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. I want to begin a word of prayer. We're just going to dive in to the word.

Father, as we now look into your word, we approach it with reverence and awe. We desire to clothe ourselves with humility. We desire to be slow to speak and quick to hear.

We desire for the seed of the word to find fertile soil in our hearts.

We desire that you would cause the word to bear much fruit in our lives.

We're all at different places in our walk with you.

Draw from this one passage of scripture, Lord, and meet each one of us exactly where we are. I pray that the practical relevance of even

this text would be very clear as we try to teach sound doctrine. So I thank you for these men. I thank you for those

who are watching all around the world, even the ladies who are joining us by

live stream. Bless this study now in Jesus name. Amen.

All right, men, it's my last time to say Romans chapter 9. So I I say it again. Yeah I probably will say

it again. I hate to come down from Mount Everest. The view from here is

spectacular. The view from here is spectacular and this has been in many ways life changing as we have been in this chapter.

We're at the end of Romans 9 verses,

30 to 33, so who knows? We may not be able to get all the way through

these verses.

Romans 9, I want to begin reading in verse 30 and if you're taking notes I've changed

the title of this to the tragedy of unbelief, the tragedy of unbelief and I think that more captures the central theme of this passage.

So beginning of verse 30 Paul, what shall we say then?

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