To have Paul the Apostle in the first century talking about this is really exciting to me.

Because I like, I love Bible study, I love theology, but I also love something we call apologetics,

which is like defending the Christian faith confirming

proving that it's true is the idea giving reasons to believe and to me my favorite my favorite

reason to believe is prophecy it really is my absolute favorite because it proves not only that there's a God who spoke

Not only that that God's the God of the Bible and that and and that Jesus is in fact the Savior and that the old New

testaments are inspired of him.

I mean, this is like, it proves everything in like one go.

This is pretty exciting to me.

Prophecy is pretty amazing.

It's genius and it is the apologetic that God gives us in the scriptures.

He goes, you want me to prove to you who I am?

In Isaiah, he says, I'll tell you what's going to happen before it happens.

So I mean, this is like the biblically endorsed apologetic prophecy.

All right, so please open your Bibles to Romans 15.

And we're going to talk, really the focus of this passage tonight is about unity.

It's about the concept of Christian unity.

But there's more to it than that.

So let me give you a quick overview of some of the things that will come up in this

passage in Romans 15. We're going to go through

verses 7 through 13 and it's going to talk about the power of the Holy Spirit which

is often ignored and I mean a specific kind of power of the Holy Spirit, the phrase the power of the Holy

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