Andy Woods - Romans 1:16-17

well good morning if we could take our Bibles and turn in them to the book of Romans chapter 1 Romans chapter 1 and verses 16 and 17 the title of our message this morning is Paul's thesis statement Paul's thesis statement and of course I want to thank Bruce for subbing in last week and I heard he was a tremendous

blessing fortunately the rapture did not occur and so we're all back this week by the way with regarding this Harold Camping and all of these things state setting some of my students at the college were asking me about that what I believed about that and the way I responded to it was I went into my office and found a

former book by Harold Camping entitled 1994 so you can see the man has a history of setting dates and so forth of course this idea of date setting has gone on for 2,000 years if you go back to the writings of irony as' he tells people to knock it off so every generation thinks they're the generation

of the end I'm very Pro prophecy and in favor of talking about the coming of the Lord but we can't go beyond the scripture because the scripture never never gives us a date so setting dates is pretty much losing a proposition but anyway we are in the book of Romans we just started a few weeks ago

the divine righteousness of God revealed being the theme of the book and in our introductory lesson some weeks back we asked and answered some questions who wrote it Paul who was it written to Roman Christians where was it written from Corinth when was it written 1857 why was it written well he's really

seeking to provide this Roman Church with doctrinal foundation what's inside a seven-part outline as I'll show you and I have shown you what is the book about the book about is a righteousness of God has been revealed how to get righteousness and how to live out a righteous life that really is the