2021.05.23 - The Other Roman Road
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
2:34 PM
1. Tiptoe Through The Tulips - The Roman Road
a. We hear so much around the church about the Roman Road
i. A salvation message
1. Romans 3:23 - all have sinned
2. Romans 6:23 - gift of God is eternal life
3. Romans 5:8 - God loves us - Christ died for us
4. Romans 10:9 - confess Christ with our mouth and believe in our hearts we will be saved
5. Romans 10:13 - all that call upon Him will be saved
b. The OTHER Roman road
i. The first one is just full of good information and sounds SOOOO wonderful it almost can come off that our Christian walk is just a walk in the park - but that is not the intent at all. Getting saved is easy, God made it so that we can come to Him and be free. Our walk with Him once we ARE saved sometimes is more of a challenge.
2. A Promise Made By God Is A Promise Kept
a. Acts 23:10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle. 11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome. 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. KJV
3. Background Of A Killer
a. Conspiracy - that is what Saul/Paul would be accused of were he to find himself in our court today. He stood by and allowed Stephen to be killed - to be murdered - by the church. And then comes Acts 8:1 Saul agreed that the killing of Stephen was good. NCV
b. He was doing what he had been taught was right. He was serving the God he had heard about. He was doing all the right things, running with all the right people. He was oh so religious.
c. When it comes to Heaven and God doing all the "right" things alone will not get you there, just doesn’t cut it.
i. Jesus said John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. KJV
ii. Doing "Jesus stuff" doesn’t necessarily make us like Jesus - only a changed heart and a saved soul can make us like Jesus
d. There is no reason to think that up to the point Jesus approached Saul on the road to Damacus that he was not just pretty much left alone by the devil - but ONCE he started to follow Christ all that changed.
i. Sam Rodriguez says it this way - The enemy does not come against you for the thigns you have done but because of the things you WILL do in Christ Jesus
4. THIS. CHANGES. NOTHING!
a. From Rome to Heaven
i. One thing after another
1. Job
a. Destroy your character
i. Paul
1. Held captive
2. Accused of sedition
3. Sent to Felix
4. Appeals to Caesar
5. Bitten by a snake
b. 2 Corinthians 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. KJV
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