day we thank you for your mercy
and your grace we ask that you would not only bless the reading
of your word as we read it together but bless this time as we break
the bread of life and share your word what it says about your
son and what he's done for his people and we give you praise
in Jesus name we pray amen okay so my title this morning is God's
truth every man's lie. From Romans chapter 3 verses
1 through 20. So we're gonna read now. P.S. you guys, I can see you on the
screen. Let me know if you can hear me okay. Hopefully everything's
working out fine. All right, Romans chapter 3 verses
1 through 20. What advantage then hath the
Jew? Or what profit is there in circumcision? much every way
chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of
God. For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief
make the faith of God without effect? God forbid, yea, let
God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written, that thou mightest
be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou
art judged. But if our unrighteousness commend
the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous
who taketh vengeance? I speak as a man. God forbid,
for then how shall God judge the world? For if the truth of
God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet
am I also judged as a sinner? And not rather, as we slanderously
reported, and as some affirm that we say, let us do evil that
good may come, whose damnation is just. What then, are we better
than they? No, in no wise. For we have before
proved, both Jews and Gentiles, that they're all under sin. Okay,
that means all of mankind, everybody, are under sin. As it is written,
there is none righteous, no, not one. There's none that understandeth,
there's none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of
the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good,
no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher.
With their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of asps
is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed
blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways. And the way
of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before
their eyes. Now we know that what things
soever the law sayeth, it sayeth to them who are under the law,
that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become
guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law, there shall no flesh be justified in the sight. For by
law, the law is the knowledge of sin. All right, so moving
on to our first point. As I said earlier, the title
is God's Truth and Every Man's Lie. As we've been going through this
series, we're learning a lot about mankind. Paul went to Rome
and he's telling the Christians, the believers at Rome, that the
wrath of God is upon fallen man, especially unregenerate man,
and then reprobate man, reprobates or non-elect, all right? So he explains that how God is
just in his wrath against mankind. But at the same time, he's also
saying, hey, God is gracious, because when we go back to chapter
one, He tells them, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for
it's the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it,
to the Jew first and also to the Greek. So Paul's telling
everybody that there's none good. And I was telling you guys last
week that I was segueing into chapter three, how Paul proves
this. So he starts off by saying, what
advantage What advantage has the Jew? You know, what good
is it being a Jew, right? We know that God's true, and
men are liars, because it says that in verse four of chapter
three, God forbid, yea, let God be true, but every man a liar,
as it's written, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings,
and mightest overcome when thou art judged. I want you to turn
to Psalm 51 really fast, because that verse right there that Paul
quoted, It's from Psalm 51. And that is verse 4. So David
says in that Psalm, this is when Nathan the prophet came to him
after he had his mighty man of valor Uriah the Hittite killed
because he slept with Uriah's wife Bathsheba and she got pregnant
they ended up losing the baby but anyways Nathan came to him
and told him what he did so then David said In verse three, I
acknowledge my transgressions and my sin as ever before thee.
Against thee, thee only have I sinned and done this evil in
thy sight, that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest
and be clear when thou judgest. So when God judges a man, any
man, he judges rightly. I had spoken earlier in this
series how, as believers, we judge people as well, but we
rightly judge them. We don't make a quick judgment
decision based on what we see, there's always something behind
every story. And that's why it's important
to know. But as far as when it comes to sin and righteousness,
all of us, this is what Paul's talking about in these chapters
in Romans, that there's none good. That's why he says later
on down in verse 10, there's none good, there's none righteous,
no, not one. And in the Psalms, for example, in Psalm 14, we'll
go there real quick, he says, Let's read a few verses. Psalm
14, the fool has said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt. They have done
abominable works. There is none that doeth good.
So Paul is repeating this in chapter 3 of Romans. He says,
we're going back to Psalm 14, the Lord looked down from heaven
upon the children of men. to see if there were any that
could understand and seek God. Okay, this is David, the sweet
psalmist of Israel, right? A man after God's own heart.
He's explaining man standing before God because of their nature,
their fallen nature. He says, they're all gone aside.
They are all together become filthy. There's none that do
it good, no, not one. So Paul's repeating this in verse
four. He's telling us also that God
is the only one that's true. Jesus said when Thomas wanted
to see the Father, Jesus said, if you've seen the Father, you've
seen me. And he goes, well, how are we going to know the way?
