Shalom everyone, God bless you. Welcome to the Bible classes of the Holy Scriptures in Israel. We are studying together doing our Bible classes throughout various books of the Bible and we are now in this study specifically dealing with the book of Romans. In Hebrew it is called El Haromim. It is an important letter that Shaul Paul wrote to the Roman believers and we are now going to continue on. This is a continuation of our Bible classes. We are in Romans chapter 1. I hope you have the Bible with you. Open your Bible to Romans chapter 1. We are continuing in this session from verse 1 to 17. So let's pray.

Let's ask the Lord to bless the meeting today. Romans chapter 1 verse 8 to 17. Our God and our Father, thank you so much that you provided the Lamb of God, Yeshua, Jesus our Messiah. Through his blood we have been cleansed and washed and justified. And as we are studying the book of Romans. Ask that you will bless your word for we ask it in Yeshua in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. So beloved brothers and sisters, I'm reading from Romans chapter 1 and verse 8 all the way to verse 17. Paul, Shaul Paul, continued to write to the Romans and he's saying to them, For you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift. To the end ye may be established, that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that often times I purposed to come unto you, but was let hitherto, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

So as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, the gospel of Mashiach, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first, And here I am stopping here in verse 17, dear brothers and sisters. We continue on in that very interesting letter Paul wrote to an assembly of believers at Rome which he never met he never seen he never visited yet at the same time he heard much about this local assembly at the city of Rome where the Caesars were where the Roman Empire had it we might say its base where all the we might say the human wise men of this world were.

Where the center of the world was at that time, in the time some 2,000 years ago, there was an assembly of believers that was established in the city of Rome. Now, Paul never had arrived yet to Rome and he's writing this letter. He never met these believers there, but he was so happy. Important letter as an apostle, at the same time as a servant, as an avid doulos, as one that is serving the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, he's writing to them for the express purpose to introduce himself, but also to give, to provide for the Romans some sound ministry that will help them in their spiritual growth.

Assembly very well was established by the Jewish people who came on the Feast of Pentecost, the Feast of Shavuot to Jerusalem. They came from all other nations to celebrate the Feast of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. And if you remember, some of them came from Rome as well. And then the Holy Spirit of God came and put together all these believers, in the city of Jerusalem and the assembly the ecclesia was born then these individuals went back to their various homes the Jewish community in various cities in Asia Minor and they shared the gospel and in Europe and they shared the message of the gospel and a local assembly was established in the city of Rome and Paul was so thankful He is writing to them this most interesting letter.

We have already established the fact, beloved brothers and sisters, that in the first seven verses, Shaul Paul is introducing himself to the believers at Rome by telling them, expressing to them his credentials, who he is. The believers at Rome. He said to them that he's a servant, verse 1a. He said to them that he was called to be an apostle, a messenger. He told them that he's a preacher of the gospel, verses 1 to verse 4. He also told them that he is an apostle specifically called by the Lord Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah to the Gentiles to the nations of the world you remember we have read specifically in these verses 5 6 and 7 by whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations he was called to be the apostle to the nation for his name among whom are ye also Now in the next verses, beloved brothers and sisters, in these verses, 8, actually to verse 17, Paul presents additional two things.

As he is continuing to introduce himself to the Roman believers. First of all, in verses 8 to 15, Paul expresses simply expressing to them his concern. You can just imagine that Paul, Shaul Paul, who was called to be the apostle to the uncircumcision, to the goyim, to the Gentile, Messiah who have called him specifically to be the apostle to the uncircumcision as he called Peter to be the apostle to the circumcision, Paul wanted to fulfill the call that the Lord Jesus have called him to be and to do. And therefore, he's presenting his concern for the Roman believers whom he hasn't seen, whom he never visited yet.

Telling them notice these in these verses verse 8 a Paul is first of all is thankful what an wonderful attitude to have notice he says in verse 8 first he says I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken throughout the whole world what Paul does here he's first of all expressing the that he is thanking God through the Lord Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ, for them, for the believers there at Rome, for all of them. Notice that he is including all the believers there. And what does he say here? He heard that their faith is spoken throughout the whole world. Can you imagine what a testimony, brothers and sisters, When these local assembly of believers from among the nations in the city of Rome was established, their faith in the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah was so strong, was solid, was sincere that Paul is saying everyone heard about your faith.

