1. The Unhindered Harvest
Acts:
The Unhindered Harvest

2. Romans 1-8 All the major doctines The full message of the gospel
Breadth equaled by its depth

3. Romans 9-11
All about Israel
Promises and assurances

4. Romans 12-16 Key Verse…12:1-2 Paul’s main point
The primary point of the gospel is devotion
God to His holiness
God to us
Us to God

5. Romans 12:1-2 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

6. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update. LaHabra, CA : The Lockman Foundation, 1995

7. Romans 12-16
Present our bodies
Willful
Purposeful
Specific

8. Romans 12-16 A living sacrifice As opposed to dead Continual
Unknown duration
Unknown context
Its our service to die

9. Romans 12-16 Holy and acceptable to God
Perfect, spotless, without blemish
Pleasing to God
By God’s mercy
Only through Christ

10. The Sacrificial Life Chapter 12 Humility in serving one another
Love one another
Devotion to one another

11. The Sacrificial Life Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Subjection to authority
Subjection to others
Chapter 14
Not being a stumbling block
Peace-keeping

12. The Sacrificial Life Chapter 15 Bearing others burdens
Accepting others

13. Gospel Brackets Romans 12:1 Urged by God’s Mercies
To present an acceptble offering to God

14. Gospel Brackets Romans 15:30-31 Urged Christ’s lordship
Urged by the Spirit’s love for us
To present a ministry acceptable to others

15. Reaping the Harvest Gospel life is a devoted life
Gospel life is a painful life
Gospel life is a sacrificial life
Gospel life is a fruitful life
Reaping the Harvest

16. Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

17. Romans 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ
Romans 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

18. Romans 8:37
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update. LaHabra, CA : The Lockman Foundation, 1995