Peter Barnes | Romans 15:22-24
SERMON NOTES
PAUL’S PLANS FOR VISTING ROME
(Romans 15:22-24)
1. Life has its frustrations.
– 15:22; see 1:13
– probably not hindered by Satan as in 1 Thess.2:17-18 nor by God as much as by the needs of the church in the east
2. Consolidate what needs to be done first.
– 15:23-24; 1 Clement from about A.D. 96 says that Paul reached ‘the limits of the West’.
– need to evangelise in 1 Thess.1:8 and to build up professing Christians in Eph.4:11-13
– but present needs take priority
3. Mutual encouragement is part of the Christian life.
– 15:24; see also 1:11-12; 1 Cor.16:6, 10-11; 2 Cor.1:6
– prayer, finance, personnel no doubt, but mainly just encouragement.