Text: Romans 12:1-2 Theme: The definition and example of worship is a life yielded to God. Key verses: “And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice–the kind he will find acceptable. ...
Text: Romans 11:32-36 Theme: Paul praised God both for what he understood and what he didn’t understand. Key verses: “For God has imprisoned everyone in disobedience so he could have mercy on everyone. Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ...
“For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen” (Romans 11:36). “If all are of Him, and through Him, all should be to Him, and for Him. Whatever begins, let God’s glory be the end: especially let us adore him when we ...
Text: Romans 11:25-32 Theme: God permitted disobedience and unbelief to show himself merciful. Key verses: “I want you to understand this mystery…Some of the people of Israel have hard hearts, but this will last only until the full number of Gentiles comes to Christ. And so all Israel will be saved…” (v. 25-26a). “For God’s ...
Text: Romans 11:17-24 Theme: Through trust in Christ we Gentiles can be grafted into the same Vine as the Jews. Key verses: “But some of these branches from Abraham’s tree–some of the people of Israel–have been broken off. And you Gentiles, who were branches from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So now ...
Text: Romans 11:7-16 Theme: Israel has fallen away but they are not without hope. Key verses: “So this is the situation: Most of the people of Israel have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have–the ones God has chosen–but the hearts of the rest were hardened. As ...
Text: Romans 11:1-6 Key verses: “I ask you, then, has God rejected his own people, the nation of Israel?…No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the very beginning. Do you realize what the Scriptures say about this?…” (v. 1a, 2a). “He said, ‘No, I have 7000 others who have never ...
Text: Romans 10:14-21 Key verses: “But how can they call on him t save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?” (v. 14). “But not everyone welcomes the Good News, for ...
Text: Romans 10:5-13 Key verses: “But faith’s way of getting right with God says…’The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart.’ And that message is the very message about faith that we preach: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that ...
Text: Romans 10:1-4 Key verses: “Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to ...
