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. All right, Romans Chapter 9.

Romans Chapter 9.

And we begin now this extraordinary chapter.

So let me begin by reading the passage. If you're taking notes, this is entitled

Burdened for the Lost.

Burden for the Lost. Romans chapter 9.

We're going to look at the first five verses today.

We're just going to put our toe in the pool

of this extraordinary ocean of truth.

Paul writes, I'm telling the truth in Christ.

I'm not lying.

My conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart

for I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren,

my kinsman according to the flesh, who are Israelites to whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory

and the covenants and the giving of the law and the temple's service and the

promises,

whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ,

according to the flesh, who is over all God blessed forever.

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