Everyone heard about you. It was sincere faith in the person and the work of the Lord Jesus that their faith is... A a throughout the whole world what a testimony beloved brothers and sisters this is telling us so much about the Roman believers their faith was sincere their testimony concerning the person of the Lord Jesus was a spread abroad you can just imagine they must have been sharing the message of the gospel must have been so faithful in their testimony around them they were obedient they were living for the Lord in their locality in the city of Rome and you can just imagine what it meant for them because for them it was a challenge to live in Rome where all the caesars are where all you might say the the the men's pride and.

Arrogance and power and to believe that this man by the name of Yeshua by the name of Jesus is the Redeemer the Messiah who loved us came from heaven died for the sin of this world can you imagine what it meant to do so and to have a testimony in the city of Rome you notice what it says at the end of Romans in chapter 16 and verse 19 it says Paul is telling them, you know, your obedience is come abroad unto all men. Thanking God for their faith, and he's ending the letter by showing them that their obedience to the Lord, to the faith, which was once and for all delivered unto the saints, it came abroad unto all men.

Everyone has heard concerning the testimony of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, from the believers at Rome. So Paul is thankful. And sisters listen this is an attitude that all of us need to develop in our lives we ought to be thankful wherever the Lord have established a local church local congregation local kehila local assembly of believers we ought to be so thankful because because we are we desire we should have the mind of the Lord that he is not willing that any should perish that all will come to the knowledge of the truth, and that many will be saved out of this world that is heading toward eternal judgment because of the rejection of the person of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

So Paul is thankful for the believers there at Rome. Listen to what we read in 1 Thessalonians chapter 1. Listen to this verse. Was always thankful for believers who came to know the Redeemer the Lord Jesus the Messiah in 1st Thessalonians chapter 1 we read in verse 6 and ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the word in much affliction with joy in the Holy Spirit so that so that ye were an example to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia And in verse 8 of 1 Thessalonians chapter 1, he said concerning the Thessalonians, he said, for from you sounded out the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place.

Your faith to Godward is spread abroad so that we need not to speak anything. Those that came to know the Savior. What a wonderful thing it is to develop in our own life an attitude of being thankful for every person, he or she, young or old, Jewish or Gentile, male or female, anyone that they've trusted the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, ought to be the joy in our hearts. Why? Because that person had been transferred, from the death unto life, from this world to the kingdom of the Son of God's love, our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. And Paul had this attitude. How about you? How about me?

Do we have this attitude? Do we have the mind of Christ, the mind of the Messiah, the mind of God for this world? We read in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, the Messiah Himself, that whosoever will believe on Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son to condemn the world, but that through Him the world might be saved." expressing to these believers at the city of Rome his concern. So in verse 8, Paul expressed to them that he is thankful for them. He is thankful for them. But it doesn't stop there.

Because in the next verses, verses 9 and 10, Paul, Shaul Paul, is also expressing the fact that he is praying for them. Not only that he is thankful for them, verse 8 of Romans chapter 1, but he's praying for them. Listen to this, beloved brothers and sisters. I'm reading verses 9 and 10. Notice that I will stop here. Let me read verse 10 as well. Here's the second thing that we learned about Shaul Paul. Have never seen, never met, heard about them, but he's also praying for them. This is a lesson for all of us, beloved brothers and sisters, how important it is for us to pray for the people who serve God, the missionaries, the servants of the Lord, who need so much the prayers of the saints, who need to be supported by prayer by the people of God.

But Paul here is praying for the believers at Rome that are in a local assembly. He's praying for them and he's telling them that he is, verse 9, God is his witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayer. He had an attitude of prayer. In Hebrew we call it to pray is to share with God what we have on our hearts is to tell God the things that we are concerned about now obviously we are praying for our husbands our wives our children our parents our friends our family and this is important to pray for our immediate family and our loved one but also to pray for the various believers, even if we don't know them.

