WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:09.220 in a year. Today's reading is the Epistle of 00:00:09.220 --> 00:00:12.900 St. Paul to the Romans, chapters 1 to 5. Chapter 00:00:12.900 --> 00:00:17.100 1. Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called 00:00:17.100 --> 00:00:19.440 to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.399 God, which he promised before through his prophets 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:25.379 in the Holy Scriptures, concerning his son, Jesus 00:00:25.379 --> 00:00:28.300 Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of 00:00:28.300 --> 00:00:30.839 David according to the flesh. and declare to 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.740 be the Son of God with power according to the 00:00:33.740 --> 00:00:36.520 Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.500 dead. Through him we have received grace and 00:00:39.500 --> 00:00:42.159 apostleship for obedience to the faith among 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:45.359 all nations for his name, among whom you also 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:48.140 are the called of Jesus Christ. To all who are 00:00:48.140 --> 00:00:50.939 in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints, 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:53.880 grace to you and peace from God our Father and 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:56.719 the Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.619 through Jesus Christ for you all. that your faith 00:00:59.619 --> 00:01:02.920 is spoken of throughout the whole world for god 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:06.060 is my witness whom i serve with my spirit in 00:01:06.060 --> 00:01:08.959 the gospel of his son that without ceasing i 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.540 make mention of you always in my prayers making 00:01:11.540 --> 00:01:15.439 requests if by some means now at last i may find 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.400 a way in the will of god to come to you for i 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:21.459 long to see you that i may impart you some spiritual 00:01:21.459 --> 00:01:24.819 gift so that you may be established That is, 00:01:24.859 --> 00:01:27.920 that I may be encouraged together with you by 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.200 the mutual faith, both of you and me. Now I do 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.420 not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I 00:01:33.420 --> 00:01:35.840 often planned to come to you, but was hindered 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.900 until now, that I might have some fruit among 00:01:38.900 --> 00:01:42.180 you also, just as among the other Gentiles. I 00:01:42.180 --> 00:01:44.480 am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, 00:01:44.579 --> 00:01:48.980 both to wise and to unwise. So, as much as is 00:01:48.980 --> 00:01:51.400 in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:54.590 who are in Rome also. For I am not ashamed of 00:01:54.590 --> 00:01:57.109 the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of 00:01:57.109 --> 00:01:59.670 God to salvation for everyone who believes, for 00:01:59.670 --> 00:02:02.670 the Jew first and also for the Greek, for in 00:02:02.670 --> 00:02:05.329 it the righteousness of God is revealed from 00:02:05.329 --> 00:02:08.530 faith to faith. As it is written, the just shall 00:02:08.530 --> 00:02:11.069 live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed 00:02:11.069 --> 00:02:14.490 from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness 00:02:14.490 --> 00:02:17.389 of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 00:02:17.469 --> 00:02:20.389 because what may be known of God is manifest 00:02:20.389 --> 00:02:23.259 in them, for God has shown it to them. For since 00:02:23.259 --> 00:02:25.780 the creation of the world, His invisible attributes 00:02:25.780 --> 00:02:28.699 are clearly seen, being understood by the things 00:02:28.699 --> 00:02:31.919 that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.219 so that they are without excuse. Because although 00:02:35.219 --> 00:02:38.300 they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:41.500 nor were thankful, but became futile in their 00:02:41.500 --> 00:02:44.099 thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:47.439 Professing to be wise, they became fools, and 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:49.979 changed the glory of the incorruptible God into 00:02:49.979 --> 00:02:53.289 an image made like corruptible man. and birds 00:02:53.289 --> 00:02:55.530 and four -footed animals and creeping things 00:02:55.530 --> 00:02:59.129 therefore god also gave them up to uncleanness 00:02:59.129 --> 00:03:01.689 in the lusts of their hearts to dishonour their 00:03:01.689 --> 00:03:04.590 bodies among themselves who exchanged the truth 00:03:04.590 --> 00:03:07.409 of god for the lie and worshipped and served 00:03:07.409 --> 00:03:10.550 the creature rather than the creator who is blessed 00:03:10.550 --> 00:03:14.069 for ever amen for this reason god gave them up 00:03:14.069 --> 00:03:16.909 to vile passions for even their women exchanged 00:03:16.909 --> 00:03:20.669 the natural use for what is against nature likewise 00:03:20.669 --> 00:03:23.310 also the men leaving the natural use of the woman 00:03:23.310 --> 00:03:26.150 burned in their lust for one another men with 00:03:26.150 --> 00:03:28.310 men committing what is shameful and receiving 00:03:28.310 --> 00:03:31.090 in themselves the penalty of their error which 00:03:31.090 --> 00:03:34.439 