now the praises of your people as we worship you in the word.

God, we come and we ask you to unpack to us the truths that are here and Father,

it's remarkable to us as we look at your Bible, the fact that we are here in the 21st century

and we're looking at this portion as we go verse by verse through the book of Romans,

we come to this remarkable declaration here in Romans chapter 11. And so God

we pray that you'd give us ears to hear what the spirit of God is saying to

us speak to us,

speak to us, Lord, be our Moriel,

be the Lord our teacher.

We ask in Jesus' name and all God's people said,

Amen.

Well church, let's stand if you would, as we get into a new section.

I know that we were a couple of weeks in Romans, chapter 11, 1 through 6.

And now we start a larger section don't worry we're not going to

cover it all today but we're going to be looking at the section of verses 7 to 18

and we'll just get into the opening verses and we have a message title today

under the Shadow of the Almighty. There's a reason why we're using this as a title.

For those of you who don't know,

the Romans epistle written by Paul from Corinth,

when he was in Corinth Greece,

he writes to the believers in Rome,

and it's not that it's to the church in Rome like it was

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