We run into the danger of getting the gospel wrong. The rich text of Romans 3 reminds us of the importance and centrality of the doctrines of imputation and propitiation. It also highlights for us that Jesus in the only way and has always been so.

Scripture Passage: Romans 3:21-31

As Paul exposes the Jews need for heart transformation, each of us must examine our hearts against charges to hypocrisy and determine whether our lives are marked by present obedience to Christ.

Scripture: Romans 2:17 - 3:20

Paul continues to set up the universal need for divine rescue by revealing that even the religious and moral person falls short of the law of God. Paul warns against the temptation toward self-righteousness by reminding us that God is impartial in judgment and the guilt of the law is inescapable.

Scripture: Romans 2:1-16

Paul sets up the universal need for divine rescue by revealing that the wrath of God is against willful sinners for their rejection of the evidence for God and choice to replace God as Creator, ultimately leading God to release those people into the depths of their own sin.

Scripture: Romans 1:18-32

Good news is the heart of Christianity. Good news is the heart of Romans. The gospel is about salvation by grace for everyone for the glory of God.

Scripture: Romans 1

God has called each of us to be doers of His Word, not simply hearers. As we conclude an examination of God's justice, we are exhorted to mirror Christ by modeling Godly Justice toward others every single day.

Godly justice hates oppression, Godly justice destroys oppression, and Godly justice brings hope.

We examine Judah's sins of idolatry and societal corruption which have roused the justice of God, and consider how we can learn from the mistakes in Judah's past so we are not condemned to repeat them ourselves.

What rules your world? People or God? God tells us that life is found in Him and Him alone.

God has brought upon Habakkuk Godly justice through the Chaldeans. Habakkuk prays a prayer where he recalls the character of God and the actions of God to have full confidence in God no matter the circumstance. As we look through the final chapter of the book of Habakkuk we find that through submissive faith in the will of God and knowing who God is, we can know that regardless of the circumstance God is our confidence.