Amen and amen. Church, you ready for this? You ready for the next eight months in the book of Romans? It doesn't sound like it, so I got a lot of work to do. If you would, please stand at all of our campuses for the reading of God's Word. I don't know some of you Catholics for the first time you feel at home at church. All right.

Romans, a letter of Paul to the Romans, chapter 1, verse 1. Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus called to be an apostle set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through

his prophets in the holy Scriptures concerning his son,

who was descended from David according to the flesh,

and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of Holiness,

by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ, our Lord,

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience

of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, including you who are called to belong

to Jesus Christ, to all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints. Grace to you and peace from God, our Father,

and the Lord Jesus Christ. May God add blessing to the reading and the hearing of His word. Amen.

You can be seated. If you've got your Bibles, you can bust them open to Romans or you can grab

your study journal that we gave you on the way in and if you didn't

get one of these make sure you get one on your way out we have enough for everybody I think and so

this is very very important this is going to be for you to study the book of Romans over the next

eight months that we're going to be studying it okay and it is our gift to you and like any gift

it's free to you, but it is not

free. We spend a lot of money investing in this, and we think it's worth every penny. And so,

this is an all-scape. Okay, this means everybody is involved. So get out your journal and open it

to the inside cover, and there is a place for your very own name, all right? And so you're going to write your name in there because when you lose this, we're going to get this back to you.

We don't have one for you to get every single week.

This is yours for the duration.

And under that, there's your phone number, so write your phone number.

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