Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. So let me lead us in a word of prayer.

Father, we bow before your throne of grace.

This morning we come in the name of Jesus Christ,

knowing he is our only point of access because you're so perfectly

holy and we know the truth about ourselves that we are unholy.

We praise you that you have provided his perfect righteousness and forgiveness for us that we may

now come boldly and confidently because our sins have been washed away and because

we've been clothed with the perfect righteousness of Christ.

And as we come now into your presence, we come desiring to be taught by you, by your

spirit and your word. And so as we look into your word today, I pray that you would

open our eyes, open our hearts, enlarge our hearts, activate

our wills.

Be mightily at work here today. I thank you for these men their commitment to your word that

they would rise early and even drive a great distance to be here and I pray that you would more than make it worth their effort, may there be much gold

and silver that we will mine from the quarry of your text this day.

So, work through me now, stir up within me the gift to teach,

to preach, help me speak with clarity and accuracy. I pray this in Christ's name. Amen.

Amen. So the rest of you men, yeah, come on in who are just now arriving.

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