{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Song Students OKC","title":"Romans - Unlikely Convert","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3117,"description":"In rabbinic tradition, every word of Scripture is considered to have seventy faces and 600,000 meanings! \nPETE GREIG\n\n“None is righteous, no, not one;\n11 no one understands;\n    no one seeks for God.\n12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;\n    no one does good,\n    not even one.”\n13 “Their throat is an open grave;\n    they use their tongues to deceive.”\n“The venom of asps is under their lips.”\n14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”\n15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;\n16 in their paths are ruin and misery,\n17 and the way of peace they have not known.”\n18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”…\n… For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. \nROMANS 3:10-18, 23-25\n\nUNLIKELY CONVERT.\n\n“It is the chief part of the New Testament and the perfect gospel… the absolute epitome of the gospel.”\nMartin Luther\n\n“The [book of Romans] compendium of Christian doctrine.”\nPhilip Melanchthon\n\n“When anyone understands this Epistle, he has a passage opened to him to the understanding of the whole Scripture.”\nJohn Calvin\n\n“The cathedral of the Christian faith.”\nFrederick Godet\n\n“Romans is beyond question the most dynamic of all New Testament letters even as it was written at the climax of Paul’s apostolic career.” \nRichard Lenski\n\n“The most profound work in existence.”\nSamuel Coleridge\n\nBecause of all this, Romans is different than many of the other letters Paul wrote churches. Other New Testament letters focus more on the church and its challenges and problems. The Letter to the Romans focuses more on God and His great plan of redemption.\nDavid Guzik\n\n“God is the most important word in this epistle. Romans is a book about God. No topic is treated with anything like the frequency of God. Everything Paul touches in this letter he...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BjiZxrt0a9mZ2dDE8857wRItwuk9xfgMH36A4JE3q70/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI3OTc4LzE2OTMw/NzI5MzktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}