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 all right guys we're in Romans chapter 5 and I am so excited for these verses and I tell

you why I'm excited is because I I understand them now I've read them over and over and trying to

Punch on them and and probe and I'm just so glad to be able to have them in focus.

So I'm going to begin by reading this,

and I probably need to begin just with a word of prayer, too.

So let me just begin with prayer.

Father, thank you for letting us gather this morning

and thank you for the food that we've already had and we know it's come from

you and we now want living bread for our souls. We pray that you would feed us

the truth of your word and that as we take in your

word that you would nurture us and cause our spiritual muscles to grow and to be developed so that we can be strong in the faith.

So we need strong doctrine to have strong faith.

And so I pray that this morning you would bring that to pass.

So I pray for those who are watching by way of live stream,

pray that they will feel part of this study and that you will minister to them wherever

they are around the world and in whatever set of circumstances they find themselves. May they draw great encouragement and strength today from

this study. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen.

Okay, Romans chapter 5. Today we want to look at verses 15 through 17 and it may seem like

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