Romans 12 (Part 8)
Dr. Roberto Miranda
SUMMARY: In Romans 12:12, the Apostle Paul emphasizes the importance of being constant in prayer and sharing for the needs of the saints. The Greek word for sharing, coinony, means fellowship and intimate participation. Christians must be attentive to the needs of others, especially those within the family of faith. However, there must also be balance and order in giving, and the saints themselves should attend to their own needs before seeking help from the church. The idea of hospitality, or filo xenian, involves actively pursuing love and care for foreigners and is not optional in the life of a Christian.
The passage discusses the importance of prayer, identifying with the needs of others, and practicing hospitality. The word for hospitality in Greek is filo xenian, which means love for the foreigner. It is important for Christians to actively pursue hospitality and serve others diligently. The passage also emphasizes the importance of loving others without grumbling and using the gifts God has given us to glorify Him. Christians should be a hospitable and loving community, expressing warmth and care to visitors and members alike.
The passage discusses the importance of prayer, identifying with the needs of others, and practicing hospitality. The word for hospitality in Greek is filo xenian, which means love for the foreigner. It is important for Christians to actively pursue hospitality and serve others diligently. The passage also emphasizes the importance of loving others without grumbling and using the gifts God has given us to glorify Him. Christians should be a hospitable and loving community, expressing warmth and care to visitors and members alike.
Let's go to Romans Chapter 12. I think you can now open your Bible with your eyes closed to Chapter 12 of Romans. We have been there, for our visitors, examining the character of the Christian life, the fruit of the spirit, the merciful, loving, gentle attitude that God expects us to exemplify and also other areas of life, of Christian service.
In verse 12 last Sunday we discussed the last part of verse 12 which says we are to be how, in prayer how are we to be? Constants. The idea, as if to refresh our memory, the idea of how we should behave with respect to prayer, that dimension of the Christian life, is that we must be insistent, we must be persistent, we must be militant with respect to prayer. The word constant doesn't quite capture it as much as it does in the original Greek “proscarterontes”, that is, insistent militants. So this idea of being insistent is important and we saw how many times, in Scripture, the Lord Jesus Christ spoke about the need to pray without fainting. That idea, I believe, I just said in Spanish, like the Lord wrestling with the Father there in the Garden of Gethsemane and the association of Jacob wrestling with the angel immediately came to me. Being insistent, being militant, Jacob told the angel: I won't let you go until you bless me, but the angel blessed him, right?
In verse 12 last Sunday we discussed the last part of verse 12 which says we are to be how, in prayer how are we to be? Constants. The idea, as if to refresh our memory, the idea of how we should behave with respect to prayer, that dimension of the Christian life, is that we must be insistent, we must be persistent, we must be militant with respect to prayer. The word constant doesn't quite capture it as much as it does in the original Greek “proscarterontes”, that is, insistent militants. So this idea of being insistent is important and we saw how many times, in Scripture, the Lord Jesus Christ spoke about the need to pray without fainting. That idea, I believe, I just said in Spanish, like the Lord wrestling with the Father there in the Garden of Gethsemane and the association of Jacob wrestling with the angel immediately came to me. Being insistent, being militant, Jacob told the angel: I won't let you go until you bless me, but the angel blessed him, right?
