Recap of Romans 1-4, Part 2 (TMF1519)

Thursday, January 07, 2021
Peace to Live By: Recap of Romans 1-4, Part 2 (TMF1519) - Daniel Litton
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       He has talked about the total depravity of mankind, and how both Jews and Gentiles can be saved from their sins through Jesus Christ. In the midst of all of this Paul has followed a cleverly devised series of arguments that has led us up to our text today. First, Paul explained that people are not righteous, and he listed a whole series of sins to demonstrate that, with the finality of that being the sin of homosexuality. He said that sin showed the total depravity of men and women. Then he argued on behalf of God, demonstrating that God is in fact righteous in his judgment against sin, that he is the holy God. Next he talked about the Jewish man’s relationship with sin and the Law of Moses versus the Gentiles relationship with sin. He spoke of how even though God’s chosen people, the Israelites, were not righteous, God still remained faithful to them. And again, Paul re-emphasized that no person is righteous before God, not the Jew or the Gentile.