Sermon Notes 7/7- NOT ASHAMED ROMANS 1:16-17

Caesar the ruler of the known world was worshiped in Rome not Jesus the carpenter

After an insurrection in 135 as a punishment Rome renamed Judea, Palestinian Syria which we now know as Palestine

The cross was the way Romans executed common thieves and criminals

Paul was personally humiliated time after time because of the Gospel

Paul was ready to preach in Rome and was not ashamed

There will be intellectual pressure to retreat from Jesus

There will always be religious pressure to substitute a generic religious figure for a relationship with the true Messiah

There will always be religious pressure to substitute a ritual for a move of God

There will be political pressure = being P C politically correct is certainly spiritually incorrect

With in the gospel is the POWER (dumamis) of God to save heal provide and change

SALVATION = deliverance from the penalty of sin which is death

Your FAITH is the ingredient that activates the power of God