Well, let me invite you to turn in your Bibles, this morning to Romans chapter 9. Romans 9, I do want to encourage you to make plans to be with us tonight for our praying as We Should night where we come together as a congregation, all the care groups essentially come together in this building tonight at 6 o'clock for us to have a corporate time of prayer where we seek to pray in the Spirit, being guided by Him and we're crying out to God and at the same time, we're Seeking to be guided by the Spirit to such a degree that we're listening to each other's prayers in the hopes of discerning. Aspects of the heart of God for Cornerstone. So come and be a part of this amazing journey that we are on, as we come together to pray in the Spirit, and we'll open up the floor, we'll have microphones, you're welcome to come up and, and, and pray and read scripture.
I, it's just an incredibly edifying, instructive, time for me and for all of us that are a part of this, this journey of, of prayer. Also, the, the reading. for the summer advance, the reading assignments are in your bulletin and take a look at that. We're encouraging all of our, church members to at least sit down.
We know that you're reading other stuff and doing other things, but if at least 3 times a week you sit down and read a chapter of 1 Samuel by the end of the summer, you will be You will have read through the entirety of the book of First Samuel, and we're especially encouraging our dads and our single moms and their family worship times to sit down and even husbands and wives to sit down and And read through first Samuel with your families and your family worship time and there's resources that we commend to you and you'll find those spoken about in the handout that's in your bulletin. Anyway, Romans chapter 9 for a time of study in the word, we, spent about a year and a half, as you'll recall, studying through Romans 5 through 8, a journey to the heart of the gospel, and we have learned many things along the way. We've gone deeper in terms of understanding. And celebrating the realities that are true of us who are believers in Christ, and we have amazing realities.
That we ought to be thanking God, for. we've learned that in Christ because Jesus died and was raised and is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us because of the person and the work of Christ, when we believed in Him for salvation, we were forgiven of all of our sins, and we were declared righteous by God, who decided at that moment on, he would forever think of our sins as forgiven. And think of us as righteous with the very righteousness of Jesus. As a result of this, we have peace with God, we experience luxury in our relationship with, with God, and we stand under grace....
