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Romans 171 95
Let Us 13 9

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go that way because that might lead to this or that. But I'm using terms that are vague, right? Like, I don't know. The Lord say
ut it's important that David use, he used it five times, he's using it five times to show us that it's God alone who are these th
ind something else to substitute it with. David is saying and using this text as a reminder to the congregation, listen, there's
much as I would love to give that credit to her, the Lord was using her in a mighty way in that moment. So look and say, be depen
He's using very imagery language, right, to talk about the reality of wh
demned him for working through that. No, this is what God was using in his life to grow him and knowing him. But he had the wisdo
er. So this is what Moses is communicating in verse two. He's using mountains as a symbol of the most ancient and enduring thing
don't know. No. Wise will look at this day and say, how am I using it for internal impact? Tell you this, have that conversation
God has blessed you with? God has given you ability. Are you using it for his glory or your own glory? Living a life of generosi
in what is right. He is a man and or a woman. I'm sorry, I'm using that term because that's what the scripture says, but it coul
ll understanding. It is to join the Lord, knowing that God is using it to further his kingdom. And then it says, prayerfully cons
was the Christ, believed it, and went and told people. That's using these shoes of the gospel in this offensive manner. Because o
to do that defensively? Truth is, by clinging to the gospel, using that as your strength to stand firm. And so what I would enco
into fight against these principalities and powers of the air using the gospel of peace? You may think you don't know enough. The
eve this should be our mindset as we think about this idea of using these boots, these shoes to go and share the gospel of peace.
rough in my life the trouble that i had you know what god was using that and what's happening right now is best they look and the
e world hates you, it's because it hated me first. Now that's using imagery talking about the people of the world. But the idea i
knight is fighting, or whatever this warrior's fighting, he's using his shield in a very visceral or heroic way to defend whateve
oing is he is declaring the steadfast love of the Lord. He is using this Hebrew word, which is just so much deeper than our under
And the only reason that that is true is because the Lord was using those people to continue to show me, to show us his steadfast
hey mean. So I like to say what they actually mean instead of using the words. But knowing God, knowing everything is omniscience
here wasn't trying to explain biological science. He was just using poetry to teach us in the way in which God created human life
ilarly to what Paul has to say here in verse 12, that God was using that for a very specific purpose. But one of the things that
r us to fail." Specifically, he's talking about himself. He's using his own circumstance, right, where he's in prison. He says, "
he is? Can you celebrate what he's done? Is that what you're using your breath for is to praise the Lord? What do you do with th
s even when our world seems to be journey burning down god is using it for good he is and we can we can have we can believe that
tters to that and we pronounce it Yah-way. When this psalm is using the phrase praise the Lord, it's actually a word you're proba
that, or one of those pieces of those aspects, praising God, using time to have reverent, cheerful, boastful adoration of God to
we have anything in our life today comes from God. We're just using his stuff. This is all God's. God created it. It is his. We c
selves and setting themselves apart to the Lord. And they are using these instruments and things and singing and praising the Lor
of Israel use time and time again. And it's amazing they were using this, right? We're kind of looking, we're going back to the O

let-us

about you in the personal, like in the individual, or they're using what I would affectionately say, the y'all, right, you all, t
be together, to celebrate him and what he has done. And then using our gifting, we each have gifting to bless, encourage, and he
ul says when each part is working properly so how how are you using the gift god has given you to strengthen and encourage stir u
what goes through my brain. And I got to go, no, Lord, you're using me. But those are just real things in my life. So I was walki
lents of some kind. Spiritual skills. And God wants you to be using them within the church to help stir up or another phrase that
r life God has gifted you in a certain way and you need to be using those abilities to stir other Christians up to love and to th
lot of harm, havoc, stupidity. As a believer, should I not be using this power, right? For good, right? Should I not be using thi
be using this power, right? For good, right? Should I not be using this thing that I have, right? This ability to stir up troubl
this. Actually, most of you understand this. When they start using words, you have no idea what that word is, right? My daughter
timately pleasing to God, the father at building a bridge or. Using a word, reconciling us back to God, repairing our relationshi
and. Let us run. Let us run the race. The Bible is so good at using figurative language, metaphors that help us understand a bibl
he contest that I announced for. And the writer of Hebrews is using the same illustration here to a degree. The reader of this le
games where we get our modern day Olympics from. And so it's using this real life situation of like, look at these athletes and

