 In chapter number 4, we're looking at Abraham and the faith of Abraham in the Old Testament. Now what we're going to do tonight is we're going to go through verse by verse in Romans chapter 4, and what we're going to inadvertently end up doing is destroying dispensationalism tonight. We're going to talk about Abraham, how he was saved, how he was justified. We're going to look at what was Abraham's faith? When did he get saved? You know, we're going to kind of dissect Abraham's life a little bit, and that will help us kind of decode what Paul is talking about here, because Paul is aware of all these things. Paul was a very educated man you'll be able to see throughout the book of Romans, and he was very educated on the Word of God on the Old Testament. So let's start out in verse number 1. Feel free to write some of these things down and take some notes, but keep a finger in Genesis. We're going to start in Genesis chapter 12, that's the first place you'll want to be. Romans chapter 4 and verse number 1 the Bible says, What shall we say then that Abraham our Father as pertaining to the flesh hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God. For what sayeth the Scripture? Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. Now turn to James chapter 2, James chapter 2 in the New Testament. James chapter 2, so let me read verse 2 and 3 again for you. For if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God. Saying that Abraham was justified by works he could glory in that. If I was justified by my own works I could boast about that. I mean I would have something to boast about, but not before God. I went over this in James chapter 2 and there was a reason that I preached that sermon on James chapter 2 because it fits perfectly in with Romans chapter 4. If you're there in James chapter 2 look down at verse number 21 and I want to show you how James chapter 2 and verse 21 through 23 is the flip side of the coin of what Romans chapter 4 and verses 2 and 3 is saying. So if we read James chapter 2 starting in verse number 21 the Bible reads, was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar. Seeest thou how fate wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect. Then in verse number 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. Now that's exactly what Romans chapter 3 says, Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God. So when was Abraham justified by works? What does that mean? And when was he justified? When was it counted? When did Abraham, when was righteousness imputed unto him by God? That's what I want to show you tonight. Turn to Genesis chapter 12. We're going to kind of cut up the life of Abraham. I want to go through Abraham's life and I want to show you some key points in Abraham's life that will make this fit together for you. In Genesis chapter 12 in verse number 4 the Bible says this, in Abram he's not yet Abraham God has not yet renamed him and Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him and Lot went with him and Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of harem. So in Genesis chapter 12 Abraham or Abram is 75 years old. Turn to Genesis chapter 15, Genesis chapter 15, just a couple chapters over. Genesis chapter 15 and let's look at when Abraham gets righteousness imputed to him and how that happens. Let's start reading in verse number 1, Genesis 15 and verse number 1. After these things, so we know he's at least 75 years old at this point. After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision saying, fear not Abram, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord God what will thou give me seeing I go childless and the steward of my house is Eleazar of Damascus. And Abram said, behold to me thou hast given no seed and lo one born in my house is mine heir. And behold the word of the Lord came unto him saying this shall not be thine heir but this shall not be thine heir. But he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thine heir. He brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them and he said unto him so shall thy seed be. He's saying that you could number your seed by the stars, he says to Abram. And then it says about Abram in verse number 6 and he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness. So that's the gospel in the Old Testament right there. Where is Abram being having righteousness imputed onto him by belief alone in the Old Testament? Okay, now turn to Genesis 17, Genesis 17, I'm sorry Genesis 16, Genesis 16. In Genesis 16 and verse 16 the Bible says this. It says an Abram was four score and six years old, a score is twenty years so he was eighty six years old when Hager bear Ishmael to Abram. Now the story goes like this, Abram was promised a son by God when sometime after he was seventy five he made some poor decisions and he decided his wife said hey just go into my servant and she will bear you a son. That obviously was not God's plan but when Hager bear Ishmael to Abram he was eighty six years old. So we know that Abram was considered righteous by God he was saved somewhere between seventy five and eighty six. We don't have an exact date on that but just remember that sometime between the age of seventy five and eighty six years old. Now turn to Genesis 17, Genesis 17. Now this is another key point in Abram's life, he is now Abraham and the Bible says this in Genesis 17 verse 24 and Abraham was ninety years old and nine, he was ninety nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. So Paul references Abram's circumcision several times in Romans chapter four and other places and we see that when Abraham was circumcised he was ninety nine years old. So that's a key point that we need to remember. Now turn to Genesis 21, Genesis chapter 21, Genesis chapter 21 and in verse one the Bible reads this and the Lord visited Sarah and he had said and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken for Sarah conceived and bear Abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which God had spoken to him and Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him whom Sarah bear to him Isaac and Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old as God had commanded him. And Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac his son Isaac was born unto him. So Isaac's