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. We've got a great study. They're all great because it's God's word and because

Kent's here. So I'm going to start in a word of prayer and we're just going to

dive into this.

This is really good.

So Father, as we come now to look into your word, we ask for the ministry of your Holy Spirit to be powerfully at work within our minds, within our

hearts that he would grant us understanding of the passage and that our hearts would be greatly affected by what we study and what we see.

I pray for these men as we've gathered here that you would just continue to take them on their journey as they walk by faith with

you and follow Christ.

And for all who are watching by way of live stream, I pray that you would meet personally with each and every

person and that your word would come strongly to their hearts.

So Father, we commit ourselves to you, use me now as an instrument,

stimulate my mind and my heart so that I can be a faithful teacher in Christ's

name, Amen. Okay, we're in Romans 11, men.

Romans 11 and our focus this morning is on verses 17 through 21.

And you know, as you go verse by verse

through a book in the Bible, there are certain verses

that just stand out that you're familiar with,

that you're drawn to to and then there are other

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