Here we learn something amazing, that even though Paul did not know in person these believers at Rome, but he's praying for them. He's presenting them before the Lord, and so he's telling them that God is his witness. He doesn't have to do it necessarily in public, God knows his heart. And God is his witness. He says, notice that he says, whom I serve with my spirit. What does he mean when he says, I serve with my spirit? He's serving God wholeheartedly. He was not forced to serve God. It was not done disservice to God. It was out of the abundance of his heart. People love for God love for the message of the gospel love for the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah it reminds us doesn't it remind us of these men of old in days of old in Israel history you remember Daniel purpose in his heart he had a purpose of heart not to defile himself with the king's meat you remember then we read it in Daniel chapter 7.

You remember Ezra the the first pharisee we might say the parush the sofer, the scribe that had his heart, he set his heart to teach the people of Israel the things of God. You see, it must come out of the heart, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends. This is the attitude that we see in the life of the apostle Paul concerning the believers in the city of Rome. Turn with me for a moment just to a couple of verses in the Old Testament. I turn to Ezra, the book of Ezra. We read concerning Ezra, how he had a right attitude in his heart when he wanted to serve the people of Israel.

People of Israel he had this desire in his heart to teach the word of the Lord the nation of Israel we read it actually also in in let me just find it in Nehemiah if you turn to chapter 8 listen to chapter 8 Nehemiah chapter 8 and verse one and all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate and they speak unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded to Israel and Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of the men and women and all could hear with understanding upon the first day of the seventh month and that Ezra the scribe was.

The one that opened the book and he taught the people of Israel as he was presenting before them the word of the Lord he had this purpose of heart beloved brothers and sisters go now also to the book of Daniel just i want to read that verse there as well Daniel chapter one where Daniel purposed in his heart as we read here not to defile himself with the Kings meat you remember that that we read there and Daniel verse 8 purpose in his heart that he would not defile himself with a portion of the king's meat Ezra in chapter 7 of his book in verse 10 he had a purpose of heart Daniel had a purpose of heart Paul has a purpose of heart he served the Lord as he said it here in.

My spirit with my inner spirit with my heart he had the love for the believers at Rome and then he said that he is the one that is making mention of them always in his prayer and you know brothers and sisters Paul did it all the time he mentioned it throughout the whole New Covenant, the New Testament. Let me read you some of the verses that I placed for myself concerning the prayers of the Apostle Paul for the believers in various local assemblies in Asia Minor and in Europe. First of all, we read in our chapter, Romans 1. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you, and he was praying for them.

1 Corinthians chapter 1 and verse 4 we read, I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus. This is 1 Corinthians 1 and verse 4. To the Corinthian in his second letter he said in 2 Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 7, though we be as reprobate. He continued to write to the Galatians in chapter 6 and verse 18, Brethren, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. Wishing well for the Galatians. To the Ephesians he wrote, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. In verse 16 to the Philippians he said i thank my God in all my remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy to the Colossians he wrote we always thank God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you 3.

To the Thessalonians, he said in 1 Thessalonians 1 verses 2 and 3, we give thanks to God always for you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers. To the Thessalonians, once again in the second letter, he said, we are always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is right. Timothy says in 2 Timothy 1 verse 3, I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day. He was praying for Timothy, beloved brothers and sisters. And to Philemon, he wrote in verse 11 of this book, my prayers brothers and sisters and dear friends how important it is for the believers in our Lord Jesus the Messiah to pray for one another as Paul is praying for the Roman believers and so again look at these verses verses 9 and 10 of Roman chapter 1 gospel of his son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.

He continued in verse 10 and he said, making request, if by any means, now at length, I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. Apparently, beloved brothers and sisters, Paul was seeking. To visit the Roman believers. But as he was planning to come, somehow God directed him elsewhere. And so he's wishing, he's praying that he might have a prosperous visit to Rome. By the way, he had arrived to Rome. And when he arrived to Rome, it was after he had gone to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Shavuot. There he ended up to be taken over, captured. And ultimately the Romans took him to Caesarea.

And from Caesarea he had this long journey on the various ships, various boats. And he ultimately arrived to the city of Rome when there was a shipwreck. And eventually he arrived and he was imprisoned in the city of Rome. He arrived eventually to Rome. But it took him such a long journey. Through the experiences that he had, in the city of Jerusalem in the temple where he was just about to lose his life but ultimately he was delivered and the Romans soldiers took him and ultimately marched him you might say took him all the way to Rome through Caesarea and various experiences that he had as he journeyed to Rome as he have gone to Rome and he had all sort of experiences various.

