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282 | A Walk Down the Romans Road · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  about God and to strengthen and your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  In this episode of the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast,
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  join Kim Miller and Erica Close in a conversation as we walk with Jesus.
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  In today's conversation, we discuss the importance of the Roman's road and the
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  power it has as a tool to witness to others and build the kingdom of God.
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  Well, hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us in this podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries. My name is Erica Close.
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  And I am Kim Miller, and we are so delighted that you have chosen to spend the
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  next few moments with us as we begin to look at the Roman's robe.
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  But before we discuss the Roman's robe with you, we would like to make the case
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  for why should we know that? There are so many scriptures that we could learn
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  and so much richness in the Bible.
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  In fact, every word in it is a word that we should be familiar with and that
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  we should know because we are held accountable for the Word of God.
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  But why would we spend an emphasis on the Roman's road? And it's because we
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  need to be very well aware of what it is that we believe.
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  We need to understand why is it that we are saved.
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  And the Romans Road is a beautiful picture, not only to be able to help influence
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  and convince someone of what is necessary to be a child of God and how we must
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  have faith and believe in Jesus Christ and who he is and what he's done.
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  It also helps us be able to explain why it is we believe.
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  And those two pieces of information, why it is and how we are saved,
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  is what's going to influence a lost and dying world to come and know Jesus as Savior.
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  1 Peter 3.15 says, But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts,
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  and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason
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  of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
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  And the Romans road tells us in a very short, concise, brief manner who Jesus is,
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  what he did for us, and why we need to believe in him.
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  And those three things will transform an entire world.
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  And that's what we as Christians need to be doing. We need to be ambassadors
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  for Christ. And so the first reason is that we want to make sure we can give an answer.
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  But we also want to make sure that we are a true witness and following what God says.
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  In Matthew 28, verses 19-20, he says this, Go ye therefore and teach all nations,
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  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost,
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  teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.
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  And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
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  Amen. Go therefore and teach.
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  That's the witness that we're talking about. And when we think about Matthew
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  5, verses 14 through 16, it's a familiar passage.
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  Passage of scripture, but it's all about our witness. He's commanded us to go and teach.
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  He's told us to be ready instantly to give an answer for the hope that is within us.
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  And then in Matthew 5, verses 14 through 16, he says, You are the light of the
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  world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
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  Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick,
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  and to give us light unto all that are in the house.
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  Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify
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  your Father which is in heaven.
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  We have been given the great commission to go into all the world and teach and preach the gospel.
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  We have been given the great charge to be a light in this dark world.
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  We have been told to go and make disciples of others.
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  And this time that we're spending on the Romans Road and our podcast together
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  is to help equip each of us with the Word of God,
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  that we might go forth and make disciples,
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  that we might be able to teach others how to be the light in the world and how
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  to witness, to equip you to do what God has asked you to do and to be confident in doing so.
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  Absolutely. You know, I learned the Roman's Road a long time ago,
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  as I know that you did, too.
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  And, you know, it is such a powerful tool. And I love that you make those two points that.
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  It is so vitally important for us to be able to give an answer for the hope that is within us,
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  to understand the hope that is within us, but then also to use that hope as
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  a tool for sharing the gospel with others.
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  I think it's incredibly powerful to be able to explain what Jesus did in your
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  life, to be able to tell your story, to have the story to tell.
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  But at the same time, we need to be able to give others not just our experience
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  with Christ, but the truth of Christ.
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  And the Romans Road, these five verses, of which there are many that we can
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  tie to them, but these five verses in the book of Romans that we call the Romans Road,
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  are an incredibly powerful tool in and of themselves.
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  You know, 2 Timothy 4.2 says, preach the word, be instant in season, out of season.
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  We are to know the word and to preach the word and to be able to use it to rebuke, exhort,
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  to be patient, to allow people to know the doctrine of Jesus Christ and his character and who he is.
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  And this is just a place to start, because you can't speak about one whom you do not know.
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  And we need to know Jesus. And as we follow through the Romans road, we will see the path.
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  From understanding to belief to receiving Jesus as our Savior.
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  Absolutely. Let's take a look at these five verses that are in the Romans Road.
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  As a younger person learning the Romans Road, when I learned it the first time,
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  I actually marked it in my Bible.
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  So I only had to remember the first one because I always had a note in my Bible
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  that told me the next step on the Romans Road.
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  But the first verse that we commonly know as the beginning of the Romans road
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  is in Romans 3 and verse 23.
