GOSPEL: REAL v. FAKE - July 28, 2013

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Detailed Notes from GALATIANS CLASS week #1 - July 28, 2013

INTRO

Why do we want to teach Galatians?

·      Relevance to our church.

·      Unique book in terms of our journey.

·      Like many Christians, we begin our walk with Jesus as a prodigal, but all too quickly we become the “older brothers” in God’s family.

·      Paul uses the letter to Galatia to tackle this problem head-on.

Overview

·      Author: Paul

·      Date: 50’s

·      Audience: Galatia (some discrepancy over the northern or southern cities, but Paul appears to visit both on his journeys, so he could be writing to both).

·      Style: Rebuke or Deliberative Rhetoric… wanting a change in the individual’s or group’s behavior

·      Reason: other missionaries (probably after Paul’s first journey) were entering Galatia and requiring the Christians there to adhere to specific Jewish laws (like circumcision). This matter had been settled at the council of Jerusalem, but the Galatian churches were believing that they must now follow the “law” to become fully “righteous” and gain the full benefits of the people of God.

Other key texts to be familiar with (Homework J):

·      The story of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-25:18)

·      Paul’s Journeys (Acts 13-18)

·      Other New Testament references to Galatia?

o   2 Timothy 4:10 – sends one of his workers back there

o   1 Peter 1:1 – sends his letter to Galatia

o   1 Corinthians 16:1 –teaching on giving

Other things to note:

·      Paul is writing a letter to a church. It is not a letter of well-wishes, but it is also not a letter written to those whom he doesn’t know. As an apostolic leader, Paul is writing to correct a specific way of thinking that would be detrimental to the personal and corporate growth of their church (or of any church for that matter which is why it’s sent to all the churches of Galatia).

·      Gentiles in its original form was just a term for “nations.” By the time of Jesus, the Jewish people had determined that all nations other than their own were bad for their way of life and, in fact, hindered them following the law. Paul is not only taking on cultural & religious prejudice, but he is opening the door for all “nations” to believe, receive and live-out the real gospel.

·      Galatian is a GRACE v. LAW argument. Presented by Paul in the legal (almost lawyer-like) style of his day. So, each chapter we will present as an argument to diffuse any possible lingering of a “false gospel.”

This will be our schedule:

·      July 28th - Intro and THE GOSPEL: Real v. False

·      Week #2 - August 4 - JUSTIFIED: Faith v. Works

·      Week #3 - August 11 - IDENTITY: Righteous v. Cursed

·      Week #4 - August 18 - THE PROMISE: Kids v. Orphans

·      Week #5 - August 25 - YOUR NATURE: Freedom v. Slavery

·      Week #6 - September 1 - ACTION: Grace v. Effort and wrap up

This is, of course, a goal. We may have to combine some weeks or take longer on some difficult sections.

What are other sources saying?

·      (Mirror 131) “Paul contrasts the futility of the law of works in its clumsy effort to improve human behavior with the amazing revelation of the life of our design redeemed in us, in Christ! He uses the words: law, flesh, and works vs. grace, spirit, and faith to give reference to the dynamic of the success of the cross.”

·      (Be Free INRTO)

o   We often feel like we have to earn God’s love or do something that makes us deserve what Jesus went through on the cross. Yet these feelings contradict the clear teaching of the Bible that God’s love is unconditional and that our salvation is free. But we sure struggle with that don’t we?

o   What makes salvation good news is that it is free.

o   The truth that God’s grace and love being free and unconditional is just too good to be true. Because of our conditioning, we feel compelled to do something to earn them.

o   True salvation is free of works and totally dependent upon God’ grace. And once you get this, once you allow the truth of the real gospel to penetrate your heart, you begin to live in freedom. Freedom from fear of losing God’s love, freedom from guilt, shame and condemnation when you do something that doesn’t measure up, freedom from the frantic urge to perform for God, so He will love you more. The gospel is the good news, and the good news is that God is for you, not against you, that God loves you right now as much as He will ever love you, and that salvation is a free gift that He makes available to anyone who will receive it by faith. This is Paul’s gospel, and this is truly good news!