Ships that he rode on and eventually he arrived to the city of Rome so he's expressing beloved brothers and sisters the desire for him to arrive to the city of Rome and he says it is by the will of God Paul always wanted that God's will will ultimately be the will whereby he will go to visit the believers at Rome. You notice that he used the very same expression by the will of God at the end of the letter to the Romans. In chapter 15, we read in verse 32, that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and may with you be refreshed.

He wanted to be refreshed. The believers at Rome he wanted to be with them he wanted to see them he wanted to minister to them but apparently by the time he's writing this letter he wrote it from being away from Rome and yet he's writing to them wishing to them that he will be able to come to visit them but in a meanwhile he was praying for the brethren in the city of Rome but now notice as he continued in verse 8 he was thankful for them in verse 9 and 10 Paul was praying for the believers at Rome but now in verses 11 and 12 Paul is expressing his love for the believers at Rome he also loved them though he.

God has set in his heart for the nations for the Gentiles and for the believers from among the Gentiles this love was set in his own heart by the Lord Jesus the Messiah and so we read in verse 11 and 12 notice he really longed to see them so he says in verse 11 for I long to see you I love you I want to see you I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end that he may be established. That is, that I may be comforted together with you by mutual faith, both you and me. You notice these two verses, verses 11 and 12.

Shaul Paul is an apostle. Who presenting before the brothers and sisters in the local assembly room his love and affection towards them he wanted to see them he longed to see them when you just imagine when you long to see someone someone you love somebody you want to be with and you long to see them you long to be with them you have this affection towards them you have this joy in your heart just to be with them You could use this expression in many ways. I long to see you. It really presents his love towards the believers in the city of Rome. And why he longed to see them?

Because the heart of Paul as a shepherd was care for the flock, for the sheep. And he wanted that they would be established. Established you know a believer in the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah need to grow to grow spiritually why because Satan is attacking God's people because the world is influencing God's people because the flesh in the believer is so weak and to take us away from the things of God. So Paul, who was called by the Lord Jesus, the glorified Messiah, to minister to the goyim, to the Gentile, he wanted to come to Rome and to be with the believers at Rome whom he loved, he longed to see them, but he wanted them to be established, to grow spiritually.

And so he's saying to them in verse 11, I want to see you. Why? Because I want to impart unto you some spiritual gift. Why? To the intent or to the end that ye may establish. You see, what does it mean that I will impart unto you spiritual gift? Paul was not the one who gave gifts. It was the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the risen Christ. He gave gifts. Every believer has a gift, at least one. And it is the risen Christ, the risen Mashiach that gave gifts to men in the body of Christ, in the body of Messiah. And Paul, as an apostle, he wanted to come and to be in person with the believers at Rome so that he will be able to communicate with them, to instruct them, to help them, to develop the gifts that God had given to them.

And the thought here to impart, the thought is to communicate with them truths that he received from the Lord to communicate with this local assembly in the city of Rome. If you just for a moment turn with me to chapter 12, Romans chapter 12. And beloved brothers and sisters, that the Lord had given gifts to the assembly, to the believers. So it's not so much that Paul would give the gift, the gifts were given by the Lord, but that Paul will be used by the Spirit of God to impart, to communicate, to be an asset to the believers, to help them to develop what the Lord had already given unto them.

It says in chapter 12 of Romans we'll get to it at some point of time in the future in verse 6 having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us whether and then he lists the gift whether prophecy or ministry or teaching or exhortation or giving or ruling or showing mercy all these things according to the Scripture it is the Lord Jesus the Messiah who gave these gifts unto the assembly and the believers are to use their gifts for the benefit of the body of the believers the body of Christ the body of Messiah but Paul is an apostle who was called specifically to be the apostle to the uncircumcision to the Gentiles he wanted to come to be at Rome.

With them so he can communicate with them that which the Lord have given to him for their benefit so he's saying i long to see you i love you i want to impart unto you some spiritual gift why to the end that ye may be established that you may be established for you see the gifts were given for the perfecting of the same for the work of the ministry as we read it elsewhere in Ephesians chapter 4 and Shaul Paul wanted this for the for the Roman believers and therefore you see every local assembly need to be growing new believers come in they have accepted the Savior the Redeemer the Mashiach Christ the Messiah they become born again born from above born by the Holy Spirit of God and from there on.

