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*Applying the Big Picture of Hope*
*Romans 15:14-33 March 17, 2002*
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*Scripture Reading:*
*Introduction:*
What do you hope for?
That question is as individual as each one of you out there in the pews.
That question is as wide open as the heavens, isn't it?
Indeed, hope places our expectation in God.
You are here today because your hope is in God.
The very word implies a desire for something good.
Romans 8:24-25 says, "For in this hope we were saved.
But hope that is seen is no hope at all.
Who hopes for what he already has?
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently."
Hope is well grounded and confident in the goodness of God.
What then is hope?
It is looking forward with a positive expectation to that which is good and beneficial.
HOPE = H-aving O-nly P-ositive E-xpectation.
Many of us have a great need to be able to consistently apply hope.
We tend to drift too quickly into negativism.
That is when we take over and tell God that he can't do something or that he won't.
We become spiritual dictators.
We play the "devil's advocate."
But why should we give the devil any credibility?
Hope is the big picture we miss when we are sitting too close to the screen (Matt).
The closer you are the scarier it gets.
But we need to back off to gain perspective.
It is too bad when we can't see hope because hope (along with faith and love – 1Cor.
13:13) is what we have to look forward to after we have done all we can do with God's help.
And we can look forward to it because now it is all in God's hands.
Now faith believes something can happen.
And hope believes it will happen.
And we can also add that love trusts God in how it will happen.
But we will be focusing on the aspect of hope in our message today in Romans 15:14-33.
Paul, in writing the Roman Christians, is now concluding his letter with the longest ending of any letter he has written.
He has addressed their problems and needs as a church with lengthy and convincing theological persuasion and argument.
He has brought them to the point where they should now understand the need for unity and be able to achieve it.
He has shown them what church unity looks like:
A unified church will be effective in their relationships with each other.
A unified church will be effective in acceptable worship to God.
A unified church will be effective in each becoming like Christ.
Then he gave them a benediction of hope in 15:13 (a unified church will be effective in hope because they now have hope).
He has done all he can do.
Now he must apply and express hope for himself and for them that his purpose (and God's purpose) will be accomplished.
These are the final brush strokes on the big picture of what he has hoped to accomplish by having written them.
*Big Question:*
/What does Paul hope for the Roman Christians as the result of writing to them?/
/How must we apply the big picture of hope?/
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Cycle One*
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Narrative (vv.
14-16)*
Paul knew he wasn't writing to either a new church plant or a deeply sinful one, but to one that knows and practices the faith.
He has written "quite boldly" on some points not necessarily to impart new knowledge but to "remind" them of what they really already knew.
In other words, the truth needed application to the situation at hand.
Paul also writes boldly because of the grace that God gave him – to bring the Gentiles into obedience to God.
The purpose here is that Paul sees himself like a priest who offers an acceptable sacrifice – and that sacrifice in this context is Gentile converts acceptable to God.
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