"Understanding Paul's urgent desire to establish the church at Rome on the Solid Rock."
Recorded on: Sunday, 10/18/2026 at 10:00 AM
Description:
Delivered during the Sunday Morning Worship Service, 10/18/2026. After encouraging the Roman church that the Christian world was "buzzing" with the news of their faith, Paul begins to reveal how passionately he desires to come to them to impart the spiritual gifts that will strengthen or establish them in that faith. We will ask ourselves why Paul feels this urgency, and realize that for every Christian and every church a storm is brewing-- a spiritual storm driven by malicious enemies who want to see their faith destroyed. We will turn in part to Jesus' parable of the house built on the rock to help understand why Paul feels this urgency. It is because of this spiritual danger, and the fact that his life and movements are subject to the sovereign will of God, that Paul writes this amazing epistle to immediately begin that establishment. It will impress on all of us the need to draw near to God and to do all that we can to live in His Presence, in order to be established on the Solid Rock when the storm inevitably comes.
