Authentic Relationships”
Sunday September 25, 2011
scriptures: Romans 1
keywords: thank, faith, fate, testimony, witness, relationship, love
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NOTES

Romans 1:1-18
You do have a testimony. Your faith is spoken of. A lot of people’s fate is spoken of and not there faith. You know how bad they are doing, how sad they are, how depressed they are. A lot of people speak of negativity instead of the positive things in God. An unhappy witness is not a good witness, a witness that has no passion is not a good witness.

v. 9- there is a lot of “my” in this. My witness, my spirit, my prayers- you got to have a passion for what you do for Christ. A lot people bring up others as an excuse for their lack of failings. If you fail in God in doing things it is a gross failure. Have you been praying for other people in your prayers?

Authentic relationships is what this is about. Your love has to be real and without love there is no Holy Spirit there. We help each other in this relationship with Christ. It is always about somebody else in the bible and not self. Others are not irrelevant. God puts people in our life but we sometimes take people out our lives. When there is no mutual faith, the light goes out. Don’t let texting be a substitute for real time and relationships.

v.18- Got to realize that God saved you from something and you can’t expect anything less than the truth and what is right. If sin is present then that needs to be cleaned out. If something is wrong and we made it right what good is the gospel and the bible. For example, if homosexuality is now acceptable why do we even believe the bible because the word has not changed?