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 ready to start. This is going to be a great study. You're going to be glad that you're here. I'm glad that I'm here.

And I just think we need to begin a word of prayer. So let's just pray.

Pray.

Father, as we begin this time of study in your word, we ask that your Holy Spirit would be the

teacher, that he would guide and direct our every thought, and that you would give us clarity of insight into your word and more than that

that we would we would live out what we learned today we We pray this in Christ's name. Amen. All right, your

Bibles open Romans chapter four and we're going to be in verses 18,

and we'll see how this works on time

to the end of the chapter.

We'll see if we get that far or not.

And this is all about faith, true saving faith. And put a title on this lesson,

it's the nature of true saving faith and what's going on is we're

in the larger section on justification by faith and in chapter 3 of Romans, we were looking at justification.

Chapter 4 is how justification is applied to our lives which is by faith. So Romans Chapter 4 is all about

faith and when I say faith I'm specifically referring to saving faith, the moment of your entrance

into the kingdom of heaven.

So the big picture of this entire book just to remind you Romans 1

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