Aug. 16, 2024

Romans: Therefore Introduction

Romans: Therefore Introduction

We begin a study of the word therefore in the book of Romans

We begin a study of the word therefore in the book of Romans

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Friday, August the sixteenth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently oneh eight pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central.

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Studio located right.

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Here in Albilene, Texas. August Does that month mean anything

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to you? The month of August Does it mean anything

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to you? Well, for some of you, because today is

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August the sixteenth.

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It probably holds very important significance to you. If maybe not.

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Maybe significance is not a word, it has a It

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may have an impact on you, or at least it

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did a number of years ago, because it was on

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August the sixteenth, nineteen seventy s at three thirty pm

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Central time, that Elvis Presley passed away. August sixteenth, I

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believe it was nineteen seventy seven, at three thirty pm

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Central time, Elvis Presley passed away. And that had a

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profound impact on many people. Right. I'll never forget it

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because I was sitting at home. It was an afternoon,

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Me and my brother were just sitting there watching television.

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I don't know what we were doing. We were just

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sitting there.

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Next thing, you know, the front door just got I

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mean it felt like someone kicked the front door in,

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and my mother came in yelling and screaming.

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Elvis is dead. Elvis is dead. Elvis is dead. And

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we were like, what is going on? Okay, everything will

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be okay, and so.

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But many people probably had similar reactions who were alive

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at that time, who were old enough to kind of

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grow up with Elvis, or was a teenager when Elvis

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was you know, rising to his you know, popularity and fame.

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I'm becoming this kind of.

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Culture icon that he became, whether you liked his music,

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disliked his music, whether you liked him or disliked him,

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whether you thought his music was of the devil, whatever

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the case may be. He cannot deny his cultural impact.

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But well, August the sixteenth, a lot of people will remember, well,

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when August comes around, that's what they remember. Oh, August

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the sixteenth, that's the day Elvis Presley died.

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But do you remember anything else about August?

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Now, this is far less significant, This probably will have

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no impact on you at all. But it was August

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the seventh, twenty twenty two, August the seventh, twenty twenty two,

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when I preached what would be at that at that

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time the last message in our series on the Book

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of Romans. I know it has no significance to you,

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but it was August the seventh, twenty twenty two.

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Now, from that moment, we took a turn.

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We took a turn, and we stayed working on something

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very very important that was very adjacent, very much connected

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to the Book of Romans. And that was our very

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long series on Law and Gospel that.

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Came out of the Book of Romans.

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Right, So, we'd been working on the Book of Romans,

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and then I felt this absolute important need to discuss

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the proper distinction between law and gospel, and we started

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a lot of work on the Book of Romans at

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that time.

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I think it was very beneficial.

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In fact, I still believe that our series on long

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Gospel is the most important series.

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I have ever done.

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I believe, I do believe other people may think, no,

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I liked that, no, law and gospel, that distinction. Maybe

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it's the most important because it's more needed than it's

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ever been needed in the history of American Christianity. But

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the blurring of the lines between law and Gospel is

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at a crisis level, and well, I think what we

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did there was very important. So then it was like, okay, well,

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we still need to do more work on long Gospel.

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But then, how do we get back to the Book

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of Romans? Well, how do we get back to the

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Book of Romans?

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What about four am?

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Maybe five am in the morning, I was listening to

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I don't even I think it was listening to Fundamental

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Broadcasting Network FBN. I think I had FBN on. Yeah,

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I'm almost positive. And I don't even know the name

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of the program. I don't know the name of the preacher.

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I have no idea what he was talking about. But

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because I was kind of like asleep, half asleep, awake,

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not awake, I don't even know like I was.

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I don't know if I was even in my right

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state of mind.

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But all of a sudden, he mentioned a word, and

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he mentioned it as it's found in the Book of.

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Romans, and that word is there four.

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Therefore, and he's we started talking about just briefly. It

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wasn't even his major main point is how therefore is

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utilized a lot in the Book of Romans, and it's

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a very significant word. So I just kind of like

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noted it in my brain. I'm like, okay, remember this,

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remember this, remember this, And then.

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I went back out.

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I slipped it back into oblivion.

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Well then when I woke up, I kept thinking about

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that today. Well, therefore, therefore therefore in the Book of Romans. Okay,

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well what do I do with this? You know what?

