God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible,

tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

Coleridge called it the most profound book in existence. A Goday called it the Cathedral of the Christian Faith.

Martin Luther called it the chief part of the New Testament and the very purest gospel.

Irving Jensen called it Paul's masterpiece.

That's pretty high praise, I would say.

And if you read it for yourself, you'll understand why.

We're journeying today through the very doctrinal, powerful book of Romans.

It is often called the Book of Salvation

because it really has a greater summary of the way of salvation

and the doctrine of salvation than any other book. Many people have used what they commonly

refer to as the Romans Road to explain the logic of the gospel and how to know Christ as your

personal Savior. Romans is an amazing book of salvation. What the Gospels give to us in fact,

the epistles now give to us in explanation. And it's very fitting that the book of Romans,

the longest of all the epistles, would be first because the message of Romans is really the foundation

of every other message to the church. You cannot understand how to live the

Christian life. You cannot understand all that God wants for the believer and for the local

assembly until you first understand who Christ is and have a personal relationship with the

Savior, the Lord Jesus. It's also very fitting that Romans should follow the book of Acts.

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