Moving
on into Romans 2:1-11, 12-16, 17-24, 25-29
“Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that
judgest: for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you
that judges do the same things (having
an evil heart from which there is no understanding).
But
we are sure that the judgment of God is according to Truth against
them which commit such things. And think
you this, O man, that judge them which do such things, and do the
same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?
Or despise you the riches of His goodness and forbearance and
longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to
repentance? But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasures up
against yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to
his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for
glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: But to them (here
is where we pick up on the self-rightous of verse 3 above)
that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon
every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the
Gentile; But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that works good,
to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of
persons with God.
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; (For
not the hearers of the Law are
just before God, but the doers of the Law shall be justified. 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 to
themselves: Which show the work of the Law written in their hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness (see Jeremiah 31:31-34), and
their
thoughts
the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day
when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to
my gospel. (the
law here spoken of is the revelation of Christ and the resistance of
all mankind to HIM for in
Jeremiah 31:33 He
says this,
“The LORD states, I will put My law in their inward parts, and
write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My
people.” This is not replacement theology because of what Genesis
12:3 states about those who will trust God as Abaraham and then Isaac
trusted because this is repeated again in the blessing of Isaac. And is all inclusive of those of the nations.)
Behold,
you are called a Jew, and restest in the Law, and makest your boast
of God, and (say
that you)
know His
Will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being
instructed out of the Law; And are confident that you yourself are a
guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an
instructor (corrector) of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which have the form of
knowledge and of the truth in the law. You therefore which teach
another, teach you not yourself? You that preach a man should not
steal, do you steal? You that say a man should not commit adultery,
do you commit adultery? you that abhor idols, do you commit
sacrilege? You that make your boast of the Law, through breaking the
Law dishonor you God? For the name of God is blasphemed among the
Gentiles through you, as it is written. (looking to Isaiah we find
this in Isaiah
29:13-14
“Wherefore
the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth,
and with their lips do honor Me, but have removed their heart far
from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the precept (the
traditions)
of men:” Therefore this is also what He states against them in the
very next verse, “Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, a marvellous work and a wonder:
for the wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the understanding of
their prudent shall be hid.” )
For
circumcision verily profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a
breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law,
shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? And shall
not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge
you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law? For he
is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is
that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is
a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is
of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is
not
of men, but of God.”
The
Law of Moses has no provision in it for rependence, all of its powers
are based on the conviction of offences against it and its penalties. Form which no one can
escape.
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