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I could do this for a Bible pop quiz, Right,

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I could turn on the microphone and go, welcome everyone

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to a Bible pop quiz for this Friday, August the sixteenth,

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twenty twenty four. Here's what we're going to do today.

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Your job is to find every therefore in the Book

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of Romans and kind of make it as an assignment.

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So I thought about doing that. I'm like, that'd be

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a quick broadcast. It would be simple, it would be easy,

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go and then just kind of be just move on

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with my day. So I thought about doing that.

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Then I thought, well, wait a minute, that's the Book

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of Romans.

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Man, we were working in the Book of Romans. Were

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kind of done with PSAW eighty three. So if we're

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done with Psaw eighty three, I've got to do something.

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This would not be an easy transition. Back into the

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Book of Romans. But it would be a great way

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to kind of work our way through the entirety of the.

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Book in a unique way. So I'm like, you know

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what I'll do.

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I'll start kind of a study within our study, within

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our study of the Book of Romans, we will do

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a study of all of the their force in the

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Book of Romans. So within our study of the Book

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of Romans, we'll do a study of all the their

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force within the Book of Romans. And then this will

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have us go all the way back to the beginning

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of the book, work our way through all the material

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we've already.

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Looked at, and then advance forward.

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And then we can kind of circle back and start back,

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I think in chapter ten, and then go back verse

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by verse through ten, eleven to twelve and finish up

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the book. I think I think we could possibly pull

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this off somehow. I think I think this could work.

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So I just started trying to think about it and

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think about it, like, well, what what what can we do?

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What can we not do?

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I'm like, well, at least let's let's throw out the

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introduction and we'll just see how this works. For a

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couple of weeks, because it's going to take us a while.

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And here's the reason why. The word therefore appears.

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Twenty seven times in the Book of Romans, in the

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King James version.

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Twenty seven times. Now, I did find it weird.

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I looked up on the Blue Letter Bible app therefore,

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and then it skipped Romans one twenty four where it

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says therefore God also.

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Gave them up. I don't know why. I'm like, it's

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therefore there.

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I don't know because I didn't Maybe I didn't have

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the T capitalized.

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I don't know. It gave me the others, but it

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skipped that one. So maybe I'll have to make sure

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I do it.

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With without a capital T and with a capital T.

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I don't know. I'd have to go back and mess

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with it.

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But other sources tell me there are twenty seven times.

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So maybe it's twenty six, maybe it's twenty eight. Maybe

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maybe there's some disagreement, but around twenty seven times the

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word therefore appears in the Book of Romans.

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Now that's that's quite a few times. Now.

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Typically what we say when we see a therefore, we

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ask what is it there for? Right? I think that's

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just a clever way well, we've all heard that.

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You've heard that said in church a million times.

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But I think it's significant as we as when we

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were working about a week ago. Remember we were working

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in the Book of Ephesians, right, we were working in

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the Book of Ephesians. I'm going to turn the air.

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We were looking at Ephesians chapter four I therefore, and

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remember I focused on the fact that that was a

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transitional that in Ephesians four to one therefore serves as

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a transitional term transitioning from the philological exposition to the

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practical exposition. I remember, we still got to get back

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to Ephesians four and do some work on that. But

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we so we've already been talking a little bit about therefore. Well,

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if it's used twenty seven times each time, it's got

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a significance.

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It's there's something. Is it a transition? Is it?

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Is it comparing contra like all the different things that

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So that is.

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What we're going to do beginning on Sunday at Victory

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Baptist Church.

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What we are going to do is we're going to

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launch into a study of every therefore in the Book

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of Romans.

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Maybe maybe we'll just make it primarily happens there. Maybe

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we'll do some supplemental work here on the podcast. But

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here's what your assignment is. I need you to look

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up every therefore in the Book of Romans, and I

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need you to just like look it up and then

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just write down the reference, right, the reference, Read it,

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write it down. And it's easy to just make a list,

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but I need you to look up each reference, read it,

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and write it down. And then as you read it,

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try to just write out a very like one sentence

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reason why you think it's there, Just one like a

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one sentence.

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Just and it doesn't matter.

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It can just be like you're just very first impression,

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this therefore is there for this reason.

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Right, and then well, when we work through it, we

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will try to expand on that all right.

