Introduction

• Five pillars of truth in Romans:

  • We are all guilty of sin.

  • We can all be saved.

  • We can look forward to a new life.

  • Your family can’t save you.

  • What it means to live for God (Romans 12 and following).

Let love be without hypocrisy.

• Proverbs 26:24-26

• John 1:47

• I Peter 2:22

• I John 3:14-18

Abhor what is evil.

• Love and hate go together.

  • Amos 5:6-7, 10, 14-15 – “They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.”

• We need to work on our attitudes so that we abhor sin.

  • Psalms 119:104 – Loving good and hating evil are two sides of the same attitude.

  • Proverbs 8:13

• That helps us stay away from sin.

  • I Corinthians 10:6

  • We have to stop the sin in our heart.

Cling to what is good.

• God defines what is good!

• Romans 12:2; 2:6-11

• I Thessalonians 5:21

• Proverbs 16:32

• Ephesians 2:10

• The world’s standard does not match God’s standard, but we must cling to God’s standard.

• Ephesians 4:17-20