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Hey guys it is good to see yall tonight we are trying to the best of our ability to dig into one of the hardest theological books in the Bible.

The most comprehensive study of doctrine in the entire Bible, some even call it the gospel according to Paul.

“It may be that deity can forgive sins but I do not see how…” Socrates

Now that is a good observation, HOW DOES A RIGHTEOUS GOD FORGIVE SINS WITHOUT COMPROMISING HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS?

Paul is widely recognized as one of the most profound thinkers on the planet.

He was trained in the best schools in both the Greek culture and Hebrew cultures.

He was taught by a dude named Gamaliel and he was a Hebrew of Hebrews, He also was a Roman citizen, which will come into play later.

This is written to believer, this is written to believers in Jesus Christ.

This book was meant to teach the saints, people who were already saved.

It was not written to the church in Rome because there was no church in Rome, but instead there were many house churches where believers would gather together to worship.

But it’s interesting that these believers meeting in homes were known throughout the world.

These believers were turning the world upside down.

Now we said last week the amazing thing about this was that they had no phones no internet, this was simply because these people were beating the street for Jesus.

The first 8 chapters is about doctrine, the first three chapters are about sin, 4-5 deal with salvation, 6-8 SANCTIFICATION what is that really?

We know alot about salvation but what is sanctification?

Then there are 3 chapters that deal solely with Israel.

Most people today will not teach these chapters in churches because it is a common viewpoint today that Israel forfeited her rights and God is through with Israel.

We need to understand that God is a covenant keeping God and there is a special role for Israel in His redemptive plan.

This is where Jesus when He returns to the New Earth, is going to rule from, He is going to rule from Israel.

Then the last three chapters are the personal notes.

it is the practical part.

If you wanted to break these sections down by topic they would be

FAITH

HOPE

LOVE

Were in the first three chapters where the main subject is sin, you may remember the key verses to the whole book are 16-18.

Where Paul says For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes to the Jew first and then to the Greek.

THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH

This was the key Phrase that lead to the reformation, it is a direct quote from .

This answers socrates question when he says I do not see how God could forgive sins, this hits it head on.

We have learned that grace if left unchecked can erode into legalism, and the early church knew and understood the work of Christ and the grace of God but overtime it eroded into legalism and that is why you had things like the selling of indulgences, to buy your loved one out of purgatory, and why the Catholic church went into such a works based man centered way of doing things.

But the reformation changed all of that BUT THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH is the verse that sprung that reformation and for the first time in a long time the Bible was translated and the common men and women recieved their first copies of the Word of God.

Last week we dealt with the problem of sinful man.

What does that mean?

HE IGNORES GODS REVELATION

HE PERVERTS GODS GLORY

HE IGNORES GODS INVITATION

We talked about how every person is without excuse because the intelligent design of God’s creation somehow strips away every excuse there is.

Because it is very evident there is a creator someone has designed the human body and the solar system, every human being knows this.

Deep down they know

Even in their wisdom they became as fools because they Reject God, they reject His glory and pervert it, they reject His invitation to know Him and as a result they become futile in their thinking and worship themselves or the creation over the creator and are blinded in their minds to the reality of God.

Now there is something that I have missed on many occasions reading this but I noticed it this time, and that is this there is a specific judgment that comes down on people who deny Him as a creator.

Wow I always thought homosexual activity was a personal choice and in an individual sense from mans perspective it is, but it is also a sign of the judgement of God.

Romans 1:26

It is a judgment on a culture

Romans 1:28-

God gave them up there is that phrase again

“debased” mind means void of judgment again thats God giving them over to those things, this is the judgement of God.

WOW

Now that was review but tonight our focus is going to be on which is all about the righteousness of God revealed.

WHAT IS THE GREATEST THOUGHT THAT EVER ENTERED THE MIND OF MAN?

Daniel Webster says “The greatest thought that ever has entered into the mind of man is my responsibility to my maker.”

Can you beat that?

God created man in His own image, so since we are persons God must be.

That means He is personal, since we have personal feelings so does God.

Do you know you have the capability of grieving God?

We can grieve the Holy Spirit, only because He loves us, you cant grieve someone who does not care about you.

If God is God He has to be the judge of everything right?

It seems pretty straightforward

WE HAVE TO MEET GOD ON HIS TERMS NOT ON OUR TERMS

If you are employed by a big company to my knowledge none of us are but one of the odd things is in this big corperations it is not uncommon for one boss to leave and every normal employee to find out later that there is a new boss.

For the next few weeks they buzz whats the new head boss like.. bc they know their lives are gonna be impacted by His characteristics.

So they wanna know what the real big boss is like what he likes and what he doesn’t like.

What makes him pleased and what makes him not so pleased, that is normal for people to try and figure out and this is what chapter 2 is all about what is God like?

We have to meet God as He is and not how we might wish Him to be.

So let’s really see and try to see things as He sees things to be.

We saw the problem with the pagan man in , this time we are going to look at the MORAL MAN.

Were gonna touch on the religious man a little bit but he is really dealt with in chapter 3.

We talked about paganism last time, tonight were going to talk about moralism.

Paganism is easy because its so stupid and illogical its easy.

But moralism is a little harder its harder because the moral man thinks he is ok and he aint.

In this chapter w

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Do you know that many pagan cultures view abortion as a capital crime?

Worthy of death or life in prison?

That is interesting because that is pagan culture but they view children as their strength, so even in modern day pagan cultures it is a capital crime to abort a baby, now that is pagan countries now compare that with where we are today.

Some pagan cultures are more moral than “civilized” cultures now Jews are examples to others and have prided themselves in that they were eximplery in their moral conduct.

They often condemned the Gentiles and were gonna be talking about them alot.

They felt like God’s standards did not apply to them because of their higher standards.

Some of the pagans had higher standards than other civilizations and they would say well were not that bad were pretty good.

Thats the way the Jews felt about the Gentiles.

IT DOESN’T APPLY TO US....

You see that’s the first thing that goes wrong when someone becomes corrupt.

Think politicians, there comes a time when they begin to believe that the rules don’t apply to them.

That’s where the trouble starts, that’s what happens when Presidents feel the constitution doesn’t apply to them.

That goes for most of them.

Paul states that both groups the Gentiles and the Jews were both condemned because they did the same things for which they judged each other.

The Greek verb here for judging means to condemn a person.

Every man and woman is naturally blind to his or her own state =, one of the greatest lessons we can learn is that we learn to never underestimate a persons ability to justify whatever it is they are doing.

If God is righteous there are certain principles we should seek to obey.

7 of them that teach us how God will respond and judge certain things.

These are rules that He will cling to, these are in His nature.

One of the best things Gods word does for us is puncture our delusions.

there are many who are blinded by delusions becuase they think God is supposed to act one way and He acts completely opposite because they are living blinded by their good deeds rather than coming to God on His terms.

What does God desire that we know about Him and here God is going to through the Holy Spirit lay out what its gonna take for us to spend eternity with Him.

Thats pretty logical, The way the Greek puts it He says do you think you would escape… you?

This is the death chamber of selfrighteousness, to somehow believe that it doesn’t apply to us.

7 principles of judgment

1. God judges according to Truth

There is only one barrier that will keep you from truth.