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Feb 24, 2019

 

Originally Presented on October 22nd, 2006

Scripture Reading: Romans 2:17-29

The third segment in the first main section of Romans is Romans 2:17-29.  It displays the kind of sinning committed by religious people, with the Jews as the focal point.  To the Jews God gave His Law and this gift was precious.  Because...


Feb 24, 2019

Scripture Reading: Colossians 3:5

Normally when we think of idolatry, images of gold or stone or wood come to mind with people bowing down before them.  The first command in the Ten Commandments prohibited worshiping other gods and the second command prohibited making an image of any god, including an image of the true...


Feb 17, 2019

Originally Presented on October 15th, 2006

Scripture Reading: Romans 2:12-16

In Romans 2:12-16 we have a statement of God's judgment in verse 12 and an elaboration of this judgment in verse 16.  In between these verses we have a parenthetical thought which shows us that God's judgment is right.

In Romans 2:12 the human...


Feb 17, 2019

Scripture Reading: Colossians 3:12-15

Colossians 3:12-17 is the ‘addition’ side of the glory of salvation. The ‘subtraction’ side of the glory of salvation is Colossians 3:5-11. What happened in conversion, positionally, we labor to put into practice, in our living. We are called on in this section to “put to...


Feb 10, 2019

Originally Presented on October 8th, 2006

 Scripture Reading: Romans 2:3-13

This passage is in the middle of the section in Romans which presses the point that all men are guilty and deserving of God's wrath:  the pagan man (Rom 1:18-32), the moral man (Rom 2:1-16), and the Jewish man (Rom 2:17-3:8). 

The chilling...