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 as we get started I do want to make one announcement and especially for those

watching on live stream just to let you know that this upcoming year we're going to

have to the Institute for Expository

preaching where I go to sites and give three days instruction on how to put together a sermon, how to improve your preaching, and I'm going to do one just

outside of Washington, D.C. August 14th through 16th, and I'm going to do one in Oklahoma City August 28 to 30 and any of you men

here in the room who would like to step into this is different than if you've

already attended one this is new material and this is

really how to upgrade and how to improve your preaching.

So would love for you to come be a part.

It would help you with teaching Sunday school, I think.

And some of you guys may even be praying about what is God's will for my future.

And you might be thinking about future ministry.

This is a great way to put your toe into the water in that regard.

And I guess while I'm talking about it, I've just started an online preaching school called

the Academy for Expository preaching. And it's so good that if you go through the program, you'll

get full credit at the master's seminary

without having to be in the classroom it's already a head start should you end up

going to seminary there so I just let you know about that. You can go to one passion.org.

One passion.org. All right. I'm ready. You ready? Okay. Let's go. Father, as we now come to your word, we come with attentive minds,

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