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According to one source, the word therefore appears twenty seven

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times in the Book of Romans. This number may vary

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slightly depending on the translation, as different versions might use

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synonyms like so or then, and some instances where the

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original Greek word often translated is therefore appears okay so so.

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In other words, in some instances you're going to get

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some variation depending on the translation, because some will translate

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it therefore, and some may translate it so or then.

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This frequent use.

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Underscores how Paul continually draws conclusions from his theiological arguments

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and applies them to practical living. So, simply put, simply put,

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just as we found in Ephesians four, every time we

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see a therefore, there is a high probability that what

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Paul is doing is he is he is underscoring how

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he continually draws conclusions from his pillological arguments and applies

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them to practical living. So it's almost like, here's the

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philological reality. Therefore, now this is how it should play

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out practically in a roundabout way. We did this in

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a real way in Saw eighty three when we talked

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about prayer, right so much the way so many people pray,

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they're thinking about prayer, their discussion about prayer, they're talking

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about prayer almost inevitably does not actually flow from proper

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theological understanding. Because if you have a proper theological understanding

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of God allowing something to happen or not doing anything

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to intervene to stop it, or literally, depending on your theology,

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decreeing it and in his providence directing it, that though,

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that theological reality should lead to a Therefore, this is

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how you should pray.

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So what we did is we.

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Looked at theilological perspectives on God and how they should

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impact how you pray. Well, I know people who hold

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to those theological understandings of God and they don't pray

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that way. They pray contradictory to their theology. Well, our

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theology should lead to practice or practical application that is

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consistent with our theology. Now that's the inevitable war with

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every Christian. We have theological things we believe about God,

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we just don't practically live consistently with it.

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And I'm not just talking about sin.

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I'm just talking about the way we think, our philosophies opects.

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will say philologically we hold to the regulative principle. Well,

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then your church is doing this and this and this.

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you say you hold to the regulative principle, but you're

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violating it.

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kind of thing of how these things take place. This

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is the struggle. Well, therefore is going to challenge us. Okay,

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how does this philological truth?

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you like, you just start writing down the philological truths

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you hold to. Well, what should be the practical outcome of.

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able to take from the frequent use of Therefore in

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the Book of Romans, I'm just going to throw out

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some of these.

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to get everyone ready. So here's what again your assignment.

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the verses after, and then just write out a one

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sentence summary of what the there for is there for? Right?

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he's transitioning from theology to practice, well, then explain what

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was the philological truth and then now what is the

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practical truth or the practical application he's drawn from it?

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of sin to the practical application of grace or.

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of doing it. So look up every use of the

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word therefore, write them down, and then write a one

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sentence summary of what the there for is there for? Right?

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wait a minute, that's not what I came up with,

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oh app challenge. It's Friday, from this Friday till next

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fa Friday. Look up sermons for the Their Force and

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the Book of Romans.

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The first therefore is Romans one twenty four. Therefore God

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also gave them up to uncleanliness.

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All right, Now look up sermons on Romans one twenty

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four and see how they handle the Therefore. You may agree,

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you may disagree. Now in Romans one twenty four, God.

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Also gave them who's the them? All right?

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a lot of things we could do in Romans one

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twenty four. I'm not going to go back and preach

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it all but again, so you've got clear assignments. Look

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up every use of the word therefore write and the

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Book of Romans. Write them down, read the verses before

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and after, write out a one sentence summary of why

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it's there. Then start listening to sermons for the Their

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Force and the Book of Romans. For the sermons two

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point oh app sermon challenge, see how I try to

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bring all these things together?

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day at Victory Baptist Church and our series on the

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Book of Romans, where now the series on the Book

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of Romans is going to turn into Therefore, and we're

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going to go back through the entire book.

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have no idea if that will happen.

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comes to the church right now, so we will see

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how that advances. So I think this will be and

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even if it doesn't, even if we can't finish it

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at the church, we can finish it right here, all right.

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Their Force. I don't know if we'll ever finish the

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Book of Romans, but we will finish the Their Force

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because that's very I think that's the manageable to do,

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especially in a podcast format. All right, So you want

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some of the major lessons we can possibly gain from

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learn from the use of Therefore, all right, here's one

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doctrine leads.

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To practice.

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I think I would if I was to rewrite that

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now now that I see it, doctrine should.

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Doctrine should lead to practice, or I maybe even rewrite

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Theology should lead to practice. Your theological understanding should impact

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practical application.