born, Abraham is now a hundred, it's a year later Isaac is born, Abraham is a hundred years old. Now another key verse that James talks about is when Isaac was to be offered by Abraham when God told Abraham to go when he tested Abraham to go and offer his only son on the altar. Now I believe that that happened about ten to fifteen years later and if you turn to Genesis 22 you'll see why we're not told exactly when that is but it's several years later after Isaac is born. So if you look at Genesis 22 God has visited Abraham, he has told Abraham take Isaac, take him up to the mountain, sacrifice him, you know Abraham does this, he even brings this, I believe that many of the people that Abraham that worked for Abraham and that lived in Abraham's house knew exactly what Abraham was doing, there's evidence for that as well. In Genesis chapter 22 and verse 7 the Bible says this, and Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said my father and he said here I am my son and he said behold the fire in the wood but where is the lamb for the burnt offering. So obviously Isaac is old enough to know that they're going up to make sacrifice to God, that they're bringing all the materials that they need, the wood, all of that but where is the lamb. So he's probably you know older than ten or eight or something like that. So it's ten to fifteen years later. Now in Genesis 23, so Abraham was probably a hundred and ten, a hundred and fifteen years old, that's what I'm getting at. In Genesis 23 and verse 1 the Bible says, let me turn there, Genesis 23 the Bible says this, and Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old, these were the years of the life of Sarah. So Sarah dies at a hundred and twenty seven years old. And we know from Genesis 177, which I'll just read to you real quick, that Abraham was ten years older than Sarah. I told you we're getting doctrinal tonight, so it's important though. Now in Genesis 1717 the Bible says this, then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed and said in his heart shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old and shall Sarah that is ninety years old bear. So we see that Abraham is ten years older than Sarah. So if Sarah dies, which is a hundred and twenty seven, Abraham is a hundred and thirty-seven years old at the point of Genesis 23.1. And then if we go to Genesis 25, seven, we see the death of Abraham in verse seven. And these are the days or the years of Abraham's life which he lived in hundred, three score and fifteen years. So that's a hundred and sixty plus fifteen, a hundred and seventy-five years. So all that to say this, when did Abraham get saved and when did Abraham offer Isaac? Because both of these situations are being talked about in Romans chapter four and James chapter two. So he was saved somewhere between seventy-five and eighty-six. He didn't offer Isaac for another thirty years. So what I'm trying to get at, if we look back at James chapter two and verse twenty-one, I should have had you turn back there if you're not there. James chapter two and verse number twenty-one, let's go back to that and let's compare the first couple of verses of Romans chapter four with James chapter twenty-one now that we understand when things happen in Abraham's life. James chapter two and verse twenty-one, the Bible says this, was not Abraham our father justified by works? Yes he was. He was justified by works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar. Look at verse number twenty-two. See as thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect. And then in verse number twenty-three we tie it all together right here. When the scripture was fulfilled with saith Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. That's Genesis fifteen verse six. That's his salvation. And then and he was called the friend of God. That's justification before men. That's when he offered Isaac. You see? You see how in James chapter two and verse twenty-three he ties up those two events. Now look, here's the point that I'm trying to make with when we went through Genesis and all those different events, those things didn't happen at the same time, right? Abraham was saved thirty years ago before God. That's when God imputed righteousness unto him. That was his salvation. He was justified before men when they saw that he was willing to sacrifice his only son and he was called the what? The friend of God. By who? By men. All right? Now if you go back to Romans chapter four and look at verse number two, it says, for if Abraham were justified by works he hath wear of to glory but not before God. See? He was not justified by his works to God. He was justified by his works before men. And all men can see are your works. So it makes perfect sense. All right? When you look at Romans chapter four verses one, two and three and you look at James chapter two and verses twenty one, twenty two and twenty three and they just tie right in like this together. And then you look at the Bible and what Moses wrote. Isn't that a proof that God wrote the Bible? I mean no, I mean unless these two men or these three men were like geniuses and working together, you know, there's no other way that you could explain this other than God wrote the Bible. And that's why no matter who's the author, it all ties together and it fits perfectly and it all teaches the same story and it gets even better. That's just the first three verses. Okay? Let's continue. Abraham grew in his faith. That's a point that you can make here, right? I mean his faith was made perfect. The Bible says that his faith in Romans chapter, the Bible says that he was called the friend of God and his faith was made perfect in James chapter two and verse twenty two. Now, you should grow in your faith too. We should all grow in our faith. That's a goal is for our faith to become perfect, more and more perfect every day of our life. All right? Look down at Romans chapter four and verse number four. Let's continue. All right? Now Paul just continues on here and he's still soul winning in Romans chapter four here. And he says in Romans chapter four and verse number four, now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. So you have two guys, I'm just going to read Romans chapter four and verses four and five and then I'm going to explain those two verses. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. So you have a man that does works. And then in verse number five, you have but him to worketh not, but believeth on him that justifyeth ye ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. You have two men here. One is, you know, the guy does works. The guy does works, he does a lot of works, you know, but it says that all that man has is debt in verse four. And in verse five, the Bible says, but to him that worketh not does no works. It doesn't say he works a little. It's that he worketh not. He does no works, but he believeth on him that justifyeth ye ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Now look, these are great soul winning verses for somebody who's hung up on works. For somebody who's Catholic and believes, you know, hey, you can't tell people that. You can't tell people that it, you know, you can never lose it. You can't tell people it's faith alone. These are great verses, but you have two guys right here that one does works and one doesn't. One that does works is going to hell. You know, that's a reality of the situation today that we need to understand, and it might be hard for logical people to think about this, you know, not once you're saved, hopefully, but you have to understand that people who are better in the eyes of men, there might be a man who's better, who does better works in his life and is a better person, even according to the law of the Bible, then somebody else doesn't do any works. He's just kind of a bad guy, but he's going to hell and this guy's going to heaven because it has nothing to do with works. So those situations are, of course, going to happen because it has nothing, whether you go to heaven or not, it has nothing to do with your works, period, all right? So I mean, these churches that have slipped into these repenting, your sins, we're going to talk about all this stuff on Sunday morning, but all these churches that have slipped into these, they've basically gone into the way of the book of Galatians and they just need to refresh up on their Bible and Romans chapter 4 and verse number 4 and 5 is really all they need. So that's verses 4 and 5, now let's keep going. Now here's another thing that you need to explain to people when you're soul winning. Notice in verse number 4, the Bible says, but to him that worketh not but believeth on him, you need to explain what believeth on means, okay? Now the Bible uses those two words most of the time when it's talking about believing. It will say believeth on, they believed on him, believe on, believe on, and believeth on. What that means is you need to understand that that means that they put their total faith and trust on Jesus and not, you can't be 5% myself, 95% Jesus. People need to understand that. We'll get into that a little bit more throughout this sermon, but look at verse number 6 in Romans chapter 4. Even as David also described the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputed righteousness without works. I'll turn to, I'll read you David's words in Psalm, the book of Psalms, and in Psalm 32.1 this is what Paul is talking about. The Bible says, blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputedeth not iniquity. Once again, evidence that the Bible was written by God and not by man. Look, worketh not without works, not of works. I mean how many different times does Paul need to say this? You know, I've had this debate several times with, it's a philosophical debate that we'll never know the answer to. But it's, do these heretics know that they're heretics, or do they not know, are they doing it on purpose, and which ones, look, some of them of course know, and they're not doing it on purpose, maybe some of them don't know, I don't know. But it's so clear in the Bible, it almost has to be on purpose. I mean it's so clear, you cannot misunderstand this. Let's look down at verse number seven. Verse number seven, saying blessed are they, he continues, blessed is the man whom God imputed righteousness without works, saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered, back in the book of Psalms. Blessed is the man whom the Lord will not impute sin. If you're saved, the Lord will not impute sin to you. Comeeth this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, that means the Jews, remember, or upon the uncircumcision also, for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Now I'll let you to notice that word faith, where he says, because this is very important in this wording, he says for we say that faith, he's saying faith, you know, faith, right, was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? Was he in circumcision? He was 99 years old when he was circumcised, remember, or in uncircumcision. And then Paul answers the question, not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. Abraham was saved before he was circumcised, his salvation had nothing to do with being circumcised. So Paul knew everything we just learned about Abraham's life, and that's exactly what he's saying here. But that's why we went to Genesis to kind of catch up to Paul, as we could read through this, okay. Turn to John chapter eight. John chapter eight, and I'm going to read for you Romans 411. And this is where it gets fairly deep, so if you're asleep, wake up right now. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of what? The faith, okay, the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised. So look, brother Matt and I can have a faith, okay. I can have a faith in that piano, and brother Matt can have a faith in that chair. Is that the same faith? Nope. But notice how he said that Abraham, he said faith in the verse before, but now he gets much more specific, and he says, the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised. So there was a specific faith that Abraham had in Genesis 15 verse 6. There was a specific faith, okay, remember that, lock that in, that he might be the father of all of them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. You see what happened here? And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of not the Jews, of all of them that believe. See? That was the promise. That was the promise. That righteousness might be imputed to them also. It gets even better. Verse number 12, and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, referring to the Jews, but also who walk in the steps of what? That faith, that specific faith that Abraham had when he got saved. See? It's not a faith, it's not a belief, it's the faith of Abraham. And who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. So his circumcision, it didn't have anything to do with his salvation. That's what he's saying. But he's saying that being a child, or Abraham being your father, has to do with having that faith, or the faith of Abraham. See? Romans 4.13, and now we wrap it up right here. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed, meaning the Jews, through the law, those are the Jews. When he says he was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, that's referencing the physical Jews, but through the righteousness of faith. Meaning anyone who has righteousness through faith, the faith, that faith of Abraham, is Abraham's, Abraham is their father. That's what he's saying. So Abraham is our father through the common faith. That's it. That's what he's saying here. Alright? Did you turn to John chapter 8? You can see why Jews today are not on board with the Bible, right? I mean it's not good. Alright, John chapter 8, let's look at verse number 37. This is Jesus speaking. He's speaking to the Pharisees, and he says, I know that you're Abraham's seed, but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my father, and you do that which you have seen with your father. They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. See? Because they would be justified before men if they did that, okay? But you seek to kill me, a man that had told you the truth which I have heard of God. This did not Abraham. You do the deeds of your father. Then they saith unto him, we be not born of fornication. We have one father, even God. Jesus said unto them, if God were your father, you would love me. But I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? He's wondering why, if Abraham really is your father, you would have believed Abraham and you would have believed me, basically is what he's saying as he said elsewhere. Even because you cannot hear my word. He are of your father, the devil, and the lust of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. So he basically tells them Abraham's not your father, the devil is your father, okay? And then Paul is saying in Romans that if you had the common faith of Abraham, Abraham is your father. That's what he's saying. So we're saved the same way that Abraham was saved, period. There's your dispensationalism, gone. Romans 4,14, keep reading. The Bible says this, For if they which are of the lobby heirs, faith is made void and the promise is made of none effect. So now he just keeps, he just grinds it in. I mean I just love it. Let me turn to Romans chapter 11 in verse number 6. You see how he uses this term through the law? Was not to Abraham or his seed through the law, through the physical Jews. That's what he's talking about. And he says it again in Romans 14 where he says, For if they which are of the lobby heirs, they of the law, who are they? The Jews, right? If they be of the law, be heirs, then faith is made void. And the promise is made of none effect. In Romans 11 verse 6, let's read again. The Bible says, And if by grace then it is no more of works. Otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be works, then it is no more grace. Otherwise work is no more work. It's either all works or it's all faith. That's it. And he's using the Jews as, he's equating that to works. You see what I'm saying? Them of the law. The Jews are of the law. So if the Jews are children of Abraham just because they're of that line of heritage, that's works. That's of the flesh. That's what he's saying. But it's not. And it would make faith completely void. Because it can't be a combination of both. It's all or nothing. Alright? Now, that shows you that there can be literally no benefit for being a physical Jew. As far as your salvation goes. It's not saying that Jews can't get saved. It's that they need to get saved the same way everybody else. Through faith. Because if it was the other way, faith would be void. Meaningless. Not worth anything. So we see that the idea of being saved through being a physical or hereditary descendant of Abraham is paralleled here with believing in works salvation. See? It's the same thing. That's pretty neat how he did that. Now it can't be both, even a little bit. Because then faith is made void. Alright. Let's look down to verse number 15 and we'll keep reading. The Bible says, Because the law worketh wrath, for where no law is there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to them which is of the law. The Jews, again, I love how he just repeats things. But to that also which is of the faith of Abraham. The specific faith of Abraham. See? Who is the father of us all. Right? As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be. Now, there was times when Abraham didn't do the right thing, and he obviously didn't have perfect faith in the Bible. But once saved, always saved. That's proof of eternal security as well. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about 100 years old, when Isaac was born, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but with strong in faith, giving glory to God. And in verse number 21, I want you to pay attention to these two words. And being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. So the Bible says here in verse number 21, that when Abraham believed God, he was fully persuaded. He believed on. See? It wasn't, yeah, I think maybe he will, but I'm also going to, you know, he was fully persuaded, the Bible says. That is believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. That is what it means. So you must, when you are out soul winning, here's another tip. You must fully persuade people of the gospel of Jesus Christ. You must fully persuade people that it's not of works. You must fully persuade people that it's only through Jesus Christ. No man come through the Father, but by me. It's only Jesus. If you have preached the gospel to someone who is a Buddhist or a Muslim or whatever, and they still, yeah, I believe the Quran, but yeah, I also believe this, they