You will have no idea if you're not faithful to share Christ how few people know that God loves them.

Most people have in their mind a caricature of God, usually he's frowning.

What a ridiculous and wicked concept. God loves us.

And the Bible is full of that kind of content.

Imagine opening your mailbox and finding a letter from God addressed to you.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall explains how the Book of Romans is exactly that.

It's not an academic record of ancient history. The book of Romans is God's spirit speaking directly to you.

The writer of Romans, Paul, was a former Christian hater.

After his conversion, Paul became passionate about God's grace, the kind that stooped down

to rescue us.

In this study, we'll see how his profound letter builds essential boundaries around your mind,

while igniting your heart for authentic Christian living.

Well, we're studying the letter to the Romans as we began this first chapter together. I invite you to turn. If you're unfamiliar

with your Bible, there are four Gospels in the New Testament, followed by a rather lengthy

book of history called the Acts, meaning the acts of the early apostles. And then began the letters of the New Testament.

Paul wrote 13 of them, probably did not write Hebrews, so we wouldn't say 14. His first letter

wasn't Romans, though in the compilation of our Bible it's been placed

first among his letters. His first one was first Thessalonians. Probably the earliest letter of the

New Testament is James, written before the middle of the century, the first century, by James the Lord's half-brother.

Anyway, Romans, the doctrinal constitution of the Christian faith.

Follow along, will you, as I read at verse one of chapter one.

Paul, a bond servant of Christ Christ Jesus, called as an apostle,

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