 Good morning sir. Okay, started. Good morning everyone. Good morning Prince Manu, Roshan and Kanan. I think the others will join us as we get started. Let's pray together. I take a minute just to pray. And then we will get started with this course. This is our book study on the book of Romans. Alright, so let's just pray together. Could one of us please unmute our mics and then we'll pray and we'll get started. Sure, Pastor. Father, we submit this day into your hands. We submit this session into your hands. We thank you Lord for this provision that you have made for us. Father, even as we, Lord, humble ourselves and learn from your word, Jesus, let the word minister to us equip us, empower us Jesus. We know these words are alive because you are alive. So we thank you Father Lord for this privilege and an honor to learn from your word Father. I pray that this session will empower us Jesus. And we submit this, the rest of the course into your hands. Let it be a blessing. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Russian. And welcome everyone. So this course is a study on the book of Romans. And we have, we will be releasing the course notes, you know, chapter by chapter as we go along. This will be put up in the course work section in the Google class. So you could download the PDFs from there and follow along. So there are three PDFs put out there already. And we'll just, you know, quickly look at the introduction to this, to the book of Romans and then get started chapter by chapter. Now, this third year, in the third year, like we mentioned earlier yesterday, what we are trying to do as we equip our students is to give a lot more practical input on the ministry areas, whether it's local church or worship ministry or youth or children or administration or media and technology, a lot of practical things that you need. If you're going to be leading or involved actively in church or Christian ministry. But at the same time, we want to delve into a little more deeper study of things. So first two years has been a lot of topical, been covering different topics. And those topics are important because, you know, you need, we need to have a broad understanding of things in the ministry because we're going to face all kinds of things. So there's a broad array of topics that we covered in the first two years. In the third year, we're going into the books of the Bible, primarily the New Testament. So a lot of the studies would be covering New Testament books. Some, I think, just one course does, you know, the entire, when we look at Revelation and Daniel. But otherwise we are, we want to study book by book in the New Testament because that's going to be the basis of a lot of our teaching and ministry. Now usually when you, you know, buy a new book, most of us, or even before we decide to buy a book that we feel we're interested, at least in the days when, you know, we used to buy physical books. I know these days, many of us, you know, we buy books online, but even online books, they give us a preview. You know, you can look at a summary of the book here, maybe a preview of the book, the cover, of course, and then the contents a little bit, maybe of chapter one, the introduction and chapter one. When we buy physical books, you know, we usually turn to the back of the book because that gives us a little summary of the book to see if we are interested. You know, it kind of highlights what is the book cover, and then maybe we may even read the introduction. We may read a little bit about the author, said I lost my connection, but okay. Can you all see me, are you with me so far? Yes, Pastor. Okay, great. Because I got a message saying I lost connection. Anyway, yeah. Okay, great, great. All right. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to just give a little overview of the course and then get into the introduction to the book of Romans. You want to understand what is this book about? Why was it written? When was it written? And what are the key things we're going to get out of this study of the book of Romans. And then we're going to go worse by worse study. Right. So I'm going to share the PDF, PDFs that are being made available to you just so that we could all track together. And you will know where what I'm referring to as I'm speaking. So this is just a course overview of the first document that we had put out. Yeah, it's going to be a study with Romans. We will have three simple assessments, different points along the course, the grading structure. All of you are familiar with what I would recommend if you have time as you read along. You know, there are lots of commentaries. Of course, you can download lots of commentaries, but I would encourage you to look at one of them, which is David Casig's word commentary and your word. You can look it up online or if you're using eSword, you can get downloaded spot of eSword and you can follow, make use of it. Just additional reading and then notes, the PDF notes that I will give you has a lot of content already. But if you want to read some more, if you have the time to do it, you're welcome to look at other commentaries and resources. And one of those I would point you to is David Casig. The reason I picked him is because he comes from a spirit-filled