The whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God Romans 2:17-24
- Paul is talking to Jews:
- You who call yourself Jews (NLT), calling them out to the equivalent of “you who call yourself Christians
- You say you relying on God and are actually tight
- You claim that you know Him and simply because you have been taught His law
- You are convinced that you can guide the blind and you are a light on top of the mountain
- You think you can instruct the ignorant and teach the young ones about God’s ways
- You are certain the God’s law give you some kind of an advantage (Complete knowledge and truth)
- If you teach others, why don’t you teach yourself?
- You tell others not to”
- Steal – but do you steal
- Commit adultery – But do you?
- Condemn idolatry – use stolen items from pagan temples
- You are proud of knowing the law, but you dishonor God by breaking it
- What would Paul write about todays Christians? About you and I
- God what should I speak about?
- What happened?
- What happen to a group that has knowledge, that the Word was not second hand? It was straight from God
- And now they are a group that bringing dishonor to God
- How do they go from thirsting for the Word and knowledge of God to being oblivious?
- How do we go from, being a Christian nation to removing God from every part of our lives?
- A word that is written in their heads and not their hearts
- Head knowledge but lack wisdom – that comes from the Lord
- Proverbs 1:7 (NKJV) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction - Proverbs 8:11-12 (NKJV) For wisdom is better than rubies,
And all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her. 12 “I, wisdom, dwell with prudence(carefulness), And find out knowledge and discretion - Lack of Spiritual growth – if you are not growing, you are dying
- We have to cultivate and allow pruning in our lives to make sure that we are producing fruits
- Pastor Matt said that you got to show fruits, we have to look for fruits – especially fruits of repentance
- We know the Word; we have the Holy Spirit …yet we ignore the nudging of Him
- Pastor Crystal preached spoke about the Word will Excuse you or accuse you
- Paul explains that their conscience (Work of the law that is written in their hearts) is enough to condemn them or justify them (us)
- In this Passage: The Jews in the time of Paul were extremely proud and confident that God gave His Holy law to them as a nation
- Untouchable – Pride and Spiritual pride is one of the most dangerous form of pride
- Their status – How they look, who they associate with/support/ offend
- The more they had the law, the further away from the truth they were going – they worshiped the created not the creator
- Pastor Tim, said some of you don’t need to read another passage /pray more, just need to put in practice what they learnt
- God applies His law to both our actions and our attitudes. Sometimes we only want our attitudes evaluated, and sometimes only our actions. God will hold us accountable for both motives and actions ~ Enduring words
- Remember that God is going to Judge “the real you”
- Homework – Matthew 5:19-48
- Murder is bad – Angry with someone
- Sacrifice – Stop and go reconcile
- Adultery – Don’t look at a woman lustfully
- Who is willing to stand for the truth? (The whole truth and nothing but the truth…so help me God) – not todays truth
- Honor God
- Deuteronomy 6:5-7 (NKJV) You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up
- God knows our hearts and demands Honor and reverential fear
- Numbers 16 – Story of Korah (Sacrifice)
- Acts 5 – Ananias and Sapphira thought they could deceive God and get away with it
- Allow Him to search our hearts – That no undiscovered sin would be ignored
- Take drastic action?
- We were burning stuff the other day
- Within minutes, what had taken long time to build burnt up
- How much more is the refining fire of Christ
- Today, that which you have built up for a long time – can be cleansed as well (drugs, bad habits)
- And also, that which -idols will be destroyed
- 2 Peter 3:12 – But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.[a] Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames.
- Matthew 7:21- 23 ( NKJV) Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
- I will leave you with this – A young man who took a drastic step to honor God and to stop the wrath of God
- The Moab women are seducing the Israelites
- Not only that but, they feasted with them and worshiped their gods
- The anger of the Lord burned against His people
- God ask Moses to grab all the leader and execute them before the Lord in born
- And as they did this ….
- Numbers 25:6-13 (NKJV) Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; 9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
The Lord said to Moses, 11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
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