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In Romans 1:8-15 Paul expresses the priority of prayer, people, and preaching in his life.
What are your priorities?
What should your priorities be?
Motives are what drives you.
Priorities are what you focus on, what you give time to.
Paul’s Priorities
By way of example.
3 main priorities: PRAYER, PEOPLE, and PREACHING
Prayer (vv.
8-10)
Paul tells the Christians at Rome what he THANKS God for and what he ASKS God for.
What does Paul thank God for?
(v.
8)
Their faith.
Which is apparent (“obedience of faith,” v. 5).
Whole world?
Hyperbole - figurative exaggeration for affect - their faith was well know throughout the places where Paul travelled.
Why does He thank God for this?
Because their faith is a gift from God (Philippians 1:29; 1 Thessalonians 1:2–3; 1 Thessalonians 2:13).
If we can thank God for faith, we can ask God for faith - in ourselves and others (Mark 9:24).
Faith can be a focus of our prayers.
What does Paul ask God for?
(vv.
9-10)
To be able to visit the church at Rome.
Paul wants them to know that he cares about them.
God is my witness - for their benefit in believing him.
Serve with my spirit - truly, genuinely, from within NOT just on the outside
Without ceasing/always - constantly on his heart and mind, which is even more significant since he had never been there.
They may have doubted this because he had not visited them yet.
But that did not diminish Paul’s care for them.
Paul wants them to know that God cares about them.
Gospel of His Son - they fit into this agenda
Prayers - Paul believes that they matter to God
God’s will - if and when he comes, this will be why
They could look for and long for this as well.
Paul depends on/trust in God through prayer.
And, we’ll see further the heart of Paul’s prayer.
* Priority #1 for Paul: PRAYER
People (vv.
11-12)
This priority comes out in the reason Paul wants to visit them.
Why does Paul want to visit them?
(v.
11)
To impart (share) a spiritual gift to/with them.
What does he mean?
They already have the Spirit by salvation, and they are already living by the Spirit in obedience (v.
8).
But Paul wants to strengthen (establish, firm up their foundation) spiritually and encourage them spiritually (v.
12).
He further qualifies/explains (v.
15) that this involves preaching.
His spiritual gift will be the ministry of the Word.
So Paul wants to, by the Spirit, give to them from the Spirit what they can receive from the Spirit and apply by the Spirit so that they may grow in the Spirit.
He wants to teach them more.
We wants them to have more truth.
Spiritual health and benefits (Ephesians 1:16–17; Ephesians 3:16; Colossians 1:9)
This is really what he is praying for and what his visit will be for.
Paul sees this as a gift - something good for them that he can give
What’s in it for Paul? (v.
12)
Mutual encouragement
This is the personal enjoyment and enrichment that Paul finds in it.
Paul expresses here that they both need encouragement and they both can/will receive encouragement from each other.
Paul wants to have a meaningful relationship with them.
He’s willing to do what it takes for that.
This is what it means to be a Christian, to be in the church (Ephesians 4:16; Galatians 6:10; Hebrews 10:24–25).
** Priority #2 for Paul: PEOPLE
Both of these priorities emphasize the two primary relationships.
2 Relationships
With God and with others (Matthew 22:37–39)
Benediction: Romans 11:33–36
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 1:15–23; Ephesians 3:14–21
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