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, okay, I want to begin a word of prayer, okay, so let's begin looking to the

Lord. Father, we come to your word, we know it's your word, your Holy Spirit has convinced us that

this is the word of God.

We know that when we open the Bible you open your mouth and you speak to us through your word. So this is not even just the word of Paul. He was just an instrument or a tool that you picked up to record this but this is breathed out of your mouth. So what you

have to say to us we want to embrace it, we want to live it. And so I pray for my brothers here today and for myself that

we could put into practice what this requires of us.

So we look to you to do what only you can do,

which is to be our primary teacher.

We humble ourselves beneath your throne of grace and ask now that you minister to us, sanctify us in Christ's

name, amen.

Okay, gentlemen, Romans chapter 15 and today we're going to be looking at

verses 7 through 13 which will be a lot to take in and we may not make it all the way through.

We'll just see how we go on this.

The title of this is Except One Another, and that will be obvious as I begin reading in verse 7.

Therefore, accept one another.

Just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.

For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to

confirm the promises given to the fathers, and for the Gentiles to glorify God for his mercy as it is written.

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