background. And so he does bring in that aspect of understanding of the word. So that would be useful. Now, let's get into an introduction to the book of Romans. I don't want to overstate things as though the book of Romans is the most important book in the New Testament. So I don't want to do that. But yet at the same time, the Paul's episode to the Romans is regarded by many as one of the best expressions of Christian doctrine. The other episodes to whether it's Corinth, Galatia, or Ephesians, or the prison episodes that Paul wrote to the Philippians, the Colossians, and so on. They are addressing certain elements of Christian life or the life of the church. They're addressing problems and those kinds of things. But the episode to the Romans is doctrinal. It's more teaching-oriented. It starts off from the very basic of the existence of God and goes through a journey of sin, salvation, the gift of righteousness, the grace of God, talking about Christian living, and so on. So it is, again, forgive me for saying it. It's the best episode when it comes to Christian doctrine teaching. And so it is something very important to study, to understand, and also in it and probably the only place in the New Testament. We have about three chapters that really explain to us the relationship between the church and Israel, possibly. Of course, the book of Hebrews asks some of it in terms of covenant, but in terms of what is God doing with Israel and with the church, you'll find that in the book of Romans. So again, it's very unique from that perspective, because the entire Old Testament is God's dealings with the people of Israel and then there is the prophecies of Christ coming. And then suddenly you come into the New Testament and it starts over Jesus and the church. And we wonder what happened to Israel, you know, because the whole entire Old Testament was God working with Israel. You cross over the New Testament is about the church. What happened to Israel? So in the book of Romans, Paul is very beautifully bring that out to us. And so that is also important for us to understand. And like we said, many key doctrines, that means the teaching of the church is established in the book of Romans. I'm just repeating the existence of God, the issue of sin and conscience, the issue of salvation, the issue of grace, the issue of righteousness, and the issue of Christian living and various aspects of dealing with how does a Christian relate to others? How does a Christian relate to the government, civil government? How does a Christian relate to sin and overcome sins? So all these are doctrines. These are the key teachings of the church, if you will. And so all these are covered in this book of Paul's episode to the Romans. So let's get a little background of what motivated the apostle Paul to write this book, when was it written? And what was some of the things Paul was expecting to happen? So now these dates, of course, we know that all of this happened in the first century AD. So these dates are approximate, meaning they are reconstructed based on various pieces of information that people have over time put together. And so we approximate say, you know, this was the time when Paul went on his first missionary journey, when he went on a second missionary journey and third missionary journey. And so this is where he would have most likely written various episodes. So these are approximate. So, you know, you may find some variations in different commentaries and so on. But just keep in mind that people are trying to make the best estimate of when the episode would have been written or when Paul went on his missionary journey and so on. So if there are variations there by three, four, three or four years, don't get worried about it. Everybody's just trying to make their best guess based on information we're able to put together. So what happened during Paul's second missionary journey that is around 8049 to 52. And you can see some of the places that Paul went. Sorry, this map shows his third missionary journey, but the second missionary journey he came to Corinth, and we read about this in Acts chapter 18. So he came to Corinth, and then at Corinth, he met a couple, Aquila and Priscilla. Now what happened around that time was the emperor in Rome, Emperor Claudius in around 8049. He had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. So the Jews left Rome, and they had went back to wherever their hometowns. So Aquila and Priscilla were Jewish believers who were from Rome, and they landed up in Corinth where Paul was ministering. And so they joined with Paul and, you know, they ministered with Paul, but remember they were Jewish believers who came from Rome. So this was Paul's interaction with believers from Rome. He would have heard a lot about what was happening in Rome and so on. And he had a lot of time with Aquila and Priscilla, and eventually after sometime around 8054, Aquila and Priscilla went back to Rome. And there they would have surely spoken to the believers at Rome about Paul, about his ministry and so on. Now in his third missionary journey, Paul, of course, he travels. He spends a lot of time in Ephesus, and then he comes down to Corinth around 8053 to 58. And from Corinth, he writes to the believers at Rome. So this