Hey there, I'm so glad you stop by for this podcast. We hope so much we can serve you today.

Would you turn with me please to Rome? so much we can serve you today.

Would you turn with me please to Romans, the fifth chapter? We're going through verses one through four

and a little bit of five, just the beginning words of it so that we can close it in

into a cohesive whole that is my prayer I want to read the verses and then come

back so I want to read through 5A, Romans 5 verse 1.

Therefore, everybody say therefore.

We're gonna see what the therefore is therefore in just a moment.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,

so as I say those words, I'm praying that now your mind is going to

rewind if you've been with us through our study of Romans so far

and you will begin to pick up all we've studied so that we can get to the place where we can

emotionally engage in the therefore.

Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our

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

we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, not only

so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance,

perseverance character and character hope and hope does not disappoint us

and hope does not disappoint us. I want you to go all the way back to the beginning

and I want you to literally glance with me particularly for those who are part of

our class this evening that have not been with us since the start of our series in Romans.

Go back to where we began in 2002 to Romans 1 and I'm slightly exaggerating but not much. I want you to glance through and remember with me what

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