, invite you to turn in your Bibles to Romans 5. It's a blessing sometimes to go away and have an opportunity like that, but it's always a blessing to come back and to be with you again and to worship with you and to open up God's word to you, this morning. Romans chapter 5. we have been working through this chapter.
I've personally been wanting to go deeper in my understanding of the doctrine of justification. I feel like I am in kindergarten in terms of understanding the depth of this doctrine, and I've personally wanted to go on this journey, and I've wanted to take you with me as we just make another pass through a chapter, like Romans 5, and maybe even beyond that, we'll see how the Lord leads and just, try to glean all that we can and, and come to a fuller knowledge of the glories of the gospel. And we've been looking at verses 1 through 11, and two weeks ago, we finished studying verse 11. And so this morning, we're going to pick up in verse 12, the beginning of the second half of Romans chapter 5.
And if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be much more, much more about Our justification. about 20 years ago, I've shared this with you guys before. I, I probably share this every few years, but about 20 years ago, my wife and I were attending a Sunday school class at a different church, not this one, and there was a guy in that class, who was close to, to our age, a little bit older. who at this particular time, we're all on a journey and have a lot of immaturities that we grow out of over time, but at this particular time in this guy's life, he was pretty impressed with himself.
And pretty impressed with his intellect and seemed to enjoy hearing himself talk. And at the end of this particular Sunday school class, a theological topic came up and as we were leaving the class, he began waxing eloquent to Donna and me about a finer point of, of theology and, and I was actually intrigued by what he was saying, but then there was a point where, how when you're talking to someone, it's like, what, this really ought to be ending. but it's, but it's going on and on. does that ever happen?...
