CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY
OF THE COMPLETE SALVATION OF GOD
IN ROMANS

MESSAGE SIX

REIGNING IN LIFE

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OUTLINE

3. Through the abundance of grace and the abundance of the gift of righteousness—Rom. 5:17b:
11. In living the church life—14:1—15:13:
1. Receiving the believers under the reigning in life.
2. According to God's receiving—14:1-23:
1. Receiving the weak one, not for judgment on his doctrinal considerations concerning eating and keeping of days—vv. 1-6.
2. By living to the Lord and caring for standing before the judgment seat of God, without judging one another and despising others, nor putting a stumbling block or cause of falling before a brother by not walking according to love—vv. 7-16, 20-23.
3. Living the kingdom life not for eating and drinking, but for righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, pursuing peace and the building up of one another—vv. 17-19.
3. According to Christ's receiving—15:1-13:
1. The strong ones needing to bear the weaknesses of those who are weak; not pleasing ourselves but pleasing our neighbor for his building up as Christ did—vv. 1-4.
2. That the God of endurance and encouragement may grant us to be of the same mind toward one another according to Christ Jesus so that with one accord we may glorify God in receiving one another as Christ also received us to the glory of God—vv. 5-7.
3. Who (Christ) became the minister of both the circumcision and the Gentiles that the God of hope may fill us with all joy and peace for us to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit—vv. 8-13.
12. In the apostle Paul's setting up a pattern of living the church life for the living of the Body life—15:14—16:27:
1. Preaching the gospel to raise up the local churches in the Gentile world through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, in the power of signs and wonders, and in the power of the Spirit of God—15:14-24:
1. From Jerusalem to Asia Minor—v. 19a.
2. From Asia Minor to eastern Europe (Illyricum)—vv. 19b-23a.
3. Intending to go to Spain through Rome—vv. 23b-24.
2. Bringing the Gentile churches into the fellowship of the Body of Christ with the Jewish churches in the communication of the provision of the Gentile churches to meet the necessity of the Jewish churches—15:25-33.
3. Blending together many saints and many local churches under his ministry for the practical living of the Body of Christ in the universal fellowship of the Body by recommendations and greetings between the saints and the churches mutually through him—16:1-16, 21-24.
4. Being very strict with the divisive and dissenting ones who make divisions, without compromise or yielding—16:17-19 and note 172.
5. Affording the God of peace a situation in which He will crush Satan under the feet of the churches by the saints' enjoyment of the grace of Christ in the blending and the universal fellowship of the Body—16:20.
6. Carrying out, based upon the righteousness of God and through man's obedience of faith (1:17), the mystery kept in silence in the times of the ages, concerning the complete salvation of God in the preaching of the complete gospel of God (1:1), in the fulfillment of the eternal economy of God for the glory to the only wise God through Jesus Christ—16:25-27.
   
   Note: In the conclusion of this book, the glory to the consummated God indicates that the consummated God is glorified in the humanity of the glorified church under its reigning in life in the fulfillment of the eternal economy of God in carrying out His mystery hidden in the ages.