We want to say Shalom, God bless you everyone. Welcome to the Bible classes of the Holy Scriptures in Israel. We are very thankful where we can study together the Word of God. The Word of God is a source of encouragement to all of us because there we are being occupied with the person of our Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah, who loved us and gave himself for us. So we want to welcome you. Hopefully you have a Bible with you, the Scripture with you. We are studying the book of Romans, in Romans chapter 2, from verse 1 today. So please open your Bibles. Let's just ask the Lord to bless the meeting today.

Our God and our Father, thank you for your word. Scriptures, the Brit Hadashah, the new covenant, and thank you for the study of the book of Romans. Bless us today, we pray, for we ask it in Yeshua, in Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, Amen. So, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, we are going to read today the first 16 verses of Romans chapter 2, and I'd like you to follow me as we are continuing of this very important letter that Shaul Paul wrote to the Roman believers in the city of Rome. And so Paul continues to say in Romans chapter 2 and verse 1, condemnest thyself for thou the Judges doest the same things but we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things and thinkest thou this o man that Judges them which do such things that that and do is the same that thou should.

Escape the judgment of God? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsufferings, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But after that thy hardness and the impatient heart treasures up unto thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and Revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his deeds. To them who by patience, a continuous in well-doing, seek for glory and honor and immortality eternal life. Obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of men that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile.

Gentile for there is no respect of persons with God for as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law for not the hearers of the law are just before God but the doers of the law be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law are a law unto themselves, which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts they meanwhile And I'm going to stop here with verse 16 of this second chapter of the book of Romans.

Again, beloved brothers and sisters, we are studying one of the really. Of the most important books that are found in the in the Scripture and why this book of Roman is so important the book of Roman is important because it helps us to understand the righteousness of God Paul wanted to instruct the Romans and instruct you and i and every believer upon the face of this earth that God is righteous that God is holy And whatever God does, he always does things right. And if any person will be right with God, he or she must confess that there are sinners who need forgiveness and God can attribute to them the righteousness of God.

The word, of course, the word righteousness in Hebrew, it's the word tzedakah. And it is very interesting. Word that is found about 30 times in the book of Romans, K-A-I-O-S-Y-N-E, Caiusian, about 30 times and about 300, over 300 times in the whole word of God, from Genesis 15 to Revelation 19, where we read, righteousness, tzedek, tzedakah. And so that's important theme of the book of Romans. And if you remember, beloved brothers and sisters, we have covered the whole first chapter already. We had a few meetings on that. And in this first chapter, if you remember, we have learned that in the first seven verses, Paul introduced himself to the Romans. After all, he hadn't arrived to Rome when he wrote the book of Romans.

He hadn't arrived to the city of Rome as yet, but he was writing this letter and he was introducing himself to the believers at Rome to tell them that he was an apostle called by God for the ministry that the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, commended him to do. Secondly, we also have covered in chapter 1 verses 8 to 17 that Paul, Shaul, showed to the Romans in this letter that he really cares for the Roman believers although he was a a Jewish believer and some might have thought well why doesn't Paul arrive to Rome and if you remember we have already looked at these verses that Paul said in Roman chapter 1 in verse 14 i am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarian both to the wise and to unwise to the unwise he says the reason that i haven't arrived yet to Rome.

Think that I don't come to Rome because I don't care for you I'm a debtor to all men to share with them the message of the gospel secondly he said in Romans 1 and verse 15 I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also in other words I'm ready to come to you to share with you the message of the gospel but the body of truth to you that are at Rome also as I've done so elsewhere and then thirdly if you remember in Romans 1 16 he says for i'm not ashamed of the gospel of Mashiach of christos of Christ of the Messiah and then he says for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and also unto the Greek unto the Gentiles then if you remember in verse 17 which is the theme of this book for therein the righteousness of.

God is revealed from faith unto faith as it is written the just shall live by faith. And then beloved brothers and sisters we continued on from chapter 1 verse 18 to the end of the chapter and there in chapter 1 verse 18 to 32 that the pagan nations of the world are guilty before a holy and a righteous God they knew God they know of him in creation without they know of him in conscience within and yet they have chosen to violate God to turn away from God and as we read in verse one for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness because verse 19 that which may be known of God is manifest in them that's the conscience and then verse 20 they are clearly seen by the things which are made they are without excuse.

And all these verses from verse 18 of Romans 1 all the way to the end of the chapter to verse 32, he presented the pagan nations' guilt before God. All are guilty before God. But it doesn't stop there, and that's why we are entering right now to the second chapter and even the third chapter, continue to show not only that the pagan nations of the world are guilty before God, but also those who are what you and I might call moral people, people who might call themselves people of civilized people, people who are cultured from among the nations of the world, people are having good manners, people that you might say are self-righteous.

And although there are decent people who live life, we might say, decently here in this world, they didn't murder, they don't commit adultery, they don't have an immoral life, they have a pretty decent family, they are pretty organized, they are well-to-do, they are people who are kind and nice and pleasant. That's including you and I, that even though we live pretty decent and moral life here in this world, such as having good manners and having a civilized lifestyle and having a cultured life and we are pretty decent people, we might say outwardly, we have a problem within us that is the sin nature. And the best of us, the best of us, us are unrighteous no wonder Isaiah the prophet of our people Israel said to our people to the Jewish people for all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags in Hebrew the prophet Isaiah said even the good things that we do come from a sin sinful heart And before only God, even the moral person, the cultured person, the civilized person, the good manner person, he, he or she are guilty as well before God.

And so here as we have entered into the second chapter of the book of Romans, you notice that in chapter 2 verses 1 to 16. The Roman believers the sin of the good mannered person, the sins of the civilized person, the sins of the cultured person, the sins of those who are morally here living in this life from among the nations of the world. Later on he will deal with the Jewish people who have received the law and the Torah and the word of God and he will show to the believers at Rome that the Jewish people who are we might say religious and not only the Jewish people in the world today all the religious people of the world who have religion you would find out that Paul presented the fact that they are also guilty before God because we have all sinned and we have all come short of the glory of God.

So notice what he does here in chapter 2, Romans chapter 2, verse 1. In the first verse, he began very strongly, and he says, as he continued, he finished, by the way, he finished chapter 1, and in chapter 1, if you remember, he presented in chapter 1 the fact that the 23 sins that A pagan Gentile world has been committed. In fact, all have been committed. If you remember that 23, unrighteousness. You find it in chapter 1 and verse 29 to 31. Unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, full of murder, full of debate, full of deceit. Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, impeccable, unmerciful.

This list that is found, beloved brothers and sisters, in chapter 1 that applies specifically to the Gentile nations of the world, to the pagan nations of this world, Now in chapter 2 he's entering and he's now sharing now with the Romans about those perhaps among them or among the nations of the world, people who are seeking to claim that they are righteous, that they are okay, that they are fine. You remember Yeshua said this to our people of Israel, to the Pharisees. Righteous, in other words, for those who claim that they are righteous, but they came to save sinners, to bring sinners unto repentance, people who admit that they are sinners.

But for those who are self-righteous, who think that they are okay, who think that they are better than the others, he's speaking to them here in Romans chapter 2 verses 1 to 16, and he first tells them, notice in verse 1, very strongly he said therefore the word therefore takes us back to the first chapter to what he said in the last verses of chapter one therefore thou art inexcusable you are without an excuse or man whosoever thou art the Judges the Judges does or doeth the same things. In other words, you know how it is with us, with the human nature of ours. I have never done that, we one might say, oh he did it, she did it, they did it, but not me.

I'm pretty good, I'm pretty okay. This is so human, so the pride that exists within us. It doesn't matter who we are. It doesn't matter what our background is. But in reality, this is exactly sometime, and many times we might say, we think, I have never done that. I'm not like him. I'm not like her. I haven't done this list of 23 sins outwardly before everyone that are listed here in chapter 1, verse 29, 30, and 31. Paul is directing now the attention to those that says, oh, it's not me, it's the others. And Paul is saying in verse, notice that, in verse 1, therefore you are without excuse. You who think like that, you who assume that you are better than you can judge somebody else and speak against somebody else and assume in your mind that you are better than somebody else, you are inexcusable oh yes you might do it here you might do it publicly here in this world you might assume that you are better than the other but before God who knows your heart who knows my heart who knows the deceitfulness of our hearts he knows everything about us and he knows our hearts me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing the prophets of Israel said this the heart is deceitful above all things who can know it Yirmiyahu Hanavi Yirmiyahu the prophet have said and you remember what Peter said depart from me for I'm a sinful man and even further beloved brothers and sisters Isaiah the prophet said.

