Bible Study Notes Romans 1:16-23

Romans 1:16 - 23 Bible Study notes

Why do you think the gospel is the lifeline?
Points that people brought up
- We are helpless without it; Jesus dying for our sins makes us able to reunite with God
- It helps us live our life for God
- People know there's a God because of creation, but they don't know they're sinners
We talked a lot at InRoads about not making your faith just an act, but who you are.
What is the biggest obstacle to Christ being Lord and not just Savior?
- Me, because I try to figure out, how can I do this, how do I get by?
(If you want something done right do it yourself) In most cases we are the biggest obstacle
- We have to die daily to ourselves
It's interesting that we don't have a natural tendency to give lordship to anyone else
But, we find ourselves slipping into giving lordship to things that are not God
Do we let our schedules lord our lives? yes to extent
Do we let our marriage schedules lord our lives? yes to extent
To what degree do we give lordship to God?
We want to hold lordship to ourselves, (and the world says it's good), but we realize
somehow we abdicated control to things that were not God or even me!
We don't do the things that we should (even little things)
How much more, the big things? How can we say we can do the big things well on our own?
- The fact of sin and not the amount is the important point, and it took the death of Jesus
to take care of sin.
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.. men suppressed the truth...
- You reap what you sow
- God's invisible qualities are made known to man, so they are without excuse
How is our comfortable life the same as experiencing the 'wrath of God'?
This doesn't seem like wrath, but maybe it is, if we don't know what 'awesomeness' is?
- Matt 6, Jesus is teaching. Beware of practicing righteousness before men to be noticed by them,
otherwise you have no reward in heaven. They have their reward in full
That is the deception we live in. If we do stuff for the praise of men it's useless to the kingdom
Anger, strong feelings
- God's wrath is calculated to drive people towards Him
We live in a world that is a result of God's wrath; Sin is that consequence
God's wrath is REVEALED in this case--made apparent
In the Gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed
- Time after time, civilizations become weak because of the way they are living, and then they're overthrown
Why do we not want to pursue good?
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How do we see God in creation, or do we?
- We know the universe had a beginning
- It couldn't have come out of nothing, so God put it there to show us
Poemia - like a poem of creation;
I've come to appreciate the scripture as a beautiful poem, a love story, with purpose and layers
What would God look like if you got to be the designer?
- He would look like me! (something got lost in the translation)
We think we're so smart! Why didn't the Romans, Greeks, Mongols, Russians, etc have it all figured out?
Why does no one stay on top?
- It takes revelation and inspiration, not rote
Do we Americans think that we have found the "secret sauce"?
- we lack the appreciation for God that pastors in other countries do
Why do we not think God would fulfill us? do we think we won't like his choice for us? God is not happy! Period.
We exchange him for cheap knock offs, and don't blame those little gods, we blame the big God.
Name your gods. Ask THEM why they didn't come through, ask THEM why they did not fulfill, why they cannot do
what the big God does. Their answer should be coming....
Why is Jeff making such a big deal out of this scripture?
God himself wants to drill these points home to us, this is a personal message to InRoads