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ROMANS – LESSON TWO

I. THE JEWS’ NEED OF THE GOSPEL (2:1-29)

A. Practicing the same things which you condemn in others will not excuse you before God just because you are a Jew      (2:1-3).

B. Every man will be judged according to his own works – God is no respect of persons (2:4-11).

1. Eternal life: for those patient in well doing – Jew or Gentile.

2. God’s wrath and indignation: for those who are factious and obey not the truth – Jew or Gentile.

C. Doers of Law are justified – not hearers only (v.12-16).

1. Gentiles condemned when they did not live up to the law they were under.

2. Jews condemned when they did not live up the Law of Moses.

D. The Jews’ glory in being Jews and resting on having the Law of Moses only adds to their condemnation when they      disobey the Law (2:17-29).

1. Uncircumcised Gentiles condemn the Jews when they obey the Law and the Jews transgress it.

2. The Jew is one because of the inward circumcision of the heart – in the spirit not in the letter.

QUESTIONS:

1. Why are those who condemn others condemned by God?

2. In the context of chapter 2, who might these who condemn others be?

3. What two qualities help describe the “goodness” of God?

4. The revelation of the righteous judgment of God will also be the day of __________________.

5. Describe the two destinies of man?

6. Describe the two types of people that will go to these two destinies?

7. If one merely hears the law of God, he will be justified before God?

8. What fallacy is one building upon regarding the character of God if he condemns

others and practices the same thing?

9. Who had sinned “without the law”?  How could they sin, in light of the truth found in Romans 4:15?

10. Who had sinned “under the law”?

11. What did the Gentiles do “by nature”?

12. What does the conscience in man do?

13. The Jews who lived and died under the Law of Moses will be judged by the gospel of Christ. (T) (F).

14. Why were the Jews more culpable before God than the Gentiles ?

15. How can the word of God be blasphemed among unbelievers in our day?

16. How do people commit “sacrilege” today?

17. When we break God’s law, we ____________________ God.  When we refuse to submit to the gospel of Christ,         we ________________ the Lord.

18. Who has always been the true Jew before God?

19. What is being distinguished in the contrast of “letter” and “spirit”?