8 For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs, 9 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
- Romans 15:8-9
Humanity is distant from God by default.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…
- Romans 3:23
We’ve been fooled by fakes.
25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
- Romans 1:25
A real God does real things.
24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
- Romans 3:24
17 Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. 18 I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— 19 by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
- Romans 15:17-19
Let God do something real in you and through you.
20 It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. -
Romans 15:20
“Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
- Romans 15:21