Children as babe in Messiah they need to grow they receive gift that gift need to be developed and they need some others to encourage them to you might say to impart to them that which will help them to grow spiritually so their gift will be used by the Lord for the ministry and Paul wanted to do so for the Roman believers. And therefore, beloved brothers and sisters, he is writing unto them. And you can just imagine, there may have been a need of growth. By the way, he never heard what's going on so much in the church, in the local assembly at Rome. For example, in Corinth, he heard what was going on there.

Faith was so unique that the whole world heard about their faith. So he wanted to impart to them, to develop them more in their growth, in their spiritual growth, so they can continue on in their testimony in the world in which they live in. You see, the Corinthians, we read in 1 Corinthians 3 that they were a babe in Christ. Problems. The Hebrews were told that they were also babes and like they sometimes behave like babies. They need to mature and to grow. And that's what Paul always desired to do in the life of a brother or a sister. The gifts were given to establish the people of God that they will grow spiritually.

Here's two verses. Ephesians chapter 2. We turn to Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 19 and 20. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 19 and 20. We read in verse 19. You are built upon the foundation of the apostles here is Shaul Paul an apostle and prophet is a new testament new covenant apostle the prophet Yeshua HaMashiach Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone the assembly was built upon the apostles and the prophets of the new covenant the new testament the this present day age, and Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah, is himself the chief cornerstone. As an apostle to the uncircumcision, he wanted them to be built up, to develop, and to be established in the faith.

Listen to chapter 4 of Ephesians, and there we read in verse 11, there we read and he gave the he is Yeshua Jesus he gave some apostles here again Paul was an apostle shaliach apostolos and he gave some apostles and prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers why verse 12 and 13 for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the. Body of Christ the body of Mashiach till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God unto a mature man unto a perfect man unto the measure of the statute of the fullness of Christ that is what Paul wanted and that's why beloved brothers and sisters what Paul is saying to the believers at Rome I am thankful for you, verse 8, I am praying for you, verses 9 and 10, and I love you, verse 11 and 12.

That's why I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end, that ye may be established. Established. And notice he continues in verse 12, Beloved brothers and sisters, And he says in verse 12, that is, verse 12, Paul is continuing to say, that is that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. Notice that? Look how wonderful the attitude of the apostle Shaul Paul. Important to you some spiritual gift to the intent that you may be established but I want to come to you because verse 12 I want to be comforted together with you you know that you know what is unique about the the the church age the assembly age what is unique about the body of Messiah is that Jewish believers and Gentile believers are united together in that one body.

In Hebrew we call it guf echad. And that guf, that body, is the body that belongs to the Messiah, to Christ in heaven. He is the head. And we as believers are part of his body. All the members, the hands, the feet, the fingers, the face, the nose, the ear, the mouth. We are part of the same body. Jewish believers and Gentile believers. And we, as Paul teaching us here, we can be used by the Lord to be a comfort one to another. And that's why you notice in verse 12, he says twice I and me and twice you. So in verse 12, that is that I may be comforted together with you.

I, a Jewish believer, you from a Gentile believer, I can be comforted with you. I'm an apostle. You are believers. I'm not thinking of myself greater than you. I'm simply part of the body of Christ, the body of Messiah. I may be comforted together with you. And notice, by mutual faith, your faith in Christ, in Mashiach, my faith, Both you and me. Paul is teaching us an amazing lesson here, beloved brothers and sisters, to have an attitude that we all are called to have from every people and town, the nation, whatever country one come from, not only whether we are Jewish and Gentile, but even from whatever nation we come from.

Whether it is European or Middle Eastern or whether it is North American or from Asia, we all true believers are part and parcel of that one body that belongs to the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. We belong to the heavenly company. Oh yes, God will restore his earthly people Israel to himself in the future day. He will use the people of Israel to be a blessing to the world in the future day. But in this present day age, this dispensation, He is building a body of believers, a composition of Jews and Gentiles united together in one body as a heavenly company, the bride of Christ.

