Romans 3:9-31
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If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
Romans
Paul has already went to great lengths to establish this, but he says it again.
Both Jews and Greek are all under sin.
Paul does this quite often. Greeks are Gentiles. He speaks of one Gentile nation to refer to the whole of Gentiles.
The point is this.
Regardless of ethnic heritage, the problem is the same.
Sin. Law Breakage.
And he goes on to quote from seven Old Testament passages that tell us this.
as it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one;
Righteous. What does that mean?
God’s definition of righteous and our definition are often different.
Our definition is often skewed because we have the tendency toward horizontal comparison.
I’m good compared to that person.
But God’s definition of righteous is related to his own holiness.
How do you stack to him?
In that regard, there is NONE righteous, not even one.
There is none who understands, There is none who seeks for God;
This speaks of our sin nature. In our human nature, we do not understand. We do not seek for God.
Its not in our nature to do so. The natural thing for us to do is to chase our way. To do what we want to do.
Following Christ is not a natural thing.
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
Following Christ involves self denial.
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
This is why some people don’t seem to care about the realities of Scripture.
Have you ever looked at someone and wondered why it is they have no desire?
Its because they are living as natural men and women who according to their nature do not accept the things of God.
They don’t seek for God. Thats what Scripture says.
Thats why we must pray that God will penetrate their hearts. That he will draw them to faith in Christ.
All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good, There is not even one.”
This passage should erase our idea of “good” people.
They are good people. They may do things that we would call good and humanitarian, but God would not.
“Only the good die young?” That only happened once.
We have to do a better job with articulating this. This is biblical.
Human goodness does not equate to divine perfection. We need Christ.
Paul goes on.
“Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving,” “The poison of asps is under their lips”; “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”; “Their feet are swift to shed blood, Destruction and misery are in their paths, And the path of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:13
The whole of the sinful man is corrupt.
The throat, the tongue, the lips, the mouth, the feet, their eyes.
Everything contributes to evil.
and worst of all
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
We are completely and totally sinful, corrupt, wicked depraved.
Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God; because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
Every person disqualified. Their mouths shut. No one has the ability to plead their case successfully.
By the works of Law, no flesh will be justified.
Justified- made righteous by God.
The Law doesn’t provide the remedy, it shoes the problem.
Its like a Mirror.
And again, as I said this morning, if all we had was the Law, we’d be in trouble.
BUT Christ.
But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
Witnessed by the prophets… The idea of righteousness through faith was not a foreign idea to the Old Testament.
is all about this.
Righteousness is achieved through faith.
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;
No distinction with sin, and no distinction with regard to faith.
Salvation comes through faith in Christ.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one. Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.