{"id":1069,"date":"2009-07-14T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T00:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ministryofgrace.org\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2009-07-14T18:46:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T00:46:18","slug":"romans-15-working-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/romans-15-working-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans 1:5 – Working for God"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Romans 1:5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name,<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Truth to Learn<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul received his salvation and apostleship from Jesus.<\/p>\n

Behind the Words<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The word translated \u201cobedience<\/span>\u201d is hupoko\u0113<\/span><\/em>, which is made up of hupo<\/span><\/em>, meaning \u201cunder\u201d and akou\u014d<\/span><\/em>, meaning \u201cto hear.\u201d So, literally it means \u201cto hear under.\u201d This is a picture of a student learning from his teacher. It carries the idea of one who is \u201clistening attentively and obeying what he is taught.\u201d<\/p>\n

The word translated \u201cto<\/span>\u201d is the Greek word eis<\/span><\/em>, which means \u201cto or toward.\u201d The root meaning of this word is \u201crendering something to or toward an end point or conclusion.\u201d It focuses the attention not so much on the process as on the end result.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meaning Explained<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul has been talking about the humanity and deity of Jesus Christ. He now says, \u201cThrough Him<\/span> we have received grace and apostleship.<\/span>\u201d This grace has been shown to all of us who are saved, as he tells us in Ephesians 2:8:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;<\/span> it is<\/span><\/em> the gift of God,<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only did Paul receive grace just as you and I did when we were saved, but he claims that he received apostleship from Jesus as well. We find this described further in Paul\u2019s letter to the Galatian Christians:<\/p>\n

But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as <\/span>the gospel<\/span><\/em> for the circumcised <\/span>was<\/span><\/em> to Peter (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),<\/span> (Galatians 2:7, 8<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>)<\/em><\/p>\n

The next phrase in today\u2019s verse is a little bit awkward in English: \u201cfor obedience to the faith among all nations<\/span>\u201d In the original Greek text there is no definite article (the) before the word \u201cfaith.\u201d Based on this and on our interpretation of the word eis<\/span><\/em> (see Behind the Words<\/span>), we sould translate this as, \u201cresulting in obedience of faith among all nations.<\/span>\u201d That is, God\u2019s plan for Paul\u2019s salvation and apostleship is ultimately to produce obedience and faith among all nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, Paul gives the credit and glory to whom it belongs, \u201cfor His name;<\/span>\u201d Paul recognizes that the whole purpose of the Christian faith is not our personal glory or satisfaction. It is not simply to obtain a free ticket into heaven. In the final analysis it really has nothing to do with us at all; it has everything to do with God! It is for the glory of His name. The whole purpose of our salvation–totally underserved and freely given to us by the grace of God–is to bring praise and glory to God Himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Application<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As Paul tells us in the Ephesians verse quoted above and the verses that follow, we have been saved by grace. Our salvation is a gift from God. We didn\u2019t do any works to deserve it. In fact, God\u2019s purpose for our salvation is that we will do works for His glory.<\/span><\/p>\n

So our sole responsibility as Christians is to be hard at work for Him, and He will get all the glory. That should humble us all.<\/span><\/p>\n

In God\u2019s service, for His glory,<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Romans 1:5 Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name, Truth to Learn Paul received his salvation and apostleship from Jesus. Behind the Words The word translated \u201cobedience\u201d is hupoko\u0113, which is made up of hupo, meaning \u201cunder\u201d and akou\u014d, meaning \u201cto hear.\u201d So, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[411,204,132,100,97,412],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apostleship","tag-faith","tag-grace","tag-obedience","tag-salvation","tag-works"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5geA-hf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ministryofgrace.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}