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. Okay, here we go. This is going to be the Bible study of a lifetime, okay? So I guess I should

begin in a word of prayer. So let me pray me pray father as we now look into your word I

pray that you'd give us insight only your holy spirit can be our ultimate

teacher and so I pray you would use me simply as a human instrument in your hand,

but may the spirit of God shine light

upon your passage that we'll look at here today.

Bless these men and bless those who are watching around the world,

even the ladies who are watching,

we're so thankful for them as well.

In Jesus' name, Amen. All right, men, Romans 8,

verse 29 and 30, and just to give you some sense of hope I only brought notes for verse 29 so

though I could do 30 I'm gonna read verses 29 and 30 and this is really the center cut of the fly. I mean this is at the very epicenter.

So let me just read these verses.

V verses 29 and 30 and the title of this is God's golden chain of salvation

and I think you'll see why and this is not original with me

Bible teachers theologians down through the decades,

even centuries have called this God's golden chain of salvation. So beginning in verse 29. For those whom he foreknew, he

also predestined to become conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the firstborn

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