Sunday Morning October 16, 2011
scriptures: Romans 1, Titus 2, 1 Corinthians 6
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Romans 1:1-18
Make sure you are mentioning people in prayer.
People are in your life for a reason. God uses people to work in our lives.
Our interaction and efforts need to be mutual.
Sincere efforts to work with you. He wanted to see them but wasn’t missing due to being lazy.
Paul was working with all kinds of people, not a respecter of persons.
Faith to faith – we strengthen each other by having faith in God and sharing that faith with others.
Christians live and make decisions based on their trust and obedience in God.
Trusting that God is with you and will take care of you as a believer.
Do you speak faith or just fate? Do you believe that things working out is because of God taking care of people who love Him?
Ungodliness means to do nothing with God. Not just a violent response against God, but it also includes just having no response to God.
Sound doctrine. Basic instructions about how to handle things in God.
Titus 2:1-15
The word says that men should be sober and caring.
The women should be controlled. Not spreading gossip, but teaching and sharing the truth.
If you can’t be the husband or wife God says, then you can’t be a Christian.
Your life should be doing something. Pattern of good works means that they are continuing.
You have to live pure. When you are doing what is not right, that shows evil to the world and to those who are seeking Christ.
If you are nasty, you have to change today. Being nasty is not a part of a Christian. That is obvious and not excusable.
Control as a servant, being a good worker.
Grace teaches us to deny the things of the world that take us from God. It teaches us how to live in this world right now.
A person living for Christ is seeking for things they can do for God. Zealous – deliberate, with effort.
It is peculiar. That’s different from the world.
You have heard that there is not big sin and no little sin. There are somethings that have grave consequences on your character, soul and spirit.
We have seen the consequences of taking communion in an dishonorable manner.
There is a lot of effect on souls for sexual sins.
1 Corinthians 6:13 – 20
The body is not created just for sex. It’s just natural is not an excuse for sex outside of marriage.
If you are a Christian, God is with you. It is sick to think that you take Him to perversion of sleeping with someone you are not married to. Fornication is a deep sin. The word says to FLEE!
Those that are involved suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Knowing it is wrong, participating anyway.
This sin in unique. You sin against and with your whole body.
Spiritually it will divorce you from the presence of God.
Romans 1:19 -32
There are a lot of things about God that are know. The creation shows Him. You are guilty by not seeking Him.
Refusing God lead people to create all kinds of things to worship. Animals, mythologies, statues, Jesus toast.
Natural and obvious that physically men and women are meant for each other.
It is a perversion of the natural to do anything different.
God lets people go when the people worship creature more than Him as their Creator.
A lot of people are confused after having been abused themselves. The world is confused.
A lot of people are hurting.
It manifests in many ways. There is something different about the spirit of people.
Abomination is rampant. Acceptance of abomination is growing in the world.
The word is not going to change. Regardless of temptation or what the world says, sin is sin.
God has given some people over to a reprobate mind. They may seem to be comfortable in it.
Wrong is wrong. Regardless of the struggle, people need to be saved.
All kinds of evil describe the reprobate.
Watch the society you live in. Do you find sin entertaining?