Romans 16:19-27 - Corps - July 2,1980
ROMANS 16:19-27 July 2, 1980 Romans 16:19 When you just read it casually as I’ve just done, it seems like it’s a little difficult to understand. It doesn’t quite make full sense like you feel it ought to make. The first thing I want to share with you is that verse 19 is a continuation of a warning he gave them in verse 17 and 18. Here is verse 19, he does not praise them for their obedience so much as to warn them to be very careful about accepting any teaching or preaching, no matter how well it is presented, how seemingly logical, sincere and reasonable it may appear. If it is off one iota from the gospel of God, the mystery that Paul has declared unto us in that Word, then whatever that declaration is, if it’s off even one iota, it is an error and it’s wrong. “good” – agathos; original meaning is “worthy of note.” That is so broad that it includes both good and evil. In other words, if evil is a thriving thing going on, it has to be agathos. It is worthy of note. It appears successfully evil or evil successfully, and that is to make it of note. Like a great bank robber who is real successful in robbing the bank. He’s a good bank robber. Good concerning evil, agathos, was simply because they were successful at what they did at that moment. That’s why this word agathos originally carried that meaning. Then later on it went into two directions, this word agathos. One direction means ability in service, that which is an advantage that’s good. The advantage you have is good. That’s your ability, that’s your advantage, that’s good. The other arm of it was moral or ethical, and that is its basic usage in the New Testament gospel period. And all the men that I’ve ever studied or read on the book of Romans say that this is the side that Paul took. I do not believe that. I believe that here in this epistle which Paul wrote that the Pauline usage includes both, and thus in its relation to righteousness. That word dikaios, which I handled in Romans, which is God to man gift.
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Tweet Topic: Rom 16:19-27,logospedia,lp Format: pdf,mp3 Publication Date: July 2, 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