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Last week Paul concluded with the phrase “whose damnation is just” speaking of those who accused Paul of preaching a Gospel which say let us do evil that good may come.
The legalist of Paul’s time accused Paul by saying that his gospel gave people liberty to sin.
“There is a sense in which the doctrine of justification by faith only is a very dangerous doctrine; dangerous, I mean, in the sense that it can be misunderstood.
It exposes a man to this particular charge.
People listening to it may say, ‘Ah, there is a man who does not encourage us to live a good life, he seems to say that there is no value in our works, he says that ‘all our righteousness are as filthy rags.’
Therefore what he is saying is that it does not matter what you do, sin as much as you like.’ . . .
There is thus clearly a sense in which the message of “justification by faith only” can be dangerous, and likewise with the message that salvation is entirely of grace. . . .
I say therefore that if our preaching does not expose us to that charge and to that misunderstanding, it is because we are not really preaching the gospel.”
~David Martyn Lloyd-Jones~
If Paul was misunderstood in this way then we should not think it strange when we are.
Paul began this chapter with the question “What advantage then hath the Jew?” to which he answers “much every way” and then proceeds to tell us of their advantage in that the oracles of God were committed unto them.
The question we then find in verse 9 is very much the same.
What then? are we better than they?”
His answer here seems to contradict his answer in verse 2.
He says “No in no wise” Yes they had the advantage of the scriptures the Law and profits, that the messiah came from the Jews but they have no advantage in their spiritual condition before God.
All Are Under Sin
Are we better than they?
Paul ask.
That is are we Jews better than the Gentiles in as far as God’s favour is concerned?
The answer “No in no wise”
Both Jews And Gentiles have this in common.
We are all under sin.
Regardless of the advantages that God gave to the Jews their condition before God is no different to the Gentiles.
Paul uses the first 3 chapters to make this point
This doctrine is known as the Total Depravity of Mankind.
Why is this doctrine so important?
Why would Paul spend so much time driving this point home?
The truth about our total depravity prepares the way for grace.
You can’t truly sing “amazing grace how sweet the sound” until you can first sing “that saved a wretch like me.”
After giving the conclusion of the last two chapters Paul begins quoting several scriptures from Ecc Ps.
Isa.
all strung together to support his statement.
total depravity, wretched, hopeless, helpless, lost, wicked, enemies of God.
Such is the state of mankind.
I’m convinced that even Christ death on the cross would be of no benefit to anyone described in these verses unless the Father actively draws them to Christ.
In this state on depravity we don’t even realise that anything is wrong and we don’t even seek God.
Now God gave His perfect Law to the world described here.
But what good could laws do for a world that was so depraved that they don’t even seek God.
One this is for certain, it was not so that they might be made righteous by the works of Law.
No One Is Justified by Works
Paul tells us the purpose of the Law.
So the law was never given as a solution for our disobedience.
It was given to condemn us.
It was given so that our sin might appear sin.
To stop every mouth from boasting in our self-righteousness.
So that we would be guilty before God.
So Paul concludes “therefore by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight” It alway had to be by grace because works was never an option for us.
In chapter 11 Paul is speaking about Israel saying that God has not cast away Israel but that there is a remnant.
So why is it that we receive this grace unto justification yet we still try to live this new life through the the works of the Law?
Now that I’m a Christian I must do this or I must stop doing that.
We try through will power to conform ourselves into what we have contrived in our minds to be the perfect Christian.
In the church in Galatia this image of the perfect Christian was to be the perfect Jew.
So the Jews had convinced the Gentile believers that they now had to keep the Law.
I believe that this can equally apply to us.
we will not have victory over sin in our life through the work of the flesh.
That is, I will never succeed in overcoming sin buy trying with all my might.
Our sanctification is by grace through faith in the Spirit.
I promises you this, when sin is overcome in your life in this way you will not have to exercise great will power in battling to not sin, you will not have a desire for that sin.
You will also not be able to boast in overcoming because it was not you but Christ in you.
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