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doesn't in fact in me again, I think prayer is

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a great example. So the way people think about prayer,

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I know they'll say it comes from scripture, but so

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much of it is contrary to their theological understanding of God.

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It really is, and they never seem to catch on

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or never seem to understand. Like, wait a minute, we

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got to pray about this situation. So you want me

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to pray to the very God who knew this situation

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would happen and did nothing to prevent it from happening.

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even though he knew it was going to happen and

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didn't stop it from happening in the first place. But

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now you want me to convince him to stop what

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he didn't what he allowed in the first place. Or

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depending on your theological understanding, now you want me to

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pray to the God who not only knew this was

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going to happen, decree that it would happen before the

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foundations of the world, and then in his providence is

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guiding and directing it. Now you want me to pray

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for him to change it that seems to be going.

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Against his will.

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understanding of prayer. It's like people who reject, say a

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calvinistic understanding of salvation. We've got to pray for these

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people's salvation. Well, you believe in the complete libertarian free

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will of man, What do you want God to do?

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Punish them further? What do you want or do you

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want God to respect their free will? If God, then

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why do you praying for? What can God do? He

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has to respect their free will or it's not free. Right,

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So then like there's there's always these like contradictory things. So,

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but I think we should just write down a very

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simple lesson as theology should lead to practice. Now, I

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don't necessarily I'm already kind of giving more information than

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I want, But I just want you to write some

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of these things down right next, there is a logical

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flow of philological arguments. Therefore demonstrates a logical flow of

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philological arguments. Philological arguments should have a logical flow. If

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you're making philological arguments, there should be a logical flow.

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There should be a logical way they are being developed.

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Therefore, demonstrates Paul does that he's logically proceeding.

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There's a logical flow in his discussions and.

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Arguments therefore could possibly be used to underscore the universality

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of sin and salvation. The universality of sin and salvation,

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I'm not talking about universalism. I'm talking about the universality

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that there's a that this impacts everyone.

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Sin and salvation therefore also could be used.

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To demonstrate the importance of response to God's grace. Possibly, next,

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it could be used to demonstrate the assurance of salvation

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and its implications. Possibly I still go through these again. Therefore,

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we should learn the lesson of how doctrine the theology

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should lead to practice.

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theological arguments.

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Number three, it should demonstrate possibly the universality of sin

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and salvation. Now, while with all of these you can

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put a little question mark, these are hypotheses. These are

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concepts I'm throwing out. I am not being dogmatic. We

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may work through these after we're done looking at all

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of the therefores and determine we disagree with all of

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these all right, So just make sure you keep that

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in mind. Next, the importance of response to God's grace.

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Therefore sometimes demonstrates the importance of responding to God's grace. Next,

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the assurance of salvation and its implications. The assurance of

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salvation and its implications. Next, Unity and community in the

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Body of Christ. Now that when I'm very skeptical of

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therefore should teach us about unity and community and the

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You know how jaded I am when it comes to that. Next,

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ethical living as.

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A response to God's sovereignty. Therefore demonstrates ethical living as

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a response to God's sovereignty. Did you get all of those?

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Do you need me to do them one more time?

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I just heard someone say yes.

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Therefore, what we can learn from the use of therefore

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in the Book of Romans is that theology or doctrine

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leads to practice.

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It should teach us the logical flow of philological arguments.

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of sin and salvation. Number four, it should teach us

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the importance of responding to God's grace. Number five, it

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should give some kind of assurance of salvation and its implications.

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Number six. It has something to do possibly with unity

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and community and the body of Christ.

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That when I'm not so sure of. And next, ethical

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living as a response to God's sovereignty.

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That one, I think possibly is a little bit more.

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I think I can possibly do something with that one.

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All right. That is therefore all right.

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going to have to deal with, I believe is Romans

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one twenty four, where we read these words therefore God

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also gave them up to the uncleanliness and the lust

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of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves. That's

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the first one.

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I believe.

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The second one is in chapter two, verse one, therefore

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you are inexcusable. Oh man, I think that's the second one.

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I think the third one. I think the third one

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doesn't show up. I don't think the third one shows

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up till chapter four. I think it's verse Let see,

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where's the next one?

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Is four? Four sixteen?

