Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll go ahead and get started in Romans chapter 1, verse 1.

We'll see how far we get here at the beginning.

So it begins, as I mentioned, with St. Paul's greeting,

identifying himself as the author. And that starts with just Paul, but then he goes into a little more detail about who he is. So Romans 1 verse 1, Paul, a bond servant of Jesus

Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God, which he promised before through his

prophets in the Holy Scriptures.

I guess we'll pause there for a second.

So first, his name's Paul.

Pavlos.

But, you know, Bond Servant is our nice new king James version translation it really means slave

it means slave um and slave here doesn't mean involuntary servitude right but it means these

christ servant and importantly as we're going to see,

as we go on in the epistle to the Romans, because he telegraphs some of his themes here

and how he identifies himself. A slave is a servant who's been purchased, who belongs to his master,

right? Not a hired hand, or another kind of servant.

So he's already telegraphing a little bit of what he's going to talk about, right?

He's been purchased by Jesus Christ.

Not just John.

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