Woe is me, for I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people with unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the king. And so, Paul is in verse 1, he's specifically speaking to those who think that they are okay, the good manner person, the civilized person, the cultured person, morally, outwardly, right before God, that they should not look down on the pagan, other people from the world, and remember three things in verse 1. Three things we all need to remember. Number one, that you and I, that this moralist is capable to commit all the sins that are mentioned. In Romans chapter 1 verse 29 30 and 31 remember this you are capable to do the very same thing that they are doing those who are pagan from among the nations of the world you are capable to do all these things remember this and again listen to this therefore thou art inexcusable o man "Whosoever are thou the Judges, for in thou judging, another thou condemnest thyself, for thou the Judges doest the same thing." Or you might not have done it maybe as many times as others, or maybe not as public as others, but the Lord knows our hearts.

He knows very well the failure of the human race. If you turn with me back for a moment to Matthew, the Gospel of Matthew, to chapter 7, there Yeshua, as he began his public ministry in the Galil, in the land of Israel, in chapter 7, when he was giving what is known for us to be the Sermon on the Mount, verse we read in chapter 7 there at the end really this that's the third chapter chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 of the gospel of matai matityahu you remember what is a judge not verse 1 that ye be not judge for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged and with what a measure ye meet it shall be measured to you again And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but you considering not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Why wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull the mote out of thine eyes, and behold the beam in thine own eyes, thou hypocrite? First cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. You see, the Lord is very practical. It is so easy to condemn others, but to, in pride, assume that we are okay. That's why Paul, you know, Paul is driving to communicate the truth that we all need to learn and we fail in learning. We need to relearn it all the time again and again that we have all our sinners.

We all came short of the glory of God. Here in this world we will all be cast into the lake of fire because God is holy and sin must be judged. And therefore we are not to look upon one another and point the finger. We are to search our hearts and say, God be merciful to me, a sinner. That's what God desires to see in our life. But you see, we have this sin nature within us and a time in pride. Who says, you know, after all, I've never done that. I'm pretty good. I live more alive. I'm a good mannered person. I don't swear.

I don't curse. I am a civilized person. I don't worship physically some idols and so on. I am a cultured person. I live here within the culture. I am a pretty moral, decent person. God knows the heart. And that's why we have this, don't forget, he's saying to them, therefore thou art inexcusable, O man. And by the way, you notice that he used the word O man, and the word man here is in singular. And that's applied to a woman, to a person, to a single person. You remember he used the word man earlier in chapter 1 and verse 18, where we read, and unrighteousness of men m-e-n of all people who hold the truth in unrighteousness but he's zeroing in beloved brothers and sisters in verse 1 of chapter 2 and he's saying you you yourself it reminds us beloved brothers and sisters that the psalmist of Israel the sweetest psalmist of Israel David melech Israel David the king of Israel.

He said in Psalm 14, the fool says in his heart, verse 1, there is no God. They are corrupted. They have done abominable works. There is none that doeth good. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that understand and seek God. Then we read, they are all gone aside. They all together become filthy. Listen, there is none that doeth good, no, not one. No, not you. No, not me. All of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God. So the first of the three things in chapter 2 and verse 1 that Paul wanted to communicate is that, you see, If you live a pretty decent moral life, fine.

