WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.540 We're going to be talking today about power, sex, and Hollywood 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.140 from Romans 1. 3 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:09.980 I'm a Bible teacher, you guys, and so I love God's Word. 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.980 And I frame things that are happening in our world from the 5 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.260 perspective of a biblical world view or a Christian world view. 6 00:00:18.360 --> 00:00:21.760 And so when I look at what's happening within the culture, 7 00:00:21.860 --> 00:00:25.060 that's the frame, that's the parameters that I use. 8 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:28.900 And God's given us clear guardrails in these particular 9 00:00:28.900 --> 00:00:29.900 areas. 10 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:38.240 And having recently taught this at our church, the road at 11 00:00:38.340 --> 00:00:42.740 Chapel Hill, then it was on my heart to also do this podcast, 12 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:46.820 broadcast, because the reality is this, that if you don't have 13 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.980 any kind of a grid by which you can judge what's happening in 14 00:00:51.080 --> 00:00:54.060 culture, you're going to be really, really frustrated. 15 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:58.600 And so Romans 1 is one of the most important passages in the 16 00:00:58.620 --> 00:01:04.400 entire Bible related to sex, having to do with image, having 17 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:08.940 to do with kind of the degradation of culture. 18 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:12.380 And no passage in all of Scripture says it better from 19 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.640 God's perspective, and even from man's perspective. 20 00:01:15.740 --> 00:01:18.780 And Romans is one of those revolutionary books of the 21 00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:19.980 Bible. 22 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:24.280 Probably no book of the Bible has had more of a revolutionary 23 00:01:24.380 --> 00:01:27.160 revival impact than the book of Romans. 24 00:01:27.220 --> 00:01:29.880 And I'm not going to teach the book of Romans here, but Romans 25 00:01:29.980 --> 00:01:34.520 1 frames up, it kind of sets up the whole rest of the book. 26 00:01:34.620 --> 00:01:38.320 And I've entitled this, Power, Sex, and Hollywood, because I 27 00:01:38.420 --> 00:01:42.800 think Romans 1, the passages I'm going to look at, just a section 28 00:01:42.900 --> 00:01:48.340 of Romans 1, gives us a biblical worldview better than any other 29 00:01:48.440 --> 00:01:49.540 passage I know. 30 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:51.400 And let me just give a metaphor, an illustration of what I'm 31 00:01:51.500 --> 00:01:54.440 talking about in relation to Romans 1. 32 00:01:54.760 --> 00:02:00.800 In Colorado, where I live, I like to ski, and I like to hunt. 33 00:02:00.900 --> 00:02:03.340 And we're often going into the mountains. 34 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:07.500 And we have this major highway called I-70, which is a big 35 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:08.740 thoroughfare. 36 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:11.080 It actually goes across the United States, but it's really 37 00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:13.920 an east-west highway that goes through the mountains more than 38 00:02:14.020 --> 00:02:15.720 any other highway we have. 39 00:02:15.820 --> 00:02:18.220 So, if you're going to go skiing, or if you're going to go 40 00:02:18.320 --> 00:02:23.260 hunting in the mountains, you have to take I-70 out of Denver. 41 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:25.880 So, I live in Colorado Springs, so you come through Denver, and 42 00:02:25.980 --> 00:02:27.820 then you go west. 43 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:31.720 And we have this big, massive tunnel called the Eisenhower 44 00:02:31.820 --> 00:02:33.120 Tunnel. 45 00:02:33.220 --> 00:02:34.760 And the Eisenhower Tunnel is really long. 46 00:02:34.860 --> 00:02:36.460 It's over a mile long. 47 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:43.600 And when you go through it, it's very much almost smoky inside 48 00:02:43.700 --> 00:02:46.100 because of all the fumes, because a lot of the truckers, 49 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:49.980 truckers that go east and west go California to New York. 50 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.300 They have to go through I-70, and they go through that tunnel. 51 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.640 And so, it's very fumigated by gases and stuff like that. 52 00:02:57.740 --> 00:03:01.240 So, it's really kind of, ugh, it's nasty. 53 00:03:01.340 --> 00:03:04.620 And then, if you throw in some snow and ice, it's actually 54 00:03:04.720 --> 00:03:06.080 pretty hazardous. 55 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:08.680 And there's accidents that happen in the Eisenhower Tunnel. 