that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
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… 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, that I've planned many times to come to you but have been prevented from doing so until now in order that I might have a harvest among you just as I've had among the other Gentiles. For I'm obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I'm so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome. I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes, first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel, a righteousness from God has been revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last. Just as it is written, the righteous will live by faith. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth of God by their wickedness. …
… Affirm what you're doing for God's sake in the world today. Romans chapter 1 verse 12 says this. Let's read this together. I want us to help each other with the faith that we have. Your faith will help me, and my faith will help you. As an example of that, I want you to listen to a story today. I want you to listen to the story of Bob and Carrie. Would you give them a warm welcome? Good morning, everybody. My name is Bob, and this is my wife, Carrie, and we'd like to share with you how serving Jesus Christ in ministry together has made our marriage stronger and healthier. In 1994, my life was completely changed by Jesus Christ when I started attending Saddleback Church and Celebrate Recovery. It was the first time in my life I had been attending church on a regular basis, and I had a lot of questions about who God was and why he would want to know me, a man who had hurt so many people with my selfishness and self-centeredness. …
… that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you. That is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you. but thus far I've been prevented. The Lord may reap some harvest among you, just as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. I've been working. I've been wanting to get there, but I've been doing all this work over here. Then he says, verse 14, follow this. I am under obligation, both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish. Did you hear that? Paul says, I owe the gospel to people. I'm obligated to preach it to people. Greeks, barbarians, wise, I owe him all the gospel. So I'm eager to preach the gospel to you in Rome because I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. …
… Amen. Our text this morning is Romans chapter 1, verses 8 through 15. For better or worse, I don't know if this is good news or bad news. Don't tell me if it's bad news. But after two weeks of sermon prep in Romans, and since one week was iced away anyways, I have determined that the rest of the sermon calendar printed in the bookmark is going to be a general guide rather than a fixed schedule. I have found in these first two weeks of sermon prep wishing that I had another week to dive in a little deeper on that verse or that phrase. Now, I do not think we are going anywhere close to Piper's 229 sermons or Boyce's 239 sermons or Lloyd-Jones' 366 sermons, but maybe slowing down just a tad from what is printed in the schedule. I want to make sure that we get out of this text what is here. All that to say, I will do my best to study as hard and pray as hard as I can each week, and you'll do your best to listen each week. And the one that it's going to be hardest on is Nathan, because I'm just going to have to tell him from week to week how many verses or lines I think I'm going to make through. We will do all verses 8 through 15 this morning, but moving ahead, we may find ourselves off the schedule just a bit. Follow along now as I read. First, I thank my God through …