is, again, approximate around 8057 during his third missionary journey. Paul is in Corinth. From there, he is writing to the believers at Rome. So how do we know that Paul must have written this episode from Corinth? There are a few indicators there. If you go to Romans, the 16th chapter and the 23rd verse, now this is in the PDF, so we could just look at it there. And Romans 16, verse 23, Paul mentions the names of two people. He mentions the name of Gaius, who is very likely the person who was also mentioned in Paul's episode to the Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 114, and Gaius was a believer in Corinth. So he says, Gaius, my host, and the host of the whole church creeds here. So Gaius is somebody from Corinth. We know that from 1 Corinthians 114. So that's one indication that, okay, Paul is staying with Gaius and he's writing from his house. So most likely he is writing from Corinth. Another indicator is he mentions the name of Erastus, the treasurer of the city. And then this is more of a piece of archaeological information. Erastus is, we find that he is the head of the, you know, what we would refer to as the Public Works Department, or people who are going to take care of the city. And we see his name mentioned in 2 Timothy chapter 4, verse 20, when Paul mentions him to Timothy. And we also get some archaeological confirmation of him that there is a pavement or a stone that was part of a road. You know, in those days, these roads put stones to make those roads. And on one of those stones, this inscription, then translated it says, Erastus, and use the word little ship, that means he was official magistrate who paved this road at his own expense. So you have this piece of archaeological evidence that adds to, you know, kind of gives a little support to the fact that Erastus was a city official in Corinth. Paul mentions his name. So that's an again, a second indicator that most likely he wrote this episode through the Romans from Corinth. Now, some of the motivations that which led to the writing of the, this letter to the Romans is that Paul in towards the end of his letter to the Romans, he shares about his plan to come to Spain. So if you want to look at the map, there's Jerusalem. There's Corinth where Paul is writing is he from in his third missionary journey. He's planning to go to Spain. He wants to go and extend the work of God's kingdom over in Spain. But he says, I want to go via Rome. So I'm planning to come to Rome on my way to Spain. So you read about that in Romans 15 and worse, versus 22 to 2033. Can somebody just read this passage for us out loud? Because there are other things that we can draw from this passage. Can somebody read this for us, please? You can read it from your Bible or you can read it from PDF, whichever is convenient for you. Okay, I'll read it. For this reason, I also have been much hindered from coming to you. But now no longer having a place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come to you. Whenever I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey and to be helped on my way there by you. If first I may enjoy your company for a while, but now I'm going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. For it pleased those from Macedonia and Akhaya to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem. It pleased them indeed and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their special things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things. Therefore, when I have performed this and have sealed to them, this route I shall go by way to you to Spain. But I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. Now I beg you brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit that you strap together between prayers to God for me. That I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe. And that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints. That I may come to you with joy by the will of God and may be refreshed together with you. Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So there's a lot that we can see. We can get a feel for Paul's heart. So he says for many years, verse 23, for many years I've been longing to come to you. So you can imagine from the time he met Aquila and Priscilla and they told him about the believers in Rome. And we will talk a little bit about how the church in Rome started. But from the time he heard about that and he had the time to interact with Aquila and Priscilla in Corinth, till now he must have had this great desire, hey, I need to go to these believers in Rome. And we also see one of his desires was, he says that in verse 29, he says, When I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. So you can see Paul's heart here, I want to go to these believers and I want to bring something to them spiritually. And when we get into chapter one, he expresses that again that he says, I want to impart to you some spiritual gift. So that is Paul's heart. I want to go to these believers who are in Rome. I want to come to them in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. I want to impart to them something spiritual. So he feels like he can give to them spiritually and that's his motivation in going there. And for those of us who like to travel