learn truth, you have power to do what you’re supposed to do. That’s what gives you the hope for down the road. You’re going to serve the Lord and I’ll be leaving this going to work out the way God says to.

And you can trust Him. You can wait. You can be patient. The God of patience. And that’s why you studied the God of patience. You studied the God of hope. And you studied the God of peace because you want the peace of God in your heart. Nobody can give that to you. That comes from the Lord. Now look up here in verse 14. and I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.”

Now here’s Paul, see he’s writing to these believers there at Rome. He says, I believe that you’re competent to counsel. You’re able to admonish one another, to challenge one another, to correct one another, to keep an eye on each other, to help help each other to pray for one another. All those things are good. And I don’t know if there’s a verse here that kind of seems like, you know, things that are acceptable to God and getting the Gentiles acceptable.

Just jump down here just quickly looking verse 16, that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles ministering the gospel of God that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified the Holy Spirit. Now we know in the book of Ephesians in chapter 1 and in verse 6 it makes the statement that you are accepted in the beloved. Now we know that whenever we trust Christ the Savior we are accepted in the beloved.

It also makes the statement in 2nd Corinthians in chapter 5 when he’s talking about that we are accepted in Him. Now that is true because of what Christ has done for us but whether or not there’s a little bit more here I’m not sure. Take your Bible and just look very quickly here. See, there’s a verse here that makes this statement. And in Numbers 8, look at this. Numbers, chapter 8. Could read from verse one, but it’s a little bit too much.

So we’ll kind of cut it down. Numbers, chapter 8. But in verse 5 down to verse 11, he’s talking about how that the high priest and these that were going to do the office of the tabernacle, how they were supposed to be. They had to really get clean. So he says in the verse five, and the Lord spake in the Moses and take the Levites from among the children of Israel and claims them and He goes through about all the the water and the purifying and getting them they had to get cleaned they had to shave themselves I don’t want to get into much detail But they had to do all of these things and down in verse 11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord for an offering of the children of Israel that they may execute the service of the Lord.

Now this was acceptable by God. This is what God says. This is what I want them to do. Now when we get to the place in the New Testament where the Bible says we’re like priests of God and so God wants us as vessels to be clean so that we can be instruments that God can use to bring up and offer to the Lord the sacrifice of praise. The sacrifice that belongs to the Lord and bringing Him honor and glory and so forth.

And He says to bring glory to the Lord is loving one another. You might not think that’s a big deal. Well, Adam and Eve didn’t think taking that fruit was a big deal either. But honoring the Lord is a big deal. And so you obey what the Lord says. And so Paul talks about, you know, whether or not with the Gentiles and their obedience. You see they’re in verse 18. for I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ have not wrought by me and get this statement, to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed.

He didn’t want to step outside the boundaries of that which was scriptural in order to challenge and to motivate people to do what they should. This is why he also states in the book of 1 Corinthians in chapter two that the words that I speak, even though I was among you in fear and trembling, my words were not enticing and so on, that the power of God may be of God and not of me, because he wanted God to get the credit and God to get the glory.

So it wasn’t in his great speaking ability, but it was because of what God did. And when we want people to serve the Lord, it should not be given them false reasons, make up things, but telling them truth. If you can’t get a person to serve the Lord by truth, you’re not gonna get a person to serve the Lord. You’re gonna serve the Lord because you know the truth and you believe it. But trying to manipulate people and some preacher scare people to death by, well, if you’re really saved, you’re gonna wanna volunteer for this dirty job.

And if you don’t volunteer, that’s probably a sign you’re not saved. So they can scare people. And the Bible talks about it in Corinthians in chapter four. It says we do not miss handle the word of God, but to me to use it, to misapply it. Now you can apply a lot of scripture, But not to misapply it is not a very wise thing to do. Look in verse 19, even though Paul was able to be used greatly of the Lord, and yes, he had the power to do a lot of miracles and so forth, but he wanted their faith to stand in what God said, not in Paul.

Not what he said and did, but what the Lord says. Through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and roundabout, I lyric them, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. Now there’s a few statements that are made down through here, and I want you to look at this because it is so important. The Apostle Paul isn’t like us today. He wanted to go somewhere where the gospel hasn’t gone. He wanted to preach to people that have never heard the gospel.

He said, I don’t wanna build on another man’s foundation. In other words, there’s some churches, all they do is just rob each other’s fish from their go fish bowl. And if a big mega church, it’s not because they reached a whole lot of lost people. They just sucked out some of those people that go to other churches and closed their doors. And now they’re a big mega church, but they didn’t reach them. They were already being reached by the other.

They just got more bigger entertainment and things like that. And so if you go, you can get lost in it. And if you don’t show up, that’s okay. You don’t give, that’s okay. But it destroys. It doesn’t mean it’s a God, it’s just that’s what happens. And some people, you take most Calvinists. Most Calvinists cannot build a church on the people they win. In the reason because, you may got a clue. They don’t win them. They got to steal them.

