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, if I was to put a title on these verses, it would be this, the new you, the new you.

Because these verses are all about the change that takes place in our life when we were born again.

Now, the words born again are not found here, but the truth of the new birth is. And it talks about and what we're going

to discover is five dramatic changes that took place in our life the moment we were saved.

These are all indicative statements. These are statements of fact that took place in our lives and it's not three out of the

five or two out of the five it's all five took place in our life when we were born again.

Now, this is not the first time in the Book of Romans

Paul has talked about the new birth.

At the end of chapter 2, versus 28 and 29 he talked about the true

circumcision by the spirit and in those verses he talked about how the spirit of

God pierced our heart and opened up our heart just

like in physical circumcision there was the cutting of the male organ which symbolized being

set apart unto God.

The true circumcision is what took place in our life when we were born again.

And the spirit of God took the word of God

and pierced our heart and set us apart unto God

and imparted eternal life to us.

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