and minister or who some of us may be in traveling ministry, this is what motivates us. Why do you want to go to a city somewhere and minister to the believers there? What is motivating you? It's not about going in sight saying it's not about, you know, I want to go and see a place or experience the culture and it's not recreational. But really the motivation is, I want to give them something in the spirit. I want to impart to them the full blessing of the gospel of Christ. I want to come and strengthen them spiritually. That's the motivation. That's why people travel. They go from place to place. They go to different places and minister to believers. That's the motivation. But then Paul is kind of shedding a little bit about what he's planning to do. Many of us know that around that time there was a famine in Jerusalem. There was hardship there among the believers in Jerusalem. And so Paul had encouraged some of these churches that he had started in the region of, like he mentions here, Achaia where Corinth was and Macedonia where, you know, other cities were Philippine, so on. He's encouraging those churches that he had, which are on the Eastern part of Europe, that he had started. He administered to is encouraging them to contribute to help the saints in Jerusalem. So Paul felt responsible, his part of his responsibility that he would take this offering and go to Jerusalem. Give it to the believers there so that they will have some help. And then after that, he wanted to go to Spain, but he said, I will go through Rome and I will make my way to Spain. So that was his plan and that's what he's sharing over here. So that was Paul's motivation. He longed to go and minister to the believers at Rome. So now quickly, a little background. How did the church in Rome, how does church at Rome start? Who would have started that church? What we do know is this, that on the day of Pentecost, there were visitors from Rome. Right? So this is in Acts chapter two. You know, on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out. They were Jewish people from various parts of Asia and around Asia. And Europe would come to Jerusalem to celebrate the feasts. And they would come sometimes for a period of 60 days, right? They would start off with the celebration of the feast of unleavened bread or even the feast of Passover. They would go into the feast of first fruits, which was three days later. And they would stay on till Pentecost, which was another 50 days later. So for a good 60 days, they would be in Jerusalem. And so there were Jewish people who came to Jerusalem at that time. And we see recorded for us here in Acts chapter two, verse 10, that there were visitors from Rome. And they were both Jews in proselytes. That means there were Jewish people and there were Gentiles who had embraced Judaism. So they are referred to as proselytes as they were all there in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. So we can just imagine that some of these Jews who had come from Rome were impacted on the day of Pentecost. They were touched and they stayed in Jerusalem for a good period of time to learn from the apostles, who stayed under the apostles' teaching and doctrine. And then there was a mix of Jews and Gentile believers there. And then eventually, after some time, they would have gone back to Rome. But they had been impacted on the day of Pentecost. They have stayed for some time under the teaching of the apostles in Jerusalem. And gradually they would have gone back to Rome. So that is how the church at Rome got started. We don't have the mention of any leader in the church at Rome. We don't have a founding apostle going there to start that church. All we know is it must have been these believers, Jewish people, Jewish and Gentile proselytes. On the day of Pentecost, who were affected by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and what happened from that day, who eventually went back to Rome and they continued in the faith. So we could say that the church in Rome was a spiritual church because, hey, these people were there on the day of Pentecost. And we could say that these believers in Rome were people who received the teaching of the apostles. They were established in what the apostles taught them. So you can imagine the apostles would have taught them. The teachings of Jesus were taught them about the end times. Everything that we read in the apostles had been imparted to these believers through the apostles. The apostles would have told them all about all miracles Jesus did. And he'd have told them about the great commission that Jesus gave us as people, as disciples to go and make disciples. So all this would have been imparted by the apostles to these believers, Jews and Gentiles. And then eventually they would go back to Rome and then they do the work. So these unnamed believers would have spread the gospel at Rome. And what we know is that it was a mixed group of Jews and Gentile believers and that the church must have multiplied. There must have been several house churches at Rome. We can say that because in Romans 16, Paul mentions that. He says in Romans 16 verses 3 to 5, could somebody read that for us please? Go ahead. I would like to thank my fellow workers in Christ Jesus who risked their