I want to have you turn to the part of the Bible that we call Romans chapter 12. Romans 12, we're gonna continue in our study of this section of Romans. we'll be looking at verse 17 and 18, this morning. Paul, in the 1st 11 chapters of this book has laid out for us the glory, the beauty, and the grace and the forgiveness and the love and the freedom and the power that comes to those who see their bankruptcy, and acknowledge their sin, and who look to Jesus and say, he is the savior, for me.
And he's unfolded all of that in chapters 1 through 11 and then beginning in chapter 12, which is the chapter that we're in, Paul begins to tell us what to do with all of that and how to live our lives and to to flesh out the freedoms and the glories and the forgiveness and the love that we find in the gospel. Is it just me or is there an echo? It's just me, OK, I'm going to hear this sermon twice then. And we've been looking at beautiful ideals that Paul is is laying out for us in Romans 12, and he continues to do that in verse 17 through 21, which is the section that we come to today.
And if you want to give a title to the message in this section of Romans 12 verses 17 through 21, it would be Overcoming evil with good. Overcoming evil with good, and, that's what we'll talk about today, and we'll call this part one of our study of how to overcome evil with good. You see on the screen here a picture of a missionary family. This is Graham Stein and his wife Gladys, and their three children.
They were missionaries from Australia to India. And Graham, I believe he met his wife in India, serving the lepers there. but, Graham spent 34 years of his life, ministering to the lepers and bringing healing to them. He was the director of a leprosy center....
