Romans 2:1-16

Wonderful. Well good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Coffee and devotions. This where every day you and I, we get together. We have a little bit of coffee, we get into God's word and we grow our love for the Lord together and this year 2022. We'll make it all the way from the book of Acts, to the book of fire Lehman and so glad to be with you this morning. Let's go ahead and have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into Romans chapter two verses one through 16.

Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this team. And we thank You for Your Word. We pray now that as we read your word that you would be working in us and through us teaching us convicting us and lifting our eyes up to Jesus. In His name we pray, Amen. All right, here we are Romans chapter two, the first 16 verses therefore, you are inexcusable oh man, whoever you are who judge for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself, for you who judge practice the same things. But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. And do you think this Oh, man, you judge those practicing such things and doing the same that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance and longsuffering not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? But in accordance with your hardness and you're in penetrant in penitent heart, you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each one according to his deeds, eternal life to those who patiently who by patient, continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor and immortality, but to those who are self seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath, tribulation and in and anguish on every soul of man who does evil of the Jew first and also of the Greek, but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first, and also the Greek. For there is no partiality with God for as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law. And as many as have sinned in the law, will be judged by the law for not the hearers of the law or just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified For when Gentiles who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law. These although not having the law are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and between themselves, their thoughts accusing or else excusing them in the day, when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel, while we need to ask ourselves a What is this about? Be what's the best verse to summarize a sin see, what are we called to do in response to these words, so a What is this about? Well, Paul has looked in chapter one at the Gentiles and in verses 18 through the end of the chapter, we saw that he was showing the condemnation upon God for those who suppress the truth of God in their unrighteousness but now he turns to his Jewish audience. He says, what about you? What about you who have the law and judge people, but then do the same thing. You also are going to be judged. This is the point that he says it doesn't matter how much you've read the Bible doesn't matter how much you have studied the Torah, it does not matter. How many times you have preached the 10 commandments. If you fail at any point in the law, and you're judging others who are breaking the law, you're also going to be judged. This is this point in this first part, it's it if you're going to try to be justified by keeping the law you better keep it perfectly. You better do it with absolute perfection. If you're going to be one of those who who judges others. And this is not saying that we don't judge right and wrong. But if we have this judgmental attitude, they speak specifically speaking to Jewish people here. He's saying if they have this judgmental attitude, they don't understand the grace and mercy of God because he he's he's painting this broad brush picture of everyone.

What does he say in verse 12? For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. Right? So he's talking about the Gentiles here. Those who don't have the Torah, those who don't have the books of Moses, they're going to die without the law. But then he goes on after the comma, and he says, and as many as have sinned in the law, will be judged by the law. And he goes on, he speaks about see the Gentiles they're going to be judged without the law. Not because there is no absolute moral standard of God. No, they show that they know what righteousness is. by natural law, they they do the the things that they know are right and wrong. It's written on their consciences. They know they ought not to murder they know they ought not to rob they know they ought to obey their parents. They knew these things. Now they want to suppress the truth of God. And they want to pervert the law, but the reality is when they're doing the things of the law they show in their hearts that by nature, we are moral, and culpable beings. That God by making us in his image has made us not just physical flesh, but also with a conscience. It's a sociopath who we think of who doesn't understand right and wrong, I would even suggest that even that person, they might be twisted and really suppressed the truth and unrighteousness in ways that are absolutely frightening. They still know that there's right and wrong and so what's he saying here? What's, what's the Apostle Paul getting at? Saying that? Be honest with yourself? Are you trying to get them to this point where he's be honest. There's going to come a judgement day. That's where he's at in verse 16. There's going to come that last final day. And God has noticed every secret of your heart those things you've done and said and thought, those good things you left undone that you should have done. The things that you ought not to have done, but yet you did. When not when you didn't think anybody else saw it. The Lord did. And he's gonna judge everyone, Jew and Gentile. All of us will be judged. by Jesus Christ. This is according to his gospel. This is the beautiful word. It's according to His good news. Paul is saying this is part of the good news. Part of the good news is that we know that all of us are sinners. All of us need the grace of God. All of us need the forbearance of God all of us need the long suffering of God. Now we can we can confuse his forbearance his long suffering, His kindness, his patience, and think oh, you know, someday, God, well this this this must not be a real God. He's going to judge because they get away with all this stuff now and they say no, someday there's going to come a judgement. And God's patience is meant to show you that there's a way of repentance. But our hearts are hard. The gentile heart is hard. The Jewish heart is hard. And he's saying to each person here, we don't have any right to be to set ourselves up as judges to look down our noses at anyone else.

But we have to look at our own hearts. We have to evaluate our own lives. How do we use our words? Do you use your words to build people up or to tear them down? Oh, God made your tongue.

He made your tongue to praise him. He made your tongue to edify others. So do you use it? Have you ever used it a single time in your life to gossip or slander? To backbite to use sharp sarcasm have used it to lie to slander. Do you see what he's getting at here is that if we sin and think that we are righteous? We're deceiving. ourselves and the judgment of God is coming. So this is what he's getting. Now. This is what this passage is about. The Jewish person can't look down their noses at the Gentile because they're not there. They're not righteous in and of themselves either. Nor can the Gentile think that they're righteous, because their consciences speak against them. And God is going to judge. So what's the best verse in here? Well, I have verse three and four underlined as well as seven through 11 and verse 16. When it comes to the book of Romans, I was reading a commentary and it was really funny in the commentary that it's one that I use a Bible software program for and it shows you kind of community highlights and like the entire book is, is highlighted. I think that's what my Bible is like, half the time everything is underlined. What would you underline in your Bible is what you think is getting at the heart of this passage, calling what are we called to do and how does this show us Christ? Are you honest with yourself about the judgment of God? If you evaluated your life, would you know that you're not righteous by your own works, but that you needed someone else's righteousness? Would you be honest with yourself that you need salvation? Would you be honest with yourself that the Lord needs to rescue me and you from the position we've gotten ourselves in as lawless? Will we be honest with ourselves and realize that the only righteous judge is the only one who has a right to judge is God Himself?

Let's pray. Father, we pray that we would look to Jesus Christ because he's going to come to judge the living in the dead. Father, we

need your salvation. We need you. And Father, we cling to you. Or do you pray that we would know that we stand by our natural selves under condemnation? Lord, thank You that You tell us the hard truths that you tell us of our sin, that we might understand your grace and the riches of your mercy. In Jesus's name,

Amen. May the Lord bless you today. May you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus Christ. May the Great Shepherd of the sheep keep watch over your soul and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.

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