Romans 3:1-20
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Romans chapter 3
1 So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2 Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.
3 What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?
4 Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written: That You may be justified in Your words and triumph when You judge.
5 But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?
6 Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?
7 But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8 And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!
9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,
10 as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one.
11 There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away; all alike have become useless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one.
13 Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips.
14 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,
17 and the path of peace they have not known.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.
20 For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
In Today’s passage Paul writes some questions and then answers them.
He starts by saying what advantage is it to be a Jew or to be circumcised? What is the point?
In today’s passage I have this visual image in my head that the Jewish believers are sign holding. Not literally but its almost if they are bragging about having the law.
We have the law, we have the law, look at the law, it was given to us, we have the law.
The very thing that they are bragging about is the thing that actually condemning them.
In honor of fathers day, I thought to illustrate this point by pointing out some obvious parenting things that I seen on facebook.
washing baby
checking baby’s diaper
Introducing baby to pets
Shopping with baby
bundling baby
Exercising baby
containing baby
Drying baby
making baby smile
Can you imagine if I was teaching a parenting class and I was serious about these? You would think this guy has no business being a parent. These things are obvious when it comes to parenting.
So the Jews are holding up the Law and saying we are God’s chosen people. We are circumcised and they are not. We are the ones. We are better than the Gentiles. As they hold up the law, it is the law that is making them guilty and in need of Jesus.
1 So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2 Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.
Entrusted: they were the ones that are to deliver the word of God to others. They are the messengers. Not just the written words but the spoken words that were passed down from generation to generation to the nations.
3 What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?
4 Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written: That You may be justified in Your words and triumph when You judge.
4 Against You—You alone—I have sinned and done this evil in Your sight. So You are right when You pass sentence; You are blameless when You judge.
David in his sin with Bathsheba and the killing of her husband Uriah he says God is in the right when I messed up.
The Word of God
Inspired: we mean that God is its definitive author.
While God used human beings to record his words, it is God himself who is behind what they wrote. God didn’t just inspire the big ideas behind the Bible, but the very words of Scripture.
To be clear, we don’t believe these human writers became like robots or fell into a trance and mindlessly penned God’s message. God breathed out His message, moving them along, to record what He wanted, yet without making them something less than human agents.
Inerrant: we mean God used these human authors to pen exactly what God wanted, without any mixture of error.
God used these men – with all of their personalities, their writing styles, their accumulated vocabularies, their life experiences, their illustrations and metaphors – to express His message, as He wanted it, yet without error. In this way, the Bible has a dual-authorship: God and man. Yet we recognize it is God himself who is behind the Bible’s message and authority.
Infallible: we mean that God’s Word is incapable of error.
Because God is perfect, so is His revelation of himself. God’s Word will accomplish exactly what God wants it to, “My word that comes from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do” (Isa. 55:11).
What we believe about God and what we believe about the Bible are intertwined and cannot be separated. What we know about God comes from the Bible. Scripture says God cannot lie (Heb. 6:18). If the Bible is God’s Word to us, and if He cannot lie, then His Word also must be incapable of error.
5 But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?
6 Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?
7 But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8 And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!
The security of the believer and “once saved always saved” or using your salvation to live a sinful life.
9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,
10 as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one.
11 There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away; all alike have become useless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one.
13 Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips.
14 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,
17 and the path of peace they have not known.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
These are Old Testament scriptures and who were they written to? They were written to believers.
19 Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.
20 For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
This passage Screams this word as believers
Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Humility)
HUMILITY :The personal quality of being free from arrogance and pride and having an accurate estimate of one’s worth.
The sharing of the gospel is described by D.T. Niles as
One beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.