Message Notes

Senior Sunday School 26 January 2025

Text: Romans 12

Subject: “As God has dealt to each one a measure of faith” Romans 12:3

3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,

5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;

7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;

8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 12:3-8

SOBER AND HUMBLE THOUGHTS

1. These thoughts

a) They are wise

b) They are necessary

2. Dangers afoot

a) To think too highly of self

b) To become prideful

c) We place ourselves in danger

3. The safeguards

a) To remember the grace of God

b) To think soberly

c) To realise that all we have are given by God

i) Even the measure of faith we have

ii) Everything comes from the grace of God

THE CHURCH OF GOD

1. There are many members

2. All members have different functions

3. But there is only One Body

a) Every member is an individual

b) All are members related to each other

c) Together we form the Church

A SHORT LIST OF GIFTS

1. All gifts are given by the grace of God

2. Gifts:

a) Prophecy

b) Ministry

c) Teaching

d) Exhorting

e) Giving

f) Leading

g) Mercy

3. All gifts are to be exercised humbly

OUR CHALLENGE

1. To possess the right mindset

2. To discover our gifts

3. To exercise them humbly

4. To be conscious of God’s gift of grace