1. SPIRITUAL POWER FOR EVANGELISM Romans 1:8-21 message two

2. An Experiential Exegesis of Why People Suppress the Truth 1. People want the right to do their thing instead of God’s thing

3. An Experiential Exegesis of Why People Suppress the Truth 1. People want the right to do their thing instead of God’s thing 2. People want to make sure they are not accountable to the truth

4. An Experiential Exegesis of Why People Suppress the Truth 3. People want to keep truth from being concretely and certainly defined

5. Thesis When God wants to impact the world by his saints he does so through their faith.

6. Point 1 What makes a church grow and what makes its people strong is the exercise of spiritual gifts by all its members.

7. Point 2 Every believer is gifted with all spiritual resources in Christ Jesus, Col. 2:2; Eph 3:8; Phil 4:19.

8. Definition Spiritual gifts are a divine enablement to do ministry successfully in the building up of Christ’s body, the church.

9. Point 3 You will never exercise spiritual gifts standing still.

10. Point 4 Ministry is always mutual.

11. Point 5 Christ’s righteousness does not bring you into rightrelationship with God until you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord.

12. Definition Receiving the gospel makes you a debtor to others because now you owe them the truth of the good news.

13. Point 6 The key to witnessing is a soul-consciousness and sense of obligation you have to the people you are around.

14. The righteousness of God is the genetic material necessary to transform sinful humanity back into the lost image of God. Point 7

15. Definition The wrath of God is God’s only reaction against that which is contrary to his holiness.

16. Point 8 Because God’s wrath is reserved, it is sometimes revealed.

17. Definitions Ungodlinessis lack of reverence for God both in neglect and in rebellion.