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.

I think I need to begin in a word of prayer just looking to see who all is here.

So Father, thank you for allowing us to meet, for bringing us here.

We believe we're all here by divine appointment.

You order our steps, and in your goodness you have laid the path for us to come together for this hour of Bible study.

And so I pray that you will use this passage in a very positive way in our lives.

I have no idea how this will connect at each individual level,

but I pray for the men here that it will have a great sanctifying effect and as people join us

across the country and around the world, meet with everyone who's a part of this study.

We pray this in Christ's name. Amen. Okay, Romans chapter 15. I want to begin

by reading our passage versus 22 to 29 and I just need to make this statement when we think of the book of Romans we're all familiar with

easily Romans one through 12 and now because of all has been going on in the realm of government we can

throw in Romans 13.

Our understanding of Romans or our knowledge of Roman kind of begins to fade as we get to these last chapters and I think it's

important for us to see what's at the end of the book and we're now stepping

into this part that comes at the end, but it's all critically important.

And God has something to say to each and every one of us in these last verses.

So Romans 15, and just so you'll know,

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