• The Self-righteous Sin by Judging Others — Rom 2:1
• The Self-righteous Are Lost Because the Judgment of God Is Based on Justice and Truth — Rom 2:1-16
  • God's judgment is just because it is based on His omniscience — Rom 2:1-3
  • God's judgment is just because He gives ample time for repentance — Rom 2:4-5
  • God's judgment is just because it is according to man's works — Rom 2:6-11
    • The nature and end of accepted works — Rom 2:7,10
    • The nature and end of rejected works — Rom 2:8-9
      • Character of the unrighteous
        • Contentious — factions seek their own gain
        • Obey not the truth
        • Obey unrighteousness
      • Condemnation of the unrighteous
        • Wrath
        • Indignation
        • Tribulation
        • Anguish
  • God's judgment is just because it is according to man's response to the light He has — Rom 2:12-16
    • The Gentile and his light of conscience — Rom 2:12-16
    • The Jew and his light given in the Law of God — Rom 2:3,12
  • God's judgment is just because it is according to the Gospel of Christ — Rom 2:16
• The Jew Had Failed — Rom 2:21-29
  • The nature of their failure — Rom 2:21-22
  • They taught one thing and acted another — hypocrites — Mat 23
    • They were thieves — Rom 2:21;Mat 23:14
    • They were adulterers — Rom 2:22
    • They were guilty of sacrilege — Rom 2:22
    • They gained wealth by robbing heathen temples — Act 19:24-27
  • The tragic consequence of their failure — Rom 2:23-24
    They made the Name of God an offense to the Gentiles through their actions. God is always judged by the lives of those who profess to be His people — 2Ti 2:19
  • The cause of their failure — Rom 2:25-29
    • Obedience in the test of reality — Rom 2:25-26
      • Mat 7:21-23
      • Rom 6:14-23
      • Jas 1:22-25
      • 2Ti 3:5 — Having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof
    • Faith and obedience are above the ordinance, sign, liturgy, ritual. An ordinance is a sign; if there is no accompanying personal faith, the sign has no value in us. — Rom 2:26-27
      • The Jew thought circumcision was essential to eternal life
      • Abraham was righteous before circumcision
    • True relationship to God is a matter of the heart — not outward ceremony and ritual — Rom 2:28-29
      The inner man must be transformed by the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit.

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