was due And even as they did not like to retain 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.360 God in their knowledge, God gave them over to 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.439 a debased mind, to do those things which are 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.479 not fitting, being filled with all unrighteousness, 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.159 sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.400 maliciousness. They are whisperers, backbiters, 00:03:49.539 --> 00:03:54.080 haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.680 of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, 00:03:57.860 --> 00:04:01.639 untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.659 who knowing the righteous judgment of god that 00:04:04.659 --> 00:04:06.919 those who practice such things are deserving 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.319 of death not only do the same but also approve 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:16.500 of those who practice them chapter two therefore 00:04:16.500 --> 00:04:20.259 you are inexcusable o man whoever you are who 00:04:20.259 --> 00:04:23.379 judge for in whatever you judge another you condemn 00:04:23.379 --> 00:04:26.050 yourself for you who judge practice the same 00:04:26.050 --> 00:04:29.230 things but we know that the judgment of god is 00:04:29.230 --> 00:04:31.790 according to truth against those who practice 00:04:31.790 --> 00:04:34.930 such things and do you think this o men you who 00:04:34.930 --> 00:04:37.769 judge those practicing such things and doing 00:04:37.769 --> 00:04:40.209 the same that you will escape the judgment of 00:04:40.209 --> 00:04:43.170 god or do you despise the riches of his goodness 00:04:43.170 --> 00:04:46.069 forbearance and long -suffering not knowing that 00:04:46.069 --> 00:04:49.019 the goodness of god leads you to repentance But 00:04:49.019 --> 00:04:51.579 in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent 00:04:51.579 --> 00:04:54.240 heart, you are treasuring up for yourself wrath 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.019 in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous 00:04:57.019 --> 00:04:59.699 judgment of God, who will render to each one 00:04:59.699 --> 00:05:02.259 according to his deeds eternal life to those 00:05:02.259 --> 00:05:05.420 who by patience continuous in doing good seek 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:08.620 for glory, honor, and immortality. But to those 00:05:08.620 --> 00:05:10.939 who are self -seeking and do not obey the truth, 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.300 but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath, 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.439 tribulation, and anguish on every soul of man 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:20.959 who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:24.180 Greek. But glory, honor, and peace to everyone 00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:27.279 who works what is good, to the Jew first and 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.120 also to the Greek. For there is no partiality 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.839 with God. For as many as have sinned without 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:36.399 law will also perish without law. And as many 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:39.199 as have sinned in the law will be judged by the 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.720 law. For not the hearers of the law are just 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.220 in the sight of God, but the doers of the law 00:05:44.220 --> 00:05:47.100 will be justified. For when Gentiles who do not 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:49.740 have the law, by nature do the things in the 00:05:49.740 --> 00:05:52.720 law, these, although not having the law, are 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:55.480 a law to themselves, who show the work of the 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.199 law written in their hearts, their conscience 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:00.899 also bearing witness, and between themselves 00:06:00.899 --> 00:06:04.279 their thoughts accusing or else excusing them. 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:06.899 In the day when God will judge the secrets of 00:06:06.899 --> 00:06:10.480 men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel, indeed, 00:06:10.699 --> 00:06:13.800 you are called a Jew, and rest on the law. and 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.759 make your boast in God, and know his will, and 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.100 approve the things that are excellent, being 00:06:19.100 --> 00:06:21.819 instructed out of the law, and are confident 00:06:21.819 --> 00:06:25.259 that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a 00:06:25.259 --> 00:06:27.920 light to those who are in darkness, an instructor 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.360 of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:33.959 form of knowledge and truth in the law. You, 00:06:34.100 --> 00:06:36.500 therefore, who teach another, do you not teach 00:06:36.500 --> 00:06:39.079 yourself? You who preach that a man should not 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:42.379 steal, do you steal? You who say, do not commit 00:06:42.379 --> 00:06:45.430 adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor 00:06:45.430 --> 00:06:48.610 idols, do you rob temples? You who make your 00:06:48.610 --> 00:06:51.250 boast in the law, do you dishonor God through 00:06:51.250 --> 00:06:54.750 breaking the law? For the name of God is blasphemed 00:06:54.750 --> 00:06:57.730 among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written. 