For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem.
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I'm grateful to be with all of you today and for the love of God the Scripture is teaching us in Romans chapter 15 verses 22 to 29. And if you would, I'll read the first verse if you'll pick it up and read it on verse 23rd. You guys will be reading the odd numbered verses. And are you guys ready? I know it's first service. I always like bragging about you guys to second and third, especially third service. third service is a hard they're a hard Ken Ham asked me the other week do you know you have like three different churches that attend here in one day that's true every church has its personality it's remarkable it's really remarkable but you guys are nice and loud third service I like to be able to say can third service read it louder than first service and they go I don't know we don't know if we but it's beautiful the Lord hears it nonetheless amen for this reason I also have been much hindered says the Apostle Paul from coming to you But now I'm no longer having a place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come to you. …
… I trust that that's true. Today we're going to be looking at a message out of Romans chapter 15, verses 22 to 29, and that titled message is for the love of God. For the love of God and the apostle Paul now in his closing arguments and his closing comments to the church that is in Rome, he's writing from Corinth, Greece. I will read the first verse if you'll pick it up in the odd numbered verse. We'll read down to the end of verse 29. Paul says, for this reason I also have been much hindered from coming to you. But now no longer having a place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come to you. Whenever I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey and to be helped on my way there by you. If first I may enjoy your company for a while. But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. …
… to see them in the near future. But first he said, I'm going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints, for it pleased those from Macedonia and Acacia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem. Wow! Paul has collected this offering from Gentile converts and has now been sent back to Jerusalem to give and distribute this offering to the Jewish believers who are living in the midst of hostility and in the midst of poverty back in Jerusalem. Isn't that something? That the believers among the Gentiles from Macedonia, from Greece, from up there in Asia Minor, made their contributions, gave their contributions to the apostle Paul and said, here, take this back to Jerusalem and give it to the saints there. it pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things. Paul is saying here of the Gentile converts, we know who we are. …