Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. All right guys here we are. Kick off. Kick off time.

Thrilled you're here we got a great study in store.

Let me just say a couple things of housekeeping on the front end.

I'm going to be out of town the next two weeks,

so we will be back in three weeks. I think it's like the 30th,

something like that, whatever that Thursday is. So can't

want you to still come and buy coffee next Thursday, okay? So that's number one number two just kind of a word for everybody watching on

live stream you can watch these on multiple different avenues but we have a special podcast that's just set-ups called

The Bible Study.

And it's an easy access to all of the Roman Studies and all these first John studies.

And so just as you're watching on live stream,

just know that you can access it

and there's no cost or anything.

We just want to get the word of God to you however we can.

So thank you for joining us wherever you are watching from whence you are watching and

I want to begin in a word of prayer. Okay, Kent? Little prayer, okay?

Father in heaven, thank you for your grace and your goodness that you have lavished upon us in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thank you that you have not dealt with us according to our transgressions,

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