Shalom to everyone and welcome to the Bible Classes of the Holy Scriptures in Israel where we are studying from the Word of God one book at a time, one chapter at a time, one verse at a time and we are seeking to be occupied with our blessed Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah us and gave himself for us we're in the book of Romans in chapter 1 I hope you have your Bibles with you please turn to Romans chapter 1 but before we will read the verses for today I would like to ask the Lord to bless the meeting so let us just pray together and commit this meeting to the Lord for this session so Abba our Father we thank you so much that you have heaven the Messiah of Israel and the Savior of this world who is the light of this world bless us now as we are studying the word of God together in the book of Romans we pray for we ask it in Yeshua's name Amen Amen so beloved friends and dear brothers and sisters turn with me to.

Of the book of Roman, of the first chapter. I would like to read today, for the portion for today, for verse 18, Romans chapter 1, verse 18, all the way to the end of the chapter, to verse 32. And if you don't mind, please open your Bible, just simply follow me as I'm reading these verses. Romans chapter 1, verse 18 to verse 32. Shaul, that is Paul, continued to write to the Roman believers, to the local assembly, of the believers at Rome and he's saying to them in verse 18 for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God has showed it unto them.

Things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse because that when they knew God they glorify him not as God neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was professing themselves to be wise they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible men and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness their own hearts to dishonor their own body between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator who is blessed forever Amen for discord God gave them up unto vile affections for even their women did change the natural use into them.

That which is against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving their natural use of the woman, burn in their lust one towards another, men with men, working that which is unseemingly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meat. In their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who, knowing the judgment of God, the day which commits such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

And I will stop here at the end of Romans chapter 1 verses 18 to verse 32. Dear brothers and sisters, we are entering now, beloved brothers and sisters, into a portion in the book of Romans that is an extremely important portion to understand. Presenting before the Roman believers the fact that the whole world is under the sentence of judgment because of sin. To remind you if you remember that we have already presented this earlier in our introduction to the book of with the letter S each one of these sections and it really begins with the thought of the sin question. Before Shaul Paul is presenting even the great salvation that had been provided by God through the person of Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, God the Son who became man, who took union humanity with his divine nature and as many died for the sin of this world, before Paul presents the great salvation, he presents first of all the fact of the sin question.

And remember the five sections that we have in the book of Romans, sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty, and service. Chapter 1 verse 1 to chapter 3 verse 20, the question of sin is being presented. Bit further to chapter 5 verse 21 the thought of salvation is being presented then in chapter 6 verse 1 to chapter 8 and verse 39 the theme of sanctification is presented and then in chapter 9 verse 1 to chapter 11 and verse 36 the truth of the sovereignty of God is presented and finally in chapter 12 verse 1 to chapter 16 verse 27 the theme of service is presented before us. But before, beloved brothers and sisters, before Shaul Paul is presenting the truth of salvation and sanctification and the sovereignty of God in relationship to his earthly people Israel and the service that all believers are called to serve God during this present-day dispensation of the church age, sinned and come short of the glory of God.

And that's why you will notice that in chapter 1 and verse 18 onward, all the way to chapter 3, you will notice in verse 20 the apostle Shaul Paul presenting the fact that everyone here in this world is guilty before God. Way he presented very interesting and i think i just want to mention this as we move along that we all have to bear this in mind i don't know whoever is listening to the ministry of God's word as we present the book of Romans we all have to learn this lesson that it does not matter who we are Jewish or Gentile male or female young or old whoever we are this nation or that nation or as he mentioned earlier where as he said earlier whether we are Greeks and whether we are very educated or barbarian uneducated it does not matter who we are and where we came from one thing for sure we need to learn to accept this amazing fact that God declared that all have sinned.