56 00:03:08.780 --> 00:03:09.820 Here's my point. 57 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:12.860 My point is, it's not the most beautiful place to go through, 58 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.560 to go through over a mile underneath this mountain of the 59 00:03:15.660 --> 00:03:16.800 Eisenhower Tunnel. 60 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:19.860 And then, to make matters worse, when you come out of Eisenhower 61 00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:24.120 Tunnel going westbound, man, it's a huge 6% drop that drops 62 00:03:24.220 --> 00:03:27.520 down with signs everywhere telling you to be careful with 63 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:29.660 your brakes, gear down. 64 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:31.660 A lot of truckers get into trouble here. 65 00:03:31.760 --> 00:03:35.320 There's actually some runaway places to the side because 66 00:03:35.420 --> 00:03:37.200 there have been so many bad accidents. 67 00:03:37.300 --> 00:03:41.040 So, if Eisenhower Tunnel wasn't enough, now you're on this 68 00:03:41.140 --> 00:03:45.540 steep grade going into a little town there called Dillon, which 69 00:03:45.640 --> 00:03:46.700 can be kind of dangerous. 70 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:48.940 And I've actually been in a couple situations 71 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.500 through the years that I would consider very hazardous, wherein 72 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:58.500 I was, if I wasn't knowing what I'm doing and if I wasn't 73 00:03:58.600 --> 00:04:02.500 careful, I should have had a massive pile-up accident. 74 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:03.940 I remember one time I came off. 75 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:06.740 I was coming down there and we were going to Breckenridge to 76 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:11.080 ski, and I literally put on my brakes and zero happened. 77 00:04:11.180 --> 00:04:12.380 I mean, nothing happened. 78 00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:15.120 We were just on a slab of ice. 79 00:04:15.220 --> 00:04:18.019 And I was in a Toyota Camry back then, didn't have a four-wheel 80 00:04:18.200 --> 00:04:25.440 drive yet, and I pumped the brakes, and gradually I found 81 00:04:25.540 --> 00:04:32.580 some traction about 50 yards from a pile of cars in front of 82 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:36.820 me that had hit each other, and I was smart enough to swerve off 83 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:38.620 and miss it, but that's how dangerous it is. 84 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:39.860 Here's my point. 85 00:04:39.960 --> 00:04:44.320 My point is, is that 90% of the time, when you're driving in 86 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.000 the mountains and the Rockies in Colorado, it is beautiful. 87 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:49.460 It is clear skies. 88 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:50.900 It's snow-capped mountains. 89 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.960 It's gorgeous, but there is a period, whether it's in a 90 00:04:55.060 --> 00:04:57.800 beautiful time of year or a nasty time of year, you still 91 00:04:57.900 --> 00:04:59.840 have to go through the Eisenhower Tunnel, you still 92 00:04:59.940 --> 00:05:01.580 have to go through the ice, and there are certain times 93 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.720 You'll have to go down this steep grade 94 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:03.280 when it's the snow-capped mountains. 95 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:04.000 to get into the mountains where the beauty is. 96 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.700 What kind of Romans 1 is like that? 97 00:05:05.700 --> 00:05:08.200 Romans 1 is like the Eisenhower Tunnel 98 00:05:08.200 --> 00:05:11.200 and the steep grade into Dillon time, 99 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:12.640 like you're traveling in the Rockies. 100 00:05:12.640 --> 00:05:14.040 It's not real fun. 101 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:17.240 I don't enjoy teaching Romans 1 102 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.920 from the perspective of the beauty of the book of Romans 103 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:24.780 and even the beauty of the gospel, but it's so necessary. 104 00:05:24.780 --> 00:05:28.220 So you'll understand over the next few sessions 105 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.780 that we have together why Romans 1 106 00:05:30.780 --> 00:05:34.380 can be difficult to deal with and why Paul put it there. 107 00:05:34.380 --> 00:05:36.280 But I wanna start with verse 16 108 00:05:36.280 --> 00:05:39.720 and that's why I call it power sex in Hollywood 109 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.260 because in verse 16, we have the theme, 110 00:05:43.260 --> 00:05:46.160 the theme of Romans, and I think you could arguably say 111 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.740 the theme of a Christian worldview 112 00:05:49.740 --> 00:05:51.900 and also the theme of the whole Bible. 