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 we're ready. We got a couple new guys here so we have a little

hazing process we need to go through. It's a good thing they wore some old clothes.

Listen, I was in the core in a n now.

You do 20. Yeah, so we're going to cut the lights right now.

So we're going to cut the lights right now and I don't think we can broadcast this around the world. It's kind of a

private initiation. So if we get the Q-tips ready.

Oh goodness. ready. All right, all right. Well, I've been told I need to start in a word of

prayer. So just kind of put a buffer between those

opening comments. All right father as we begin this Bible study I pray that you will

cause your word that's living and active, sharper than any

two-edged sword to have great piercing penetration into our minds, into our hearts, and to shape us into the image of Christ.

So help this to be more than just knowledge, but help it saturate our soul and our hearts. I pray for these men that they were

receiving enormous benefit as I have already been greatly encouraged as I've

looked at these verses. So I pray this Bible study today will accomplish

your purposes and as men and women join us

around the world as they watch on live stream, I pray that. the

the blessing will overflow into their lives as well.

Pray this in Christ's name,

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