Right Relationships Mean Right Living

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Right Relationships Mean Right Living

• Chapter 11
• Romans 12-13

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• Practical duties based on doctrines
• Doctrines and duty go together
• What we believe determines how we behave
• Key idea relationships
• Our Relationship to God (121-2)
• Fourth therefore in Romans
• Dedication to God body, mind, will
• You give God your body (1)
• Gods temple (I Cor 619-20)
• Holy Spirit indwells within the believer (Rom
  89)
• Instruments of righteousness (Rom 613)

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• Sacrifices
• Dead in O.T.
• Living in N.T.
• Isaac (Gen 22) willingly dead to self
• Jesus Christ Died as a sacrifice living
  sacrifice in heaven high priest (Heb 414-16)
  advocate
• (I John 21)
• Present to present once for all
• Definite commitment
• Right response to all that God has done for us
• Our reasonable service or spiritual worship
• You give God your mind (2a)
• Control by the world vs transformation by God
• Transform transfigure (Matt 172)
• Metamorphosis change from within

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• Conformer vs transformer
• Transformed by using Gods Word
• You give God your will (2b)
• The mind control the body the will control the
  mind
• Attempted willpower will fail (Rom 715-21)
• Yield the will to God
• Disciplined prayer
• Time on Gods Word
• Our relationship to Other Believers (123-16)
• We belong to each other, minister to each other,
  need each other

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• Essentials
• Honest evaluation (3)
• Overrated believers
• Undervalued believers
• Spiritual gifts accept use them to honor God
  (I Cor 1510)
• Faithful cooperation (4-8)
• Gifts used for the good of the church
  dedicated to God
• No gifts should be overemphasized over other
  gifts (I Cor 12 29-30)
• No gifts without the fruit of the Spirit (Gal
  522-23 I Cor 13)
• Loving participation (9-16)
• Emphasis on attitudes
• Love (I Cor 13)

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• Circulatory system of the spiritual body
• Honest love (9) humble (10)
• Preferring one another treating another is more
  important than yourselves (Phil 21-4)
• Serving Christ means Satans opposition days of
  discouragement
• Maintain the spiritual zeal Be joyful in hope,
  patient in affliction, faithful in prayer
  (1212)
• Feelings of others Christian fellowship
• Sharing burdens blessings
• Purpose to grow together glorify God
• Our Relationship to Our Enemies (1217-21)
• The believers like Paul Jesus had enemies
• Of their own household ( Matt 1036)
• Some have enemies because of lack of love

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• patience they are not faithful in witness
• Christians should return good for evil, not
  seeking revenge
• Require love faith
• Give place to wrath (Deut 3235)
• Romans 1220 Therefore if their enemy hunger,
  feed him if he thirst, give him drink for in
  doing so there shalt heap coals of fire on his
  head (Prov.2521-22 Matt 544-48)
• Dont protect yourselves just obey the Lord
  leave the results with Him
• Overcome evil with good (21)
• Our Relationship to the State (131-4)
  

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• God established 3 institutions
• The home (Gen 218-25)
• The government (Gen 91-17)
• The church (Acts 2)
• Reasons Christians must subject to the law of the
  state (government)
• For the wraths sake (1-4)
• Authority to rule comes from God
• Resistance to the law is the resistance to God
• Reasons Humankind is sinful
• Capital punishment (Gen 95-6)
• Respect the office
• Officials, the ministers of God
• For the consciences sake (5-7)

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• If governments inference with conscience,
  obedience to God is necessary (Acts 529)
• If the law is right then we must obey to maintain
  a good conscience (I Tim 15, 19 39, 42, Acts
  2416)
• Romans 137 commands us to pay what we owe
  taxes, revenues, respect, honor
• If not, disrespect to the law, the officials,
  the law
• For loves sake (8-10)
• Love one another basic principle of the
  Christian life
• Love motive for obeying God helping others
• Love covers it all
• Owe no man anything
• Bible forbids (Ex 2225-27Neh 51-11)
• Charging of high interest
• Robbing brethren
• Failing to pay honest debts

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• The bottom line human heart is the very heart of
  the problem in need for the government.
• For Jesus sake (11-14)
• Emphasis on the imminent return of Christ
• Wake up (I Thess 51-11 Matt 25)
• Clean up (I John 220 33)
• Put on armor of light, not deeds of darkness
• Grow up
• Put on Jesus become more like Him
• A Christian should be the best citizen