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Romans 12:2-9 ESV
#MyChristianLife Week 2
What is something you have considered yourself good at?
How did you get to be good at what your good at?
Romans 12:2b ;that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Do you want to live in the will of God? So often we believe that in order to be good something we have to be good right away, we have to be experts before we can be beginners. We think that true with a lot of things why can it not be true with our faith?
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Romans 12:3
---Practice and Persistence creates potential
---Core Value: Humble Adoration
Romans 12:4-5
---We need each other!
---Core Value: Sacrificial Service
---Joseph P. Kennedy Sr: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
---Everyone needs a job, and some of your jobs are not going to seem tough but they are tough.
Paul is about to break down some different jobs and what I want you to see is that we all have some of these skills and honestly should work on these skills but some are something we have a God given talent in.
Romans 12:6-8
+If prophecy, in proportion to our faith:
---Someone who declares the divine will of God. The second part gives us insight into what Paul is talking about.
---Prophecy as a future tense does not mean they are a fortune teller but they see the future and what the will of God is and they say, the future is bleak because we are not looking to it.
+If service, in our serving
---Serve others is a spiritual gift
+The one who teaches, in his teaching
---This is a talent of teaching. You ever have a teacher that it didn’t matter what they taught you knew you would get something out of it. Like they could tell you how a candle is made and make it relevant to you somehow.
+The one who exhorts, in his exhortation
---Encouragement in doing good.
---Who are the uncomfortable encouragers in the room, who is Mr. and Mrs. Optimistic, when the bus breaks down and says "but it gives us an opportunity to sing Jesus Love Me"
+The one who contributes, in generosity
+The one who leads, with zeal
+The one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 12:9 Let love be genuine.
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