00:06:57.990 --> 00:07:01.050 For circumcision is indeed profitable if you 00:07:01.050 --> 00:07:03.850 keep the law. But if you are a breaker of the 00:07:03.850 --> 00:07:06.670 law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 00:07:07.170 --> 00:07:10.370 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the 00:07:10.370 --> 00:07:12.800 righteous requirements of the law, will not his 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.139 uncircumcision be counted as circumcision and 00:07:16.139 --> 00:07:19.420 will not the physically uncircumcised if he fulfils 00:07:19.420 --> 00:07:22.420 the law judge you who even with your written 00:07:22.420 --> 00:07:25.459 code and circumcision are a transgressor of the 00:07:25.459 --> 00:07:28.839 law for he is not a jew who is one outwardly 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.879 nor is circumcision that which is outward in 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:35.620 the flesh but he is a jew who is one inwardly 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:38.379 and circumcision is that of the heart in the 00:07:38.379 --> 00:07:41.389 spirit not in the letter whose praise is not 00:07:41.389 --> 00:07:47.889 from men but from god chapter three what advantage 00:07:47.889 --> 00:07:51.509 then has the jew or what is the profit of circumcision 00:07:51.509 --> 00:07:54.949 much in every way chiefly because to them were 00:07:54.949 --> 00:07:57.769 committed the oracles of god for what if some 00:07:57.769 --> 00:08:00.209 did not believe will their unbelief make the 00:08:00.209 --> 00:08:02.730 faithfulness of god without effect certainly 00:08:02.730 --> 00:08:06.410 not indeed let god be true but every man a liar 00:08:06.810 --> 00:08:09.490 As it is written, that you may be justified in 00:08:09.490 --> 00:08:12.050 your words, and may overcome when you are judged. 00:08:12.370 --> 00:08:15.990 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness 00:08:15.990 --> 00:08:19.970 of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who 00:08:19.970 --> 00:08:23.290 inflicts wrath? I speak as a man, certainly not. 00:08:23.509 --> 00:08:26.970 For then how will God judge the world? For if 00:08:26.970 --> 00:08:29.410 the truth of God has increased through my lie 00:08:29.410 --> 00:08:32.610 to his glory, why am I also still judged as a 00:08:32.610 --> 00:08:35.649 sinner? And why not say, let us do evil that 00:08:35.649 --> 00:08:38.700 good may come? as we are slanderously reported 00:08:38.700 --> 00:08:42.379 and as some affirm that we say their condemnation 00:08:42.379 --> 00:08:46.080 is just what then are we better than they not 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.440 at all for we have previously charged both jews 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:53.039 and greeks that they are all under sin as it 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:56.259 is written there is none righteous no not one 00:08:56.259 --> 00:08:59.200 there is none who understands there is none who 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:03.059 seeks after god they have all turned aside they 00:09:03.059 --> 00:09:05.779 have together become unprofitable there is none 00:09:05.779 --> 00:09:09.299 who does good no not one their throat is an open 00:09:09.299 --> 00:09:12.779 tomb with their tongues they have practised deceit 00:09:12.779 --> 00:09:16.279 the poison of asps is under their lips whose 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.120 mouth is full of cursing and bitterness their 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.860 feet are swift to shed blood destruction and 00:09:21.860 --> 00:09:24.539 misery are in their ways and the way of peace 00:09:24.539 --> 00:09:27.460 they have not known there is no fear of god before 00:09:27.460 --> 00:09:30.539 their eyes now we know that whatever the law 00:09:30.539 --> 00:09:34.100 says it says to those who are under the law that 00:09:34.100 --> 00:09:36.519 every mouth may be stopped and all the world 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:40.059 may become guilty before god therefore by the 00:09:40.059 --> 00:09:42.919 deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.820 his sight for by the law is the knowledge of 00:09:45.820 --> 00:09:49.539 sin but now the righteousness of god apart from 00:09:49.539 --> 00:09:52.379 the law is revealed being witnessed by the law 00:09:52.379 --> 00:09:55.120 and the prophets even the righteousness of god 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.840 through faith in jesus christ to all and on all 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.889 who believe For there is no difference, for all 00:10:01.889 --> 00:10:04.549 have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 00:10:04.769 --> 00:10:08.169 being justified freely by his grace through the 00:10:08.169 --> 00:10:11.230 redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God 00:10:11.230 --> 00:10:14.909 set forth as a propitiation by his blood, through 00:10:14.909 --> 00:10:17.730 faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because 00:10:17.730 --> 00:10:20.850 in his forbearance God had passed over the sins 00:10:20.850 --> 00:10:23.289 that were previously committed, to demonstrate 00:10:23.289 --> 00:10:25.769 at the present time his righteousness, that he 00:10:25.769 --> 00:10:28.779 might be just and the justifier of the one. who 00:10:28.779 --> 00:10:32.360 has faith