If you'll take your Bibles and go to Romans chapter 12, if you didn't bring a Bible, it's all

digital these days, so you can pull it up on your phones. Romans 12 is where we're going to be.

The book of Romans contains both doctrinal and practical instruction. The first 11 chapters that

we've already made our way through are primarily doctrinal.

For those of you taking notes, chapters 1 through 3 spoke about the doctrine of sinful

humanity, how we have all sinned and are guilty before God.

This example is found in Romans 323, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

And then Paul writes in chapters 4 through 8, the doctrine of justification by faith and how we can

be reconciled with God through faith in Jesus Christ. This is Romans 5, 1 and 2. He writes,

therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which

we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And then, chapters 9 through 11, we talked about

the doctrine of Israel and how God is not done with the Jewish people and that

the church, capital C, has not replaced Israel in terms of the promises God intended for her.

Romans 11 1 and 2, Paul writes, I say then has God cast away his people? Certainly not.

For I also am an Israelite of the seat of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. So that's the first 11 chapters. And those of you

who have been with us through the study of the first 11 chapters, I wish I had certificates

for all of you, because the doctrinal part of Romans is a little tough.

Justification, reconciliation, redemption, sanctification, glorification, a lot of doctrine of the first 11 chapters.

Paul shifts now the last five chapters, 12 through 16, are all very practical.

He's going to give practical instruction to us.

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