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. We're in Romans chapter 2 and we're going to be looking, depending upon our time,

verses 17 to 24 and keep your mind active in that we're going to have Q&A at the end of this and I want to hear from you.

So just know that that's coming.

You may even want to jot down in your notes, a question or some insight.

But I want to set the context before I read the verses, and just to remind you of where

we are in the book of Romans.

As you recall, the whole book of Romans

is about the gospel.

Chapter 1, verse 1, 1, 1, 1.

Paul writes that this is about the Gospel of God.

And so we're in the first main section on the Gospel, which is the need for the

gospel, the necessity for the gospel.

And no one will ever be saved until they know what their true need is for the gospel.

So Paul is laying this foundation and it's a massive

foundation but the taller the skyscraper the deeper the foundation has to be.

And what Paul is getting ready to tell us and teach us about the gospel, it's going to be soaring to the

heights of heaven. So there's got to be a firm base and that's what he is laying and we're in this first section

That in one word it would be reduced to condemnation

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