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 I want to begin in a word of prayer. Father, as we come to this time to look together

into your word, we believe that your word is living

and active and sharper than any two-edged sword and we pray that your Holy Spirit would take

your word and apply it deeply within our soul.

I pray that the Holy Spirit would be our primary teacher,

that you would use me as a secondary teacher and that each one of us would be

sanctified and our minds would be renewed and our lives would be set apart to live for your glory all the more.

So we ask now that your hand rest strongly upon us as we study your word and I pray for all those who are watching around the world

that you would meet with them as we meet together in Christ's name,

amen. Okay, take your Bible and turn to Romans. Are you

ready for this? Chapter 2. We're making progress, men. We are now in Romans chapter 2. Chris Cobb was going to have

t-shirts printed for us that said on the front I survived Romans one.

Where is Chris? Yeah I don't know. Chris if you're watching.

So we're in Romans chapter 2 and Lord willing we're going to look at the first five

verses this morning we'll see how our pace goes. I want to begin just by reading this

passage so that you can have it set before you and if you're taking notes a title on this would be the moralist condemned.

And that's the succinct summary of what this paragraph is about.

So Paul begins, therefore you have no excuse.

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