Amen and amen. How we doing, church? Everybody good? Looking good. If you got your

Bibles, I hope you do, grab them. We're going to be in Romans chapter 6. Hopefully you figure that out.

Also, you need a Roman study journal. If you brought that back, good job. There's so many of you bring

these. That's very, very good. If you need one of these, you can get one on your way out.

Even if you're just visiting with us, there literally are people all over the country that have asked for these, and so we're happy to give them to you.

And so the Bible verses are in there, and we put the Bible verses on the screen, and you say that might be too much. It's not. We're into the Bible. Some of us even write it on our arms. All right. So we're into it. So we're just going to walk verse by verse through four verses in the book of Romans.

And before we dive into this, I just kind of need to clue you into some stuff that's going on here.

Something is like even new and different.

I don't know.

It's not new.

It's the same thing.

But it's more of it.

It's going on here.

I don't know if you remember, and I know you don't, but back in the fall, we preached a series called Gospel Awakening's.

And what we were talking about, we were studying what kind of things happen in order that

God shows up in a revival.

And a revival is just sort of really more God-centered,

gospel-centered God activity in the life of his people. And I think what is happening is that

the seeds that we planted last fall are being harvested right now in this time. And here's why I say

that is that we as a church this year have grown

more than we've ever grown before, over 2,000 people year over year, which is crazy, all right?

And here's why it's crazy. We're studying Romans. Not exactly the feel-good hit of the century.

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