New Testament (1636)
  1. God’s newly reconstituted Israel occurs in and around Jesus to include both Jew and Gentile, not by ethnic association but by faith and water (baptism) and blood (atonement and Eucharist).
  2. Marriage, sex, and what makes someone holy.
  3. Here we have the other major theme within Romans: God will have mercy on whom He has mercy, and He will have compassion on whom He has compassion
  4. If the feeding of the 5000 invited an emphasis on Jesus’ COMPASSION, this week’s miracle invites a sermon focused on Jesus’ AUTHORITY.
  5. No lawsuits, real freedom and fleeing sin all because of Baptism
  6. Jesus’ miracle in this sermon, then, is a type of the compassion He has for your hearers. While they certainly have many physical needs, your hearers also (more fundamentally) need Jesus’ mercy and forgiveness.
  7. The lifeblood of Christ is the treasury that defines personal worth – your worth, my worth. Preach that; the price tag on your soul.
  8. Paul continues to expose the divisions in the Corinthian church, mixing in some sarcasm.
  9. It is that love, finally, which comes back again and again, not as an afterthought, but as the underlying theme of the entire section.
  10. These parables invite us to consider the mysterious way of the reign of God. The Kingdom of God comes by grace to those who are seeking and not seeking it.
  11. Paul continues to explain how division is contrary to the foundation of Christ crucified. Some who have now thought themselves wise need to look at the foolishness of God again. And Paul isn’t concerned with the judgment of men.
  12. In Christ, God promises to forgive sin and bring about new life: Life after being canceled.
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