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. So we know
that everything God does is truth. It's according. That's part of
his nature, who he is. He's all-knowing, which is omniscient. He's all-present, which is omnipresent. And he's, let's see. all-powerful
which is omnipotent all right so we know that God God's God's
truth is is the truth you know Jesus said I'm the way the truth
in the life right but man man's a liar men are liars we're all
lies I'm a liar too So when I share the scripture with you, it's
only because I have a different standing before God than I did
before, because I've been born again, I've been regenerated.
So Christ, His righteousness has been imputed to me. That's
the only thing that causes me to differ than anybody else.
I do all the same things that unsaved men do only I have a
covering I mean that doesn't mean that I should do it because
Paul Paul goes on to say it later on in verse 8 he's saying you
know verse 7 start verse 7 forth the
truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory
why yet I also judge as a sinner and not rather as we be slanderously
reported and as some affirm that we say let us do evil that good
may come whose damnation is just so people that are doing evil
things that are that are not saved their damnation is just
that means God's he's already judged them and then he's going
to judge them later on right so to continue I'm gonna try
to get through these 20 verses, but I may not, so we may have
to continue later on down the road. God's true. I'm explaining
that and sharing it with you right now. Everything he does
is true. If we go back to the Old Testament, to the book of
Numbers, chapter 23, this is one of my favorite scriptures
because the Lord opens a donkey's mouth and talks to this false
prophet named Balaam. And Balaam was hired by a king
of Moab, Balak, and he told him to curse Israel. And he tried
to, but the Lord wouldn't let him. So we go to verse 19 of
chapter 23 of Numbers. The Spirit of the Lord came upon
him to cause him to say the truth, to speak the truth at that time.
And he says, God is not a man that he should lie. neither the
son of man that he should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not
do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall
he not make it good? So everything God says is true,
and everything that he does is done in truth. That's just something
that a fallen man can't understand. And even men that are born again,
a lot of times, it's a mystery to us what we
don't understand. Scripture even says in Deuteronomy
29, 29, the secret things belong to the Lord. So we know that
everything God does, He does it in truth. I had mentioned
earlier how Jesus told Thomas, I'm the way, the truth, and the
life. I'll give you one more verse about God and Him being
true. Let's go to Hebrews chapter six,
verses 17 through 18. And that says, wherein God willing
more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise. These are
his people, the believers, those he's chosen in Christ from eternity. They realize in time, in their
lifetime, that God has saved them. Why? Because they hear
the gospel. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God, right?
So it says, wherein God willing more abundantly to show unto
the heirs of promise the immutability of his, that's a tough word,
the immutability of his counsel. Right? Confirmed it by a note
that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for
God to lie. God can't lie. You know? Balaam
said it. God's not a man that he should
lie. Paul is telling us in Hebrews. I believe Paul wrote Hebrews.
There's arguments, but I'm not worried about it. It's still
the Word of God. It is the Word of God. Okay? It's impossible
for God to lie. So as a result of that, his people,
we have a strong consolation. So we know that God doesn't lie,
right? But men are liars. You know,
everything we do, for the most part, It could be a lie. I mean, sometimes
we do things that are the truth, but as far as the natural man
and saying the things that he does makes him right before God,
such as praying, going to church, giving, helping others, that's
not righteous. The only righteousness that has
ever caused man to stand upright before God is Christ. He's the
Lord, our righteousness, right? So going to our next point, what
advantage has the Jew? Paul starts off in chapter three
by asking, hey, how is a Jew any better? What kind of, what do they have? What sort
of advantage do they have? Well, he tells us a lot. He says, but he also says what
profit is there in circumcision. So he's gonna show us how the
Jews had some of an advantage, so to speak. But what did it
do in the end? He says, much every way, chiefly
because unto them were committed the oracles of God. In other
words, the Jews, God chose them out of all the nations on the
earth, not because they were bigger, but to show his might
through them. And in the Old Testament, when
God chose Israel as his people, he called Abraham Abram out of
Ur of the Chaldees. Later on down the road, they
were called the Jews in the Hebrews. But as far as their advantage,
yeah, they had They had the word, they had the scripture. Men began
calling on the name of the Lord when Adam was still alive. And
we saw that Abel knew God because he offered a right sacrifice.
He understood that there had to be bloodshed. So, but the
modern, the national Jew, the Hebrews, they thought that they
were better than everybody else. That's why in Christ's days,
he said, he was talking about his neighbor, and he gave an
example about, you know, Jews, Levites, you know, priests, how
that there was a Samaritan who was ill, and these guys went
right by him, because they didn't have anything to do with him.
When he talked to the woman at the well, She said, hey, we don't
interact with the Jewish people. We worship on a different mountain.
He told her, you don't even know what you worship. So the Jews
thought they had a lot of advantages. They thought they had it all,
but really they didn't. They had the letter, but they
didn't all have the spirit of God, right? So in verse one,
Paul says, what advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit
is there in circumcision? Circumcision, we know, is the
practice of cutting off the tip of the flesh on a male's reproductive
organs. And it also represented the shedding
of blood. So the Jews who were after Christ,
they were called the Judaizers, they were telling people, for
example, in the book of Galatians, they were telling people, hey,
yeah, we know that it's grace through faith, but they were
adding a work, but you have to be circumcised or it's no good. So Paul's saying, hey, what profit
is there of circumcision? He's telling them, and it's not
about circumcision. We had read last week in verse
29 of chapter two, how, It says, He is not a Jew which is one
outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is in the flesh. But He's
a Jew which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the
heart and the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is
not of men but of God. So we know that circumcision
didn't profit them. They had the scriptures, they
had the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments that Moses gave them. That didn't
help them. I mean, God knows who His people
are, and He knows how to save them. He saves them the same
way. He says, I'm the Lord, I change not. So, when He saves a person,
He grants them faith in regeneration. And it's not something they already
had, it's a gift. We're saved by grace through
faith, not of works, lest any man boast. It's a gift of God,
right? Okay, so, what advantage did the Jew have? They had none.
What profit was there in circumcision? There was none. Let's look at
verse 1. Let's look at 2.25. For circumcision
verily profiteth if thou keep the law. In other words, you
say you're a Jew. You say you need to be circumcised.
Well, that means you're bound to the law, right? Do you keep
the law? Paul's saying, no, you're breaking the law. So your circumcision
is made uncircumcision. Basically, it don't do you no
good to be circumcised, right? And verse 29, I had read it earlier. He's a Jew who's one. inwardly
circumcision is that of the heart and in the spirit and not in
the letter we know that Paul said later on in Corinthians
the the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life because I
mean the Jews the Pharisees the Sadducees that the regular Orthodox
normal Jew even the Jews today that go to synagogue you know
on Saturdays they they they have scripture they have the word
but there's a veil over their face when these scriptures are
read because God hasn't He hasn't opened their eyes yet. The seeing
eye and the hearing ear, it's the Lord who's created them both.
So there is no profit in being a Jew. There's no advantage.
And there's no profit in circumcision. Circumcision is an outward sign. Circumcision teaches a man to
look back at the law. And Christ had already established
The New Covenant. And He did that in the New Testament.
It's in His body and in His blood. So instead of looking to Christ
by faith, which is a gift, they're looking to the Law. And people
still do that. They say, if you do all these things, if you progress
in your sanctification, if you progress in your holiness, if
you get better. But we still live in our natural
body. The outer man's perishing. The
inner man is being renewed. And being renewed, we grow in
the knowledge and grace of God. We're not being made into a new
person. It's our standing. You know,
like we go before a judge. We go before him guilty and condemned.
Christ steps in as our mediator, our surety, and our substitute.
and he takes our sin upon him, just like Adam's sin was imputed
to all men. In other words, all of us are
sinners because of the fall. God's people are considered righteous
because of what Christ has done on their behalf. Okay, so we
know that being a Jew doesn't profit you, being circumcised
doesn't profit you, and in spite of all this, men still lie. Paul
says in chapter one that these people, They suppress the truth
in unrighteousness. Let me see where it is in that
verse. That's verse 18. For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
hold the truth in unrighteousness. You know, a lot of people, you
know, creation gives evidence of God and God's put eternity
in men's hearts. We still want to do something,
whether it's the man that came to Christ and said, good master,
what must I do? Or the Philippian jailer who
asked Paul and Silas in Acts 16, what must I do? What must
I do to be saved? People think the same thing.
I remember hearing stuff early on in my religious days before
God granted me repentance, and it was all about Hey, what does
a person have to do to get saved? They would take you to Romans
chapter 10. It's called the Romans Road of Salvation. You believe
on the Lord, you raise your hand, you come to the altar, you make
a decision, you confess you're a sinner, repent of your sins,
and you accept Christ. But that's not how it happens.
