Posted on 07/27/2010 9:26:51 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
...Romans chapter one and chapter two are akin to Jesus’ story of the prodigal Son. The last part of Romans 1 addresses the ungodly, out of control prodigal, longing to eat pig slop and totally lost! But Romans 2 addresses the older brother, equally lost but unaware of the fact, because externally, he’s all right! Making moral motions such as judgment of right, wrong, ugly and beautiful is not the same as being saved! Even moral and good people need to be saved.
Paul says that you who judge the godless “do the same”- what could Paul mean by that? I am not homosexual, I have not ever been a dissolute alcoholic, I wouldn’t consider myself to be one who applauds abortion, homosexual marriage,nor am I a relativist. So in what sense do those who don’t drink the koolaid of godlessness do the same as they?
Remember that those excesses in Romans 1 were outcomes , horrible and frightening outcomes of sin. The real sin is rejecting the glory of God and trying to find beauty and meaning in something other than God himself. This is what Paul means when he says “You do the same”. In a sense the elder brother of the prodigal son “did the same” , he was far, far from the Father, although he didn’t express it in “wine women and Song” like his brother...
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Thanks for the Good Word Pastor Bill.
Can one find God in the beauty of His creation and be holy?
Sin is an equalizer. All sinners get in the same line. Gossipers, murderers, petty thieves, Wall Street crooks.
But Glory to God, He has offered a way of redemption for all sinners. His shed blood to cleanse away the sin.
Romans 3:22 NIV
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
No, the only way God can be found, is through His appointed Way- through Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen one.
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