are not fully persuaded. You must fully persuade someone in order for them to be saved. Period. And therefore, in verse number 22, he says it again just in case we forgot in the last five minutes, he was fully persuaded and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Right there. He believed on. Right there. Now, it was not written for his sake alone that was imputed to him, but for us also to whom it shall be imputed. If we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who is delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. So you see how you can take that believe on and fully persuaded two things go together again. Isn't that great? Look, so it's important, you know, so he's talking again, he starts talking about Jesus in verse number 24. But for us also to whom it shall be imputed, our sins were imputed to Jesus. If we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses and was raised up again for our justification. So it's important that you explain Jesus well when you're out soul winning as well. People need to know that Jesus had our sins imputed to him. And that is how we can be let free. You know, I will often use the analogy of whoever I'm with and it's probably not true usually, but I usually say, you know, Brother Matt, you know, he might, we're good friends, he might die for me if he needed to. But Brother Matt cannot die for my sins because Brother Matt has his own sins to pay for. And Jesus had no sins to pay for. He was innocent. So that's why he could take those on himself, take that punishment on himself and God would accept that sacrifice. Okay? Someone who didn't owe had to pay. Period. And Jesus didn't owe anything. Okay? Now, the application of the main thing that I want you to take away from this sermon tonight is that there's a common faith throughout the whole Bible. And that's very clear in Romans chapter 10. James talks about it and Genesis talks about Abraham's faith. It's a common faith. We are all Abraham's children through the faith in the Messiah and God sent to redeem the world from sin. These people knew, you know, we've had this philosophical debate in my family and all this before and I have an opinion on it that I won't give now. But how much of this promise that Abraham, you know, how much of detail that Abraham actually understood of that promise, that's a good philosophical debate to have because the Bible doesn't really tell us. All we know, I know that my faith in Jesus Christ is the same faith that Abraham said because the Bible says so. And guess what? I don't need to go into all these weird rabbit holes and come up with all these strange doctrines because you know what, I'll just ask Abraham when I get to heaven. But we know that they were looking forward to a Messiah in the Old Testament. They were saved on credit. Think of it that way. God would send a Messiah to, you know, bruise, you know, Satan's head, right? That God would send a Messiah. We look back on the Messiah and His name was Jesus Christ. And we look back and we have all the details of all that that happened. You obviously can't believe today that there's coming a Messiah because once Jesus came, you had to believe that that was Him because that's who God sent, see? But it's a common faith. If you look back at it or you're looking back at it, it's a common faith. That's what Romans chapter 4 is telling us. And it's that faith that you have to have to be saved. It's the same gospel no matter where you're from. And you know what? You can see it when you visit other people from other places in the world who are saved. When you visit other people, you're visiting the churches or even around this country and other places in the world, in the Philippines, because it's weird, but you just connect with people. You're just like brothers and sisters right away. Because we share a common spirit. It's a common faith. It's a common gospel that saved us all. So look, people have different hang-ups when you're out there soul-winning. You're going to run across people who are hung up, mostly it's works in one way or the other. But you're going to have people that have weird hang-ups on hell. You're going to have people that have weird hang-ups on they don't think they're a sinner. You're going to have people that have weird hang-ups on all these different things. And you might have to go to different places in the Bible to kind of back those things up and show them if they're willing to listen. But look, it's the same gospel that they have to eventually believe and they have to be fully persuaded and they have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The same as you and I all did. That is the same end game. The salvation is always the same. It's always been the same. From Genesis to Revelation. So that's why another culture moment here, that's why we want to have awesome soul-winners in this church. We want to have people that can go out and they can figure out what can be personable with people and they can figure out where people's hang-ups are and they have the Bible, the knowledge of the Bible where if somebody does have some strange hang-up they know where to go to kind of help fix that person's hang-up. You'll be able to do that with people. Somebody will have sincere questions about certain things that they saw somewhere on the internet or whatever they grew up in some weird thing and they'll sincerely want to know if we should be able to show them those things. We should have enough knowledge of the Bible to be able to go out there and not only just give a soul-winning presentation but to be able to navigate our Bibles and show people the truth and get them back to that common gospel. Get fix these little issues in their heart that they have and if they're sincere about it we can fully persuade them of the gospel. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the Book of Romans. We thank you for your word, your whole word. We thank you for how it fits together perfectly. We thank you Lord for Paul and for how you used him to write down these deep doctrines and just bless the rest of our night, Lord. Bless the fellowship to come. Bless the rest of everybody's week and bring us back safely for Soul-winning on Saturday and Church on Sunday. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.