And He desires us to learn this and to practice this, to have a right attitude toward one another. And every one of us have entered into that relationship. With the Lord Jesus the Messiah simply on the basis of faith and faith alone. By grace and grace alone we have entered into that body of believers. And we are called saints. We are saints simply by virtue of the fact that we have been set apart by God to be part of a heavenly company called the Ecclesia, the Assembly. So we have covered verse 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. Paul is thankful for the believers at Rome, verse 8. Paul is praying for the believers at Rome, verse 9 and 10.

Paul loves the believers at Rome, verses 11 and 12. But now notice that in verse 13 and 14, Paul also senses the fact that he is in debt. To the believers in the city of Rome. He had this sense in his own heart that he owed them. He owed the Gentiles. He owed the Gentile believers that which he received from the Lord. And so that's why you notice in verse 13 and 14, Paul is saying, Verse 14. Notice what Paul is saying, beloved. Brothers and sisters in these two verses, verses 13 and verse 14, he sensed that he owed them. He had a sense of debt. He had a sense of owing. In other words, he, with all the information that the Lord Jesus the Messiah had given to him concerning the gospel and the grace of God and the present day age of the church of the assembly, He sensed that he had a debt to the Gentiles, the whole Gentile world in general, but also specifically to the believers from among the Gentiles in the context here in the city of Rome.

He sensed in his heart, in an inner being, that he has a debt towards them. Whom I serve with my spirit. God is a witness whom I serve for my whole heart, from the bottom of my heart. Just like Daniel served the God of Israel from the bottom of his heart. Just like Ezra served as a scribe among the people of Israel, he served from the bottom of his heart. Just like Moshe served the people of Israel, From the bottom of his heart, it was a sincere service for the Lord. Shaul Paul is serving the nations, the assembly of believers from among the Gentiles. From the bottom of his heart, it was sincere service for the Lord.

And he sensed that he owed, that he had a debt to the Gentile world at large to whom the Lord called him. Assemblies in Asia Minor and in Europe. And you can see, beloved brothers and sisters, what he's saying here in verse 13. I'm reading verse 13. Notice that. He says, but I would not have you ignorant. Notice that, by the way, this expression, I would not have you to be ignorant. This is an expression that Paul is oftentimes mentioned in the Word of God. In Hebrew, the Hebrew word is lo akached. I do not want you to be misinformed. This expression is mentioned quite a few times in the book of Romans.

Let me just read to you a couple of these verses that I mentioned. In chapter 2 he used that word knowing not you notice that he used this expression not knowing in chapter 2 and verse 4 he's using this expression very similar to the one that we have here in our verses notice chapter 6 a little bit later on in verse 3 notice there he says in chapter 6 and verse 3, know ye not, know ye not. In other words, he's using this expression like you ought to know. I don't want you to be misinformed. Here a little bit later in chapter 7 and verse 1, he says, know ye not, brethren. In other words, I do not want you to be misinformed.

I want you to know. Know you not? This is an expression. That he used more than once look at chapter a little bit later on chapter 10 and verse 2 he's saying to them a chapter 10 Romans chapter 10 and verse 2 for i bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge usually he says they to know they need to know the need to know the truth i want you to know i don't want you to be misinformed one more verse in chapter 11 and verse 25 i would not brethren that you should be ignorant that you don't that you will be misinformed i want you to know i want you to know the truth he's saying to the believers to whom he is writing so here in these verses 13 and 14 i would not have you.

I don't want you to be misinformed. I want you to know. I want you to know. He's saying to the believers at Rome in verse 13. And then he continues. And he's saying to them in verse 13, he says, Brethren, he said that oftentimes I purpose to come unto you, but I was led hitherto that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. I wanted to come to you. I want you to know. I want you to have fruit. He says to have myself, to have fruit from you, to experience this when I will come to you. And then he used this expression, brothers and sisters, that expression, I'm a debtor.

In verse 14, I'm a debtor to whom? To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise. A sense of a great debt to the nations to the people from among the Gentile world and he's using not as that i am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarian both to the wise and also and to the unwise now just before we close we ask this question why Paul had this sense of being a debtor he have such a sense in his own heart? Well notice that the reason that Shaul Paul had such a sense of a great debt that he had for the nations of the world is because he received special Revelation.