Christ reveals himself in a sinner and changes their status and
he grants them repentance so that they no longer look to what
they do, but they look to what he has done for them on their
behalf. So I showed you in chapter 3, verse 4, how God says, God
forbid, yea, let God be true, but every man a liar. So men
are liars when it comes to Christianity, and for the most part, their
salvation. If it's something that they do,
that's called a work. But if it's not, if it's not a work,
it's grace. And Paul, Paul develops that
more. He says, either it's a works
and not, it can't be a both. Either it's grace and all grace
and no works, or it's works and no grace. you know, Paul emphatically
declares that we're saved by grace through faith. And men
say that. They say it a lot, especially religious men. They say, yeah, grace, you know,
faith alone, Christ alone, Scripture alone, you know, the glory of
God alone. But yet they turn around and
in the back door they sneak in and say, that's what the Judaizers
were doing. And Paul was saying in Romans
3, they're saying, oh no, you Galatians, we know it's by faith,
but you have to be circumcised. And nowadays, the big thing that
men tell you is, yeah, you're saved by grace through faith,
but you have to progress in your sanctification. How can I get
better and better when Christ is my sanctification? In other
words, He's everything to me. He's my all. He's my righteousness.
He's my justification. He's my sanctification. People
are saying, oh no, it's different. We know that you're justified,
but you're not sanctified. Well, if I'm in Christ, and if
He's in me, Christ in you, the hope of glory, how can I How
can I be any more in Him than I already am? It doesn't work
that way. Okay, so don't be fooled by this
thing. So now going to my next point, you know, after I shared
with you, well, let me actually go back and develop that a little
bit more. Let's go to Psalm 62, verse nine. And it says, surely men of low
degree are vanity. And men of high degree are a
lie. So, I mean, you go from the bottom of the pole to the
top. The pecking order, right? Like,
we see people that way. You know, you have your dirt poor people. We even call people from other
countries that aren't like the United States a third world country.
As if we're a first world country or something. We're better. We're
no better than them. I mean, yeah, we have it. We
seem to be living a lot more comfortably in the United States
than someone in another country that we don't really know the
name of that country or know where it's at, but they're really
poor. And then we see commercials on TV about starving people all
over the world and won't you help them? And that doesn't mean
we're any better than them. So the psalmist says, surely
men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a
lie. And if you put them all together, to be laid together
into balance, they're all together lighter than vanity. I mean,
they're nothing. You know, the whole earth, we're
nothing before God because He's the sovereign of the universe,
right? So also look at, we did verse,
Psalm 69. We'll stop there on that point
because I think I might have had my notes mixed up. So going on to our next point,
after we started off with God's truth and every man's lie, which
is the title, we showed how God is true, then we're showing you,
hey, what advantage is it for the Jew? Are you any better than
someone because you're circumcised? No, none of us are any better.
It's only grace that causes a man to differ, and that's God's decision,
because He's sovereign. So, in light of this, how is
God gonna judge the world? Because He's gonna judge the
world. Going back to Romans chapter three, verse six, it says, God
forbid, for then how shall God judge the world? God's gonna
judge the world. I mean, he already has, in essence.
He knows the end from the beginning, we don't. But we're sharing the
gospel with people, knowing, not hoping, knowing that all
of God's people are gonna be saved as they hear it. But we're
praying and hoping that some of those people are our loved
ones, our family members, our coworkers, our friends, you know,
people that we come across in our daily life and their daily
life. So God's going to judge the world in righteousness. Let's
go to Romans 1 verse 32. Paul says, Paul gave a list,
and as I said earlier, it wasn't an exhaustive list of all of
the things, the sins that men commit. You know, like fornication, homosexuality,
drunkenness, murder, covetousness, maliciousness, debate, deceit,
malignity, whispers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud,
boasters, inventors of evil things, and disobedient to parents. Take
that one, you know. All of these things that Paul's
telling us. He's saying, hey, God is gonna
judge the world. And he's a righteous judge, right? So it's not going
to be like we hear a lot in our day in the media how these men
and women do some horrible, crazy things to their fellow man and
they get away with it. Like there's even a show, How to Get Away
with Murder, right? People are killing other people and they're
getting away with it. We know that God is going to
judge the world, and He's going to judge it in righteousness.