113 00:05:51.900 --> 00:05:54.640 So let me read that and then we'll get into 114 00:05:54.640 --> 00:05:57.540 some of the harder passages that follow. 115 00:05:57.960 --> 00:06:00.360 Romans 1 16 says, for I am not ashamed 116 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.200 of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God 117 00:06:04.200 --> 00:06:08.240 to salvation for everyone who believes 118 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.540 for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 119 00:06:10.540 --> 00:06:12.880 So Paul's writing to Gentiles and Jews 120 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:14.580 that were in the church in Rome, 121 00:06:14.580 --> 00:06:18.620 and he's saying, this is the power that you need, 122 00:06:18.620 --> 00:06:20.680 that this is the power for living. 123 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:22.620 This is the power of the kingdom of God 124 00:06:22.620 --> 00:06:25.820 and that is our faith to believe, 125 00:06:25.880 --> 00:06:27.880 that is putting our faith in Christ. 126 00:06:27.880 --> 00:06:29.480 And putting our faith in Christ 127 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.420 is the beginning of the great adventure, the great journey. 128 00:06:32.420 --> 00:06:35.860 It's not about us earning our salvation, 129 00:06:35.860 --> 00:06:39.860 it's not about religion, it's not about a moral code, 130 00:06:39.860 --> 00:06:41.860 it is about faith in Christ 131 00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:44.200 wherein there's a transaction that occurs. 132 00:06:44.200 --> 00:06:47.460 The great transaction of the Christian life 133 00:06:47.460 --> 00:06:50.240 is that we put our faith in the life, death 134 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:51.940 and resurrection of Christ 135 00:06:51.960 --> 00:06:56.960 and then supernaturally, Christ imparts his power 136 00:06:58.760 --> 00:07:02.300 and his love and his grace into our heart 137 00:07:02.300 --> 00:07:04.200 and that's when we're born again. 138 00:07:04.200 --> 00:07:07.980 So we could put this in contrast also to Ephesians 2 8 and 9 139 00:07:07.980 --> 00:07:10.980 for by grace, you've been saved through faith, 140 00:07:10.980 --> 00:07:12.920 not of yourself, it is a gift of God. 141 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.180 So it's the whole book of Romans 142 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:17.620 is about we cannot earn our salvation, 143 00:07:17.620 --> 00:07:20.020 that you can't be moral enough, 144 00:07:20.020 --> 00:07:21.720 you cannot be religious enough, 145 00:07:22.540 --> 00:07:24.200 you can't follow the law enough, 146 00:07:24.200 --> 00:07:26.640 if you come out of a Jewish background, 147 00:07:26.640 --> 00:07:28.340 you can't follow the Torah enough, 148 00:07:28.340 --> 00:07:32.940 you'll never be able to reform your sinful flesh. 149 00:07:32.940 --> 00:07:35.720 But that Christ has taken on the wrath of God, 150 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:38.160 Christ has taken on all of your sins, 151 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:39.560 past, present and future 152 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.400 and he has taken the bullet for us 153 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:46.160 and when we put our faith and our trust in him, 154 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.100 it is accounted to us, 155 00:07:48.100 --> 00:07:51.540 it's actually like a mathematical calculation 156 00:07:52.520 --> 00:07:54.520 where we were bankrupt, he now deposits 157 00:07:54.520 --> 00:07:57.560 his righteousness in us, 158 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.200 his life is righteousness enough, 159 00:08:00.200 --> 00:08:02.400 his death is righteousness enough, 160 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:04.600 his resurrection is righteousness enough 161 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:06.040 and he pours that into us 162 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.340 and we begin to experience the salvation of God. 163 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:15.480 So now we come into these passages, 164 00:08:16.880 --> 00:08:20.180 these verses that speak of what happens, 165 00:08:20.220 --> 00:08:22.020 these steps that we go through 166 00:08:22.020 --> 00:08:24.420 both individually and culturally 167 00:08:24.420 --> 00:08:28.740 that can destroy our relationship with God, 168 00:08:28.740 --> 00:08:31.560 it can destroy an entire culture 169 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:34.880 and America is on a slippery slope right now, 170 00:08:34.880 --> 00:08:38.140 very slippery slope of giving itself 171 00:08:38.140 --> 00:08:41.340 into and for the sexual revolution 172 00:08:41.340 --> 00:08:44.480 that somewhat began in the 60s 173 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:46.340 but actually really began in the 40s 174 00:08:46.340 --> 00:08:49.060 and we're gonna cover that in our time together 175 00:08:49.140 --> 00:08:52.600 and I would just say this is like Burger King, 176 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.100 Burger King says you could