First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
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… and from the Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because your faith is being reported all over the world. God whom I serve with my whole heart and preach in the gospel of his Son is my witness. How constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times. And I pray that now at last by God's will that 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, 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. …
… Thank God for them as he does in many of his letters. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you, always in my prayers, asking that somehow, by God's will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you, 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. …
… And in fact, he's writing to Christians that he thinks, at least in general, are pretty exemplary Christians. Verse 8, first, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. world. He's writing all of these hard things about the wrath of God poured out and the futility of the Gentile way of life and the futility of depending upon their Jewishness. Remember, he's writing to Christians. So, you say, well, then how were they supposed to listen to this long discourse on sin and wrath? Well, part of it is he's teaching them who God is and what the world is like and the way the world is the way that it is, and He's helping to understand their own salvation. But more than that, I think we would do well to have a few questions in mind. That's probably what Paul wanted his listeners to have in mind. So, here's one question as you listen to these sermons, you're Christians, most of you. …
… 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 …