June
24th Romans
2 All are inexcusable
1:
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that
judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself;
for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2: But we are sure that
the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit
such things. 3: And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them
which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the
judgment of God? 4: Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and
forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God
leadeth thee to repentance? 5: But after thy hardness and impenitent
heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and
revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6: Who will render to
every man according to his deeds: 7: To them who by patient
continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality,
eternal life: 8: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey
the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9:
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of
the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10: But glory, honour, and
peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to
the Gentile: 11: For there is no respect of persons with God. 12: For
as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and
as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13:
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of
the law shall be justified. 14: For when the Gentiles, which have not
the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having
not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15: Which shew the work of
the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing
one another;) 16: In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men
by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Having
established the fact of sin in the human heart Paul goes on to
establish the truth of the righteous judgment of God. He says men are
without excuse before God because what they say is sin in other
people, becomes the principle in which God will judge them, and God
will judge them of the same sin. The judgment of God will be
truthful. Those who do the very same things that they say are sin
must not think that they will escape the judgment of God. Why do men
despise the richness of the goodness and patience of God? Don’t
they know that the goodness of God should lead men to think again
about how they live in relation to God? But those who turn a deaf ear
to God and refuse to be sorrowful for sin only store up the wrath of
God which will be revealed in the righteous judgment of God, when God
will judge in justice according to every mans deeds. And how will God
render to every man according to his deeds? Those who patiently
continued to do righteous deeds he will render to them glory, honour
and immortality, that is eternal life. But to those who live in
opposition to Gods word and do not obey the truth of God but do
unrighteous deeds he will render to them wrath and righteous
judgment. He will render tribulation and torment on every man that
does evil deeds. He will do this to the Jews first and also to
Gentiles. God does not have any favourites. Those who sin outside the
covenant of Israel will perish outside the covenant but those who sin
according to the law are judged according to the law. (It is not just
those who hear the Law of Moses that are righteous but those who do
it are righteous. Because Gentiles who do not have the Mosaic law,
when they do by nature the things said in the Law they are a law unto
themselves. They show the righteous deeds of the Law written in their
minds. And their conscience either accuses them of excuses them.) The
verses 13-15 are in parenthesis and so verse 16 picks up what was
said in verse 12. Which was…Those who sin outside the law will
perish outside the law but those who sin according to the law are
judged according to the law - on the day when God will judge the
secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Gentiles will
be judged according to conscience but the Jews will be judged
according to Law. Paul in this passage is describing the sinful lives
and judgment of God on men outside of the Grace of God. Those that
are Gentiles will be judged according to their conscience and those
who are Jews will be judged according to the Mosaic Law.
- How does Paul challenge the religious who look down on the most degraded of mankind?
- How will the Lord deal with all men outside of Grace?
- On what principle will God judge men?
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