own necks for my life. To whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles, likewise create the church that is in their house. Great man we love the Gentiles. Who is the first room offer as you have to price? So Paul, when he's writing to the believers in Rome, he says, I greet Aquila and Priscilla. Now Aquila or Priscilla and Aquila, they are longtime friends of Paul. He says, I greet them, greet the church that is in their house. So we understand that house churches were happening in Rome. So that is the way the churches would have been meeting. Whether they all came together at one point, we don't know, but they were churches meeting in various houses and that's how the body believers were there at Rome. So Paul's letter would have been read across all these house churches in Rome to build them up and encourage them. So this is a little background of the whole history there behind the people to whom Paul wrote and how they came together in Paul's relationship to them. We talk a little bit more about how Paul wrote to the believers at Rome. Now about the book of Romans itself. Again, so this is like you're reading the back cover of the book or the introduction. What are some of the key things that we could highlight about Romans? So one important thing is this. Romans explains to us very clearly what the gospel is. This is the gospel that we are sinners. Christ died for us. Rose rose up again. Whoever believes in him receives forgiveness of sins. It's the clearest explanation of the gospel. We find that in Romans. Secondly, Romans also, like I said, it starts from the very basic. It gives us a full spiritual journey. So like we said, it starts with the very existence of God, talks about the sinfulness of man, the consequences of sin, focuses on what Christ did for us on the cross, how we can be justified and receive righteousness through grace by faith. And then how do you overcome sin on the basis of the cross and through the work of the spirit? That's Romans 8. And then how we live the Christian life, the rest of the chapters. So it is a full roadmap from start on to a place of living the Christian life. It's a roadmap of starting from existence of God to living the Christian life. So really, you could actually, if somebody reads Romans, they can actually get saved, learn how to overcome sin and learn how to live the Christian life. It's like foundations. You know, it's a good journey that Paul takes as somebody through. Then another important theme, Romans, Paul's epistle to the Romans is the righteousness of God. The justness, the fact that God is just, that God is unblameable, God is righteous. And he deals, he, it is one of those books that addresses this very thoroughly. The Holy Show of righteousness, God is righteous. Even when he judges the sinner, he's still righteous. And in his righteousness, you know, he judged sin on the cross. And then he makes righteousness available to the person who believes. And the person who believes can walk in righteousness and live a righteous life. So the whole aspect of God's righteousness given to man and man being able to walk in righteousness is addressed in the book of Romans, probably like no other book. You don't find this kind of treatment of righteousness in any other episode. And one last thing that we want to highlight about the book of Romans before we start going into it is, like we said earlier, we probably find only in Romans, and this has to do with Romans chapters 9 through 11 treatment of Paul addresses the relationship between Jews and Gentiles or Israel and the church. What is God doing? And where do these two people, Israel and the church, where do they fit in what God is doing? And so in Romans chapters 9 through 11, Paul addresses that. And like I mentioned earlier, we probably don't see this kind of treatment anywhere else in the New Testament of this whole subject of Jews and Gentiles. So that's a very interesting part to study in the book of Romans. I'm going to discover a little bit more and then we will have some time for questions. So why did Paul write to the believers at Rome? And what was his motivation? One, we can see that he felt personally connected to the believers at Rome. Even though he had not been there as yet, and even though he was not the one who started the church in Rome. Most of the other episodes that Paul wrote, you know, but we see Ephesians, Galatians, Thessalonians, Philippians, other than Colossae, other than the one to Colossians. Mostly other episodes Paul wrote were written to people who he had direct contact with churches that he had established. And so he felt a great sense of responsibility to them. But these two episodes, the one to the Colossians and one to the Rome, were to people that he did not directly minister to in the sense that he didn't go and start these churches. But he had influence on the people who were in leadership there. So for the church in Colossae, Paul had a strong relationship with Philemon. He had a strong relationship with Epaphras, and he was the one who led Onesimus, Philemon's slave. He was the one who led him to the Lord. So Paul had a good relationship with key people from the church in Colossae. And so he could write to them. He had a great heart for them. Similarly for