Turn please to Romans, the first chapter.

Take off your parking break.

Rive up your motor and get ready.

Let's launch out into the Word of God.

And let him feed our spirit and raise us up.

The scripture said that the word of God is quick.

It's alive.

It's powerful than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder.

A spirit and soul and joint and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

It's a living thing.

And can we believe tonight that we'll not just hear the words of men, but we will, in fact, hear

God speaking to us.

It can be the words you hear coming out of my mouth.

It can be here things coming straight to you that nobody said, except he said them to you.

But if we're in here tonight and we don't hear from him, it's our fault.

It's like somebody sitting a great big table with every fine food, and then you're going

away hungry.

That's just your own fault.

That's what my grandpa used to tell me all the time.

If you leave hungry here, you're your own fault.

Romans, the first chapter for some weeks now, we've been on a series we're calling

living by faith.

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