Everyone Needs the Gospel (JICC)
Weekly Reading
Monday: Exodus 30:11-38
Tuesday: Exodus 31, Mark 11
Wednesday: Exodus 32, Mark 12
Thursday: Exodus 33, Mark 13
Friday: Exodus 34
Saturday: Psalm 33-34, Proverbs 7
Sunday: 2 Samuel 15-22
Tuesday: Exodus 31, Mark 11
Wednesday: Exodus 32, Mark 12
Thursday: Exodus 33, Mark 13
Friday: Exodus 34
Saturday: Psalm 33-34, Proverbs 7
Sunday: 2 Samuel 15-22
Sermon Notes
Key Passage: Romans 3:1-20
Psalm 130:3-4 NLT
Proverbs 9:10
Psalm 8:3-4
Righteous = right with God
Self-esteem = Success ÷ Standards
Question: 3 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
Answer: 2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Question: 3 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
Answer: 4 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written,
“That you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you are judged.”
Question: 5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
Answer: 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Question: 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
The movement of Romans 1–3 is:
All are under sin (3:9–18)
"In our natures we totally lack spiritual good before God: It is not just that some parts of us are sinful and others are pure. Rather, every part of our being is affected by sin -- our intellects, our emotions and desires, our hearts (the center of our desires and decisions -making processes), our goals and motives, and even our physical bodies …
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?
In [passages like these] Scriptures is not denying that unbelievers can do good in human society in some senses. But it is denying that they can do any spiritual good or be good in terms of a relationship with God. Separate from the work of Christ in our lives, we are like all other unbelievers who are “darkened in their understand, alienated from the life of God because of ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart. (Eph 4:18)" — Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
“No one is as bad as he or she might be” and at the same time “no action of ours is as good as it should be.” — JI Packer summary in Concise Theology
Psalm 130:3-4 NLT
Proverbs 9:10
Psalm 8:3-4
Righteous = right with God
Self-esteem = Success ÷ Standards
Question: 3 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
Answer: 2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Question: 3 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
Answer: 4 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written,
“That you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you are judged.”
Question: 5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
Answer: 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Question: 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
The movement of Romans 1–3 is:
- Gentiles are guilty (Rom. 1:18–32)
- Moralists are guilty (Rom. 2:1–16)
- Jews are guilty (Rom. 2:17–3:8)
- Everyone is guilty (Rom. 3:9–20)
All are under sin (3:9–18)
- Legal standing: none righteous
- Mind: no one understands
- Motives: no one seeks God
- Will: all have turned aside
- Speech: mouth is full of curses and bitterness
- Relationships: the way of peace they have not known
- Worship: no fear of God before their eyes
"In our natures we totally lack spiritual good before God: It is not just that some parts of us are sinful and others are pure. Rather, every part of our being is affected by sin -- our intellects, our emotions and desires, our hearts (the center of our desires and decisions -making processes), our goals and motives, and even our physical bodies …
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?
In [passages like these] Scriptures is not denying that unbelievers can do good in human society in some senses. But it is denying that they can do any spiritual good or be good in terms of a relationship with God. Separate from the work of Christ in our lives, we are like all other unbelievers who are “darkened in their understand, alienated from the life of God because of ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart. (Eph 4:18)" — Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
“No one is as bad as he or she might be” and at the same time “no action of ours is as good as it should be.” — JI Packer summary in Concise Theology
Discussion Questions
3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?
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