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Sunday School Special : Romans - Lesson 93

Text: Romans 15:18-21
25 May 2025

Senior Sunday School

25 May 2025

Text: Romans 15

Subject: “A minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles” II

18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient—

19 in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

20 And so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man’s foundation,

21 but as it is written:

“To whom He was not announced, they shall see; And those who have not heard shall understand.”

Romans 15:18-21

UNDERSTANDING THIS TEXT

1. This text is to be read with the earlier text (Romans 15:14-17)

2. This is an explanation of his ministry to the Gentiles

THE WORKS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL

18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient—

19 in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Romans 15:18-19

1. The deeds of Paul

They were described as “accomplishments”

a) Preaching
b) Teaching
c) Writing

2. They were both “in word and deed”

3. The ministry “in word”

4. The ministry “in deed”

a)  Discipling
b)  Defending
c)  Establishing of churches

5. Accompanying confirmatory works

a) Signs and wonders
b) By the power of the Holy Spirit

WHAT WERE THE GOALS?

1. To help Gentile believers

a) To come to faith
b) To become obedient

2. The work

a) It was not just preaching the Gospel
b) It included the work of discipling the Gentile believers

3. The Great Commission fulfilled

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Matthew 28:18-20

a) Paul was conscious of the Great Commission
b) He was determined to do his part fully
c) He had fully preached the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