300 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 4 - Book 25 - Romans 13-16

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 25 ROMANS 13-16 Now in Chapter 14 of Romans, Paul has been dealing with believers who have been having trouble with other believers concerning doubtful practices. If I see nothing wrong in eating a good juicy T-Bone steak, but yet there's a weaker believer who says, "Les, how in the world can you eat meat like that?" Sunday is just another day of the week so far as God is concerned. Romans 15:1-3 "We then that are strong (mature believers) ought to bear the infirmities of the weak (or the hang ups of the younger believers. Now when I say younger believers they may be 70 years old but have only been a believer for a few years. And so the mature believer has to take into consideration the idea of that younger believer, and not cause him to stumble), and not to please ourselves." Romans 15:4 "For whatsoever things were written aforetime (even as Paul wrote his epistles I'm sure the Four Gospels hadn't been written, and certainly had not come together as Scripture, so when Paul speaks of Scripture or things written aforetime, what's he referring to? The Old Testament. I have never told anybody not to look at the Old Testament or not to look at the Gospels, but here it is. Matthew 5:14 Israel, the Jew. But Israel rejected that opportunity of becoming the light of the world, so now by application, who today is the light of the world? Matthew 5:13 Christ was talking to the Twelve indicative to the Nation of Israel, but we know Israel rejected that role, so today who is the salt of the earth? Again, you and I as believers. You won't find Grace Salvation back in the Old Testament. Now reading on in verse 4: Romans 15:4b Right back to when David lost that child from Bathsheba. Was it in God's presence? Old Testament. Romans 15:8 "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision (Jews) for the truth of God (for what purposes?) to confirm the promises made unto the fathers." Abrahamic Covenant. John 1:11 Matthew 15:24 Romans 15:8b-9a "...to confirm the promises (the Covenants) made unto the fathers (now verse 9); And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy:" Romans 15:10 "And again he saith, (speaking from the Old Testament) `Rejoice, ye Gentiles,...'" Even though God was dealing with primarily with the Nation of Israel all the way from Abraham till we get into the Book of Acts, God didn't forget about the Gentiles. Romans 15:11,12 "And again, Praise The Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. When Christ sets up His millennium reign, He's still going to be King of Kings and Lord of Lords not just over Israel, but over the whole Gentile world. Romans 15:13 "Now the God of hope (hope in Scripture is not like we hope it rains. Romans 15:14-18 (Now remember who Paul is writing to. He's writing to believers in the city of Rome who are primarily Gentiles.) Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God (Grace is the primary word in Paul's vocabulary, the Grace of God). 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 by the Holy Ghost. I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. Romans 15:24-26 "For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem." The Apostle Paul has been laboring there in western Turkey, and then a little later on, in Macedonia and Achaia in Greece. There is very little opportunity for creating any wealth to speak of so those new believers that Paul had brought about in Achaia and Macedonia, in the more rural parts of Greece, were intensely poor. When people become true children of God, they have a whole different outlook on everything. Romans 15:27 For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things." I realize I've taught it, and I hope I've made it plain that on the spiritual level the Jew is absolutely no different than a Gentile tonight. Because God has Sovereignly watched over them. The Nation of Israel has to be there in unbelief. Jeremiah 31 says that the sun would fall out of it's place in the heavens if Israel would stop being a nation. Well in the couple of minutes that we have left, Paul now comes into Chapter 16, and there's not a lot of doctrine in this chapter unless you want to call women's role in Christian service as doctrine, and I guess it is. You know I've heard Paul castigated over the years. There is not a man in Scripture that gives more commendation to the female of the species than the Apostle Paul. Romans 16:1,2 Don't ever say there's not a place for the women in the Church. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible