Working for the Lord
I. In the Organic Oneness of the Body - Romans 15:5-15
- A. Receiving one another organically - Rom. 15:5-13
- B. Having the capacity to acknowledge the grace in other members -
Rom. 15:14; 12:3-6
- (cf. Rom. 1:11-12)
- C. Appealing to what is already within other believers - Rom. 15:15;
2 Tim. 1:5-7
II. In the Vision of the Gospel of God - Romans 15:16-24
- A. Understanding the Gospel of God
- Rom. 15:16; Eph. 3:1-6 (cf. Rom. 1:1 and 16:25-26)
- B. Serving with the realization of accountability to the heavenly
administration
- Rom. 15:16; Acts 26:16-19; 1 Tim. 5:21; 6:13-16; 2 Tim. 4:1-2
- 1. Boasting in the sphere of the Triune God - Rom. 15:17-18
- 2. Work in the sphere of the Holy Spirit - Rom. 15:18-19
- C. Working according to the pattern of the Lord's burden in Acts 1:8
- 1. The pattern in the book of Acts
- a) Witnesses in Jerusalem - Acts 1--7
- b) Witnesses in Judea, Samaria, and Galilee - Acts 8:1--11:18
- c) Witnesses in the uttermost parts of the earth - Acts 11:19--28:31
- 2. The pattern of Paul's ministry - Rom. 15:19-24
- D. Being filled up and saturated by fellowship - Rom. 15:22-24
III. In Practical Connection with the One Body of Christ - Romans
15:25-33
- A. Vision and anointing controlling our connection with the Body,
and not mere outward situations - Rom. 15:25 (cf. Gal. 2:1-15; 2 Cor. 1:15-2:4)
- 1. Vision brings in the ministry of reconciliation - 2 Cor. 5:13-20
- B. The practical means of connection - Rom. 15:26-28 (cf. 2 Cor. 8;1-5)
- 1. The fruit of practical connection - 2 Cor. 9:11-15
- C. The network of prayer in the Triune God for practical connection
in the Body of Christ
- - Rom. 15:30
- D. Our satisfaction being wrapped up in God's satisfaction of the
practical connection of the
- Body of Christ - Rom. 15:29-33 (cf. 2 Cor. 2:12-13 and 7:5-7)