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A Study of The Book of Romans Lesson 10 Chapter 2:1 – 2 I.
Introduction A. Chapter 2 begins where Chapter 1 stopped. 1.
Paul ended chapter 1 with describing man as totally depraved. 2.
Not just a certain people but all of mankind. Romans 3:10-12 “As it is written, There is none righteous, no,
not one: (11.)There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
after God. (12.) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” 3.
No man ever outside of Jesus Christ has ever on his own been worth anything
to God. B. Human Nature will disagree, however we are
all the same in the flesh, totally depraved. II.
Verse 1 “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man,
whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
things.” A. “Therefore” - for which cause or since man is totally depraved,
and since there is nothing good in us, and since without Christ Jesus we are
all deserving and going to hell, we have nothing about us to brag about or
accuse another. B. “...thou art inexcusable...” - without excuse – This word is the same
one used in Romans 1:20 "For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that
are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without
excuse:" Paul said in Galatians 5:3 "For I testify again
to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole
law." Therefore if we break one law we are guilty of all. The best of us
is just as bad as the worst of us in God's eye's
without Christ Jesus. C. “...whosoever
thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
things.” 1. The word “
whosoever” means all or the whole, it includes all of mankind from
Adam on. Jew or Gentile it does not matter. 2. Who are you to judge another? Is
anyone in the flesh better than another. The Lord
Jesus said Matthew 7:2 “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” It would
be like a murder judging another murder. To judge another is to presume that
you have nothing to be judged in yourself. 3. Matthew 7:3 "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" 4. Life Application Bible
Commentary - “Paul's accusation cannot be missed. Whenever we find
ourselves feeling justifiably angry about someone's sin, we should be
careful. We need to speak out against sin, but we must do so with a spirit of
humility. Often the sins we notice most clearly in others are the ones that
have taken root in us. If we look closely at ourselves, we may find that we
are committing the same sin. The unrighteous excuse themselves while
condemning others. The truly righteous overlook faults in others but try to
see their own faults.” III. Verse 2 “But we are sure that the judgment of God is
according to truth against them which commit such things. A. What is
meant by the “judgment of God” is after death. The saved and the lost will be
judged after death. 1. Man judges by
mans laws and sometimes prejudice and partial perception, but never in
absolute truth. 2. Life Application Bible
Commentary - “God's judgment is based on the truth—he judges on the basis
of the facts about what we do. We only know in part, but God knows fully.
Whereas our judgment of others is imperfect and partial, his is perfect and
impartial.” 3. God will judge sin for what it is,
whether Jew of Gentile we will all be judged with no respect of person's. 4. Romans 2:21 "Thou
therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou
that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou
steal?" 5.
James 4:12 "There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to
destroy: who art thou that judgest another?" B. “the
judgment of God is according to truth” God knows the facts, He knows the
truth, and He knows the hidden things. 1. Zephaniah 1:14-18
"The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth
greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry
there bitterly. (15.) That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and
distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day
of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, (16.) A day
of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high
towers. (17.) And I will bring distress upon men, that
they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD:
and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
(18.) Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in
the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire
of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that
dwell in the land.” 2. Matthew 12:36 "But I
say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give
account thereof in the day of judgment." 3. Matthew 11:24 "But I
say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the
day of judgment, than for thee." |