Life of worship For a last few weeks we’ve been talking about living the LIFE OF WORHSIP. And today we gonna continue with this topic. If new here, we are studing the book of Romans. Currently we’re at the chapter 12. At the beginning of this chapter we are presented with the concept of a “living sacrifice” — a spiritual service of worship that is acceptable to God. Question Did you ever asked yourself a question.

Opposition We are continue our deep dive into a Life of worship. We continue to learn how we can glorify and honor God in every sphere of of our life. Last week we said that our life is like a song. And our actions, our attutude is like the melody that we sing. We glorify God when we chose to rely on His wisdom and guidance rather then our own. Otherwise we glorify ourselves and this worldly system.

Romans 12:3-9 It’s been a few weeks since we looked into the book of Romans. We have had a little break while pastor Jeff and the team were here ministering to us. It was a wonderful time. They did a truly great job of serving to our church but also going out to the street and talking about God with people. So, if you were blessed by their ministy, and haven’t had chance to say thank you, I highly encourage you to send them a short(or long) text and say thank you.

Intro We continue our way thought the book of Romans. Today we are up to chapter 12. Going through the book we explored many fundamental truth, which is important to know. Important to understand. In order to be able to comprehend what we actually believe in as followers of Christ. And avoid false believes and false teachings. Which are presented in abundance in our day and time. Keep it Simple Some of the thing we talked about remain among “hot topics” among scalars for last few hundreds of years.

Intro Today we gonna go over Romans 9. And with this chapter we start exploring a new theme. Few Sundays ago we discussed what is the role of THE Law in the context of the New Testament. And today we will start looking at another, pretty important question. What is the role of Israel in God’s plan in the era of the New Testament. Out today’s passage is a part of a bigger picture.

00:00:00 Today we are finishing chapter 8 of the book of Romans. We are pretty much right in the middle of the letter. Today we going to continue to talk about hardships and sufferings a little bit more. Last Sunday Matt gave us a good start and we are about to pick up where we left it. But before we will do that I would like to briefly go over things that we already learned so far.

00:00:00 Intro Last week, we went over chapter 7, which talks a lot about the Law. Reading this chapters we should remember that, letter to the Romans were written in the days of the early church. Not so long after the church was established and gatherings largely consisted from Jewish believers. Among which were Pharisees, Saducees and Regulag Jews along with Gentiles. For many of them, fallowing the law of Moses was the way of life, it was the way to follow God, the only way.

Intro We continue our way though the book of Romans. And with that we continue our conversation about God’s grace in relation to our day to day life. Last Sunday we explored that abundance of God’s grace is not a licence to sin. The fact that God’s grace can cover any multitude of sin does not mean that we allowed to sin as much as we wish. But, rather otherwise we should consider ourselves dead to sin, in order to raise for new life for God, in Jesus.

START We continue our study of the book of Romans. We are up to chapter 6. We will cover the first half of the chapter today. Let’s start form gathering a little bit of context. It is always helpful but especially useful if you new to the book and did not go over all previous chapters with us. Context Last Sunday we talked about the issue of original sin. The scriptures tells us that we all affected by this phenomena.

We are continue to talk about “new” view of justification by God. And today we will look at Abraham. Why Abraham Why Abraham? Well, I think it is fare to say that with Abraham begins the story of “God’s special people”. The story of salvation and Abraham is one of the key figures. He is the forefather of Jewish nation. And not only that, but he also considered a forefather of all who believes God.