• Review
  • Theme: Salvation by Faith — Rom 1:16-17
  • Need of Salvation: The whole world is lost and guilty
    • The witness of God to the pagan — creation
    • The witness of God to the moralist — conscience
    • The witness of God to the self-righteous Jew — Scripture
• The Text — Rom 3:1-20
  Summary: The world's need of Salvation by Faith
  • Jewish questions and apostolic answers — Rom 3:7-8
    • What advantage has the Jew? — He has the Scripture
    • Because some Jews are without faith, are all the promises of God cancelled? No, the promises are to those who believe
    • Does not the unfaithfulness of man magnify the faithfulness of God? No, God judges unrighteousness
  • The Divine indictment against mankind
    • The Jew not superior to the Gentile — Rom 3:9
    • Both are under sin — Rom 3:9
  • The Divine diagnosis of man —spiritual condition — Rom 3:10-18
    • The universality of the change — Psa 14:1-3
      • Man is universally unrighteous — Rom 3:10-12
        • Depraved — Jer 17:9 — Eph 2:1-3
        • Separated — Jhn 3:36 — Rom 5:10
      • "There is none righteous, no, not one"
      • Man is without spiritual understanding — Rom 3:11A; 1Co 2:14
      • Man does not want God — Rom 3:11B
      • Man is sidetracked — Rom 3:12A
        • Walks in his own way — Isa 53:6; Jhn 14:6
      • Man is unprofitable — Rom 3:12B; Psa 1:4
        • A wasted life — 1Co 13:1-3
      • Man is incapable of doing good — Rom 3:12C
        • Human good
        • Divine good
        • Human goodness cannot atone for sin
    • Further evidence of depravity
      • Sins of the tongue — Rom 3:13-14; Psa 5:9; Psa 140:3; Psa 10:7; Jas 3
        • The throat is an open sepulcher, corruption, vile speech — Rom 3:13
        • The tongue is an organ of deceit — Rom 3:13
        • The lips are disseminators of poison, reservoir of venom — Rom 3:13
        • The mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, pool of ungodliness — Rom 3:14
      • The sins of commission — Rom 3:15-17; Isa 59:7-8
        • The swiftness of evil — feet swift to shed blood
        • Sin's result — destruction and misery Rom 3:16
        • Man is incapable of finding peace — Rom 3:17
        • Root cause is no fear of God — Rom 3:18; Psa 36:1
  • The Divine Conclusion — Rom 3:19-20
    • The binding purpose of the Law — Rom 3:19
      • Condemns
      • Convicts of guilt
      • Shuts our mouth
      • Establishes the whole world is guilty
    • The revealing purpose of the Law — Rom 3:20
      Since man has broken the Law, no amount of effort to keep it can justify

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