And come short of the glory of God. Like David, David, Melech Israel, who said in confession to the Lord, in sin did my mother conceive me. Like Yeshayahu, Isaiah, who said, Woe with me, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Like Shaul Paul, who said, For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth, no good thing like Shimon petros who said to the Lord depart from me for i'm a sinful man we need to learn that not so much in relationship to one another but in relationship to the living God and that's what Shaul Paul is seeking to communicate in this chapter 1 verse 18 to chapter 3 and verse.

20 the subject of sin I want to read a verse if you may please turn with me to the prophets of Israel and you will notice what we read thereby when Habakkuk you remember we have enjoyed the study of Habakkuk Habakkuk said in his prayer before the Lord when he was anticipating the judgment of God against his own people Israel Habakkuk in his prayer to the Lord in chapter 1 and verse 13, he said to God in his prayer, For thou art of a purer eye than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity. God, you are of a purer eye than to behold evil. The Hebrew word is ra, ra, evil.

Not look on iniquity the word in Hebrew is amal God is holy and his eyes are pure he cannot behold evil and he cannot look on iniquity that is the God of the universe that is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob this is the God of Israel and Shaul Paul is presenting this before the believers at Rome who were already born of the Spirit of God they already have accepted the person of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. They formed a local assembly in the city of Rome. And although Paul haven't yet visited them, in the first 17 verses, you remember, he introduced himself to them, and he presented himself as an apostle, as the servant of the Lord, Jesus the Messiah.

And he showed them in chapter 1, verse 14, 15, and 16, and 17. Which we have already covered, he says, I am a debtor to the Greek and to the barbarian. Chapter 1, verse 14. Verse 15, I am ready to preach the gospel unto you that are at Rome also. And verse 16 and 17, I am not ashamed of the gospel of the Mashiach, of Christ, the Messiah, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that verse 17 the righteousness of God is revealed from faith unto faith as it is written and he's quoting Habakkuk the just shall live by faith and so now we are entering into this next section and as I mentioned to you these verses chapter 1 verse 18 Roman 1:18 to Roman 3:20 the subject of sin is presented and we are entering, beloved brothers and sisters, as Paul is presenting it before the Romans, we are entering into the court of God, and the court is in session.

Here is the universe, the court of the eternal God, and he brings everyone into this court, and we are all, as Paul presenting it. And you will notice as we are moving along here that in verses 18 to the end of the chapter, verse 32, Paul is bringing the pagan Gentile world into the court. Then in chapter 2, verses 1 to 16, he is going to bring the moral, the educated Gentiles into the court of God's presence. He will bring the religious Jewish people into the court of God's presence for a session with him and finally in chapter 3 verse 9 to 20 he declares the whole world is guilty before God the pagan Gentile the educated moral Gentile and the religious Jewish person responsibility before God as we are going through these verses in Romans chapter 1 and verse 18 onward to chapter 3 and verse 20.

And so you notice now, first of all, it's by way of just as I'm introducing this section, you know, men, when I'm saying men, the human race is really sunk so low Paul presented this before the Romans. It sunk lower and lower, even lower eventually as he presented it, even lower than the beasts. That's how low and how far the human race have departed from God. It began at the Garden of Eden, Gan Eden, when Adam fell into sin because of his disobedience to God. And since that time. Men, women, people did not improve themselves as they give an assumption that they do. But in reality, this sin nature of us haven't been improved.

And in reality, in practice, we have departed. And I'm saying we because all of us have departed further and further and further and lower and lower and lower, even up till our behavior become like a behavior, as Paul presented here, the animals behave and so you we will notice here beloved brothers and sisters that in these verses in this section that we have before us verses 18 chapter 1 verse 18 to 32 the sin of the pagan nation the pagan Gentile world you will notice that he is mentioning four things in these verses from verse 18 to verse 32 concerning the pagan Gentile world number one in verses 18 19 and 20. Men who knew God turn away from God.

