New Testament

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            Imagine if you will of being summoned to appear before a great world leader, how would you prepare yourself for this meeting?  As I thought about this, I considered how I would prepare. This has never happened to me, I have never met anyone who would even be considered famous, let alone one who would be called a world leader.  But if I were summoned, I would want my clothes to be just right, I would want my appearance to be clean and well groomed, and I would want to have the right words to speak.

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            In life we see contrasts displayed in many ways, one of those ways is seen in opposites.  For example: light compared to darkness; love compared to hate; sweet compared to sour; man compared to woman.  When we compare things to one another we find the differences or the contrasts between them.

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            Growing up in the church, the son of the church’s pastor I remember each Christmas my dad setting up on the church lawn a life-size nativity.  It had everything:  Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus in the manager.  It had sheep, a donkey, and shepherds.  It had wise men and camels, and they were all life size.  They were only two dimensional, life-size pictures mounted on plywood but impressive looking none the less, especially the camels.

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            This morning we come to the closing verses of Romans, a beautiful doxology that praises God for what He has done through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.  These three closing verses are very similar to the first eleven verses of Romans 1.  We will look at these similarities as we go through this passage. 

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