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.

All right guys,rilli're here.

The Bible study, all right?

Thrilled you're here.

Kent has taken my notes from me and it's just now giving them back so there is no be nice to Kent anymore.

So yeah, it was an accident. No such thing as accidents. Not in a world that God sovereignly rules over.

No Hebrew word for a coincidence.

That's very true. Thank you, sir. Yeah, he even uses the evil men to accomplish

his greater good. All right. What thou doest do quickly.

All right, so I want to welcome those here watching by live stream wherever you are around the world blessings to you and we're

thrilled you're here. We are in Romans chapter 16 and as I mentioned that I'm reminded I need to start in a word of prayer

so let's go to the Lord in prayer. Father every time we open your word, we are mindful that we need the Holy Spirit to be actively

at work in our minds, in our hearts, shedding light on the passage so that we can see and understand what you

would have us to know.

Lord, I pray for these men who have gathered here this morning. I do ask that you would impart to them a great

measure of truth that they can apply to their own lives and that you would further mature them and develop them

in Christ's likeness.

I pray that you would fill me with your spirit and use me as simply a tool and instrument to expound your word.

We ask that you continue to build the outreach of this study

to impact just more and more people. So we commit all of this into your hands. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.

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