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. And I really need to begin in a word of prayer. So let's turn to the Lord. Father, what a great thing you're doing in our minds and in our hearts in this study as you are teaching us and

discipling us in the book of Romans and for this brief time in church history, Lord, we ask that you deepen us and mature us,

that you would nail our feet to the floor, that you would enable us to fly our flag high, that you would infuse much strength of

conviction and knowledge of the truth within us.

So Lord, make this study a very profitable study.

Thank you for these men.

Bless them in every way at work, at home, wherever they go.

And for those who are watching and literally around the world, we're very humbled by this.

We just want to reach out if we could and just shake their hand and say thank you

for being a part of this study. So we commit ourselves to you now and this time

into your hands, take it, multiply it, use it in Christ's name. Amen. Okay, men, we are studying the reformers for just a brief

period of time. We've been going verse by verse through the book of Romans and I don't even know how long we've been doing this three years

It could be another year for all I know and we've gone through chapter 14 in the book of Romans and we'll be starting Romans 15 when we start back up.

Just so you'll know all of this will be converted into a two-volume commentary that will be

1600 pages. B&H Academic is going to take all of my notes and the transcripts

and I'm going to edit them and it will be a two-volume commentary,

800 pages each.

So a lot of good things coming from our study.

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