Living Out the Gospel

Uh, it's, it's really an honor to be up here and to, uh, and to preach the word this morning, and I am excited.

Um, this morning we are chugging down this Roman road, uh, along our series of the Letter to the Romans, written by the Apostle Paul.

Um, and chapter 12 sits at a very important junction of Paul's letter, and it's important to know why.

It's important to know where we are at in the letter to understand what Paul's trying to say, what he's trying to communicate to us.

And so I'll explain why it is an important junction in the letter.

I remember when I was about 15, 16 years old, learning to drive, and your parents...

My parents were explaining to me how to drive a manual car, and it made a lot of sense to me.

You do those written tests as well, the theory of everything, uh, and then you go and sit that test at the DMV.

But I remember them explaining how to drive a manual car.

You know, you release the accelerator, push the clutch in, change the gear, clutch out, accelerator in.

Easy peasy.

That makes sense.

Driving is easy.

It's like a go-kart with just a couple more steps.

I don't know how anyone crashes.

I don't know why everyone makes it so complicated.

I was really good at Mario Kart as well, so I was like, "Driving is easy."

[laughs]

And I get in my parents' new Volkswagen Jetta, and I put the seatbelt on, and I'm behind the wheel.

I'm in the driver's seat for the first time.

It was very scary.

And I think I gave my parents, like, neck issues from all of, like, the z- you know, the stalling and the clunkiness of me changing gears.

But I remember there was this one time where I was, uh, still a learner.

I was learning to drive, and I was dropping my dad at the airport, and my mom was, uh, was instructing me.

And we get to the drop-off zone of the international terminal.