·      And just to bring it into a Vineyard context, listen to what Wimber wrote over 25 years ago (1987).

POWER HEALING  by John Wimber

Let us look now at the central and root act that God does to restore our spiritual life.

   Our salvation is initiated in a one-time event in which we are born again by turning away from our sins and toward Christ. This “born-again” event produces many changes in our lives and is the basis for our spiritual healing. The clearest description of these changes is found in the first 8 chapters of the book of Romans. In the first four chapters Paul teaches that we are justified through faith in Christ (that is, our sins are forgiven and we are declared righteous by the Father): Romans 3:22-24

   “Justification by faith,” as theologians call this cardinal truth of the Christian life, has 2 parts. First, God forgives the sins that we have committed, so we no longer have to live in bondage with guilt and fear; second, God declares us righteous with the same righteousness as that of His own Son.

   The remarkable quality about our justification is that it is free: Romans 5:8. This is difficult for many to accept, because there is something in us that wants to earn eternal life; we want to do it our own way, in out own strength. But God’s gifts of grace and mercy cannot be earned; they can only be received.

   God forgives us in Christ and declares us righteous. He adopts us as his sons and daughters. He changes us into his likeness.

   So complete is our death in Christ that we are now a new creation: Romans 6:6-7. This is what being “born again” means: we have new natures, new hearts, ones that now want to please and obey God.

   “If anyone is in Christ,” Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” The key to our spiritual healing—and the one point that must be understood and experience for the rest of what I write in this book to make any sense—is becoming new creations in Christ and living our lives as fully forgiven and reconstructed people. In this regard our initial “healing of spirit” is more like a heart transplant operation, for God does not bring new life to an old heart so much as create a new heart in us with new desires and capacities to know him. This is the fulfillment of Gods promise found in Jeremiah 31:33.

   Paul makes the same point in Ephesians 1:4-6.

   Under Roman law an adopted son was recognized in the same way as a natural son. In fact, at the time of the adoption all records of the adopted son’s previous life were destroyed, indicating he was a new person and that he had all the privileges of a natural son, including inheritance rights. That is what being a Christian is like: we are no longer tie to our old inheritance of sin and sinful desires; we are new creations (see also Colossians 3:1-11 and 1John 3:6-7).

   I used to tell people that “I was just a sinner saved by grace.” But I no longer say that. True, I once was a sinner who repented and believed, and as a result was saved by grace. But now I am a child of God, healed of my spiritual sickness: Romans 6:18. That is to say, my fundamental identity is that I am a child of God, a new creation.

Galatians 1

GOSPEL: Real v. False

Greeting

·      Read 1:1-5

·      (KEY) 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

·      Already he is laying the groundwork for this is about God and not us… grace and not law.

Gospel

·      Read 1:6-10

·      KEY VERSES

o   1: 6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

o   Adhering to law is deserting Jesus and his plan.

o   1:10 If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

o   You cannot please both men and Christ.

·      Defining the gospel

o   The gospel story is the story of Jesus.

o   The good news is the blessing of what we (God’s kids) received because of the gospel story!

·      Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

·      1Corinthains 15 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

·      Ephesians 1:13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

o   We will focus on the authentic because then it’s easier to spot the counterfeit.

§  Loved – The gospel of grace declares that God’s love is greater than your sin and that there is nothing you can do to earn it. All you can do is receive it by faith.

§  Forgiven – the gospel is not an invitation to engage in soul-searching and faultfinding. The gospel is the emphatic declaration that you have been completely and eternally forgiven through the blood of the Lamb.

§  Saved – The gospel is not just a promise of a ticket to heaven and a distant salvation. The gospel is the power of God to bless you with his saving and abundant life here and now.

§  Union – For those who believe it, the gospel is the joyful declaration that right now and forever more, you are in perfect union with Jesus. In Christ you have ALREADY found eternal rest.