in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:36.240 is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.080 the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.159 a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:45.259 of the law. Or is he the God of the Jews only? 00:10:45.500 --> 00:10:48.580 Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, 00:10:48.580 --> 00:10:51.460 of the Gentiles also, since there is one God 00:10:51.460 --> 00:10:54.200 who will justify the circumcised by faith and 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:57.269 the uncircumcised through faith. do we then make 00:10:57.269 --> 00:11:00.809 void the law through faith certainly not on the 00:11:00.809 --> 00:11:07.590 contrary we establish the law chapter four what 00:11:07.590 --> 00:11:10.110 then shall we say that abraham our father has 00:11:10.110 --> 00:11:12.950 found according to the flesh for if abraham was 00:11:12.950 --> 00:11:15.429 justified by works he has something to boast 00:11:15.429 --> 00:11:18.950 about but not before god for what does the scripture 00:11:18.950 --> 00:11:22.409 say abraham believed god and it was accounted 00:11:22.409 --> 00:11:25.470 to him for righteousness Now to him who works, 00:11:25.549 --> 00:11:28.750 the wages are not counted as grace, but as debt. 00:11:29.110 --> 00:11:32.190 But to him who does not work, but believes on 00:11:32.190 --> 00:11:35.889 him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted 00:11:35.889 --> 00:11:39.350 for righteousness. Just as David also describes 00:11:39.350 --> 00:11:42.250 the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes 00:11:42.250 --> 00:11:45.409 righteousness apart from works. Blessed are those 00:11:45.409 --> 00:11:48.610 whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins 00:11:48.610 --> 00:11:51.669 are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord 00:11:51.669 --> 00:11:55.480 shall not impute sin. Does this blessedness then 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:59.019 come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised 00:11:59.019 --> 00:12:02.659 also? For we say that faith was accounted to 00:12:02.659 --> 00:12:05.679 Abraham for righteousness. How then was it accounted? 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.500 While he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not 00:12:09.500 --> 00:12:13.059 while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. And 00:12:13.059 --> 00:12:15.779 he received the sign of circumcision. a seal 00:12:15.779 --> 00:12:18.320 of the righteousness of the faith which he had 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.600 while still uncircumcised, that he might be the 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.519 father of all those who believe, though they 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:27.460 are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be 00:12:27.460 --> 00:12:30.120 imputed to them also, and the father of circumcision 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.000 to those who not only are of the circumcision, 00:12:33.100 --> 00:12:35.960 but who also walk in the steps of the faith, 00:12:36.139 --> 00:12:39.659 which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised. 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:42.879 For the promise that he would be the heir of 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:45.539 the world was not to Abraham, or to his seed 00:12:45.539 --> 00:12:47.919 through the law, but through the righteousness 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.340 of faith. For if those who are of the law are 00:12:51.340 --> 00:12:54.200 heirs, faith is made void and a promise made 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.159 of no effect, because the law brings about wrath. 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:00.100 For where there is no law, there is no transgression. 00:13:00.500 --> 00:13:03.860 Therefore it is of faith that it might be according 00:13:03.860 --> 00:13:07.100 to grace, so that the promise might be sure to 00:13:07.100 --> 00:13:10.100 all the seed, not only to those who are of the 00:13:10.100 --> 00:13:12.779 law. but also to those who are of the faith of 00:13:12.779 --> 00:13:16.100 Abraham, who is the father of us all. As it is 00:13:16.100 --> 00:13:18.620 written, I have made you a father of many nations, 00:13:18.779 --> 00:13:21.879 in the presence of him whom he believed, God, 00:13:22.139 --> 00:13:25.080 who gives life to the dead and calls those things 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:29.080 which do not exist as though they did, who contrary 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:32.120 to hope, in hope believed, so that he became 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:34.559 the father of many nations, according to what 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:37.269 was spoken. So shall your descendants be. And 00:13:37.269 --> 00:13:39.629 not being weak in faith, he did not consider 00:13:39.629 --> 00:13:42.570 his own body already dead, since he was about 00:13:42.570 --> 00:13:45.669 a hundred years old, and in the deadness of Sarah's 00:13:45.669 --> 00:13:48.250 womb. He did not waver at the promise of God 00:13:48.250 --> 00:13:50.830 through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, 00:13:51.070 --> 00:13:53.929 giving glory to God, and being fully convinced 00:13:53.929 --> 00:13:57.110 that what he had promised he was also able to 00:13:57.110 --> 00:13:59.789 perform. And therefore it was accounted to him 00:13:59.789 --> 00:14:02.710 for righteousness. Now it was not written for 00:14:02.710 --> 00:14:06.039 his sake alone that it was imputed to him. But 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:09.600 also for us, it shall be imputed to us who believe 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:12.419 in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the 00:14:12.419 --> 00:14:15.379 dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:17.919 and was raised because of our justification. 