He received from God, from the Lord Jesus the Messiah, special Revelation that he sends this debt to this with all humanity with all the people of the world and what is that Revelation the Revelation was of course the gospel the gospel the glad tidings that God have a provided a way whereby he can declare just the believer in the Lord Jesus the Messiah. The Holy God declares that on the basis of the finished work of his son, the Mashiach, the Messiah, who died and was buried and rose again from the grave, from among the dead, that whoever will believe on him will receive justification. And Paul sensed that he has a great debt to share it with all the people of the world.

People try to be right with God today they're trying to be to be saved to receive forgiveness to be justified with God and they are trying it by so many means they're trying it by good works they're trying by paying money they're trying it by doing it one way or another but there is no way to be justified with God except it is on the basis of the finished work of Yeshua HaMashiach the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. God the Son who became a man and came down to this world in love for you and I. He went all the way to the cross. He became a substitute, the just for the unjust, in order to bring us to God.

And whoever will believe on him will be able to receive forgiveness of sins. And Paul received that Revelation. The Revelation that there is a salvation that provided for all humanity. Jewish and Gentiles, whoever you are, male and female, boy and girl, whatever people, tongue, the nation you are, there is a way whereby you can be justified. But in order to be justified, you have to hear the message concerning the person and the work of Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, who died and he was buried and he rose again for our justification that whosoever believeth on him, shall not perish but have everlasting life and so Paul is saying I am a debtor notice to the Greeks and to the barbarian to the wise and to the unwise whoever you are you may be Greek you may be barbarian you may be wise or you may be unwise or foolish whatever nation people times a nation you come from Paul says I am a debtor to.

Share that message of the gospel, of the grace of God. And notice that. Turn with me, please, to Ephesians chapter 1. I want to read these verses for us, and then we will close the meeting for today. In Ephesians chapter 1, the apostle Paul said to the Ephesians, he said, and I'm reading verse 3 and onward, and Father of our Lord, Yeshua HaMashiach, our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ, according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, and that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. And Lord, as that, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

His grace where wherewith he has made us accepted in the beloved to the notice that in whom we have redemption notice that through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace beloved friend beloved brothers and sisters Paul sends the debt that he owed because he wanted to share the message of the gospel that God have made us the believer in the Lord Jesus the Messiah accepted in the beloved the beloved is the Mashiach Yeshua the beloved son the Messiah himself God the son who became a man by the name of Jesus by the name of Yeshua in whom we have redemption it is in him through his blood he shed his blood the forgiveness of sins Why?

Notice, according to the riches of His grace. Behold the grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. Though He was rich, He became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich. Paul received the call from the Lord to be the apostle to the Gentiles. He received a call by the Lord Jesus to present this dispensation of the grace of God, this present day age, that the message is being reached and spread in all the world. And whoever will believe in the person and the work of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, he or she will be saved, will receive forgiveness of sins. I'm closing with this, beloved brothers and sisters.

I am a debtor, both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. I have a debt that I owe to the Gentile world. I want to share that message of the gospel, both to the Gentile world as well to my own people, the Jewish people, to share with them the way whereby they can receive. Forgiveness of sins this is why Shaul Paul is so eager to arrive to Rome and so he told them in verse 8 I'm thankful for you in verse 9 and 10 I'm praying for you in verse 11 and 12 I love you and in verse 13 and 14 I am in debt I'm your debtor I'm in debt for you and I long to come to see you I long to be with you and I wish to be able to communicate with you that are at Rome I am a deter toward you Paul is saying to the Romans when he writes to them that letter to the Romans and may may the Lord help us to see that what an attitude Paul had desiring the welfare.

Of all in the world to hear the message of the gospel of the grace of God. So beloved friend, may the Lord bless you. May the Lord open our hearts to realize what Yeshua the Messiah have done for us. May the Lord bless his word as we're continuing together in the study of the letter to the Romans. May the Lord bless you, my dear friend. We will close the meeting in prayer and say shalom the next time our God and our Father we want to thank you for the privilege of studying the book of Roman thank you for the attitude that Shaul Paul had he desired that all will hear the message of the gospel he sensed that he is a debtor bless your word today we pray for we ask it in Yeshua in Jesus name Amen and Amen God bless you my friend Shalom Shalom Bye-bye.