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Romans chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Romans chapter 2, let us pray. Our Lord God who reigns on high,
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  we love you. Lord Jesus, we thank you for
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  another day. We thank you for the ability to
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  come and to listen to you and listen to your words.
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  God let them wash over our minds.
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  Lord, clean out all of the junk that we've stored up.
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  Father, I pray against worldliness in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. God, let us consecrate this
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  temple. Let us take all of the false
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  worship and all of the idols that we have allowed in out God
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  into the streets and burn them. Father, in the name of Jesus
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  Christ, burn them out. God in the refiners, fire God,
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  purify us in the name of Jesus. God, let the dross melt off.
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  Lord, I pray that you can see your image in US.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that we can be bond servants,
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  laid down lovers of you, God, yoked up with Jesus Christ going
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  to the ends of the earth. God, I pray God for a
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  supernatural zeal for your house.
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  God, let it eat us up. Lord, I pray for the nation
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  Israel. God, I pray for the Jews.
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  Father, I pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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  God, I pray that you will supernaturally protect them,
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  Father, and where we are, God, they will be.
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  And so, Lord, I just pray that as we are moving and having our
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  being, we know that we are here for a divine purpose, Lord, and
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  that you've called us to such a time as this.
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  And let us not shrink back from the ministry that you have given
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  us. Lord, I pray that we'll live on
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  fire for you today. God, I pray that we'll be your
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  hands and feet. Help us to love you more.
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  Help us to love our neighbor, God, as ourselves.
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  Help us to know our worth and our dignity.
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  Help us to know that you're fighting our battles.
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  And God, I just pray as we open your word that you'll teach us
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  your ways. Teach us your paths.
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  Teach us your thoughts. Teach us your mind.
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  God, I pray that you will help us, Lord, to rightly divide the
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  word. Give us peace today.
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  God, I pray that we'll know the truth today.
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  And God, I just pray that we, Lord, will decrease as you
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  increase and that your words will reign supreme throughout
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  all generations. Lord, we're praying 7
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  generations from now to be blessed by our obedience, God,
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  and by what you have placed inside of us.
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  Lord, let us teach others and let us teach our children and
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  teach our neighbors, God, about you, the God of Abraham, Isaac,
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  and Jacob. God, Yahweh from everlasting, we
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  love you, and it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name
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  that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Therefore, you are inexcusable,
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  O man, whosoever you are that judges for wherein you judge
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  another, you condemn yourself for you that judge do the same
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  things. Wow.
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  Paul just came out swinging and basically what he wants us to
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  know is that it is only by the blood of Jesus Christ that we
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  can be justified. And that is just if I'd never
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  done it. And we can stand before a holy
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  God one day, and he's not going to see any of our sins.
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  And what Paul wants us to know is that if we're trying to get
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  there by our own merits and we're looking down the nose at
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  other people, what you need to know is that you have already
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  become self condemned by trying to pretend as if you're better
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  than somebody else because you're judging them by a
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  standard that is God's. And if we're judging by God's
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  standard, we are all guilty as charged.
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  That is, the necessity of the righteousness of Jesus Christ
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  alone. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according
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  to truth against them which commit such things.
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  Three. And thank you this, O man that
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  judges them, which do such things, and you do the same,
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  that you should escape the judgment of God.
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  You think by saying that I'm a good person and I give away all
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  my money to charity, and I devote so much time to all these
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  humanitarian efforts. You think that when you stand
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  before a holy God that you're going to try to take him to task
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  and tell him how he ought to judge you for or despise you,
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  the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering,
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  not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance.
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  And that is the whole crux of the whole matter of the whole
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  situation. My friends, God allows you to
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  have one more day, and we don't know if we're going to get
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  tomorrow, and His mercies are new every day.
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  And if you have not come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ
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  as your Lord and your Savior, the fact that you woke up today
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  shows that God's not done with you.
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  But do not blasphemy the Holy Spirit as He calls you unto
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  repentance. It is the goodness of God, the
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  fact that He allowed you to have one more day that gives you the
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  opportunity to come to Him by faith, friends.
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  And we should not think that the fact that we woke up today
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  proves that there is no God and that everything just keeps going
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  on and on as it always has. This moralistic approach has led
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  many off into hell and into their own demise.
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  Friends, it is long-suffering of God.
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  It is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance.
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  Is that not your story? That is my story, friends.
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  God didn't give up on me. He kept me through all the
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  trials until I finally hit rock bottom and I had to admit to Him
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  that my way was not working and surrender completely.
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  And fully to him and those that have been forgiven of much love,
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  much. 5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart, you
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  treasure up for yourself wrath against the day of wrath and
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  revelation of the righteous judgment of God.
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  One nanosecond after you take your last breath, you're going
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  to regret not putting your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  You're going to be an eternal torment forever and ever where
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  you're begging for a drop of water to touch your tongue.
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  And it'll be a billion deaths over, and you cannot die, and
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  there is no other chance for you beyond that.
