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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giggly.

Could not be more excited about jumping into this collection of talks under the title epicenter.

And we chose that title epicenter because a lot of theologians believe that Romans is the best book in the Bible,

the most important book, maybe the most significant book in the Bible,

maybe the most significant letter ever written in literature.

And a lot of theologians will get more specific

and say that Romans chapter 8 is the most important

or the highlight chapter in the book of Romans. Thus, someone like a John Piper would say. the

someone like a John Piper would say Romans chapter 8's the most important chapter

in the Bible and that's a pretty huge statement but once we unpack and work our way through this text, I think you're going to understand why a lot of people would say that about Romans 8.

But before we dive in today, and obviously over these next few few weeks it's just all about the word it is

every Sunday here but we just want to get into the word and we want to see what God is speaking

to us and we have a huge prayer over this collection that not only

will we learn things that is important but that will be transformed by things.

So the idea here isn't that we'll get into a seminary class and we'll all get a cool nugget about Romans 8.

The idea is that we'll agree with what God is saying and our lives will be transformed. That's the prayer that we're praying for you

and that's the power of this word. I was reminded and we've said this a lot of times at Passion City

but in ancient times when the scripture was being copied, so the

the Torah would come, the first books of the Bible, and then over time that manuscript would

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