have it your way, 177 00:08:56.100 --> 00:08:58.340 you can have the burger the way you want it 178 00:08:58.340 --> 00:09:00.920 and in a sense God's saying have it your way, 179 00:09:00.920 --> 00:09:02.980 I've not created you as robots, 180 00:09:02.980 --> 00:09:06.560 I've created you to be my sons and daughters 181 00:09:06.560 --> 00:09:09.060 and so if you wanna go the way of sin, 182 00:09:09.060 --> 00:09:11.200 if you wanna follow the ways of idolatry, 183 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.140 if you wanna follow the flesh, 184 00:09:13.140 --> 00:09:15.020 God lets us do that, 185 00:09:15.020 --> 00:09:17.220 so God's not gonna come 186 00:09:17.220 --> 00:09:20.700 and stop us from falling into sin. 187 00:09:20.700 --> 00:09:22.660 So in verse 17 onward, 188 00:09:22.660 --> 00:09:25.660 he begins this discussion, 189 00:09:25.660 --> 00:09:27.940 Paul begins this discussion to us 190 00:09:27.940 --> 00:09:31.860 about this process of our falling away from God 191 00:09:31.860 --> 00:09:34.660 and this is instructive to us today. 192 00:09:34.660 --> 00:09:36.980 So starting at verse 17 he says, 193 00:09:36.980 --> 00:09:40.700 for in it, meaning the gospel of Christ, 194 00:09:40.700 --> 00:09:42.860 is the righteousness of God, 195 00:09:42.860 --> 00:09:45.640 it is revealed from faith to faith, 196 00:09:45.640 --> 00:09:49.620 as it is written the just shall live by faith. 197 00:09:49.620 --> 00:09:52.220 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven 198 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:56.300 against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men 199 00:09:56.300 --> 00:09:59.900 who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. 200 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.840 It's really step one. 201 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.320 Because what may be known about God is manifested in them, 202 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:06.840 he's speaking about all of us, 203 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.320 that God has manifested himself to us 204 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.560 for God has shown it to us. 205 00:10:11.560 --> 00:10:14.120 For since the creation of the world, 206 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.520 his invisible attributes are clearly seen. 207 00:10:16.520 --> 00:10:18.000 So now he's talking about creation. 208 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:21.760 Through creation, we can clearly see that there is a God 209 00:10:21.760 --> 00:10:25.160 being understood by the things that are made, 210 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:27.840 even his eternal power and Godhead 211 00:10:27.920 --> 00:10:30.240 so that they are without excuse. 212 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:32.240 Because although they knew God, 213 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.760 they did not glorify him as God, 214 00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:38.640 nor were they thankful, but became futile in their thoughts. 215 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:42.160 So we could say that the wrath of God 216 00:10:42.160 --> 00:10:44.280 begins with suppressing truth, 217 00:10:44.280 --> 00:10:46.840 but then it leads to futility in our thinking. 218 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:48.920 And that just makes complete sense. 219 00:10:48.920 --> 00:10:52.040 How many people have you known through the years 220 00:10:52.040 --> 00:10:53.680 who know the right thing to do, 221 00:10:53.680 --> 00:10:55.320 but they suppress the truth? 222 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.680 They don't wanna follow the truth. 223 00:10:58.520 --> 00:11:01.360 They're going to get as far away from truth as they can. 224 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:02.640 And then guess what happens? 225 00:11:02.640 --> 00:11:06.240 They become futile and confused in their thinking. 226 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:07.600 Well, it continues. 227 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.440 So then their foolish hearts are darkened. 228 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.720 Verse 22, professing to be wise, 229 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:15.520 they become fools and change the glory 230 00:11:15.520 --> 00:11:19.160 of the incorruptible God into an image 231 00:11:19.160 --> 00:11:22.880 made like corruptible man and birds 232 00:11:22.880 --> 00:11:25.760 and forfeited animals and creeping things. 233 00:11:25.760 --> 00:11:30.360 Therefore, God gave them up to uncleanness 234 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:32.040 in the lust of their hearts 235 00:11:32.040 --> 00:11:36.400 to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 236 00:11:36.400 --> 00:11:39.280 They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, 237 00:11:39.280 --> 00:11:42.000 worshiped the creature rather than the creator 238 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:43.400 who is blessed forever. 239 00:11:43.400 --> 00:11:46.960 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. 240 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:49.640 So he says, look, you can have it your way. 241 00:11:49.640 --> 00:11:53.000 If you're going to follow a life 242 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.840 of suppressing the truth, 243 00:11:56.840 --> 00:11:58.800 then what's gonna happen to you naturally 244 00:11:58.800 --> 00:12:02.160 is you're gonna start becoming confused in your mind, 245 00:12:03.160 --> 00:12:07.840 not just confusion that relates to relationships 246 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.080 and the years of our life that we regularly involved in, 247 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:15.520 but it becomes confusion in our hearts about morals 248 00:12:15.520 --> 00:12:19.200 and about what we should do in given situations. 249 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:23.360 And I think that confusion leads to a futility of thinking, 250 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.880 which we're gonna find out actually leads in verse 28 251 00:12:26.880 --> 00:12:27.920 to a debased mind. 252 00:12:27.920 --> 00:12:30.040 I'm not gonna cover that right now. 253 00:12:30.040 --> 00:12:31.240 But let me just say this, 254 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:36.240 that God's love supersedes all the dumb things we do. 255 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.160 And we people do a lot of dumb things. 256 00:12:41.160 --> 00:12:43.720 And when I look at Adam and Eve 257 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.680 in the first sin in Genesis three, 258 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:49.640 one thing we notice here is that God never curses Adam. 259 00:12:49.640 --> 00:12:50.840 He never curses Eve. 260 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.640 He curses the serpent. 261 00:12:52.640 --> 00:12:54.720 He curses Satan. 262 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:59.320 He curses the ground that was going to make it difficult 263 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.880 for Adam to till the land. 264 00:13:01.880 --> 00:13:06.240 He does in a sense say there's going to now be pain 265 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:07.120 in childbirthing. 266 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.920 I don't know, maybe they just popped him out before that, 267 00:13:09.920 --> 00:13:12.680 but there's gonna be a pain in that. 268 00:13:12.680 --> 00:13:14.240 But he never curses Adam and Eve. 269 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.320 And I think that's so important, how much God loves us, 270 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:21.720 how much God cares about you and me. 271 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.400 And wherever you are in your journey with the Lord, 272 00:13:24.400 --> 00:13:27.320 God's love is always available. 273 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:30.760 You are his beloved and he cares for you. 274 00:13:30.760 --> 00:13:32.400 Second Peter 3.9 says, 275 00:13:32.400 --> 00:13:35.800 the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, 276 00:13:35.800 --> 00:13:37.880 as some would count slackness, 277 00:13:37.880 --> 00:13:40.480 but he's long suffering toward us, 278 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:42.360 not willing that any should perish, 279 00:13:42.400 --> 00:13:45.440 but that all should come to repentance. 280 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:50.440 So before I go into the other messages about Romans 1, 281 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.520 I think it's really important to frame up 282 00:13:53.520 --> 00:13:54.780 what I'm gonna say this way, 283 00:13:54.780 --> 00:13:57.160 that wherever you are in your journey, 284 00:13:57.160 --> 00:14:02.160 wherever you are in your understanding love of God 285 00:14:03.980 --> 00:14:05.800 or lack of love of God, 286 00:14:05.800 --> 00:14:08.840 God's grace is bigger than any sin you've committed. 287 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.680 Wherever you are and as far as you're running from God, 288 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:13.120 he's there for you. 289 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.600 And what I'm talking about today 290 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:20.600 in the subsequent episodes is that there is hope, 291 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:23.800 always hope for the child of God 292 00:14:23.800 --> 00:14:26.160 that'll repent and come back to him. 293 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:28.200 And what I hope to do is frame this up 294 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.040 so that you understand you don't wanna go there, 295 00:14:31.040 --> 00:14:32.520 you want the kingdom way 296 00:14:32.520 --> 00:14:35.200 and the kingdom way is always the smartest way. 297 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.600 So may we enjoy going through Romans 1, 298 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.480 I'm pumped and excited to teach it. 299 00:14:40.520 --> 00:14:43.320 And I think it's gonna set a lot of you free 300 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:44.640 in a whole new way.