That's what Paul will present in verses 18, 19, and 20. Secondly, in verse 21, 22, and 23, Paul will continue to say to the Roman men who knew God, people who knew God, the human race who knew God, they did not glorify God. Verses 21, 22, and 23. Thirdly, in verse 24, 25, 26 and 27 Paul continued to present this this subject before the the brethren at Rome he's saying in verses 24 25 26 and 27 that men who knew God they changed the truth of God into a lie and finally in this section when Paul presenting the sin of the pagan Gentile world in verse to 32 Paul will say to the Roman believers he says men who knew God became depraved in his own mind so this is the way in which these verses are being presented before us first of all in this section verses 18 chapter 1 18 to 32 that present Paul bringing the pagan gentle world into the court of God in verses 18 19 and.

20 is emphasizing the fact that man by nature even though he knew God he she they turned away from God notice what we read here in verse 18 for the wrath of God revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men that m-e-n is the the human race and in the context here the the pagan nations of the world they have they have they it's revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of the human race of mankind who hold the truth in unrighteousness because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God had showed it unto them for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead so listen to this so that they are without excuse and so notice this very interesting because the way he presents it first of all you notice he used that word for the wrath of God that word in Hebrew is.

In the Greek, the word here is orge, O-R-G-E. And it speaks about the anger, the righteous indignation of a holy and righteous God against sin. Turn with me to Psalm 2 for a moment. In Psalm 2, listen to what we read in the second Psalm. Of Israel says in Psalm 2 concerning the fact that the heathen and the people and the Kings and the rulers turn against the Lord and against his Mashiach the Messiah this is Psalm 2 verses 1 2 and verse 3 they say let us break their bend the thunder let us cast away their cords from us all humanity whether it is the heathen nation or the nation of Israel all the Kings of the universe, all the rulers, they all turn against God and they say, let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.

God, we don't want you in our life. And then the psalmist continues and he gives us the voice of God, the Father, in verse 4 on. But notice what he does say, beloved brothers and sisters, in verse 4. In the heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision then shall he speak notice he speak unto them in his wrath in Hebrew and then vax them in his soul displeasure this is the Hebrew word anger righteous indignation against sin God is righteously angry because of the departure of humanity from him, turning away from him. He continues, notice in the very same Psalm, at the end, verse 12, kiss the son, lest he be angry, and he perish from the way when his wrath, charon, when his wrath is kindled but a little, kiss the son.

When God's righteous indignation against sin will fall upon men, men will be separated from God because God is holy and he cannot look upon sin. And we all are part of this sinful world that have turned away from God. So the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against, as it says here, In Romans 1 verse 18, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who listen, who hold down the truth in unrighteousness. He suppress the truth that they know concerning God in unrighteousness. It is willful sin. It is willful disobedience. It is willful suppressing down. The truth that one knows turning away from God.

You see, beloved brothers and sisters, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven. God is angry with the sin of the sinners, but He loves to bring the sinners into repentance, him so the wrath of God is revealed notice the word here is it's not only was but the wrath of God is present tense it was revealed by God when Adam and Eve fell into sin it was revealed by God when Cain murdered his brother Hevel it was revealed by God when the days of Noah when man departed from him in every generation and today it is revealed as well beloved friends dear brothers and sisters it is it is present tense it is revealed from God and notice another word that is very interesting for the rest of God is but even the word revealed God's Revelation God is showing that.

To everyone you remember we read at the end of the chapter we'll get to it later on when we do read that man is without excuse God's wrath is revealed to all people to all men because of man's departure the human race departure from him it's also mentioned here in the chapter in the earlier the first the earlier verses in verse 16 and 17 where Paul said for I am not ashamed of the gospel of the Mashiach the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe to the Jew first and also unto the Greek notice then for therein in the gospel in the body of truth the righteousness of God is revealed In other words, God's righteousness is revealed through the gospel.

