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Announcements
Men's Breakfast: August 20th 8:30a
With Peoria Rescue Ministries
At 1212 Adams
NEED an RSVP by 15th
Outdoor Movie Night
7:30p Ice Cream and Popcorn
8:00p Movie Starts at Sundown
Thursday August 11th
Spiderman into the Spiderverse
Christmas Play
Looking for actors - Miracle on 34th Street
Auditions to come on a Sunday at the end of August
Introduction
Alexander Fleming was experimenting with influenza in 1928
He went on a 2 week vacation and returned to find mold covering his work
It seemed like his staphylococcus samples were ruined, but he discovers penicillin
Treats all sorts of infections, rheumatic fever, gonorrhea, Lyme disease, tonsillitis…
Called the most important medical discovery of 20th century -- began antibiotics age
Things aren't always what you think they are… sometimes they're way better
You Version: I Can’t Even...
We’re in Romans 3:1-20
Looking at the Romans Road
Answering 4 questions:
Why do we need salvation?
How did God provide salvation?
How can we receive salvation?
What are the results of salvation?
Today we’re still looking primarily at that first question
Why do we need salvation?
You might be thinking, “Dang!
More sin lectures!”
Yes… next week we start to turn that corner a little a bit...
Easiest answer
We are all sinners
All sinners face eternal death
Skipped end of Romans 2
Learned that Jews are as guilty as the gentiles
They thought circumcision into Abraham’s covenant was enough
But that was more about making God’s people, not about salvation...
Circumcision is good is you keep the law, bad if you break it
Jews probably didn’t like that: What would you ask? “Why be Jewish?”
Let’s see what Paul has to say:
Romans 3:1–2 (ESV)
1 Then what advantage has the Jew?
Or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Much in every way.
To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
He says “Hello?!
He gave you prophesy and the Word of God!”
They got to be the ones that maintained the instructions and promises of God for everyone
1. God’s chosen people were not a waste of time
Of course, I mean the nation of Israel and then Judah
Later in chapter 9 (won’t get to in this series), he goes further
Romans 9:4–5 (ESV)
4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever.
Amen.
That’s quite a list!
Take Israel out for a second...
We would have no Scripture
No covenants
No law
All the times they glorified God, recieved His promises, gave Him worship - gone!
And most of all, there would be no Christ
Of course, God could handle all those things without Israel
But He didn’t, He used them for all of those things!
But that still doesn’t mean they are all saved...
Romans 3:3–4 (ESV)
3 What if some were unfaithful?
Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? 4 By no means!
Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written,
“That you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you are judged.”
The question is: If a Jew has no faith, does God’s faithfulness become useless?
God invested in this people - was that just a waste?
The answer is no!
It is man that is wrong, not God!
Some make the argument that there is a significant problem here:
If God was faithful to Jews, they shouldn’t reject Christ
However, most Jews rejected Christ, so God’s faithfulness to the Jews was useless
ILLUSTRATION: Compare this to the world: If the world rejects God, does He stop moving?
God can use things and people, even if they don’t want to be used - or are unaware
2. God’s purposes are not democratic!
You know God, all of us down here agree you shouldn’t have done that...
God would say, “And?
So?
What do you know?!”
He’s going to do what’s right whether we agree or not!
Even a crazy atheist who hates God and spends their life attacking Him - can be used by God
Even if every human was a crazy atheist… that wouldn’t make God wrong
Spurgeon: “If God says one thing, and every man in the world says another, God is true, and all men are false.”
There are not enough men in the world to make God a failure
Now Paul seems intent to take this argument to the next level
Romans 3:5–6 (ESV)
5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means!
For then how could God judge the world?
Notice the little (I speak in a human way)
He’s not saying (this part of the Bible will be uninspired because it’s me talking)
He’s speaking as man, for the benefit of man
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