Romans Chapters 12 - 13 - 14
Romans 12, 13, 14 Lesson 14 As we close the eleventh chapter: Romans 11:36: For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen. That settles all of that greatness of those three chapters. Now, we get into the practical application. The practical application of all of the great truths of Romans. And he says: I beseech you. And to beseech is like begging people. You know, man I just beg you to do so and so. It’s a “beseech you therefore, brethren.” Romans 12:1: ...by the mercies [or because of the mercies] of God, that ye present your bodies [yourself] a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable [or religious] service. After all of this that you have learned in the first eleven chapters of Romans, honestly, what should a Christian be doing? They should present their bodies a living sacrifice, not a dead one, but a living one. A living what? Sacrifice, that means you lay yourself on the line. Remember, we become broken bread until they learn to break their own bread. We let them walk on our feet until they learn to walk on their own feet. You got to be able to take it when you’re out on the field, right. This business of copping out, this is an easy place to live here at International. This is duck soup living here. And if you think the pressure is tough here. Lord, you ought to just come to me and say I don’t think I got the ability to stand the Corps. Then you ought to go home. No disgrace going home. You can carpenter, you can wash dishes, you can do a lot of things. But if you’re going to be a leader in the Way Ministry and hold forth the greatness of God’s Word as a leader in that ministry, and by the way there’s no requirement that after you finish the Corps you have to be a branch leader or a limb leader. No requirement that you have to go full time, that’s right. We’ll keep that record straight too. Sure, I think you’re qualified and you ought to want to, but if you don’t want to, you don’t have t
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and 16 (and especially this chapter 14), talking about the conduct of the fellow believers, really something. Let’s say we’re eating what we think is 178 Romans Corps Teachings all organic food. Somebody else comes in he doesn’t want to eat organic food....That’s not going to make me love him any less, that’s right. Because if I didn’t apply that principle I’d be outside of the ministry that God’s called me to. Because then I wouldn’t be walking charitably, lovingly. Romans 14:3: Let not him that eateth despise him that [what?] eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. In other words, he’s my brother or my sister in the Lord. You see, first things first. I think food is very important. But I think the Word of God is more important than food. Because all of the great organic food in the world is never going to give you eternal life. Spa