ROMANS – GUILT AND GRACE
INTRO: Three Ways That We Try To Solve The Problem Of Guilt.
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Romans 3:9-18
What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The poison of vipers is on their lips.” “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:9 What shall we conclude then?
There is a phrase that is repeated 4 times
Vs 10, there is
Vs. 11, there is
Vs. 11, there is
Vs. 12, there is
Another repeated word is the word “ALL”
Vs. 9 Jews and Gentiles alike are ALL under the power of sin.
Vs. 12 ALL have turned away
1. GUILT IS
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
2. God’s Gift Is
Romans 3:21-24
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:21
“The righteousness of God has been made known”
Isaiah 64:6
All our righteous acts are like filthy rags.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel…I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people…For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.
Romans 3:22
This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
3. His Grace Is
Romans 3:24-26
All are JUSTIFIED freely by his GRACE through the REDEMPTION that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of ATONEMENT, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
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1 John 4:9-10
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 Peter 2:22-24
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.” When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”