Romans 16

I'm trying to get this recorded kind of last minute here for me, but I hope everybody's doing good.

We are going to jump back into Romans chapter 15.

Thank you guys for tuning in last week to it.

Got some feedback on it and I'm I'm going to read down.

It goes to 33.

Fill in on some of my notes.

And I might go ahead and jump over to Romans chapter 16 because there's...

Unless we get long-winded here, there's really...

Hey everybody it's Steve here with some comments on Romans 16.

We reached the final chapter of this great book and these are some personal greetings that Paul is sending to people.

Now I urge you not to just skim read through these names but even pronounce them out loud just to get an idea of the deep connection that Paul had to people.

He had a job with a lot of responsibility in the government of the day.

And so we see through all of these different mentions of people, the beautiful church of God is developing one life at a time.

Trust you enjoy Romans 16.

Yeah.

Look at Romans 16, verse 17.

This is pretty strong wording.

Paul said, "'Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them.

So I like the contrast of the fact that he specifically uses snakes and doves, which is a direct contrast between good and evil between Satan and the Holy Spirit as far as a visual or an imagery.

But going on to Romans 16, verse 19.

It basically reiterates this idea, but being less metaphorical.

It says, So it's the same idea, but just worded a little bit oppositely.

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Romans, but not Romanists.

A sermon delivered by C. H. Spurgeon, probably near first of year, 1873, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.

I commend unto you Phoebe, our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cencreia, that you receive her in the Lord, as become saints, and that you assist her in whatsoever business she has need of you, for she has been a succorer of many, and of myself also.

Waters here, and I appreciated your Covenant Theology and Paul contribution to the Big Covenant Theology book, which you edited with RTS professors in there.

And how you make the point in there of a singular offspring or seed of the woman who will be at odds with the serpent and his offspring throughout history in Genesis 3.15. And then you speak about how in Romans 16.20, as Paul's wrapping up the book of Romans, this great, powerful epistle that lays out justification.

And it's been such an influential thing.

He ends it with, and the God of peace will crush Satan underneath your feet.

And you remember, of course, that's a wonderful thing that it looks to our union with Christ and our participation in Christ, which we see in the Lord's Supper, right? We're seeing and saying that the week and participate in him.

Teases out how, how does we understand that, that we will see Satan crushed under our feet? This is, this is Paul's holding out this hope before them as he closes Romans.

So yeah, if you could talk about that.

Yeah, that's a, boy, it's a great passage.

I want to go through just a few texts here with you, dear ones.

Romans 16, 17 through 18, Paul writes, Now I urge you, brothers, to keep your eye on, mark those who cause dissensions and stumblings contrary to the teaching, that's the word for doctrine, contrary to the doctrine which you learned and turn away from them.

For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ, but of their own stomach.

And by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.