All right, so please open your Bibles to Romans 16.

Today we are finishing the book of Romans.

We're going to do verses 19 through 27.

I am attempting to speak prophetically about the future here,

but I may be wrong because of lack of self-control and the ability

to be succinct. We're going to be getting into at the end of Romans Paul gives some really important

important stuff that is sometimes we skip past because we often read the ending of a

letter not realizing how it ties into everything else that we've already read in the

letter and so I want to without doing overview of Romans I did that already there's

that's online but I just want to remind us of a few things we're also going to get

into an archaeological confirmation of the

Bible. I just want to show you that in random places as you're reading the

scripture there's times where archaeology speaks to the thing that we're

reading and we don't know this obviously unless we're

familiar with what's going on in that world. So setting the context a little bit

remember this the book of Romans Paul wrote to the Romans and he had not visited Rome and so

this changes the way he writes to them right when he writes to Timothy he's writing to

like a young leader in the church about how how to run the church of God but Timothy had

traveled with him Timothy knew the gospel and all this stuff when he writes to other

churches like Corinth he'd been there he'd stayed with them now he's writing a letter

to his well-known associates about

their walk with the Lords and compromises they've had, but when he writes to the

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