Advent 2025: Season's Greetings (Romans 1:1-7)

Описание: Romans 1:1-7
This passage highlights the significance of Advent.
Greetings can be glimpses into the souls of who is both the greeter and the receiver.
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The word “Apostle” means the “one who was sent.” Paul was specifically assigned to the Gentiles by God: not randomly. God can use our successes AND failures to set us up right where he has called us to be. Paul describes himself as a servant - which is a glimpse into the Christian life. We accept Christ by laying claim to Christ, BUT also allowing Christ to lay claim to us! We cannot be brought as servants to Christ’s family and still do whatever we want. What part of your life are you still holding onto for yourself and not handing over to God?
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Paul tells us that the Gospel/Good News, was promised before the beginning of the world. God promised us provision from the beginning of our fallen state all the way until the end of time. When Jesus came he was not only spiritual offspring but the physical offspring of David as well. We need someone.who not only loves us deeply but has deep power as well. Jesus possessed that: he canceled our debt through his death, but also showed that he can take that cancellation all the way to the Throne of God by resurrecting on the third day.
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This greeting is filled with words of confidence: If God is powerful enough to do what He has done in the person of Jesus through the stretches of time, and bring Jesus out of the tomb, then he can navigate your life for the next 24 hours and beyond.
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Christ has given an assignment to us. We have not received redemption just to watch. We have received redemption to share the word of that redemption. In light of Jesus’s life death burial and resurrection, anything that Christ assigns to us, ANYTHING, is grace to us! Do you know the kind of nerve you have to have to complain about the assignment you’ve been given by an almighty amazing Holy God - To be assigned work in the kingdom, and then complain about it? Anything the Lord assigns us should be taken as Grace!
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We are called to belong in Christ. Just as Paul opens the text here describing how he belongs as a servant of Christ.