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according to the grace, so that the promises might be

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sure to all the seed, and not only to those

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who are of the law, but also to those who

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are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father

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of us.

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I want to start teaching them. I want to start

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teaching them therefore in the Book of Romans. So your

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assignment is very simple. Find everyone read every there four

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in the Book of Roman. Write down the reference. Then

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write down a one sentence summary of what that therefore

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is there for. Right, If you say, well, this is

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a transition from this section to this section, then what

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is it transsitioning from? Right? Was talking about sin? Now

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therefore here's grace, or whatever the case may be. Here's grace.

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for a different reason, whatever the case may be. Just

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summarize it simple and you're just going with your first impression.

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Don't overthink it. Just go here's what I see. You

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may be completely right, you may be completely wrong. The

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rest of the study will then demonstrate it. Then you

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start looking up sermons on the sermon's two point oh app.

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you're gonna look up a sermon on Romans one twenty four.

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two to one. Then you're gonna look up a sermon

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on Romans four sixteen. And then you'll hear how they

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handled the Therefore it may be according to the way

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you did it. And then you'll start listening to then

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my working through the their force, and then we'll see

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what we can come up with. Now I've given you

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some things to look out for, giving you some possible

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lessons learning. You'll learn from those their force. But those

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are hypotheses. Those are not dogmatic assertions. I took those

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from a different source. And then we will call them

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into question, of course. All right, I could give you

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more assignments, but I think that's a good place to start.

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All right, there we go. The last time we were

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in the Book of Romans was August the seventh, twenty

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twenty two. Here we are August the sixteenth, twenty twenty four,

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two years plus after we stopped and we did that

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long study in long Gospel. Now we're going to kind

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of return to the Book of Romans, but we're gonna

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do so in a unique way. Instead of just trying

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to go back into we're going to work right back

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through the book looking at all of their force. What

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should then help us hit every major section and every

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major transition between one to another, So we should get

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us somewhat back on the same page.

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And even if it doesn't get us back.

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On the same page, it will be an interesting look

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at this very common word used over twenty something times,

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twenty four to twenty seven times, and the Book of

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Romans itself. And it also will be a hermeneutical exercise

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and trying to figure out what it's there for, which

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will only help you whenever you see therefore anywhere else,

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we'll know what is it there for? All right, I

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think it's a good idea. I'm going to convince myself

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it's a great I'm going to tell myself what a

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great idea. Yeah, this is absolutely brilliant. I can't even believe. Okay,

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all right now, now I'm being ridiculous. Sorry, let's look here.

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I am curious. Yeah, okay, the map is not working.

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Telling me zero people listen to this, So that's great.

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If nobody listened, well, then you know, then this didn't

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really happen.

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I'll just delete it now. I'm not going to delete

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it because this really gets a setup for Sunday. Now, Well,

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the members of hopefully the members of Victory Baptist Church

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will listen. You'll you'll be the first to know.

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Right, So on Sunday when I'm like, all right, guys,

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everyone knows what we're doing today, right, and when everyone

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looks at me like they don't, you'll know, Wow, that's embarrassing.

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Should I Should I do that? Should I do that?

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There's a part of me that wants to do that,

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but I won't accomplish anything other than making everyone mad

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that I'm putting them on the spot. But yeah, we

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will see, all right.

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I wanna I want to dig into one right now.

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I want to.

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I want to dig into one, right, don't you don't

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you want to? Don't you want to? I mean, I

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mean that first one seems pretty straightforward, right, yeah, I

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mean yeah, I could ask some difficult questions about the

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first one, couldn't you?

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All right? All right, I'll stop right there. All right,

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thanks for listening. There's your assignments. Go forth and work,

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all right, go forth and do the work.

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You will benefit greatly from it. And of course you're

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utilizing the Sermon's two point.

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Oh app which that's helping us maintain our challenge. I

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know it's already. Can you believe it's already.

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August to sixteenth? Ladies and gentlemen, can you believe this?

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Before you know it?

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August will be September, and then it's going to be October.

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Then we're going to get to Thanksgiving, and then it's

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going to be Christmas, and then it's going to be

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New Year's Eve, and that we're saying hello to twenty

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twenty five. Wow, and then the sermon's two point oh

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app challenge will be over. I sure hope you've gotten

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something from that.

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I really do. I hope you have. All right, Thanks

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for listening everyone, have a great day. God bless