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Romans 15:6-9: The Purpose of Unity
Introduction: The Supreme reason why everything exists is the glory of God. The greatest motive to which all others must submit is not human happiness or sustaining this creation, but the glory of God. All...
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Romans 15:5-7: A Prayer for Unity
Introduction: One of Christ’s desires for His church is unity, John 17:20-21, ‘”I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,21 that they may all...
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Romans 15:4: Hope and the Scriptures
Introduction: The Puritans had a saying, ‘hope is the mother and daughter of patience.’ When we have hope, the knowledge of the certainty of the inheritance God has laid up for us, this gives birth...
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Romans 15:1-3: True Spiritual Maturity
Introduction: What are the marks of true spiritual maturity? There are many who think themselves to be mature but who behave like children. Think of the Corinthian church. They thought that their maturity resided in...
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Romans 14:23: ‘For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin’
Introduction: When I say the words ‘living by faith’ what comes to mind? What immediately comes to my mind is George Muller. He was a Calvinistic Baptist who lived in the 1800s who is most...
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Romans 14:17-19 – The Kingdom of God part 2
Intro: Today we want to continue our look at the kingdom of God from figure 2. We will look at the development of the relationship of cultus to culture. Or the relationship between Church and...
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Romans 14:20-23 – Faith and your conscience
Introduction: ‘…the conscience functions as a spiritual nervous system, which uses guilt to inform us that something is wrong and needs correction. Failing to heed the warnings of conscience can lead only to the hardening...
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Romans 14:17-19: The Kingdom of God
Introduction: This sermon forms a part two of this morning’s sermon on Romans 14:17-19. We promised to do a deeper look into the idea of the kingdom of God and that is what we are...
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Romans 14:17-19: Why we should never be a stumbling block
Introduction: Never be a stumbling block to another Christian, this is the point Paul has just been making, we carry on with Paul in 14:17-19 where he talks about why we should not be a...
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Romans 14:13-16: How to never be a stumbling block
Introduction: What do these three situations have in common: a pastor uses his hunting rifle to kill an abortion doctor; an Evangelist walks into a mosque and shouts out that Islam is idolatry; the parents...
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Romans 14:10-12: The Judgement Seat of God
Sorry no audio available for this sermon. Introduction: In the human heart lies a contradiction, we all want justice but we don’t want God as a judge. In every culture and human experience there is a...
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Romans 14:9: Lord of the living and the dead
Introduction: We all know the famous question 1 of the WFC, but fewer know the more pastoral and comforting first question of the Heidelberg Catechism. Q. What is thy only comfort in life and death? ...
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Romans 14:7-8: Belonging to God in life and death
Introduction: The portion in Romans that we are presently studying in confounding to the modern-minded person. Paul is talking about accepting each other, not judging each other and the liberty that we ought to extend...
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Romans 14:6: Freedom and Worship
Introduction: Whenever we are critical of others we tend to demonise those to the left or right of us. We are so assured of our own correctness that anyone who is different from us gets...
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Romans 14:5-6: Liberty of Conscience
Introduction: When I say the words, ‘Liberty of Conscience’, what comes to mind? I hope you have two distinct ideas in your minds, Christian Liberty, and then the world’s wrong definition of it. Freedom of...
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Romans 14:5: The Sabbath
Introduction: Listen to George Swinnock, a Puritan as he speaks about the beauty of the Christian Sabbath Day, ‘‘Hail thou art highly favoured of God, thou golden spot of the week, thou market –day of...