Romans 3:1-20 – God is God and We are Not

Join us for this audio only series through the book of Romans, taught by pastor David Guzik.

[JohnAlday-qwno]

LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR.
JESUS CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS OF WHICH I AM THE WORST.

[gregferguson]

David Guzik, Praise God for you and your heart for God. Your encouragement and gift from God is allowing me to provide much wisdom and insight into my Bible studies and my life in general, Much love from Louisiana

[Michael_Morehead]

Lord, Your greatness cannot be described. You are fully aware of every word I will ever say. You know the future in detail — my future as well as everyone else's! You precede me, paving the way before me, watching out for me. And You also follow me — You are my rear guard! You always watch my back and make sure I’m safe. You are all the army I will ever need. None can circumvent Your divine protection. Thank You, Lord, for watching out for me — even when I fail to watch out for myself sometimes. In Jesus’ Name, Amen Shalom.✝️🛐

[dennisyoung]

Thanks be to God for His amazing grace!

[johnpolion]

Speaking only for myself i can state with all truthfulness that I never had a single correct thought, word spoken or deed done, until God called me, i heard, and realized that I was, am and will ever be until Glorification, a SINNER, and without the Grace of The Father, His Son's Work of Salvation and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in my life, I am deserving of an eternity of torment in hell. How precious is The Lord and Saviour Jesus The Anointed One, to me. The only safe unbelievers are those who have never ever sinned in thought, word or deed like I have. I do not say we have all sinned, God says so. Please repent. Even so, come Lord Jesus.

[sspicer]

Amen and amen! TY, really wonderful sermon. From Virginia.

[deannaryle]

Was struggling with Romans and you made it clear with your clarification. Thank you,

[marchesau]

When we say we are a "good person", we deny the need for the sacrifice Jesus made. Therefore, it is offensive to God whenever we stress how good we are. I'd be careful with that.

[LogicalThoughts]

Thank you. I really like how you broke this down. Made things much clearer for me. I needed to hear this message.

[rajanvijayudu]

Wonderful exposition of the book of Romans

[jessyjonas]

Unfortunately some husbands and wives love for God grows cold when their partners love for God wanes

This is when one becomes two
You are going down alone

[renaetroxel]

I have met so many people recently, who claim sinless perfection because Jesus took all of their sin away, and they use verses like 1 John 3:9, to claim they do not sin. Or Romans 7, and will claim that is historical present tense, meaning it’s all about Paul before his conversion. They literally claim to be as perfect as Jesus, because he said to be ye perfect like your father in heaven. And will tell anyone who is still sinning they are not Christians. It’s a dangerous and false teaching going around. Do you have any thoughts on this?

[amandasimmons]

John 8:Jesus the Light of the World 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

John 5:A Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”

1 John 3:Sin and the Child of God 4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.The Imperative of Love 10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

John 15:The True Vine
15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

Romans 6:Dead to Sin, Alive to God 6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God

Luke 6:A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit
43 “For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Grace is a Spirit.

Hebrews 10:The Just Live by Faith 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, ” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

James 5;Bring Back the Erring One 19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

[malindavanhoy]

Question? You mentioned Judas being thrown into the pit of hell for selling out Jesus. Help me understand? I would think since Judas was one of Jesus disciples he definitely believe in Jesus, so wouldn't his salvation and belief save him from hell?