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What a day of rejoicing that will be!
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and shout the victory!
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I was reading Romans
not too awfully long ago.
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And over and over, this word "therefore"...
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which is the first word in our Scripture
this morning, began to pop out at me.
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And I begin to think about it.
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Because I remembered somewhere
back yonder when I was in school...
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that an English teacher taught me
about the meaning of words.
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And this word "therefore"
had a specific meaning.
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And I think, well, if Paul
is using this word so many times...
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there must be a reason for it.
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So immediately,
I went to Webster's Dictionary...
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and I began to look up what the word
"therefore" was all about.
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And I found the word to be a conjunction.
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Now, I had long forgotten
what a conjunction was.
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And so, as soon as I realized
it was a conjunction...
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I thumbed back through the dictionary
to the word "conjunction"...
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to see what a conjunction was,
and Webster's Dictionary said...
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that a conjunction
is an indeclinable word...
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that connects two thoughts together.
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And so I said, "What does this word
'indeclinable' mean?"
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And so I looked up
the word "indeclinable"...
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and found that it meant
that it was unchangeable.
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And so I found out
that "therefore" was a conjunction...
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that could not be changed
that connected two thoughts together.
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And so, therefore,
whenever I found this out...
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I looked at that word again in the
first verse of our Scripture, and I said:
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"Paul must have said something
that this word is connecting together. "
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So let's see what it was.
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And when I began to look back,
I found out...