§  Accepted – The gospel is not an invitation to accept Jesus; it is the stunning announcement that HE accepts you!

§  Holy – Many Christians still struggle with sin despite their best efforts to avoid it… they are patients who won’t leave the hospital. The gospel is the definitive announcement that in Jesus you are holy and whole.

§  Righteous – The gospel is not a list of things you must do to inherit eternal life. It is the blessed announcement that the righteousness you need to enter the Kingdom of heaven – the righteousness that exceeds that of the Pharisees – comes to us as a free gift through faith.

§  Died – The gospel is not a reform program for bad people; it is the liberating declaration of new life for those who have already died. On the cross the “old” went and now the new has come. Religion says die to self… gospel says you’re already dead.

§  New – the gospel is not a half-baked hope that you can extend your old, broken life indefinitely. The gospel is the joyful announcement that in in Christ the old has gone and the new has come.

§  Royal – the gospel is not a vague notion that you get to rule and reign after you die. It is the glorious announcement that the reign of the King is right here within the reach of faith. The Kingdom of God is at hand now!

·      We mustn’t desert God’s grace for our effort.

·      God’s grace is what saves us and sustains our Christian life.

·      The gospel is ALL about what God did for us!

God Calls Paul

·      Read 1:11-24

·      (KEY) 1:12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

·      Man’s Revelation v. God’s Revelation

·      Refer again to 1 Corinthians 15

·      Paul and the gospel

o   God did the work.

o   God did it by grace.

o   God did it through Christ.

o   God did it for the sake of others.

o   God did it for His glory.

Parallel Passages in Galatians

·      Galatians 2:2, 2:5, 2:7, 2:14, 3:8, 4:1

A Healthy Sexual Identity - July 20-21, 2013

Pretty powerful and amazing weekend at Vineyard. Our Saturday service and our 11am service were among the most powerful I've ever had the privilege of leading. There was a ton of FREEDOM for many people this weekend. Thank you Jesus for being our guide and teacher.

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Hello everyone…

·      When we started planning for this series, I felt like God told me that it had the potential to be a “Church Changing” series for the Vineyard.

·      In fact, I believe that the revelation of this series could literally change our church from the Inside Out.

·      Today, we’re going to build on the issue of our bodies by engaging the topic of our: Sexual Identity.

Prayer

From a very young age, we are taught to let sex identify us. We are bombarded with this idea that our sexual identity is the most important thing in our lives.

As a young boy, I was taught things like:

·      The biggest and strongest kids will be the winners at sports.

·      The girls like the guys with the cutest hair (thank God that’s not always true).

And it evolves as you grow up:

·      Now that you’re a winner at sports, you need to be a winner with the girls.

·      If you get the pretty girls to like you (or even kiss you), then you’ll really have arrived.

And the lies spread:

·      Everyone’s seen a girl naked (porn, movie, real life)… why haven’t you?

·      Haven’t had sex yet? What’s wrong with you?

Young girls don’t have it much different… and it too starts early:

·      Oh don’t you look pretty in that dress.

·      You should wear makeup… pierce your ears… dye your hair (as if what God created wasn’t good enough).

·      Flirt with the cute boys to get them to talk to you, to like you or even kiss you.

And the lies spread:

·      He won’t stick around if you don’t go further with him?

·      Haven’t had sex yet? What’s wrong with you?

Many of us buy into the sexual identity… sometimes without even realizing it…

I know that I did.

I’ve often shared with you: that before I met Jesus, I was angry, frustrated and super selfish. These things manifested really strongly as I believed my loneliness and my reality could be fixed and cured by a relationship or sex. Then, I pursued it without thinking.

Most believe that our loneliness can be solved by a physical relationship. We believe that if we don’t have that physical relationship, then something is wrong with us… or we need to pursue a different kind of physical relationship.

