BUILDING BLOCKS FOR UNITY
Romans 15.1-6
Romans: The People Grace Creates – Part 10 of 11
Romans 12.9 “Let love be genuine.” (esv)
v. 5 “… give you a spirit of unity among yourselves …” (niv)
v. 6 “… with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
TOOLS FOR BUILDING UNITY:
A PROPER Criterion For Goodness
vv. 1–2 “… not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.” (esv)
v. 1 “We who are strong … bear with the failings of the weak …” (esv)
Galatians 6.2 “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Romans 14.1 “Accept him whose faith is weak …” (niv)
A PRIORITY ON The Work Of God
v. 3 “For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, ‘The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.’”(esv)
Matthew 16.24 “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” (esv)
AN OPTIMISM FROM The Word Of God
v. 4 “… was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” (esv)
Psalm 19.7 “The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul …” (esv)
Revelation 20.10 “… and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire … be tormented day and night forever and ever.” (esv)
Hebrews 12.2 “… Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” (esv)
A PASSION FOR The Glory Of God
v. 6 “… so that you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mind and one voice.” (csb)