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

Are you ready?

Because I'm just going to tell you something.

Paul's a dude.

He's a dude.

And he was brilliant.

And so he writes and he thinks way up here.

And if you and I are gonna learn from him,

and we've got the Holy Spirit of God inside of us to teach us what he's

freely given us. But we got to think up. We really have to think up. And he gets

into things in Romans that you may think from time to time you don't even care about.

But it's the word of God.

This is not going to be one of these times because this is, boy, this is where it begins.

But I just want you to go with me with a mind ready to grasp it as much as we possibly can, and a mind that can also receive what the Psalms meant when he said,

help me not to trouble myself with things too wonderful for me to understand. We want to learn

everything we can learn and then we also want to know that there are times that

we study something in

scripture that we just go, okay, this is just about too big for my brain. And we just

nod our heads to it and go like AWToser said, Lord, thou knowest,

thou knowest, and some of this is going to be some Lord thou knowest moments.

Romans 5, I'm picking up at verse 12,

I'm going to read it to you in the NIV,

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