DIL:

Our lives will never be “full” by pursuing the opinions, praise or touch of others:

Colossians 1:19 tells us that “In (Jesus)him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.” And 1:27 tells us that “the glory of this mystery is Christ in you.” If God’s fullness is in Christ, and Christ’s fullness is in you…

Then, our lives will only be “full” through relationship with Jesus.

Two Lies

BUT, most have bought into one of these 2 lies:

1)   Society’s Lie: All sex is good.

a.     If it feels good, then it’s ok.

b.     If it makes you happy, then go for it.

c.      We’re all lonely, so fill that void.

d.     If we believe the lie that “all sex is good,” then only having it in some way will define us.

e.     This lie will always leave us hollow & unfulfilled.

2)   Religion’s Lie: All sex is bad.

a.     If it feels that good, then it must be bad.

b.     Sex feels so guilty then it must be worst sin on the planet.

c.      If you’re lonely, then you need to fix something in yourself. Work harder, pray more, and devote yourself to avoiding carnal desire.

d.     If we believe the lie that “all sex is evil,” then we are still letting our sexual identity define us… instead of letting what Jesus believes about us define us!

e.     This lie will always leave us guilty and ashamed.

The Word on Sex

What happens when we take these 2 lies and hold them up to the truth of the Word of God? Today, we want to see how these 2 lies effect the way we view sex… it’s goods and its “bads.” This is not about us doing a Bible study on what the Word says about sex… for the Bible is unafraid to engage every sexual issue, but that’s not for today. It’s about us understanding that even the way we read what the Bible says about sex can be effected by the lens we use to view our identity.

THE GOOD and THE BAD

(1) HEALTHY IDENTITY

·      A healthy identity begins when we pay attention to God’s design (how He views us)… and let Him define us.

·      And, the way we view sex is no different.

·      The Word tells us that God’s design for sex is GOOD!

o   GOD’S CREATION. (Genesis 1, 2 and 4)

o   OBEDIENCE to God’s design.

o   Celebrated in Song of Solomon (Old Testament).

o   Intimate Communication in the NT. (Ephesians 5)

o   Intended for a man & a woman.

o   Intended for marriage.

o   ALWAYS intended for love.

o   NEVER intended to be selfish.

o   NEVER to be avoided by married couples. (1Corinthians 7:1-5)

·      There is a lot to teach on there, but let’s look at what the lies do

·      Society’s Lie – If sex is good, then do it because it feels good. Don’t worry about what the partner wants/needs. This is about your happiness.

·      Religion’s Lie – This is about giving, so don’t enjoy it. You can have sex in marriage, but it’s only to populate the earth as God commanded in Genesis.

Where is the truth?

·      Who you are should define your actions, not the other way around! So when we read: I Corinthians 6:18

·      “Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.”

·      We must recognize that all sin (sexual included) is viewed the same by God (Romans 3) and should be avoided as not a part of our new nature.

·      We must recognize that sexual issues and Jesus have trouble coexisting in our bodies…

o   Jesus in you is your new nature

o   the desires of your old nature don’t belong anymore

o   Holy Spirit may be tugging on you right now even.

o   The Holy Spirit (John 16:8) “will convict the world concerning sin (non-believer) and righteousness (conscience of the believer) and judgment (Satan).”

There’s a whole new way to look at sex:

·      Your fullness is in Jesus… not in your sexual identity and not in your relationship with your spouse.

·      So, put Him at the center of your marriage.

·      If Jesus’ fullness is in both of you, then sex becomes something that married couples should celebrate and enjoy as a gift from God.

·      If you’re not married, then quit trying to find fullness in relationships and give yourself wholly to Jesus…

·      then, when the 2 of you come together, you can celebrate what God has given you.

(2) UNHEALTHY

An unhealthy identity begins when we pay attention to society’s design (for sex)… and let our eyes (what we see & experience) define us …this comes in conflict with our healthy hearts.

Take a look at what Paul says in his letter to the Colossians. I’m going to read this from the Mirror Bible… starting in chapter 3.