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  And people that put off this, giving their lives to the Lord
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  Jesus Christ for a more convenient time, are only
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  heaping up more judgment upon themselves whenever the great
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  white throne comes about and every knee, bowels and every
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  tongue confesses that Jesus is Lord.
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  And it's better to do it on this side than to wait for the next
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  six who will render to every man according to his deeds.
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  So you need to know that you will never make it into heaven
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  by any of your deeds, even those who are trying to work their way
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  into heaven. All of our righteousness is
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  filthy rags. It is only by what Jesus did
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  that we get there, not by what we do.
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  And if you do not put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ before
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  you die, then you will try to give an account that shows God
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  that you were a good person, but it'll never amount to anything
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  but eternal separation and damnation from Him. 7 To them
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  who by patient continuance and well doing seek for glory and
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  honor and immortality, eternal life.
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  That is Our Calling, to patiently endure all the woes of
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  this life and to press forward for the presence of Jesus
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  Christ, which is what we're after more than anything else.
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  We will have eternal life. We'll give him His due honor and
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  glory. Friends, we seek his face.
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  A But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the
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  truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, that is
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  the only outcome of those who refuse to come to the saving
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  knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in their little menial
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  lifetime. And they trade eternity for a
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  mess of pottage. They trade their birthright.
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  They are made in the image of God, and God has placed eternity
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  into their hearts. But they choose this little life
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  instead of receiving eternal life.
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  And it is very sad. Now in tribulation, anguish upon
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  every soul of man that does evil of the Jew 1st and also of the
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  Gentile. So if salvation was come to the
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  Jew first, then also the rewards to the Jew first, then also the
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  damnation to the Jew first for all those that will not place
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  their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  You can see that this is the model of God, that his heart is
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  for the Jews and then the unnatural, which he turns to the
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  Gentile after 11 for there is no respect of persons with God.
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  So he's saying that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is for
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  all nations, for all people, groups, all tongues, all
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  languages, and it goes out to all continents.
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  And God does not just call the Jews, but he calls all men and
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  women unto repentance, friends. And repentance is a beautiful
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  word, where we return back to the top, where we are with Him,
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  and one with Him, and abiding in him, and Him in US. 12 For as
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  many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law,
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  and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the
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  law. So we can see here that God was
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  well pleased to give His Holy Scriptures to the Jews and to
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  choose Abraham and to entrust the lineage of the Messiah to
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  the Jews. But we can also see here that we
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  are without excuse no matter where we are on planet earth,
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  and we are all in desperate need of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And this is the gravity of those who have been sent to go and to
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  proclaim the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ to all the
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  continents everywhere. And the Word of God will be
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  preached. The Gospel of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ will be preached everywhere before He comes
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  again. And this is the calling of
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  missionaries to go out, and some are sent and some send, and some
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  are here on the front lines praying.
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  And we need to know, friends, that it is our honor to go and
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  to teach others about what Jesus Christ did.
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  And we can see here that without the law they will perish, and
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  they cannot save themselves. 13 For not the hearers of the law
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  are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be
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  justified. So he's saying just because you
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  are a Jew and you have heard the law, it doesn't mean that you're
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  just automatically going to get to go to heaven because of your
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  lineage to Abraham, which was propagated in the time here that
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  Paul was writing this. And you can see they thought
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  they had the temple of the Lord and they had the law and the
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  prophets and they had their autonomy there in Israel, and
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  they were just going to make it there.
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  And that somehow Abraham stood at the gates of hell making sure
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  that no Israelite had to go. And Paul is refuting that and
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  saying you can't just know the law and not obey it. 14 For when
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  the Gentiles which have not the law do by nature the things
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  contained in the law, these having not the law or a law unto
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  themselves, so they're saying that they are without excuse,
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  that all of creation proclaims his name, and that they will not
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  be able to stand before God and say, I did not know. 15 which
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  show the work of the law written in their hearts, their
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  conscience also bearing witness, their thoughts, the meanwhile
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  accusing or else excusing one another. 16 In the day when God
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  shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my
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  gospel, John 14-6 says, Jesus says, I am the way, the truth,
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  and the life, and no one comes unto the Father except through
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  me. And you can see it here even in
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  the unreached people groups, that they must go through Jesus
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  Christ to make it to God. And this is a divine mystery,
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  and it calls for wisdom. 17 Behold, you are called a Jew,
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  and read and rest in the law, and make your boast of God.
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  He's saying that even though the Jew knows the law, he's
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  condemned by the law that he boasts about.
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  And that is the problem with those who just hear the word of
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  God but do not obey it. You cannot say I own 100 Bibles.
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  You cannot say I've never missed church attendance.
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  You cannot say that you know what the Bible says.
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  You must obey it. Friends 18 and know His will,
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  and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed
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  out of the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are
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  a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
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  which is the call of the Jews. The Jews were to be the priest
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  and the ministers for the world to point the Gentiles unto God.
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  But instead they made it all about greed and tradition, and
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  they tried to push out the Gentiles.
