Romans 15:14(NASB) 14 And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.
The Priestly Service of the Gospel of God
The Heart of Paul
Lately my son, Tim has written a series of being a Disciple and all that being a Disciple is. It has brought a challenge to my heart and to step-up to the plate, a baseball term, and make sure it’s covered. After all, if we are Children of God we should be all that God wants us to be and nothing short of that would be God’s Will. In reading God’s Word I came across a familiar passage and His Spirit opened up a whole new meaning that I fill fits right in with what Tim has been writing about. Understanding what God has blessed Tim with, I would like to give my testimony of how God has blessed me in conjunction with the light that God has given me through what my son has written.
Romans 15:14(NASB) 14 And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.
As Paul grew in the grace, he strived in the Spirit of God and recognized his service as being a minister of the Gentiles and those who were lost and without Christ. He always looked after his flock and studied their growth as they grew in the Lord. In the 15th chapter of Romans his confidence in his brothers and sisters in Christ was encouragement as he saw them growing in the Lord.
Full of goodness and filled with all knowledge
2 Peter 1:5-8(NASB)
5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
6 and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
7 and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, goodness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A child of God knows that his actions either represent the Spirit or the Flesh. There should not be any mistake of where his actions are. We are Children of the Most High God and a Temple of the Holy Spirit. Paul knew what his position was and where he stood in the service of his Lord.
Able to admonish, instruct, one another
Jude 1:21-25(NASB)
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on some, who are doubting; 23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, 25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Christ said, Go and make Disciples! Thy Word have I hid in my heart. We must come along side and teach the Word of God until His Word becomes heart knowledge and not just head knowledge.
Romans 15:15-16(NASB)
15 But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God, 16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
We as Children of God are more than children; we are a Holy People chosen by God, ministering as a priest the gospel of God. Go ye forth and make disciples. Because of the love of Christ, we have no other choice.
In 1 Corinthians we read this account:
1 Corinthians 1:4-9(NASB)
4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
We have been called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. We have no other choice; we must Preach the Gospel and make Disciples of all who will hear His call.
1 Corinthians 8 states it this way;
1 Corinthians 8:6(NASB)
6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. We have no other choice.
In Matthew 28 we are commanded:
Matthew 28:18-20(NASB)
18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
As Always
IN HIS GRIP
Chuck Howi
