So if you do my VLX series, you know that we look at the gospel of St. Matthew, and we look at that

mostly from a doctrinal point of view because it is patristic. That's the adjective referring to the

church fathers. And so that's my Bible study online regarding St. Matthew. And we look at it quite

dogmatically. We look at the personal side of it a little bit.

But St. Paul, you know, when he's writing to the early Christians,

he applies totally solid Catholic Orthodox doctrine to the early Christians,

but he kind of wants them to look at their own lives on this.

I think that's obviously true for the Gospels too.

But the first thing we want to do with the Gospels is dive deep in a

patristic and early church and doctrinal way before we apply it. Well, St. Paul, for some reason,

is very confusing to a lot of people, really for 2,000 years. I mean, even St. Peter kind of had

to say, yeah, he's sometimes hard to understand. But one of the gifts God's given me is St. Paul's always made sense to me. I think maybe it's

because we grew up listening to Evangelical Radio. You know, you've heard me say a thousand times before.

I was raised pretty liberal Catholic, but I really thank my parents for the fact we had on

KWBI here in Colorado that used to be, well, that was

91-1 before it was Kelov. And so even though we didn't get the right interpretation of St. Paul,

I memorized a lot of scripture. And I remember Romans 5 is one of my favorites. And I'm doing a Bible

and a year plan again. I haven't done one of those in about 20 years.

And I came across Romans 5 again.

So I just wanted to give you a couple thoughts on Romans 5.

Just a couple verses here.

And I think these are some of those verses.

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