3:5-7 “Consider the members of your body as dead and buried towards everything related to the porn industry, sensual uncleanness, longing for forbidden things, lust and greed, which are just another form of idol worship. These distorted expressions are in total contradiction to God’s design and desire for your life. We were all once swept along into a lifestyle of lust and greed.”

·      Can you hear Paul’s heart here? He’s showing us that our old bodily desires (like our heart) have been replaced by something new in Jesus.

·      He uses phrases like “consider your body dead/buried” towards the sexual identity of this world. They don’t line up with God’s view of you.

·      You “all” used to live that way, but you don’t have to anymore… we’re free!

How does that unhealthy identity try to creep in?

·      When we avoid God’s plan for sex (obvious ones).

o   Sex with someone not your spouse.

o   Kissing someone not your spouse.

o   Holding hands.

o   SINGLES: sex outside of marriage

·      When we look where we shouldn’t which allows darkness a foothold. (Eyes are the lamps of your body… the gateway).

o   Watching or surfing for porn.

o   Watching inappropriate commercials.

o   Eyeing the cheerleaders… or the athletes… or movie stars… whomever.

·      This usually begins in even more subtle and sneaky ways. Especially when we make excuses… instead of paying attention to Him and who we are in Him.

o   Cup of coffee.

o   Talking for hours on the phone.

o   Emotional connection

o   Giving your heart to someone/thing else.

o   SINGLES: When we find our fullness in things outside of a relationship with Jesus.

Let’s expose the lies again:

·      Society’s Lie –

o   it’s ok… quit worrying… it’s only a little bit wrong… doesn’t this feel good? Isn’t that friendship/relationship important to you?

o   …or even things like everyone’s doing it… or that won’t effect you …or my spouse doesn’t care– you were just born with those desires…

o   it’s a social issue not a sin issue… the world around you is celebrating these issues & our culture has changed, so we must embrace a new Biblical view on sex.

o   This puts the emphasis on our own feelings of instead how God sees you and who you are. It will leave you unsatisfied!

·      Religion’s Lie –

o   You MUST guard everything… internet filters, don’t watch tv, shelter yourself! …

o   these all sound like the right things, but the motive is self-help and religion… not living in the reality of the King who loves you.

o    OR you go even further those sins are so wrong that they’re elevated above all other sins and so we must stand AND persecute anyone who makes those choices… if we don’t band together now against these issues our society will be destroyed.

o   And we’ve again elevated our feelings and will power over our identity in Christ!

Where is the truth?

Colossians 3:8-9 “But now, because you realize that you co-died and were co-raised with Christ, you can flush your thoughts with truth! Permanently put these things behind you: things such as violent outbursts of rage, depression, all manner of wickedness, slander and every form of irregular conversation. That old life was a lie, foreign to our design! Those garments of disguise are now thoroughly stripped off us in our understanding of our union with Christ in His death and resurrection. We are no longer obliged to live under the identity and rule of the robes we wore before, neither are we cheating anyone through false pretentions.”

·      Paul keeps going to drive this home. Don’t just try and work something up to show your new identity!

·      Renew your mind by realizing that the mystery of the gospel is that Christ is in you… which means you were dead AND raised with him through the cross.

·      And I love how the Mirror says to “flush” your entire mind with this truth: YOU ARE NEW.

·      All the old stuff was a lie… we don’t have to pretend, put up a front, or succumb to it’s rule in our lives. Christ in us is our new identity.

o   because your fullness is in Jesus… and He lives in you… we can live from a place of righteous desires & thoughts.

o   We can trust that to protect us – This revelation will “strip off” all of our old understanding.

o   It may seem to simple…

o   God’s design is that you’re so full of Him that you won’t want anything else to satisfy you.

o   If this feels like it’s just too good, that’s why it’s called GRACE!

If we continue to let the opinions or touch of others define us, then our thoughts and our bodies follow our sexual identity instead of our new heart into places far from God’s design.