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  And this will be a very common verse if you know, if you've read Romans,
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  and if you have come to know Christ as your Savior, I'm certain you've heard this verse before.
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  But Romans 3.23 says, For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  That's the verse that starts us off and sort of lets us know where we are, right?
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  Where we are within a position. And who needs Jesus?
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  All, right? For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  Then we quickly move to Romans 6.23 that says, For the wages of sin is death,
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  but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  And that means if you're serving Satan, if you're serving sin,
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  then you are going to surely die.
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  But the reward, the payment for
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  receiving Jesus as your Savior is eternal life, and you will never die.
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  The next verse on the Romans road is Romans 5.8. 5.8 says, But God commendeth
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  his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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  So we move from the problem, an explanation of the problem, to the solution right here.
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  Romans 5.8, we start to find out what the answer is to that problem. them.
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  And then we get the how in Romans 10, 9, and 10, when he says that if thou shalt
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  confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
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  and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
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  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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  It is so important that when you believe in Jesus.
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  That you confess your sins to him for him to forgive you, but that you also
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  confess him among men. You make the statement.
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  You are aligning yourself with Jesus Christ.
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  And the last verse that we commonly have in the Romans road is also in Romans
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  chapter 10, and it's verse 13.
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  And we read, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  In the same way that we started Romans chapter 3, verse 23, saying,
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  for all have sinned, all, everyone, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  That same promise is to all, for whosoever, whosoever shall call upon the name
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  of the Lord shall be saved.
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  The antidote to that universal sin that we read about in 323 is this universal
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  promise of salvation for the whosoever that will call upon the name of the Lord.
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  You know, I hear so often in my conversations with people that they would love
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  to tell somebody about Jesus. They just don't know how.
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  And my friend, it is as simple as telling your story.
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  You cannot be saved and not know how you did it.
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  And it wasn't anything that you did. It's what he did on the cross of Calvary
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  when he shed his sinless, spotless blood so that you and I might go free.
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  He paid a sin debt he didn't owe because we couldn't pay it.
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  And a lot of times, God places people in your lives that only you could reach.
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  I can't reach them because I can't relate to where my story doesn't seem something
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  that that makes sense to them because I was privileged and I was blessed beyond
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  measure to grow up in a home where Jesus was alive and well.
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  And we spoke of him all the time and we studied often and his glory was raised high in my home.
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  And we studied the word of God and applied it to our lives.
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  So sometimes it's hard for people who didn't grow up in that atmosphere to be
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  able to come alongside me and say, yeah, I get it.
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  And so others of you have a different story.
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  It's not to say that you can reach more people than me or better people than
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  me, or I can reach more people than you or better people than you.
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  It's that he said, go ye unto all the world and preach and teach the gospel.
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  And that's what we need to do as Christians.
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  And so we can't keep using the the statement, I don't know how to do it.
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  Because as we just quickly walked through that Roman's road,
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  we come up with the ABCs of salvation.
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  A, accept him. B, believe him and in him.
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  And C, confess.
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  It is not a difficult process for us because he did all the work and it it is free to us.
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  But you have to truly believe, and that means you repent of your sins.
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  Repent means you turn away. You realize that you're a sinner in need of a Savior,
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  as Erica read in Romans 3.23.
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  And you realize that it was His love that He gave towards us on the cross of
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  Calvary that bought our salvation in Romans 5, 8.
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  And then he says what in Romans 9 and 10 when we're talking about believing
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  to be part of the ABCs, Erica?
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  He says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe
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  in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
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  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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  So that is that believing in the only begotten Son of God and confessing.
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  The Romans road is a clear path from sin to forgiveness, from a life bound to
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  hell to a life with a home not made with hands into the eternal, into the heavens.
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  From a life where sin has dominion over you to a life where you've been set
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  free. and he who has been set free by Jesus is free indeed.
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  This has been an amazing overview of the Roman's road.
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  And we invite you to continue listening to our next podcast as the two of us
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  continue to discuss the Roman's road, taking each of these stops,
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  so to speak, along the Roman's road and thoroughly looking at them and examining
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  them so that we understand exactly what they say,
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  so that we all will be better equipped to teach others about Jesus.
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  Exactly. It's our goal that we are equipped to be ambassadors for Christ.
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  Amen. And win souls for his kingdom.
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  We have to tell our story, and then we have to give them the truth that is God's word.
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  It's our story for his glory.
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  Remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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