Today: [Romans 16:] Getting Up and Out of the Status Quo: Are you tired of the same-old, same-old? God has something different in mind for you! In Romans 16 Paul does, in fact, conclude his letter with explicit expressions of his apostolic authority. He mandates these people who had never met him face to face to accept those he would send to them. He provoked them to identify those around them who were bringing them personally and the work of the church down in defeat. He assures them that Satan would be bruised under their feet if they only had the boldness and the willingness to think differently and do differently than they had in times past.