PAUL’S PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL
Romans 15.14-33
Romans: The Global Gospel Goes On – Part 1 of 3
v. 14 “… full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.” (csb)
v. 15 “I have written you quite boldly … because of the grace God gave me …”
vv. 18–19 “… Christ has accomplished through me by word and deed … by the power of miraculous signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit.”
WHAT GOD’S GOSPEL DOES IS IT …
BRINGS Spirit-Led Obedience
v. 16 “… the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.” (esv)
Romans 12.1 “… present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God …” (esv)
Galatians 5.16 “… live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” (niv)
BREAKS Additional Ground
vv. 20–21 “My aim is to preach the gospel where Christ has not been named … as it is written, ‘Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.’” (csb)
Matthew 24.14 “And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
BRIDGES Physical Divisions
v. 27 “… the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.” (esv)
Ephesians 2.14 “For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility …” (esv)
TO PARTNER IN THE GOSPEL, WE …
BATTLE Together in Prayer
v. 28 “… I will leave for Spain by way of you … I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.” (esv)
v. 30 “… brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit … strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf …” (esv)
Colossians 4.12 “… always struggling on your behalf in his prayers …” (esv)
v. 32 “… that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.” (esv)