the church in Rome, we know that he worked closely with Aquila and Priscilla. And so he probably felt connected to the believers at Rome through Aquila and Priscilla, because they were in some form of leadership with the believers at Rome. And so that heart felt connection was there. And we can also see that Paul had been praying for these people, whether the believers in Colossae and also the people in Rome, he had been praying about them. He says, I've been praying that I want to come to you and minister to you and give you some spiritual gift. So he's been praying for them. And so that could be another important aspect of his heart for the believers at Rome. And lastly, as we also mentioned, he may have had a desire to come and impart to them some spiritual gift. And we will see this in Romans chapter one. And we will read that once we get into the first chapter. Okay. So he had a desire to come in and impart to these believers at Rome and minister to them. And perhaps some lesser reasons was why he was writing to them was, you know, maybe just to let them know that that's his plan to come, prepare them for his visit to enjoy their company spiritually. And maybe he said, you know, I could be helped by you on my journey to Spain. So maybe he said, guys, you know, you can help me fulfill this mission that I have for Spain. So maybe these were some of the other motivations there in writing. Okay. So let me pause here for now. And any, any thoughts, let me go back here to the meeting. Any thoughts, any questions, any comments or we move forward. Any thoughts, any questions? All good. Everyone's with me so far. Okay. Okay. So, okay. So this is just, you know, this background information. So we understand what's happening. Right. So let me. Okay. So I think everybody's following. Right. So let's go back to everywhere. Right. Sorry. I need to share this. Okay. All right. So something to keep in mind as we start reading from chapter one, going to the book of Romans is there is divine inspiration, but we also see human expression. So we know the Holy Spirit inspired scripture. We also know that Paul himself was a scholar. He was a Pharisee. That means he had been really trained in scripture. He had studied under the best Hebrew teachers under Gamaliel. So Romans is very scholarly in nature. It's, you know, when you read it, it's like you're chewing on something really, really solid. It's, it's not, you know, there's not too many like stories or exhortation type of things. It's, it's very scholarly. There's a lot of logic. There's a lot of reasoning that we find in almost every chapter through Romans. Right. So there's a very scholarly element to Romans that we will see as we journey through it. Secondly, we also find that there is a lot of reference to Old Testament scripture or Old Testament concepts in Romans. And this again is because Paul himself was an Old Testament scholar of the Old Testament scriptures. And so as he's writing here, of course, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is bringing out things from the Old Testament and making it, you know, helping us New Testament believers or, you know, people on the other side of the cross understand the meaning of all of those things. And so you'll find a lot of language references to Old Testament scripture in the book of Romans. And Paul does that in many of his writings. And so this is something very important. And then also we need, of course, we need to keep in mind some of the local context, things that were happening, which we have mentioned, which is there is, you know, there are Jews and Gentiles in the church at Rome. Right. So there are Jewish believers who, of course, will be thinking of, OK, I've embraced Jesus, but what about Judaism and what about Israel? Then there are Gentile believers who come in and who would want to know, OK, I'm embracing Jesus, but I have Jewish brothers and, you know, our brothers, brethren here. Am I becoming part of Judaism or, you know, what is that whole relationship? So he's trying to, he has to address both people, people who are coming from different backgrounds and let them understand the Christian faith and grow together in the Christian church. So that's another, that's the local context that Paul also has to address. Right. And lastly, something to keep in mind is this. When Paul wrote Romans and not just Romans, but in any of the letters that he wrote, or in fact, the entire scriptures, they were not written in chapter and worse, but it was one letter Paul was writing. So as with every expression of thought, sometimes we say something initially in order to build up that thought later on. So what we must do is we must be forward looking. And what we interpret in the beginning should be aligned to what is stated later on about the same thing. So, for example, if Paul says something in chapter one, he introduces something, but he's going to continue to build on that say in chapter four or chapter five and we'll give examples on this. Then how we interpret what he said in chapter one should stay aligned to what he has developed in chapter four and chapter five on the same thing. So that's the forward look. Also the backward look is important, which is when we are in chapter four and chapter five on the