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  And how many times have you seen when Paul or Peter try to preach
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  that Jesus is for the Gentiles? It's a good way for the Jews to
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  excuse themselves from that meeting.
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  You can see it time and time and time again.
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  And here Paul is letting the Christians at Rome know that it
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  is not enough just to know the word of God, that they must obey
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  it. And it is for not only the Jews,
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  but it is for the Gentiles alike, and they are to be a
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  guide to the blind, and they are to lead those in darkness into
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  the light. 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes,
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  which has the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
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  He's saying, wake up Jews. You are to be teaching that
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  Jesus is the Messiah, just like I am.
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  When Paul says this, he's talking about himself whenever
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  he was a Pharisee of the Pharisees.
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  But through divine revelation and through the law and the
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  prophets, he saw Jesus as the Messiah.
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  And now he is teaching that and he's unashamed of it.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah. 21 You therefore
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  which teach another teaches you not yourself, and that you
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  preach to a man. You should not steal.
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  Do you steal? So what he is saying here is
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  you've got to practice what you preach.
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  You cannot live hypocrisy and duplicious friends.
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  People are watching and they're tired of hearing about it and
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  they want to see Jesus in you. 22 You that say a man should not
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  commit adultery, do you commit adultery?
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  You that are poor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
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  23 You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the
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  law, you dishonor you God. 24 For the name of God is
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  blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
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  So he's saying that whenever you try to preach one thing but do
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  another, you blasphemy the name of God for those that are close
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  to coming into the fold, but they see your lifestyle and how
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  it doesn't add up and they walk away from God.
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  And you can see here that it is grievous to the Lord whenever we
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  do not practice integrity, when we're saying one thing and doing
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  another. 25 For circumcision truly profits if you keep the
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  law. But if you are a breaker of the
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  law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
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  So circumcision was just an outward expression of an inward
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  change, friends, that they were marked as the believers of God
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  and they thought that this circumcision was going to save
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  them. They thought that the temple was
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  going to save him and is no different in our day and our
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  hour when we think that owning a Bible and attending church and
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  getting dunked in water saves us.
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  It is only a relationship with God through his Son, Jesus
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  Christ that saves us. It's by faith, friends. 26
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  Therefore, if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the
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  law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for
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  circumcision? So they circumcised their heart
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  friends, even though they had not circumcised their foreskin,
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  and that proves that they. Belong to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And that is what was talked about at the council back in
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  Acts whenever they were trying to figure out if the Gentiles
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  needed to go through Moses to get to God.
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  And it was far be it from them to teach that, that they just
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  needed to abstain from meat that was sacrificed to idols, and
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  they needed to abstain from sexual immorality and from
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  strangled meat, and they would be counted as the Lord Jesus
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  Christ through faith, Friends. 27 And shall not uncircumcision,
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  which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge you who
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  by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law.
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  So we know that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the law,
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  friends. He did not come to abolish it,
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  but to fulfill it. And by placing our faith in the
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  Lord Jesus Christ, we have become those that are marked by
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  fulfilling the law to the last letter, friends, because of
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  Jesus Christ. And he gives us a new heart and
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  a new mind, and we are pleased to obey him.
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  And if any man is in Christ, he's a new creation, and the old
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  things have passed away. The regenerate mind, friends, it
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  comes in and is washed by the Word.
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  And we're able to obey these laws easily because it's just
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  second nature to the reborn man. 28 For he is not a Jew, which is
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  1 outwardly. Neither is that circumcision,
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  which is outward in the flesh. So he's saying you can't just
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  rely on your genealogy to Abraham to make it there.
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  You must come the same way that the Gentiles have to come
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  through Jesus Christ. 29 But he is a Jew, which is 1 inwardly.
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  And circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, and not in
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  the letter, whose praise is not of men but of God.
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  And that is what we're after, and that is what we press for.
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  And that is what we're obsessed over is the praises of God and
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  not the praises of men. And if you are doing what you're
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  doing because you want some kind of recognition, you've lost your
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  reward. Friends, you can see here that
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  God is not discounting the Jews. He's not dissolving them into
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  the Church as some are in the habit of believing.
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  Friends, He is showing the Jews of their hypocrisy by thinking
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  that it is just by having the law and having circumcision and
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  having the temple and all of their outward expression with no
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  inward change is hypocrisy at its core.
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  And it's no different in our day and our our friends.
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  Whenever we think that we can get there by our own merits and
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  by all of our good behavior and by having these humanitarian
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  efforts, it is not going to amount to anything.
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  Friends, it is only by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that we
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  enter in, and He sees us as sinless.
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  None of our sins will be counted against us.
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  I hope that you are blessed by this amazing chapter here.
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  I know I sure have been many times over.
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  I'm praying for you. I love you, God loves you.
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  Let's get rooted and grounded in the word of God and covered in
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  the blood of the Lord Jesus. Let's go and snatch those out of
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  the fire. Let's tell every single person
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  that we meet today about what God has done for us and how good
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  he is. Let's not be ashamed of God.
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  Let's not be ashamed of this good news.
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  I'm praying for you and I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.