They got to bring upon them, let me teach you the deeper things of God. Oh yes. I mean, Yankee, he’s clear on the gospel. But. You don’t know anything else. So they’re going to finish raising all these kids that these evangelists have. And if it wasn’t for somebody winning people to Christ, they wouldn’t have anybody to talk to at all. But anyway, I’m not getting sidetracked tonight. Okay, right here. But look what he says here. I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

In verse 20, ye, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named. Thus I should build upon another man’s foundation. These apostles, they went out. They go to different places. You know, whenever we left Florida Bible college years ago, of course, we used to sit there in class and we couldn’t wait. Like a final bell and like the races on. Whoa, we scattered. And the alumni, well, we went everywhere. And here’s Lee, he goes to San Antonio.

Wally, he goes down there to far Texas and Yankee goes up there to Colorado You know, you got males that came over here, Hank came here, and different ones went to Atlanta, and they went to Pennsylvania, and different ones scattered, because we wanted to build a work. Not on somebody else’s, we wanna do our own thing. So we hit mainly big town, big cities. Why? Because in the big old fishing hole, there’s more fish. So we wanted to catch as many fish as you want more people.

And so that’s what we did. But we didn’t know we were following anything. We just did it. And I think the Lord had something to do with all of that. I’m really doomed. But not to go and build upon another man’s foundation, but to be able to say, I now get some people and lead them to the Lord and then watch them grow. And today it’s a month full. If you have some people who can work with you and help you and to get things started, there’s nothing wrong with that.

We’re not the apostle Paul. The apostle Paul also had the ability to perform miracles. Now if I had that, that might be an extra incentive. You know, I could maybe do a little bit more. But when you have the gospel in a Northern vessel that the power may be of God and not of us. That’s what pleases the Lord. Now look at verse 21. But as it is written, so you can’t say the apostle Paul taught the church, but he only taught him new things that dealt with the dispensation of grace.

No, he was teaching them things out of the Old Testament. You read how many times Paul refers to Old Testament scripture. And so he says here in verse 21, to whom he was not spoken of, they shall see and they that have not heard shall understand. Paul said, I want to see people that have never heard before. I want to talk to lost people. Don’t you just get a kick out of talking to people that’s never heard before? And I said to one person, I said, isn’t it true you’ve heard all your life Jesus tries down the cross of the page of all the center of the world.

He says, what? No. Everybody hasn’t heard. A lot of people have. But a lot of people have. If somebody had asked me that question when I was 18 years old, I couldn’t have said that. I didn’t know that. I didn’t understand. Living right here in good old Christian America. Well, you know everybody in America is a Christian. I mean, we’re not Chinese, are we? We must be Christian. Well, he makes a statement here in verse 22, for which cause also I have been, and you ought to underline these two words, much hindered.

Now you and I think, well, if we are who we’re supposed to be and we want to serve the Lord, we shouldn’t be hindered. Like nothing should stand in our way. God’s going to open up the door’s wide and he opens up the door wide near stands a gorilla and you’re going to have had the series. You see, there’s people in this world that are not going to let you alone. Satan has his little demons and they’re working. You’re going to have problems and you’re going to be hindered at times.

So he says, for which cause also I have much been much hindered from coming to you. Now he wants to go to Rome. Does he ever get to Rome? Oh, he gets to Rome. But I’m not sure he ever got to Spain. Now he may have but I’m not sure unless he came back to Rome and got his head cut off then. But he says here in verse 24, well in verse 23, but now having no more place in these parts.

In other words, he didn’t cover it. He didn’t cover it everywhere he was. He didn’t cover it. You read the 20th chapter of Acts and he went everywhere and he preached the gospel and even the book of Colossians, the very first chapter, you know, the no world wherever he was, they heard. They saturated the place. You also started the Bible college and had about three years of it. But anyway, look at this. In verse 24, he says, Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you, for I trust to see you in my journey and to be brought on our way, or my way, did the word by you, if first I’d be somewhat filled with your company.

Now when he comes to Rome, what was he saying in this verse? What was he actually saying? When I come to you in Rome, I’m expecting you to send me there. What do you think he means? All right, we’ll go a little bit further. Maybe you’ll get it. In verse 25, but now I go unto Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints, for he had pleased them. It has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaeiah to make a certain contribution for the““ Saints which are at Jerusalem.

It has pleased them, verily, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things, means things for the body, needs for the body. When therefore I have performed this and have sealed to them this fruit I will come by you in disbain. Do you have any idea what he might be talking about yet? Supporting who said that? It would be Al. He got it.

I would get this. All of you probably got it but didn’t want to say something because you’re afraid you might be wrong and you didn’t want to be considered wrong on internet. But now notice what he says. Back there in verse 24 when he says, I trust to see you in my journey and be brought on my way, did the word by you. He’s expecting those that are there to help send him on his way. He expects them to do that.

You see, giving permissions work is a wonderful thing. It’s a great thing. It’s what God wants us to do. And then when he makes a statement there in verse 27, it has pleased them, barely, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made part, take of their spiritual things, you came to know the Lord because of these spiritual truths. Somebody cameDragonMagazine to you, preach the gospel to you. Their duty also to minister unto them in carnal thing, other words, to meet their financial obligations, to help them meet their needs and so on.

And that’s why in verse 28, get it? When therefore I have performed this and have sealed to them this fruit, this fruit refers to this offering, this gift, these donations, this money. He said, I will come by you in disbain. And then he says in verse 29, for I am sure that when I come unto you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake and for the love of the spirit that, and you ought to underline this, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.

Did Paul want people to pray for him? You see, his whole life was a dangerous life. I mean, it was filled with adventure, no doubt. More exciting than Indiana Jones. I mean, this was for real. He says, pray for me that I’ll open my mouth boldly as I ought to, and he was willing to go here, willing to go there. He said, I didn’t cover this place. I wanna go someplace else. I wanna go and, you know, reach people that have never heard before.

That’s a drive of motivation. Now see, not everybody has within them that drive that motivation. But if it wasn’t for those churches like in Macedonia and a K.I. and the church there at Rome, then there’s a lot of things that would have never got done because they’re the one who helped support Paul and helped get this done. Take your Bible and look into 13 chapter of the book of Acts. Acts chapter 13 real quick. Notice they’re in book of Acts in chapter 13.

This is the Paul and Barnabas getting ready to go out into the missionary work, but notice it wasn’t Paul that established the church, it was the church that established Paul and sent him. In verse 1, now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers and Barnabas and Samian, or Simeon, that was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manam, and which had been brought up with Herod the Tetrarchard and Saul, and they ministered to the Lord.

And fasted, the Holy Ghost said, the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul, Full of work where until I have called them. And verse 3, and when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. So they been sent forth by the Holy Spirit. Now, this is because the church there called them, sent them, called them, sent them, and obedience to the Holy Spirit. So that’s just what God wanted to have done.

And God had already told Paul in the book of Acts in chapter 9, for I must show him how and what great things he’s going to suffer for my name’s sake. And he’s going to bear a testimony to the kings and so forth, and that he did, but he suffered and suffered greatly. Now, in spite of everything that Paul had gone through, the prisons, look what he says here in chapter 15, He says in verse 31, that I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints.

See you never know how things are going to turn out. Paul didn’t always know. Now God had already promised him he was going to Rome. He could have maybe gone a different way. I don’t know. And they told them, look, you go to Jerusalem, you’re going to have troubles. And but he did. And there were some people that took vows, about 40 of them says that they will, they’re going to kill them. I wonder if they’re still looking for them.

But notice what he says in verse 32, that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and may with you be refreshed. See everybody needs to be refreshed. There’s a sermon that I preached years and years ago in the book of Psalm where he talks about Aaron’s beard and the oil that run out of fresh oil. Fresh oil. It’s like every once in a while, you’re going down the road, but it’s like you kind of run out of energy.

Even sometimes you run out of a vision. And it seems like you’re just at a dead end, and nothing’s exciting, nothing’s going on. And it’s like a downtime, and it’s dull, and boring, nothing’s happening. And sometimes you just can’t make some things happen. And you think, man, I need some fresh oil. I need a, you know, either a kick in a pants or something to be recharged, and then sometimes God will let you hear something on the radio song.

I was listening to the other day, and I hardly ever listened to music. I don’t even listen to the radio. But Betty likes this one station, so I turned it on her, and this guy was singing this song. I don’t even remember what song it was. But it got to where I couldn’t even hardly see the red lights. You know, you get tears in the eye, and you can’t even see it. You’re talking about the effect or vision, the way it affected my vision, all right.

But sometimes it’s just wonderful. The other day, I was doing something, I get out here and I walk around sometime. And I walked around that building, I got over there and I got to the backside of our building. And I got to thinking about how this used to look. And I go down the hallway and I look at the old drawings and so forth. And I look there and I see the gymnasium over the fence. And I get to thinking, look what God has given to us.

Look what God has given to us. Man, we got to use this place. There’s so much that needs to be done. We got to pack this place. We’ve got to do more and more and more. Now, should I think like that or think, you know, well, I’m ready to retire now and I guess all the hang it up. And everyone’s, if I get the thing, and you ain’t anybody say, you’re not old. You’re not old. I have to look in the mirror.