same thing, how we interpret chapter four and chapter five should stay aligned to how it was initially introduced in chapter one. So that's the backward look. That means in order to correctly interpret things, we need to maintain a forward look and a backward look so that things are interpreted correctly. Otherwise, if you just read something in isolation and we are not, you know, we often say, read the context, you know, if you're not keeping the broad context or the entire letter, then it's easy to take something and, you know, misinterpret it. It is not aligned to the initial introduction of that thought. Neither is it aligned to the future development of the thought. And so it is easy to misinterpret something when you take it in isolation. So we have to maintain the forward look and the backward look throughout Paul's episode and we will explain that we will see examples of that as we go along. So in closing of this introduction and of just two minutes and then we have to stop for the session. You know, what can we expect from this study of Romans? First, we're going to get a clear understanding of the gospel and as how Paul develops that we get a clear understanding of what the gospel of Jesus Christ is. And secondly, we're going to receive truth that will re-transform our lives, especially when he teaches us about grace, when he teaches us about righteousness, when he teaches us about the power of the cross, and when he teaches us about the work of the Spirit. And these are life-transforming for us as believers that when we understand that our lives will be transformed. It is like, okay, there is doctrine, there is teaching, but this teaching that Paul gives to us in Romans is going to change our lives. And that's the whole purpose of the teaching of the truth, which is to bring about transformation. And that will happen to us as we go through Romans. And lastly, we're going to experience the power of the Holy Spirit coming through his word, because the Holy Spirit is the source of the scriptures. He's the inspiration behind the scriptures. And so obviously our lives are going to be transformed. So as we go through this study, apply it to yourself. Take time to soak it into yourself and then maybe you may be leading a life group or you may be ministering in church context. Try to share some of these things. And one of the beautiful things is when you're able to explain something to somebody, it means you have understood it well. And if you can make it very clear to somebody else, it means you understand it very clearly. So I would encourage you to have a small group where you can discuss and explain it. And if you are able to explain it, it means you've understood it very well and it's transforming your life and affecting your life, okay? So let's pause here. That was just the introduction. And so Kiran, I didn't understand your comment that I'm seeing in the chat. Are you asking where did Paul get the revelation? I'm sorry, I didn't understand your question that you've typed in the chat, Kiran. Sir, Paul got all revelation and Paul wrote so many books and so many clear explanations, so clear. So how did Paul receive and Paul wrote all books? Right, so your question is where did Paul, how did he receive revelation? So we know that the Lord Jesus revealed things to Paul. So he mentions this in quite a few places, for instance in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 23. 1 Corinthians 11, 23 Paul says, for I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you. You know, 1 Corinthians 11, 23. Now of course he is talking about the Lord supper, but it's a clear indication to us that Paul received by revelation things he wrote. He again mentions this in Galatians chapter 5, sorry Galatians chapter 1, verses 11 and 12. Galatians 1, 11 and 12. Thank you, Roshan, for writing the scriptures there. Galatians 1, 11 and 12. He says, I make known to you the gospel brethren, which was preached by me. By me it's not according to man, for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but it came to me through the revelation of Jesus Christ. So what Paul is saying is he's saying, you know, brothers, the gospel that I'm preaching and whatever I'm preaching, I didn't receive it from some man. But he says, it came to me through what Jesus revealed to me. Right? So everything Paul wrote, he says, I didn't learn it from some man, but Jesus revealed to me and I wrote it. So that's very powerful. Now, of course, when Paul wrote it, he was a scholar himself. So, you know, he got the Lord would have worked through his scholarly abilities. But the truth was what Jesus revealed to him and Paul wrote it, you know, with with his abilities, God had given to him. So the answer is, you know, these things were revealed to him by the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. And he referenced that many, many places also in Ephesians three, he says, you know, whatever we are preaching was revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. Okay. It's time for a break. Welcome. Let's just take a quick break. Right now. 10 minutes break will be back in 10 minutes. And we'll pick up and get into chapter one. Okay. Thank you, everyone. I'm going to stop the recording and please go for your break. Thank you.