And everything that happens here on earth, God sees it all. The whole creation is naked in
His sight. So He's going to judge the world, and He's going to
judge it in righteousness. So we see in verse 2, we're sure
that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit
such things. And I gave you just a few of
the things that Paul had listed in Romans chapter 1. Then he
says in the next verse, So you're saying, hey, don't murder, but
then you're murdering, right? But because you get away with
it, you think you're above the law, right? But that's not the
case. And God's going to judge the
world. He's going to judge it in righteousness. Let's go to
verse 6. "...who will render to every
man according to his deeds." So everyone's accountable. We're
accountable for everything we do and say. But if we're covered,
if we have a covering, if we're covered by the blood of Christ,
we're justified. We're sanctified. We're glorified
in Him. So Paul says, hey, who is it
that will lay any charge against God's elect? It's Christ that
died. Yea, He's risen and He justified
us by the atoning sacrifice before the foundation of the world and
as well as at Calvary. So we know God's going to judge the
world. Let's see, verse 9, of man that doeth evil, of the
Jew first and also the Gentile. All people. God's going to judge
the world. Now this time when we use the
word world, it means everybody in the world. I mentioned before
a while back how we have to read scripture in its context. Right? People say God loves the world,
but the world God loves in that scripture in John 3.16 are the
world of His elect. Otherwise, you'd have to take
out every scripture that says God hates anybody or anyone,
right? For example, Malachi, Jacob have
I loved, Esau have I hated. He can't love the whole world,
right? He says in the Proverbs, I hate
workers of iniquity, people that do evil. When men come to Jesus,
I believe it's in Matthew 7, they say, hey, Lord, Lord, we
did all these things in your name. He tells them, depart from
me. You workers of iniquity, I do not know you. So God does
not love the whole world, and we have to constantly tell men
that. We have to tell them the truth,
we have to rightly divide the truth, and then we share it,
knowing that God's going to save His people. I don't save anybody,
you don't save anybody, we don't save anybody. We might sow by
witnessing to somebody or sharing the gospel with them, but it's
God. He's the one that does it. He's the one that saves a man.
Salvation is of the Lord. That's Jonah 2, 9. And in verse
16 it says, In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men
by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. And I had said last
week how the gospel is the gospel God's It's God's gospel, but
also it's his people's gospel as well. Excuse me, my nose is
a little runny. Okay, so let's go to our next
sub-point. Remember I was telling you earlier
how Paul said, hey, should we do evil? Because there's a lot
of people that say, excuse me, If you don't progress in your
sanctification, or in your holiness, or if you don't live by the law,
the Ten Commandments, that's man's rule of life. No, the law
that we live by is a law of liberty in Christ. We love the Lord,
and we love our neighbor as ourself. But he goes on to say, love the
Lord with all of your heart, mind, soul, and might. And no
one can do that. And no one can love their neighbor
as himself. A lot of people don't love themselves. A lot of people
don't love their neighbors. So we have to understand what
the scripture says. And we have to rightly divide
it. So should we do evil? Paul says, God forbid. In verse
six, it says, God forbid. You know, he says in verse five,
you know, let's go. No, I'm sorry, verse eight. And
not rather, as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm
that we say. So people are saying, oh, yeah, they say that where
sin abounds, grace abounds that much more. Paul says it later
on in his book of Romans, right? And so people say, well, we can
sin because where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. So in
other words, we can sin because we're covered by grace. No, we
wanna honor God. We love him because he first
loved us. So, We do our best not to sin, but we still sin
in thought, word, and deed. Jesus said, you've heard that
it was written, do not... I can't remember the scripture. not covet your neighbor's wife,
but then I might be wrong." Then he says, if you look at a woman
with lust, you've already committed adultery. Thou shalt not commit
adultery. But if you look at a woman with lust in your heart
and in your mind, you're committing adultery. So there's no one that
can't say that. They've done it for the other
sex as well as the opposite sex. The opposite sex as well as their
own sex. Men lust for money, power, you know, sex, drugs,
rock and roll, greed. These are things that man lusts
for. This is the love of the world, the pride of life, the
lust of the eye, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.
These are things the world is constantly bombarding us with. We see it
on the billboards. We see it on TV. We see it in movies and
film, but we're not supposed to do those things, you know,
and just because grace abounds doesn't doesn't give us a license
to keep doing that. And so people will tell us that
we're antinomians. In other words, we don't live
by the law. But no one can live by the law. Because if you break
one law, you've broken them all. So that's why Paul said there's
none righteous. James says if you break one law,
you've broken them all. So I mean, who among us has fulfilled the
law? Christ is the only one, the God-man. He is fully God,
fully man. So Paul is telling us how Jews
and Gentiles alike are all under sin. Let's go to verse nine. And he had also shown us how
there wasn't an advantage of being a Jew or being circumcised.
