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Southview Baptist Church
Letters to the Church | The Gospel: God’s Invitation to Live as Citizens of Heaven
This week, Pastor Nathan Wakefield continues our Letters to the Church series. In Romans 13, we learn that when we receive Christ as Savior, our citizenship is transferred to Heaven — and that new identity reshapes how we live on earth. Video of the worship service is available beginning Sunday at 9:30 AM at https://southviewbaptist.org/live.
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Southview Baptist Church
3434 S 13th St, Lincoln, NE 68502, USA
Sunday 9:30 AM
1. Foreigners — Christians are foreigners and anyone who has traveled knows foreigners must be careful about local laws (13:1-7).
• The authority to govern comes from God; hence, we are not outside the bounds of government (1-3).
• Resisting authority is resisting God’s order (2–3).
• Government serves a functional role under God (4–5).
• Submission is expressed in real, tangible ways (6–7).
Action Step: Evaluate your posture toward authority. Are you marked more by resistance or by respectful submission?
• The authority to govern comes from God; hence, we are not outside the bounds of government (1-3).
• Resisting authority is resisting God’s order (2–3).
• Government serves a functional role under God (4–5).
• Submission is expressed in real, tangible ways (6–7).
Action Step: Evaluate your posture toward authority. Are you marked more by resistance or by respectful submission?
2. Enlightened — Christians know that ultimately love is the key to living as God intended (13:8–10).
• Love is a continual obligation (8).
• Love fulfills the law (9).
• Love is the guiding principle of righteous living (10).
Action Step: Examine your relationships. Is love truly the defining mark of how you interact with others?
• Love is a continual obligation (8).
• Love fulfills the law (9).
• Love is the guiding principle of righteous living (10).
Action Step: Examine your relationships. Is love truly the defining mark of how you interact with others?
3. Short-timer — Christians need to remember that we are nearing the end of our deployment (13:11-14).
• We are always moving toward our ultimate perfective sanctification (11).
• The time for passive living is over (12–13).
• Put on Christ and reject the flesh (14).
Action Step: Ask yourself, “What does it practically look like today to ‘put on the Lord Jesus Christ’?”
• We are always moving toward our ultimate perfective sanctification (11).
• The time for passive living is over (12–13).
• Put on Christ and reject the flesh (14).
Action Step: Ask yourself, “What does it practically look like today to ‘put on the Lord Jesus Christ’?”
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