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, take your Bible, if you would, turn with me to Romans chapter 3.

And we're going to be in verses 21 to 26, and we'll see how much time we have to work our way through this. Be thinking

of questions as well and I'm going to save us time at the end for us to discuss this but of all the studies for you to come to

that this has got to rank near the top it really is I just want to to begin by reading these verses and I'm

entitling this the heart of the gospel. The heart of the gospel. So Paul writes

beginning in Romans 321, now apart from the law, the

righteousness of God has been manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

Even the righteousness of God,

through faith in Jesus Christ,

for all who believe,

for there is no distinction. For all have sinned and falls short of

the glory of God, being justified as a gift by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom

God displayed publicly as a propitiation in his

righteousness because in the forbearance of God, he passed over the sins previously

committed.

For the demonstration I save is right. the sins previously committed.

For the demonstration I save is righteousness at the present time,

so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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