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  • Romans 12
    Gifts
    How could those in the early church know that the message brought was from the Lord? Sign gifts; miraculous events.

    The Holy Spirit
    Spirit leading
    Spirit filling

    If we are going to hold a good hermeneutics we do not have the liberty to be anything but very strict and narrow

    Romans 12:9-21
    How does this section fit with that above?

    v9 sets the stage for the rest of the chapter
    Love is without hypocrisy
    Abhor what is evil cling (adhere) to that which is good
    Acts 2:42

    9 different phrases
    All prefixed like = "With reference to..."

    v10
    Agape - love that flows out of one's character
    Phileo - analytical love; I've looked at it and examined it and now understand it and I pledge myself
    Storge - family love. The word we know today is "stork". The concept is "covenant loyalty" which has the same idea as the OT word for "lovingkindness"

    V10-13 - examples and instruction on how to show, how to love someone

    V 14- ff  = speak well 1