Romans | Week 15

RomansRomans • August 28, 2022Teacher: Dave Brown--Romans 16:17-19 NIVI urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.John 17:20 NIV“My prayer is not for them alone.  I pray also for those who will believe in my through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.”What unites us?Contemporary culture cannot unite usJohn 17:16 NIVMy prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.  They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.1. Comfort2. Control or Security3. Money4. Approval5. Success6. Social Approval7. Political Power8. Sex and Romantic LoveSelfishness destroys unityOur conscience cannot unite usRomans 12:2 NIVDo not be conformed to the patter of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.Genesis 3:5 NIVFor God knows that when you eat from ]the forbidden fruit] your eyes will be open, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. What can unite us?1. Submission to Christ2. The power of the Holy Spirit3. Actions defined by Scripture