Just like God's wrath is revealed because of man's departure, of the human race departure from him. When we say men, we mean men and women, people. An ongoing basis is revealed here in this world from heaven against and notice this expression here in verse 18 the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against notice then all ungodliness and unrighteousness that which is godless and that which is unrighteous men and people we have departed by nature and oftentimes by practice in such a way that there is a rebellion against God and there is a mistreatment and unrighteousness here against men and against God against one another and the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness And as we can see that Paul is presenting here, he's introducing the court session, and he began by, in verse 18, to present the truth of the wrath of God.

Now, you and I sometimes don't think about the wrath of God. We like to think about the love of God. You know, God is love. God is gracious. We don't like to sing songs about the wrath of God. But we should love to sing songs about the love of God. But you see, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, God's wrath must be understood if we will understand what it meant for his son to enter into this world in order that he will become the anointed, the Mashiach, and he would pay for the sin of this world. Understand the righteous indignation of a holy and a righteous God against sin that's how Paul began it in verse 18 of Romans chapter 1 but even more you notice what we learn here from this very verse 18 that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven and it is against and it is against all ungodliness it is against all unrighteousness of men of the human race notice what he continued to say here in the very same verse who hold the truth in unrighteousness or another way of saying it who hold down the truth another word to say who suppress the truth in unrighteousness The human race know what's right and what's wrong.

They know the truth. We know the truth. But to suppress it, to say, no, I know the truth, but I will not be subject to it and do my thing. This is exactly what shows us how far the human race have departed from the Lord. And the way that the Lord looks at this. You remember when, and I'm just always going back to the event that took place after the creation of the universe, when Adam and Eve did sin. Adam and Eve knew very well what was right and what was wrong. Adam knew that. Adam knew that God said, you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge, good and evil he knew it he receives clear information from God but what he did he suppressed it and he disobeyed God and by disobeying God he brought the wrath of God upon him and he plunged the whole human race into sin and every one of us that was born as a descendant of Adam and Eve we have inherited the same nature and we are now called sinners we don't like to hear this fact but we've all sinned we are all.

Come short of the glory of God we all have inherited a sin nature and so God reveal to mankind to the human race what he's expecting but notice what we read here at the end of verse 18 that man the people that the human race suppress hold down the truth and they suppress it in unrighteousness Knowing the truth and yet suppressing it. Do not allow it to be controlling our life because of our sin nature and our self-will. And that's why the wrath of God is revealed from heaven on an ongoing basis to anyone. No one, beloved brothers and sisters, have any way whereby they can be excused.

We read in the end of verse 20 so that they are without excuse without excuse so as he presenting in verses 18 and 19 and 20 that the men who knew God turn away from God in verses 19 and 20 Paul continue to point to the two areas in which men know very well that he is accountable to the living God. The first one, the first one in verse 19, God gave man conscience inwardly. Secondly, in creation, outwardly, man can see and know the truth of God inwardly and outwardly. And so you notice in verse 19, We read, because that when, notice that that which may be known of God is manifest, notice the word in them.

That expression in them speaks of the conscience. When did conscience, in Hebrew we call it matzpun, it's like a compass. When did the conscience, when did the human race receive conscience? When sin came in. When Adam disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Delight, he knew that he was wrong. And immediately he covered his nakedness with fig leaves and he hid behind the trees away from God because inside he knew that he was not right. And you see, God gave us conscience. Everyone that is born into this world has that conscience. Like the buzzer that when we do wrong we know it but we suppress it sometimes and we allow ourselves to continue to do wrong the conscience was given to the human race by God in order to alarm us and to awaken us and to show us that hey i'm going wrong i'm doing the wrong thing i should stop it you know just like the red light you know when you are in a traffic on the highway or in a road and you're driving even the governments that be know very well that if we do if we if we are to have order here in this world we have to have the the red light and the green light and the yellow in between so when there is a red light you have to stop and that's exactly what God has given to us he has given to us the conscience it's very interesting because the Hebrew word is.