romans

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is my man, all right? I'm like, in the fifth century, they're using props. I really like this guy. The bishop said this, speaking
The bishop said this, speaking of the gospel, he talked about using a pepper. And he said, a pepper outwardly seems to be cold, b
t we are walking right out of Resurrection Sunday and Paul is using this very aspect as the proof of who Jesus is, that he is, in
s, throw that right here at Romans because you're going to be using it every Sunday when we come back. Though, like I said last w
ing our problem. We're writing checks all the time. It's like using a credit card knowing you will never, ever pay any of that of
alls out homosexuality as not being what God created. Paul is using the, he's saying he uses creation. He's saying what is natura
aws out the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, not using , not honoring, even not first. We saw not honoring God. Now w
st so sad because all we can think about is Romans 1. They're using all of this intelligence, trying to sound so smart and so imp
ause at the end of verse, or at the end of chapter one, he is using they, right? In verse 20, 28, he says, and they did not see f
religion of Judaism. You'll see it in the language that he's using . He uses as we go through it. But Paul is speaking as a Jewis
. I am not answering that for you. But the reason why Paul is using circumcision here is that the importance of what it meant to
night. Paul is going, I love you enough to say, hey, you are using this blanket. You think this is your protection. This is your
rough what Paul is laying the foundation for, he's not really using these in a positive term. We'll see that in a few short verse
tionally, like I'm not being anti-Semitic in any way when I'm using this term. Neither is Paul. He's talking about what it means
lice, of a courtroom. And so that is the context that Paul is using in that Paul is charging all of humanity with sin. It's not t
f chapter three, but he uses what's called a radical faint or using rhetoric to make his point that all people, every single pers
them back. And they turn their back on God. And they're just using this as an argument. Like, well, so if we fail, does that mea
s. But when Paul is speaking here in the book of Romans, he's using the word zadik. Do you guys even notice the difference betwee
word picture that Pastor John had been teaching and had been using the picture of a mirror. And he said how the Apostle Paul too
e truth to the Jewish people. What were they doing? They were using it to be judgy. They were using it to exclude people. There w
at were they doing? They were using it to be judgy. They were using it to exclude people. There will be a judgment one day, churc
e scriptures. Listen, I've shined a mirror on it. Listen, I'm using the scripture to teach you this so that every mouth may be st
he mercy seat. When you really go into the Greek that Paul is using in Romans here, that word that is used to describe mercy and
know it in my head. I'll use the same illustration I've been using for years. I think it's effective. If I sit in a chair down h
man against whom the lord will not count his sin here paul is using some of his pharisaical training you're thinking what is that
ways of interpretation their way of understanding and so he's using that in his argument he's saying you're going to use this and
nal language to do some of this cross referencing but paul is using this he's using the very training that he does and he's appea
do some of this cross referencing but paul is using this he's using the very training that he does and he's appealing now to the
don't know, I just, I'm amazed by my mom. But today, Paul is using a patriarch, he's actually going to talk about two patriarchs
to trust you. This is what Paul is walking through, and he's using the example of Abraham for us to really understand this aspec
on't show up, right? And that's the illustration that Paul is using to help us understand this free gift, this gift that God give
need help. I'm broken. I'm a sinner. I need help. And Paul is using this example of, listen, we're not talking about you working
believe is not just a passive idea that Abraham, that Paul is using . It's an active movement towards something. Here, Paul is say
Paul's not advocating laziness or not working here. He's just using this as an illustration. But the one who does not work before
him on what to write, both Paul and the Holy Spirit know that using Abraham as an example would be controversial, thought-provoki
e the classic example of faith that every single one of us is using faith in this moment. You sat down in your chair. I didn't se
the church, to be an example. So Paul, what he's doing, he's using , hey, look at Abraham. Look at his faith that he had. It is s
ant it is to be around the family of God. So faith isn't just using God for the things we need. Faith is trusting him in the trut
nd how he's been highlighting this idea of faith is he's been using the patriarch of the Israelites, which is Abraham. Right? He
pathway of sanctification. You're like, whoa, Justin, you're using a lot of big occasion words, right? Justification, sanctifica
er was, you shall surely die. And so what Paul is doing, he's using Adam as the figure that we are all connected to. And he's usi
ing Adam as the figure that we are all connected to. And he's using this to defend the position that there is one man who represe
ense, the aorist always points to a single past action. So by using the aorist tense, Paul is saying that the whole world, the wh
e and the freedom of God is. We use grace or what Paul is, is using grace as a get out of jail free card. I almost printed or ord
en true. Never will be true. What he is saying here, and he's using baptism as a way of summarizing what one author calls the con
verse three and four uses the word baptism, that's how he is using it. Galatians chapter three, he says, for as many of his, for
gospel. He says, this is what happens in the gospel. And he's using baptism as a symbol of that, right? So what he's really sayin
not enslaved by sin. And so this picture of baptism that he's using to show exactly what has happened in the life of a believer i
hrist alone, right? It's in what Jesus did for us. And I love using the example of the thief on the cross, right? As Jesus is dyi
n the newness of life." Paul's not saying baptism saves. He's using baptism as a publicly declaring that Jesus is master of my li
way of the written code. So what is happening here? First is using the illustration of marriage. Now I want you to be careful he
they've taken these couple verses about marriage that Paul is using a simple illustration and they've stretched this beyond the m

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