You’re not old. You’re not old. You are not old. Ha. Sometimes I feel like I’m 95. And then sometimes I feel like a teenager again. But many of you, and it’s amazing how you can fluctuate so much. But you know the last thing in this whole thing, it talks about in verse 33, and the God of peace, like God of peace, be with you all, the God of peace. See, whatever God is, that’s where you can get what you’re looking for.

You need a little hope, a little vision, a little dream, God, the God of that too. You need some comfort, he’s the God of comfort. He got everything that you need. The God of peace, he got all of that. You see, when you trust the Christ as your Savior, there was peace made between you and God. And see, that’s the peace that gets you into heaven because there’s no empathy between you and him. There’s no sin that separates you from the peace of God.

But you see, whenever you have that trust in the Lord for your salvation, that’s what brings peace between you and him. And that gets the soul to heaven. But learning how to walk with the Lord and trust the Lord, that brings peace to the soul. So a lot of people are going to heaven, but they don’t have peace in their soul. So learn to walk with the Lord, trust the Lord, and just keep getting up. And even though you may have a lot of down times, realize we serve a living God.

He knows everything and felt like you got a few problems, a few little hindrances, Paul says, I desire to come to you, but I’ve been hindered. He mentions that also again in another scripture, but I’m going to turn there right now. But you can be hindered, hindered. So there’s things in life that you want to do and that you’ll be hindered. You can’t always get what you want when you want. But that’s what teaches you the patience. Wait upon the Lord.

It’ll come. Look up here. This hand represents you and me and Walla represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us. Wouldn’t it wonderful this morning? As soon as I gave the invitation, three hands went up. I mean, there was no weight and no hesitation. There was a couple over here and somebody somewhere else. But I think it’s just so neat. And it could be in somebody trusted Lord on the internet, but I’m not sure. But God loves us.

But He hates what we do wrong. And for us to pay for the sin is eternal separation from God in a literal fire burning hell. But God loves us and wants us to go to heaven. To go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God and none of us are perfect. You see we have this problem, it’s called sin. And we don’t have peace between us and God. So what Christ did is He had no sin.

So He came into the world because He loves us. He took this upon Himself, all of our sins, and now there was this between Him and the Father. And the Father turned His back. Why hast the offer forsaken me? And all of His wrath came upon His Son. And therefore He came back again from the dead and said, If you and I, if we would believe He did it for us, He would put the payment on our account and we go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us.

That’s the best news in all the world. That is the Gospel. This is what Paul is talking about. You know if you studied the book of Acts, you studied the book of Romans, you don’t seem like it’s always about the Gospel. I didn’t interject the word Gospel in all these things. He did. It’s already there. But when you teach it, you can’t get away from it. Now, you’d have to do an awful lot if you went through the Bible and everywhere you saw the word Gospel, just cut it out of the Bible.

Or every story it’s about evangelism and reason. Somebody was like, cut them all out of the Bible. You may have a couple of pages left. But this is what it’s all about. Let’s pray, shall we? But his bow nice clothes and no one looking around. I know that most of you here have already trusted Christ as Savior, but I never know when someone may come and have never understood. Or if you’re watching by internet, I want you to know that the Lord loves you.

That he sent his son to die for you, to pay for your sins. The only thing he wanted you to do is believe that he did it for you and for you to trust him as your savior. If you trust him, he gives you eternal life and you get to go to heaven on what Christ did for you. You cannot earn it, you can’t work for it. You don’t go to heaven because you promise God. You’re going to stop something or start doing something.

Just be honest, Lord, I’m a sinner. And the Lord loves you, friend. Would you trust him? With his bonized clothes, no one looking around. look around is there anyone at all say yes I will trust Christ as my Savior and preach I like you to pray for me would you just slip your hand very quickly and be rapid down I’m not gonna embarrass you not gonna have you forward but right where you’re sitting anyone at all our Father we do thank you so much for all you’ve done for us for giving us a free gift of everlasting life then challenging us to love each other as we should to serve you to realize all scriptures for us To read it, they can bring such great comfort and peace and hope, all that we need for this It’s time to be a part of this life in

Christ and we pray. And then… It’s time to make plans for the summer. Join us for summer camp July 9 through the 13th and fits Gerald, Georgia. At summer camp, teens ages 13 to 18 will enjoy fun competitions while learning about the word of God. Over the years, hundreds of kids have been reached with the gospel at Summer Camp. This is your opportunity to make Summer meaningful and memorable for a teen in your life. The cost of Summer Camp is $150.

If you’d like to donate a Summer Camp scholarship, you can do so by calling 813-884-4328 for more information. Thanks for joining us on Bible Eye. If you are in the area, we welcome you to visit us. The address for Calvary Community Church is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634. And now, a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound. And we will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

So live today and every day. Believing that the Lord is coming soon, just keep looking up.