Hello this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

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Well it kind of feels like the last day of high school

where you say goodbye to an old friend.

We're in the last sermon in the book of Romans.

We've had 435 verses of Romans we've gone through line by line

word by word during this time we baptized 329 new Christians which is

incredible and if you want to celebrate that that's

fine we've sent out around 200 daily devotions I've talked for a hundred and

fifty hours if you include men it's 200 if you include this morning it'll be about

a thousand and this will be the 36th sermon in the book of Romans.

Amen. Congratulations you've made it to the end.

We're at the grand finale.

We've saved the best for last,

and we're gonna jump right in in just a moment.

So if you've got a Bible, go to Romans chapter

last chapter of this great book of the Bible.

And let me set up the big concept,

biblically, that we're gonna look at specifically

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