Church Gifts Humility Romans 12 3 5 Romans
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“Church, Gifts & Humility” Romans 12: 3 -5
Romans 12
Romans 12
Our culture: success depends upon…
God says success depends upon…
Paul’s warnings against pride: Romans 11: 18, 20, 25 Romans 12: 3, 16 Romans 14: 4, 10
Grow in… God-esteem!
PRIDE vs. HUMILITY James 4: 6 -- “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble” Isaiah 66: 2 b--“But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word” Proverbs 16: 18 -- “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before stumbling” 1 Corinthians 10: 12 -- “Let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall”
HUMILITY …the spontaneous recognition of the creature’s absolute dependence on his Creator …. ” (Vernon Grounds)
Romans 12: 3 “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. ”
Sober judgment…
1. ) Write down 3 things you enjoy doing in the church, your family, your job, your home…and have been told by others you do well and bless them with. 2. ) Write down 3 things you don’t like doing and have not been told by others that you do well or bless them with!
Sober judgment…
Romans 12: 3 “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. ”
Dr. Richard Lovelace
Church Awakening
Romans 12
Romans 12 4 “For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. ”
Romans 12 4 “For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. ”
Cessationism vs. Continuationism Gifts have ceased All gifts continue Most gifts are operative (not the ‘sign gifts’)