So now he says in verse nine, what then? Are we better than
they? No, no wise. For we have before proved, both
Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin. So all have
sinned and fell short of the glory of God. He says that in
the next verse. Not here, he says it later on,
but he says in the next verse, there's none righteous, no, not
one. None that understand it, none that seek it after God.
They're all gone out of their way. You know, there's none righteous. So, it's not a matter of us doing
something, which is a work, to have a right standing before
God. It's what Christ has done for his people, not all men.
So we tell people that because Jews and Gentiles are all under
sin, right? And this happened as a result
of the fall in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. Yeah,
Eve sinned and she was beguiled, but Adam knowingly sinned. So
they weren't created perfect. They weren't created impeccable.
They weren't created spiritual. They had to become born again.
I mean, we don't, I don't know or understand that much yet how,
you know, I was talking to a brother the other day how, well, don't
you have to be born again to talk to God? Well, God can speak
to anybody at any time because He's God, right? I mean, I've
read from Numbers 23 how He opened the mouth of the donkey and told
Balaam some things, right? And then He opened Balaam's mouth
and Balaam, proclaimed the truth of God, about God. So how did
he know this? The high priest in Jesus' days,
Ananias, he said, hey, let this happen because it's supposed
to happen that one man should die for the nation. He prophesied,
right? And he was a high priest. So there's no advantage of being
a Jew or being circumcised. The law is just the knowledge
of sin. Paul said, I didn't know sin
till I found out about the law. And it's that way for all of
us. We know that breaking the law is wrong. You go on a freeway,
like the five, I'm not very far from the five, speed limit says
75, and I'm doing 90, guess what? I'm breaking the law. And I know
that if I see a CHP or a city cop, I'm like, oh, oh no, oh
no, crap. Did he catch me? Did he have
me on radar? Because I've been ticketed before for breaking
the law, right? So the law is just a knowledge
of sin. And we have to tell men that. But Christ is the end of
the law, the scripture says, for his people. He fulfilled
the law, so we're no longer under the law. I'm actually finished
with my notes. I'm done for today. I'm a little at a loss for words,
but next week we'll carry on and I might have more to say
about these first 20 verses, but we're going to go through
the rest of them, which goes to verse 31. But yeah, remember,
going back to recap this message, men are liars and God is true. We hear that the most in the
gospel. men are preaching and teaching a false gospel. If you
get on social media and you look at what people believe, what
they say, and what they promote, you're like, wow. You know, how
come they don't know? Well, they don't know because
God hasn't revealed this truth to them. So what we do, which
is called the Great Commission, which is going out into all the
world and preaching the gospel to all men, you know, discipling
them, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Ghost, and he says, and lo, I'll be with you always,
even until the end of the earth. We do these things, and we tell
people, hey, men are liars. God's true. So even though I'm
a liar, God has regenerated me and I have his truth, so now
I share his truth. And as you share God's truth,
it breaks down the wall of all men. He broke down that wall,
that barrier, and he lets us know, hey, all are sinners, all
are under the wrath of God, but there's good news. There's some
that he's chosen from among fallen men that are his elect, that
he's decided to save them, and he will save them. And they're
gonna hear the word, and they're gonna be saved. Because God's
going to judge the world, right? And we know that there's none
righteous. We know as believers we shouldn't do evil. And we
know that the fall, as a result of the fall, that's all we do. We come out of the womb speaking
lies. We're born in sin and shaped in iniquity. Like I said, I'm
done for today. We'll try and finish this chapter
next week. grateful for God's word and what
it says and what he teaches us because everything God does is
true and it's right and we share that truth with people whether
they believe it or not it's not our job to convince men and women
they're wrong we don't tell them no to think like us it's not
how I think this is what scripture declares so having said that
let's end in prayer father we thank you for your word we thank
you for this time in your word we pray for your people Lord
that you'd give them ears to hear eyes to see, and you reveal
yourself in them. Christ in you, the hope of glory.
We continue to pray for the body of Christ worldwide, Lord, that
you'd cause us to grow in the knowledge and grace of you. we'd
be strong in you and in the power of your might, that we'd sanctify
the Lord Jesus in our heart and always be ready to give an answer
of the hope that lies within us. With gentleness and respect,
we'd be kind to one another, Lord, despite our differences,
and we'd be gracious as you have been to us, your people, and
we give you praise. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.