Which comes from the Hebrew word Matspen. Matspen means compass and always going north. Have the Matspen, have the compass in your hand and it will always direct you north, the way to God, the right way. But our conscience directs us to do the right way. Sometimes we don't listen to our conscience and we allow ourselves to carry on and do our own thing, even if our conscience bothers us. And that's why that which is in them is mentioned here, men who knew of God and the truth of God, notice what we read, in his conscience, Paul is saying in verse 19, because that which may be known of God is manifested in their conscience, in them.

Every time to his own people that which is a right and that which is wrong, beloved brothers and sisters. And therefore, there is the responsibility of the men to turn back to God when their conscience bothers them. They realize that they are wrong and they need to turn to God. I just want to reread these verses in Genesis 3. Where we do read notice that the the first few verses in Genesis chapter 3 that's how conscience came in and Adam knew in chapter 3 i'm sorry in verse 1 where it says and i'm reading and now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God has made and he said unto the woman yeah has God said ye shall not eat of every And listen to what the serpent did in verse 4.

But what did God say in chapter 2 to Adam? Out of this tree dying you shall die you will be separated from me you will be spiritually separated from me you will be ultimately physically separated from the soul and the body and you will be eternally separated from God if you did not have forgiveness of sins while here on earth and sure you notice what we do read that I just go down in chapter 3 where we read in verse 6 and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eye and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof she did eat and she gave it also unto her husband and he did eat and notice that and the eyes of them both were open and they knew that they were naked now they know that they are naked they know that they are empty and exposed before God and before one another.

So they sawed fig leaves together and they made themselves aprons. And verse 8, And they heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden of the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. They hid from before God because their conscience bothered them. Strong inside and they cover themselves with fig leaves hid themselves before from the presence of God and they were no longer enjoying the fellowship that they had with God and beloved brothers and sisters listen Paul is saying here in verse 19 the human race who knew of God and knew God in the knowledge of God because of there is a creator God what did they do notice as we read in verse 19 Romans 9 Romans 1 verse 19 it is manifest in them because they and God may be known is the knowledge of God to be manifest in them for Godhead show it unto them there is no one in the world that can say i didn't know that there is a God here in this world their conscience show to them that there is a a God that created them that they are.

Accountable to a living God inwardly and I'm sure all of us my dear friends know very well in our heart of hearts that there is a creator that we are accountable to and that we cannot have an excuse when we reject him and here the apostle is presenting the truth that we are all responsible to react to this living God who created the human race some might say well we came out of this way and that way and there's all sort of reasoning that one has but in the inner of the inner hearts of yours and mine in the in the conscience we are very well known that we have turned away from God although we knowing in our own inner hearts.

That we are accountable to a living God but you notice Paul does not stop here because again verses 18 19 and 20 the human race who knew God turned away from God not only they have known God inside them in them in verse 19 because God showed this unto them but you notice in verse 20 not only an inward knowledge of a creator God but also there is an hour that is from creation, outwardly, the creation of the universe proved to the human race that there is a living God to whom we are accountable. And so notice that in verse 20, Paul says, for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood, not as dead, by the things that are made.

The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly, not as dead word, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. Excuse. In other words, you and I getting up in the morning and we look at the sky and we see the sky, we realize that there is a God who created all this. At night time, we can see the moon and the stars. They reveal the glory of God, beloved brothers and sisters. During the day, the sun is shining. And we can see that there is a creator God who created all this it didn't happen by chance turn with me to the book of Psalm once again in Psalm 8 we read here we see David saying in Psalm 8 it is to the chief musician David says, "O Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory above the heavens!" David is saying, beloved brothers and sisters.

