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Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Romans 15:22-33.  Let’s go!

Romans 15:22-24 (NIV)
22  This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
23  But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to see you,
24  I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to visit you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.

On verses 22-24:  Paul had spent many years trying to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to places in the Eastern Mediterranean where people had not yet heard.  That was his mission.  Now Paul was finding that “there is no more place for me to work in these regions” (v23), since those regions now had reasonable access to the gospel.  Having accomplished basically all that he wanted to accomplish in those regions, Paul looked forward to finally visiting the church in Rome, something he had longed to do for a while.  He was finally making plans to visit Rome on his way to Spain.

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Romans 15:14-21.  Let’s go!

Romans 15:14-21 (NIV)
14  I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.
15  I have written you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me
16  to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17  Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.
18  I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done–
19  by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
20  It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
21  Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
 
On verses 14-21:  A running theme in the book of Romans is: focus on the grace God has given you.  

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Romans 14:1-12.  Let’s go!
 
Romans 14:1-12 (NIV)
1  Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters.
2  One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.
3  The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him.

On verses 1-12:  In the Christian faith, there are certain core truths that are indisputable – big things such as the truth that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, that He rose from the dead, that He is fully man and fully God, and that our salvation is not something we can earn by our own good works but is 100% a gift we receive from God when we place our faith in His Son Jesus.