Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

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. You remember,

we just journeyed through Acts and we talked about carrying the gospel from Jerusalem to Judea,

to Samaria, to the uttermost part of the world. Well, may I tell you, that's exactly what Rome was.

Rome was going to launch the gospel to the uttermost. It was going to carry it now to the

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