But we need to remember that…

God’s design is that our hearts remain pure, so our actions follow.

·      Society – all sex is good

·      Religion – all sex is bad

·      The truth is both approaches are wrong.

o   We shouldn’t go on sinning so that grace will abound.

o   We shouldn’t exercise so much freedom that carnality wins.

o   We shouldn’t let condemnation dominate our thoughts. (HS leads us to righteousness conviction)

o   We shouldn’t subject ourselves to the law again and nullify the cross of Christ by our striving and efforts.

o   We should always love!

·      This is about NOT measuring ourselves AT ALL by the opinions of feelings that others give us. It’s about fullness in Christ ALONE.

Healthy Sexual Identity

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been examining what it means for us to be “Healthy.” We’ve learned that if we are healthy on the inside, then the fruit we produce will be good. It’s no different with our sexual health.

·      It begins with understanding in our new hearts. God has taken out our old hearts (transplant) and replaced it with a heart that is capable of receiving the presence of God.

·      As we begin to realize that Christ lives in us (all the fullness of God in us!), that truth takes root in our heart and grows up into our understanding. It changes the way we think and live.

·      Now, we are free to choose a life of freedom in all of our bodily actions. Our understanding that our bodies are Christ’s home becomes a reality that we can live out daily.

Paul wraps up his section in Colossians 3 with 2 super powerful statements:

3:10 “We stand fully identified in the new creation renewed in knowledge according to the pattern of the exact image of our Creator.”

1)   We have been identified by God as His image on earth. (Reminder of Daniel and Katie’s sermon: We are not trying to tell you what to do, but rather who you are!)

3:12a “You are the product of God’s love; He restored you to His original thought.”

2)   His love for us did all the work.

a.     Jesus did it all. We don’t need to do anything!

b.     The sexual identity will never fulfill this

c.      Others giving to us, letting someone else’s view of us – will never fill us up.

This is so important, because when we realize that world’s view of sexual identity could become a trap for us: most Christians try and protect themselves…

And we fall into the temptation of religion’s view of sexual identity. (personal here)

·      Talked about the rules I had in Bible college that didn’t change my obedience.

·      No amount of internet filters, accountability partners, or sheltered living will heal the identity issue.

·      These things in and of themselves are not wrong BUT… Only the realization of Christ in us… and how the Father now sees us will change the way we think and the way we live towards sex.

Our new way to think…

·      All have sinned.

·      Jesus took the penalty of that sin.

·      When we place our faith in Jesus, we take on His life, death and resurrection as our new identity.

·      When the Father looks at us, He now sees the blood of Jesus… He sees His finished work covering our lives.

·      No longer do we need to live letting our “sexual sins” define our lives… those days are dead and buried.

·      Now, we are free to let the truth of the gospel define us.

·      Now, when temptation comes (and it will… temptation is not sin), thank God that the desires of your flesh have been crucified with Christ & make the choice to pursue Him only… not what the world says you should pursue.

It all come back to Fullness

·      The world tells us that fullness comes when we are sexually satisfied.

·      Religion tells us that fullness comes when we protect ourselves from all sex.

·      The Bible tells us that sex within the marriage context is a good thing that has been twisted and corrupted by the lies of the enemy.

·      Our new identity tells us that fullness only comes through relationship with Jesus.

·      When we are “full of Jesus,” the desires of our body will reflect that… not carnal desires, not religious fervor… but holy desires.

·      And when this revelation comes… you’ll find yourself FREE!

Turn things back over to the campuses… Prayer

Offering

MINISTRY TIME: 

We’re going to start ministry early today. We want to put the following thoughts/questions before you to respond to after worship.

How can we pray for your identity today?

·      For everyone’s intimacy with Jesus to increase.

·      For the purity of our singles

·      For the intimacy of our couples (some need to celebrate).

·      For redemption of those who have sinned...God's grace is definitely big enough! (the cross was a success).

·      For redemption for those who have been sinned against.

Closing Announcements:  HEALING ROOMS