Romans 16:1-16 - Corps - June 11,1980
ROMANS 16:1-16 June 11, 1980 This section in Romans 16 shows the great love of the Apostle Paul for people, and there is some very, very exciting things in the opening section through verse 16, which I expect to cover tonight, men and women who contributed and blessed the Apostle Paul’s life who helped to move the Word. To have their names appear in the record of God’s Word is very significant because God does not spin His wheels having holy men of God to record people who were way out in left field, who didn’t help to move the Word, unless it is for an illustration that they got bombed out and the Adversary took real good care of them. Romans 16:1 “commend” – to recommend, like you would write a letter of recommendation for someone “Phebe” – the radiant one; a real interesting name I’d like for all the Corps at all the locations to go to work to see how many of you can really work out these names and find the meaning of the names that we’re going to cover tonight in Romans 16. You’ll have to figure out how you are going to do it, whether as individuals or as groups. I would like to see the results of your findings made available to me. “Phebe” – feminine of phoebus, which is also the same name as “Apollo,” the Greek sun god. That is why the word means radiant, brilliant like the sun. “servant” – diakonos. from this word, we get the English word deaconess. In the Protestant Church, you have people called deaconesses from this word diakonos. The Romans Catholics call them nuns. This woman Phebe is the only woman in the New Testament who is called a diakonos. There may have been others, of course, but this is the only one that is named. The masculine side is the word doulos, servant, meaning one serving God, a slave for God, one marked out. The best I understand diakonos is one who quickly, with detailed attention, serves as a doulos, one of sterling quality. That’s quite a record for this woman Phebe, one who is a slave for God, one who is marked out for God. She is
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Tweet Topic: logospedia,lp,Rom 16:1-16 Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: June 11,1980 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And