REJECTION - PART 2

(Transcribed from actual tape) June 24, 1984 PM



REJECTION

Part 2

Romans 10:14-21



I hope you already have your Bibles open to Romans, Chapter 10. We're going

to look at Verse 14 through Verse 21. First of all, let's bow for prayer

together.



"Father, we thank You for the hunger that You place in our hearts for Your

truth, for Your revelation, for Your word of light. I pray again, not vainly,

not tritely, but from the depth of my being that Thou would speak, and let me

get out of the way so that Thy word and Thy holy and divine message might not

only be heard, but may it be received and understood and incorporated into

our lives. For this is our prayer in the holy, blessed, saving name of Jesus

Christ our Savior, yea, our Lord. Amen."



I keep going back to try to bring everybody up to speed as we're studying

the book of Romans. So for some, this may be repetitious, but I have dis-

covered that we in order to learn the Bible, it's what? Line by line, pre-

cept by precept. It is a rote kind of understanding, because it is my desire

and my prayer that we get through Romans, that we'll be able to go back,

those of us who are not senile by then, will be able to go back and look at

the book and say, "I know what that means. I know where that fits." And so

every time, almost every time, as I begin a section, I drop back a little bit

and bring everybody up to speed, because I realize a lot of people are brand

new in our study.

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We've discovered in Chapter 1 through Chapter 8, that we are sinners, that we

are saved by the act of God in giving His Son Jesus Christ. It is justifica-

tion, there's the process of sanctification. We get through Romans, Chapter 8,

and everything is magnificent. And then we ...

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