He continues a little bit later on when he is saying in verse 3, "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him? That thou visitest him. So you notice that, when I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, God is a creator God. He is the one that created the universe, the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars. Go to chapter 19. Of the book of Psalm verse 1 David continued after we read to the chief musician a Psalm of David in Hebrew and then he continued the heavens declared the glory of God and the firmament showed his handiwork day unto day utter a speech night unto night show us knowledge there is no speech no language line is gone out through all the earth their words to the end of the world in them hath he set the tabernacle for the sun which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run the race you see beloved brothers and sisters verse 6 says he's going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

You see, David recognized that the heavens declared the glory of God. So again, when Paul presents beloved brothers and sisters, he presents this truth concerning the fact that the pagan. Nations of the world the nations of the world are guilty before God what does he do here beloved brothers and sisters he says in verses 18 and 19 and 20 he's presenting this truth before the Roman believers and he says the the fact that they are without excuse for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness because that which may be So, beloved brothers and sisters, how amazing here that Paul began here with the truth that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.

And so the lesson, beloved brothers and sisters, in these verses 18 and 19 and 20, for this portion of today, when Paul, as if it were, you will notice that he's bringing us all into the court. Of God and the court is in session and as the court is in session he began by saying to the pagan nations that they have sunk further down and done because they knew God but they suppressed the truth and they reject a God in their knowledge notice this expression so they are without excuse if you notice in chapter 2 of Romans in verse 1 he continues there and he will speak again later on he will speak about the morals people and he will tell them therefore thou art inexcusable Amen you are without excuse no one is going to escape the righteous judgment of God against because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Now, as we're moving along, beloved brothers and sisters, in the next verses, I will just begin to introduce them because we will obviously, for time's sake, we will not be able to go further. But in verses 21, 22, and 23. Race who knew God turn away from God but they also by turning away from God verses 21 22 and 23 they did not glorify God they did not give him the glory that he deserved after all he's the creator God he's the the the one who created all things he's the creator remember how the whole word of God began Genesis 1 verse 1, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And you remember later on we read, let us make men in our own image, in our own likeness. God created humanity for his own pleasure. And because of sin, the human race have departed. And God provided a way that Paul is emphasizing. Here in Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, the Gospel of the Messiah, in other words the death, the burial and resurrection of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, because in that Gospel, God through the work of the Messiah can provide righteousness to us all if we only believe. So when one rejects Him, there is only remaining judgment. And therefore, beloved brothers and sisters, Listen to this, and I'm just going to read once again, as we are just going to conclude for today, because I want to leave these next verses for the next session, that because the human raised who knew God, they not only turn away from him, verse 18, 19, and 20, but we all have also did not give the glory to God that he deserved to receive because of who he is.

And therefore, I'm reading again, verse 21. Because when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imagination, and their foolish heart was darkness. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And they listened to this, verse 23, What happened here, what we learned from verses 21, 22, and 23, is that because of the fact that the human race turned away from God, because of this What we learn here that the glory that God deserved to receive from his own people, he did not receive it. And they did not glorify God. Sad, isn't it? When you think of the fact that these days we see it so clearly how the human race who need to give God the glory that he deserves, they don't.

And when I say they, we apply this to us all by nature. Unless God had turned our hearts, we would have continued on in the way in which we lived before. But the Lord showed us that we needed God, we needed Him, and therefore we turned to Him. He worked in our hearts. We have accepted the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, and turned to God by faith and accepted Him as our Messiah and our Lord and our Savior. And sisters I would stop here in these with these verses and in the will of the Lord as we continue on we will look at the next verses for verse 21 in our next meeting together and continue on and to learn of the truth that as the world is presented in the court of God God is pronouncing all guilty whether it is the pagan gentle world whether it is the moral gentle world or whether it is the religious Jewish world all the whole world is guilty before God therefore the Messiah Yeshua had to come down to this world to provide redemption for us and when he died he was buried and he rose again for our justification he provided for us the salvation that we needed.

Praise God for that. So I'm going to end with this for today. May the Lord bless you and encourage you and lead you to the wonderful person of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, who loved us, loved you and gave himself for you and for me. Abba, Father, bless your word. We pray for we ask it in Yeshua's name. Amen. Amen. I say shalom to you all. God bless you. Until the next time, shalom, shalom.