SPIRITUAL POWER FOR EVANGELISM

Romans 1:8-21message two

An Experiential Exegesis of WHY PEOPLE

SUPPRESS THE TRUTH

1. People want the right to do their thing instead of God’s thing

An Experiential Exegesis of WHY PEOPLE

SUPPRESS THE TRUTH

1. People want the right to do their thing instead of God’s thing

2. People want to make sure they are not accountable to the truth

An Experiential Exegesis of WHY PEOPLE

SUPPRESS THE TRUTH

3. People want to keep truth from being concretely and certainly defined

Thesis

• When God wants to impact the world

by his saints he does so through

their faith.

Point 1

• What makes a church grow and what makes its people strong is the exercise of spiritual gifts by all its members.

Point 2

• Every believer is gifted with all spiritual resources in Christ Jesus, Col. 2:2; Eph 3:8; Phil 4:19.

Definition

• Spiritual gifts are a divine enablement to do ministry successfully in the building up of Christ’s body, the church.

Point 3

• You will never exercise spiritual gifts

standing still.

Point 4

•Ministry is always

mutual.

Point 5

• Christ’s righteousness does not bring you into rightrelationship with God until you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord.

Definition

• Receiving the gospel makes you a debtor to others because now you owe them the truth of the good news.

Point 6

• The key to witnessing is a soul-consciousness and sense of obligation you have to the people you are around.

Point 7

• The righteousness of God is the

genetic material necessary to

transform sinful humanity back into

the lost image of God.

Definition

• The wrath of God is God’s only reaction against that which is contrary to his holiness.

Point 8

• Because God’s wrath is reserved, it is sometimes revealed.

Definitions

• Ungodliness is lack of reverence for God both in neglect and in rebellion.

Definitions

• Ungodliness is lack of reverence for God both in neglect and in rebellion.

• Unrighteousness is disobedience to God’s laws.

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