240 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 4 - Book 20 - Romans 1, 2 & 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 20 GOD'S WRATH - IMMORAL MAN - ROMANS 1:17-32 GOD PROVES HIS CASE - MORAL MAN - ROMANS 2 THE VERDICT IS GUILTY - RELIGIOUS MAN - ROM. 3:1-23 The moral man wouldn't dream of living like the people we just finished studying. Verse 1: Romans 2:1 "THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest:..." Again in verse l: Romans 2:1 "THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself (a hypocrite. Now verse 2: Romans 2:2,3 "But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things (even if it's only covertly). And thinkest thou this, `O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?'" Now verse 6: Romans 2:4-8 "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? Come down to verse 11: Romans 2:11,12 "For there is no respect of persons with God." With God there is no difference. "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law (outside the realm of Judaism, they shall perish without Law, they are not going to be excused because they weren't under the Mosaic system): and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;" We know what the Law does, it condemns everybody. Because every human being that has ever lived, other than Christ Himself, has already broken the Law, and so they are condemned. Now verse 13: Romans 2:13 "(For not the hearers of the law are just [or justified] before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified....)" Exodus 19:7,8 If it was done because it was prompted by faith, that was what God wanted. But nevertheless remember that Law demanded doing on the part of its adherents. Romans 2:14,15 In the conscience. When God created Adam he gave him a conscience. Now verse 16. This is just an amazing verse. Romans 2:16 "In the day when God shall judge the secrets (that is the secret activities of these moral people, as well as the open activity of the immoral) of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." What's Paul's Gospel again? That Christ died for all these sins. Consequently, God is going to judge the human race based upon that. Now let's look at verse 17, and we are going to see the Prosecuting Attorney (God) now move to the third segment and that's the religious person. Religion prompts hatred, and war, it also takes people down the dark paths of legalism. Religion is always man's attempt to somehow please God. Christianity is God reaching down in mercy and Grace to a lost human race. Religion never does that. Now in these succeeding verses that's what we are dealing with - a religious Jew. Romans 2:17 "Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God," Now verse 18: Romans 2:18-20 Romans 2:21 "Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?" Romans 2:22-26 "Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery?... Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision." Romans 2:27-29 "And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law (in other words Paul is saying, "You bring me a saved Gentile and he will make you blush with shame.")? For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly (now we are speaking in the spiritual realm); neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh (but the true spiritual person, and here Paul is calling him a Jew): But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart (that's spiritual circumcision), in the spirit, and not in the letter (keeping the law); whose praise is not of men, but of God." The old Adam. Romans 3:1,2 "WHAT advantage then hath the Jew? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." The most important was that unto them were committed the oracles of God. Romans 3:5 "But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? Is God going to be unfair when He one day will pour out His wrath on Christ-rejecting mankind? No! Romans 3:6-8 "God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?" Even though he was a religious man and a religious zealot of Judaism, yet God had to tell Saul of Tarsus that he was a sinner. Romans 3:9-11 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible