Date: 7/23/23

By: Elder Steven Morris

Text: Romans 2:6-10

Outline:

I. Principles (doctrine/truth)

A. Main point: Only those who do/practice according to God’s righteous/just law will be just-ified by God in the coming day of judgment. (13b, 16)

1. Corollary: Those who merely have/hear/honor God’s law but do not obey it/ Him will not be justified in God’s sight in the coming day of judgment (13a, 16)

B. All people(s), both Jews & Gentiles, “have sinned” and fallen short of God’s glory by failing, to a greater or lesser degree, to follow/obey the light God gave them. (12, 14-15)

1. Gentiles “have sinned….without God’s codified law but “are a law unto themselves”, having the “work of the law” written on their hearts and their conscience to discern.

2. Jews “have sinned….in God’s codified law/covenant”, in addition to having the work of the law written on their hearts and their conscience to discern.

C. God’s judgment will be altogether righteous (12, 16)

1. It will be conducted by Jesus Christ, the Righteous Judge

2. It will include/expose all the secrets of men,

3. It will account for the light people have received and the kind/degree in which people “have sinned” (12, 16)

II. Practices (application)

A. We must live our lives day by day with the final judgment in view

1. Holy fear

2. Hope-full, happy faith working through love

B. We must work to develop and keep a “good” conscience before God so that we will judge rightly what pleases God.

1. Clean/pure conscience

2. Informed/discerning conscience

3. Tender conscience