00:14:21.179 --> 00:14:24.860 Chapter 5 Therefore, having been justified by 00:14:24.860 --> 00:14:27.860 faith, we have peace with God through our Lord 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:31.000 Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:33.789 by faith into this grace. in which we stand, 00:14:33.950 --> 00:14:36.909 and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And 00:14:36.909 --> 00:14:39.389 not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, 00:14:39.649 --> 00:14:42.110 knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, 00:14:42.389 --> 00:14:45.090 and perseverance, character, and character, hope. 00:14:45.370 --> 00:14:48.149 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love 00:14:48.149 --> 00:14:51.070 of God has been poured out in our hearts by the 00:14:51.070 --> 00:14:53.990 Holy Spirit who was given to us. For when we 00:14:53.990 --> 00:14:56.649 were still without strength, in due time Christ 00:14:56.649 --> 00:14:59.970 died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous 00:14:59.970 --> 00:15:03.470 man will one die. yet perhaps for a good man 00:15:03.470 --> 00:15:06.889 someone would even dare to die but god demonstrates 00:15:06.889 --> 00:15:09.870 his own love toward us in that while we were 00:15:09.870 --> 00:15:13.669 still sinners christ died for us much more then 00:15:13.669 --> 00:15:16.889 having now been justified by his blood we shall 00:15:16.889 --> 00:15:20.590 be saved from wrath through him for if when we 00:15:20.590 --> 00:15:23.309 were enemies we were reconciled to god through 00:15:23.309 --> 00:15:26.909 the death of his son much more having been reconciled 00:15:26.909 --> 00:15:30.200 we shall be saved by his life and not only that 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.759 but we also rejoice in god through our lord jesus 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.860 christ through whom we have now received the 00:15:36.860 --> 00:15:40.480 reconciliation therefore just as through one 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.720 man sin entered the world and death through sin 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:47.159 and thus death spread to all men because all 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.340 sinned for until the law sin was in the world 00:15:50.340 --> 00:15:53.240 but sin is not imputed where there is no law 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.840 nevertheless death reigned from adam to moses 00:15:57.340 --> 00:15:59.740 even over those who had not sinned according 00:15:59.740 --> 00:16:02.299 to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.519 who is a type of him who was to come. But the 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:08.179 free gift is not like the offense. For if by 00:16:08.179 --> 00:16:11.120 the one man's offense many died, much more the 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.759 grace of God and the gift by the grace of the 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.500 one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And 00:16:17.500 --> 00:16:19.879 the gift is not like that which came through 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:22.740 the one who sinned. For the judgment which came 00:16:22.740 --> 00:16:25.899 from one offense resulted in condemnation. but 00:16:25.899 --> 00:16:29.120 the free gift which came from many offenses resulted 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:32.700 in justification. For if by the one man's offense 00:16:32.700 --> 00:16:36.120 death reigned through the one, much more those 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.960 who receive abundance of grace and of the gift 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:41.899 of righteousness will reign in life through the 00:16:41.899 --> 00:16:45.539 one Jesus Christ. Therefore, as through one man's 00:16:45.539 --> 00:16:48.220 offense, judgment came to all men, resulting 00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:51.820 in condemnation. even so through one man's righteous 00:16:51.820 --> 00:16:55.240 act the free gift came to all men resulting in 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.960 justification of life for as by one man's disobedience 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:02.360 many were made sinners so also by one man's obedience 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:06.359 many will be made righteous moreover the law 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:09.680 entered that the offence might abound but where 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:13.599 sin abounded grace abounded much more so that 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:17.309 as sin reigned in death Even so, grace might 00:17:17.309 --> 00:17:19.930 reign through righteousness to eternal life, 00:17:20.109 --> 00:17:28.430 through Jesus Christ, our Lord. I hope you enjoyed 00:17:28.430 --> 00:17:30.730 today's reading as much as I did, and I look 00:17:30.730 --> 00:17:32.710 forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue 00:17:32.710 --> 00:17:34.910 on our journey. God bless you and have a great 00:17:34.910 --> 00:17:35.170 day.