1. JUST HOW BAD DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ANYWAY?<br />The Examination! <br />Charles e. Whisnant, Pastor/Teacher July 18, 2010 Romans 2:9-20<br />Paul is talking about SIN and GUILT. And everybody on earth is held accountable before God as GUILTY.<br />Romans 7:24 “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death” is the question.<br />WHO is going to deliver us from the condition of Romans 3:9-18? That is the question to be answered.<br />How do you see SIN? How do you see SIN as being offensive to God?<br />THE SCENE IS IN GOD’S COURT ROOM<br />All people are brought before the Judgment seat of God. God is at the bench rendering a verdict in the case of every person.<br />Paul’s effort is to show the sinfulness of mankind. Final verdict<br /> <br />GUILTY.<br />Romans 3:10-17. Divine statements of the reality of SIN. <br />THE DISPOSITION OF SIN<br />THE DIALOGUE OF SIN <br />THE DEMEANOR OF SIN.<br />The examining room with the x-ray<br />A full examination <br />Romans 2:10-19<br />The character of sin. (disposition) <br />The conversation of sin. (dialogue)<br />The conduct of sin. (demeanor) <br />1A None is righteous<br />2A None Understanding<br />3A None seeks after God.<br />4A None go in the way<br />5A All have become useless. Psa. 14:3<br />6A No one is good and does good.<br />7A THE DISPOSITON (CHARACTER) WILL MANIFEST ITSELF IN HIS DIALOGUE (CONVERSATION.) Matthew 12:35-37, 15:18-19; Psalms 5:9; 140:3; 10:7<br />THE DIALOGUE OF A MAN WILL REVEAL HIS DISPOSITON (CHARACTER.) James 5:3; Proverbs 10:32; 15:2; 15:38<br />8A 13b Tongues uses deceit. Psalms 57:4; 32:2, 36:3; Isa. 59:1-3; Jeremiah 7:3-5.<br />9A The poison of asps. Psa. 140:3<br />10A vs 14. Outside the mouth. Psa 64:3<br />11A vs. 15 THE CONDUCT. Feet are swift to shed blood. <br />12A vs. 16 The mark of human history is misery.<br />13A vs. 17 The way of peace they have not known. Isaiah 59:7-8. <br />14A vs. 18 THE DESCRIPTION OF SIN<br />You have seen the signs of man’s sins, then the purposes, the reason, the motive, then the elements of man’s sinfulness. Vs. 18.<br />They do not fear God. That’s it! Psa. 36:1<br />Why is man bent on doing SIN? SThere is no fear of God in him.<br />No healthy respect for God’s chastening power. Proverbs 16:6 Men depart from evil when they fear God. Acts 5.<br />There is no respect for His person. His work. His will. His Power. His Holiness.<br />Our behavior basic is control by the fear of the conqu. <br />Now pure spiritual maturity is doing out of pure love for the Lord. <br />The key to good behavior is to live to the glory of God.<br />So how can people of the world do what they do? There is no fear of God. <br />They will acknowledge God, but live without any fear of his displeasure. <br />Vs. 19<br />Now we know this, no doubt about this. All men are guilty. All are under the Law. All the world has become guilty before God.<br />God's Righteousness Upheld<br />3:1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. 3 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? 4 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written,<br />“That you may be justified in your words,and prevail when you are judged.”<br />5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.<br />No One Is Righteous<br />9 What then? Are we Jews [1] any better off? [2] No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written:<br />“None is righteous, no, not one;11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;no one does good,not even one.”13 “Their throat is an open grave;they use their tongues to deceive.”“The venom of asps is under their lips.”14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;16 in their paths are ruin and misery,17 and the way of peace they have not known.”18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”<br />19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being [3] will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.<br />by Arthur T. PiersonThis Book, thus one, we are to hold forth as the Word of Life and the Light of God, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. We shall meet opposition. Like the birds that beat themselves into insensibility against the light in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the creatures of darkness will assault this Word, and vainly seek to put out it's eternal light. But they shall only fall stunned and defeated at its base, while it still rises from its rock pedestal, immovable and serene!<br />left0British pastor and theologian, John R.W. Stott wrote in his book, The Cross of Christ, about what happens when we are united with Christ:<br />When we are united to Christ a mysterious exchange takes place: he took our curse, so that we may receive his blessing; he became sin with our sin, so that we may become righteous with his righteousness. . . . On the one hand, God declined to ‘impute’ our sins to us, or ‘count’ them against us, with the implication that he imputed them to Christ instead. On the other, God has imputed Christ’s righteousness to us. . . We ourselves have done nothing of what is imputed to us, nor Christ anything of what is imputed to him. . . . He voluntarily accepted liability for our sins, (pg. 148-149).<br />“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God,” (2 Corinthians 5:21, ESV).<br />