Glad you're all with us.

Romans chapter four is where we left off and are through the Bible study.

In the lost and found section of an old newspaper, there was a one that was recorded that kind of cracked me up.

Lost dog, $50 reward, black and tan dog of poodle and German shepherd descent.

Fleibitten left hind leg missing, no hair on rump, blind and recently neutered, answers to the name

Lucky.

$50 reward.

I can't help but think how the Lord loves us because he redeemed us.

We looked at it on Sunday.

Redemption, he paid a price for a bunch of neutered, flea-bitten,

sinful dogs like us.

You know, and the Lord says, yeah, but I, I love those little, little guys so much that I'm

going to pay a massive price. And it's because we are redeemed. We can celebrate that.

Sunday, if you missed it, you really need to check it out because we covered the three

big doctrines that Paul covered in chapter three.

We started with, of course, redemption, then we went to propitiation, and then justification.

And those are essentials of really knowing how the gospel of Jesus Christ really works.

Now, we're going to continue with some of those doctrinal words.

And tonight, particularly in Romans chapter four, we're going to continue with some of those doctrinal words, and tonight, particularly in

Romans chapter four, we're going to talk about imputation or otherwise known as imputed righteousness.

Fancy word, I know, but these words do mean things that are really, really important, and it's part of the good news

of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's what the gospel

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