Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. So let me begin in word of prayer.

Father in heaven, thank you for your grace and your mercy that has been poured out and lavished upon us.

In the person of your son, the Lord Jesus Christ,

I mean you have opened the treasure vaults of heaven

and have poured out your forgiveness, you have clothed us with the

righteousness of Christ, you have reconciled us to yourself.

You have redeemed us out of the world of sin that we once lived in.

You are no longer angry towards us.

There is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

You have placed your Holy Spirit inside of us.

You have set the narrow path before us.

And it leads all the way to you one day when we leave this world to be in your immediate

presence and so we are so consciously aware of all that I say all, Father, we don't even know all that you've done for us.

You are providentially ordering the circumstances of our lives and ways, you have things so wired that we only see

but the tip of the iceberg, really really of what you're doing. So thank you for Christ, thank you

for grace, thank you for salvation, and use the study now today to deepen our walk with you.

I thank you for these men that I have to meet with.

They've come to be very precious to me.

And these are your people.

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