God’s Perfect Justice
Romans 2:1-16 (May 3, 2020)
Paul is stringently urging people to not judge others for what they are doing themselves.
Paul only addresses repentance four times in his scriptural writings. This may be because he wants the focus on the gospel to be less about attitude and more about action. This is not to dismiss that God knows our hearts. Paul knows that action indicates surrender to God’s will.
Our conscience is not the Holy Spirit living within us. Our conscience is a God-ordained instinct we possess as created beings, independent of our status before God. Even the regenerate is without excuse regarding what is evil and what is righteous. People redefine evil to make it more palatable. But we instinctually know in our hearts when something is evil.
That God will judge the secrets of men indicates God will judge evil thoughts as well as evil deeds. That’s why it is so important for us to guard our hearts and keep our minds on the prize before us while maintaining respect for the fact that we will all stand before God to give an account for ourselves, the saved at the Judgment Seat of Christ and the lost at the Great White Throne of God.
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