Intro We continue our way thought the book of Romans. Today we are up to chapter 12. Going through the book we explored many fundamental truth, which is important to know. Important to understand. In order to be able to comprehend what we actually believe in as followers of Christ. And avoid false believes and false teachings. Which are presented in abundance in our day and time. Keep it Simple Some of the thing we talked about remain among “hot topics” among scalars for last few hundreds of years.

Intro Today we gonna go over Romans 9. And with this chapter we start exploring a new theme. Few Sundays ago we discussed what is the role of THE Law in the context of the New Testament. And today we will start looking at another, pretty important question. What is the role of Israel in God’s plan in the era of the New Testament. Out today’s passage is a part of a bigger picture.

00:00:00 Today we are finishing chapter 8 of the book of Romans. We are pretty much right in the middle of the letter. Today we going to continue to talk about hardships and sufferings a little bit more. Last Sunday Matt gave us a good start and we are about to pick up where we left it. But before we will do that I would like to briefly go over things that we already learned so far.

00:00:00 Intro Last week, we went over chapter 7, which talks a lot about the Law. Reading this chapters we should remember that, letter to the Romans were written in the days of the early church. Not so long after the church was established and gatherings largely consisted from Jewish believers. Among which were Pharisees, Saducees and Regulag Jews along with Gentiles. For many of them, fallowing the law of Moses was the way of life, it was the way to follow God, the only way.

Intro We continue our way though the book of Romans. And with that we continue our conversation about God’s grace in relation to our day to day life. Last Sunday we explored that abundance of God’s grace is not a licence to sin. The fact that God’s grace can cover any multitude of sin does not mean that we allowed to sin as much as we wish. But, rather otherwise we should consider ourselves dead to sin, in order to raise for new life for God, in Jesus.

START We continue our study of the book of Romans. We are up to chapter 6. We will cover the first half of the chapter today. Let’s start form gathering a little bit of context. It is always helpful but especially useful if you new to the book and did not go over all previous chapters with us. Context Last Sunday we talked about the issue of original sin. The scriptures tells us that we all affected by this phenomena.

We are continue to talk about “new” view of justification by God. And today we will look at Abraham. Why Abraham Why Abraham? Well, I think it is fare to say that with Abraham begins the story of “God’s special people”. The story of salvation and Abraham is one of the key figures. He is the forefather of Jewish nation. And not only that, but he also considered a forefather of all who believes God.

As always we will start from a little recap from previous weeks. In case you haven’t been here last time, we are going through the Book or Romans and we are up to a chapter 3. Last few Sundays we spent talking about the state of the world. The state of the church and the problem that exited at the time, which by the way even though changed it’s form, still remains relevant.

Just as a recap. Last week we started on chapter 2 of the book of Romans. We read that what’s in my heart is more important then what’s on the surface. What’s in my heart will render out, it WILL effect my appearance, my conduct, my moral standards. And instead of focusing on the visible side of things, we should promote inner change, which come though our faith in Jesus Christ.

God is the righteous judge. We continue our journey through the book of Romans. And today we up to chapter two. The issues that we will discuss today, are very old but in the same time still very relevant. You see, apparently not everything improves over time. Even with science and psychology rapidly advancing, today we face the same issues people have had over 2000 years ago. Because our hearts are fundamentally broken and without God and his guidance we never gonna be able to overcome those issues.