Welcome to Studies with Stearman.

Join us as we look deeper into the Bible.

Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

And now, here's Gary.

What we've been doing in the last couple of weeks is what I call the top chapters of the Bible.

I started out calling it the top ten chapters, but there is no top ten.

Really, they're all top.

But there are some very important chapters in the Bible.

The first one we looked at was 1st Corinthians 15, and it's important because it deals directly with the physical resurrection of Christ and with the body of Christ, which is something we ought to constantly be thinking about.

Then last week, we looked at Jude, which is just 26 verses.

Jude talks about the nature and history of false teaching.

And it speaks more clearly on that subject than any other chapter in the Bible.

This week we're going to go to Romans chapter 1 because Romans chapter 1 talks about humanism.

And I wanted to talk about humanism a little bit.

We're talking about the martyrdom of the church.

And Romans was written in AD 57.

The Roman emperors, starting with Caesar Augustus, 27 BC to 14 AD, Tiberius, 14 AD to 37 AD.

It was during the reign of Tiberius that Jesus was crucified.

Then came Caligula in 37 AD, Claudius in 41 AD, Nero in 54 AD.

Romans was written in 57 AD, three years into Nero's rule, and we're going to be looking at Romans chapter 1 today, which is an important chapter, as I said a moment ago, because it

speaks directly to humanism and all that humanism represents. Tacitus, a Roman historian, lived

in the first century.

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