ROMANS
Study of the Books of Romans.
Romans 1:8 (NLT) Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in Him is being talked about all over the world.
Commissioned VIII
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- Matthew 28, MSG,CEV- God authorized and commanded Me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teach them to do everything I have told you.
- Now as with everything pertaining to Jesus and His Kingdom, faith is the constant. At the end of the day, you’ve got to believe this stuff!!
- And it starts with this, we’ve been commissioned, entrusted with supervisory authority by Jesus Himself, for a specific action.
- This assignment is ultimately about creating disciples that openly acknowledge our allegiance and reliance in Christ.
- I believe that everything Jesus did with His life on the planet was not only pointing to what He was about to accomplish on the cross, but showing us what humanity, anointed by the Holy Spirit is supposed to look like.
- As we go into chapter 13, Jesus begins revealing one of the foundational principles of how the Kingdom of Heaven operates in the parable of the sower.
- Matthew 13:10-13,NKJV- “And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
- He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
- For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
- Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.”
- As Jesus explains this parable, in Mark’s version He says this, “He who has ears to hear, let him.
- Then He goes on to say, if you don’t understand this parable, you won’t understand any of them.
- Luke’s writing of this account lets us know that the seed is the word of God.
- Matthew 13:19-23,NKJV- “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.
- v.20, But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
- v.21, yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
- v.22, Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
- v.23, But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”
- Throughout this chapter Jesus repeatedly tells us through different parables about what the Kingdom of Heaven is like. Then in chapter 14 He once again displayed the Kingdom in operation.
- Matthew 14:16-20,NKJV- “But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
- And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”
- He said, “Bring them here to Me.”
- Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
- So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.”
- Jesus walks on water as well as Peter. And once again, “As many as were brought to Him were healed.”
- Matthew 15:11,NKJV- “Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
- Matthew 15 also shows us the only other account Jesus referred to as “great faith.” v.28,“Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.”
- Once again in chapter 15, Jesus heals all the sick that came to Him.
- Matthew 16, Pharisees seek a sign. Jesus warns disciples about Pharisee’s teachings.
- Matthew 16:15, “He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
- v.19,NLT-“And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.”
- v.23,NLT- Jesus turned to Peter and said, “Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.”
- Then Jesus once again reminds everyone that when He returns He will reward each person according to their work.
- Matthew 17:1-3,NKJV- Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves;
- and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
- And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.
- V.5, “THIS IS MY SON, HEAR HIM!!”
- Matthew 17:14-20,NKJV- And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,
- 15, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
- 16, So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
- 17, Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”
- 18, And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
- 19, Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
- 20, So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
- V.27, Jesus paid their taxes supernaturally
- Matthew 18, Who’s the greatest in the Kingdom?
- v.4, Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom.
- Chapter 19, Jesus counsels the rich young ruler;
- v.21-24,NKJV- Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
- 22, But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
- 23, Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
- 24, And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- Chapter 21, Jesus cleanses the temple, then once again He heals al that come to Him.
- v.21,NKJV- “So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done.”
- At the end of the day, we’ve got to believe this stuff!!
- We have to believe we’ve been commissioned, entrusted with supervisory authority by Jesus Himself, for a specific action.
- This assignment is creating disciples that openly acknowledge our allegiance and reliance in Christ.
- I believe that everything Jesus did with His life on the planet was showing us what humanity, anointed by the Holy Spirit is supposed to look like.
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