You need to. We all need to. But don't you look at those who do what they do and say, oh, I'm going to judge them. I'm going to make an opinion about them. And by the way, it's not that the believers and the people of God should not observe. We cannot judge motives, of course. Action, but not to do so and then pride ourselves and say, oh, I have not done that and I am okay. In fact, it should cause the believer to be humble before the Lord and not to be arrogant and proud because pride cometh before a fall. Humble now he continues notice that the second thing that i want to mention here in verse one of Roman chapter two is that that the apostle Paul is reminding the Romans believers who perhaps the person who live a good mannered life and civilized person secondly to remember that by breaking one commandment only one this person is guilty as if he broke all the commandments of God I remember many years ago I've been at a meeting and a brother was preaching the word about the demands of a holy and a righteous God and he asked a question how many percent of righteousness does God demand in order to accept us 20%?

30%? 50%? 70%? 90%? Maybe 99% and God will accept us? No. God is holy and in him there is no sin. He cannot look upon sin. You remember what Habakkuk said? Thou art holy. Because none of us is 100% perfect because we all fall short. That's where the word chet or chata'a in Hebrew is like shooting an arrow and we all miss the Mark. That's the word lachtot, chata'a, sin. It is missing the Mark. We've all sinned and came short of God's demands. Decent and more alive but you know failing here there and the other which obviously it happened in the life of mankind that person is guilty of all turn to Deuteronomy chapter 27 and there in verse Deuteronomy chapter 27 before Israel crossed into the promised land Moshe was the whole book of Deuteronomy was presented in Hebrew it's called Dvarim Sefer Dvarim is rehearsing before our forefathers as they were anticipating to enter into the promised land is rehearsing before them the commandments of the Lord and in the 27th chapter we do read beloved brothers and sisters listen to this chapter 27 and I'm reading just this one verse verse 26 the last verse of chapter 27 Cursed is he that confirmeth not all the words of the law to do them.

And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed is the man. And the Hebrew word for confirmeth is the word yakim, established. Cursed is the person, is the man that is not establishing and not doing. All the words of this law to do them and all the people shall say Amen well God only shows to his own people that they can't do that and that's why they needed a sacrificial system that's why the animal that this type of the Mashiach had to be killed and blood had to be shed because no one can confirm can to establish to live the light of all the commandments of God because we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God turn to Galatians there in chapter 3 we read Paul Shaul the same one who wrote to the Romans in chapter 3 Paul Shaul said for in verse 10 for as many as of the works of the law are under a curse having a reference to the.

Deuteronomy chapter 27. Why? Because they can't rise up to establish, to fulfill, to do all the works of God's holy law, because they are sinners, like you and I. So he says, as many as are of the works of the Lord, they are under the curse, for it is written, referring to Deuteronomy chapter 27, continuous not in all the things that are written in the books of the law to do them there's one more verse i want to read it's found in the book of James turn to James in James we learn beloved brothers and sisters in the a second chapter James chapter 2 and verse 10 there we read again the The writer is James.

James said in verse 10, For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. Imagine. That's what Paul is seeking to establish. Don't develop in your heart the assumption that you are righteous. Don't be self-righteous. Don't assume that you are better than others. Don't look upon these pagan nations of the world and assume that because you live pretty a good mannered life and that you are a civilized person and that you are a cultured person and live pretty moral life, don't you for a moment think that you are better than the others because, chapter 2 of Romans verse 1, therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, "Whosoever are thou the Judges, for wherein thou Judges another, thou condemnest thyself." For thou the Judges doest the same thing.

Maybe you didn't do all the things that others have done, but in actuality, as before God, even if one thing you have done, I have done, we have all done, before God. And therefore, this is the second point that he's mentioning to them in verse 1. You are capable to commit the same sins, Romans 2 and verse 1. You are breaking the commandments, and even if you didn't break all of them, breaking one of God's holy commandments, you broke the whole commandments of God. And now thirdly. Remember that he that committed sins in his thoughts even, that it is just like doing it in action. You know, sometimes one might say, and here's that moralist, that the person who is a good-mannered person that Paul is communicating with the Romans about, a civilized person, but you see, nobody sees the wrong that he does, but only God knows the heart.

God knows our hearts and that's why realize that God knows the heart he knows the heart and our heart is deceitful beloved brothers and sisters and God who knows the heart he is the one that is searching our hearts you know I was thinking of the of the verse that is found in first Samuel in Chapter 16. And there we read, what we learned from this that even if we committed sins only in our hearts and no one else has known that but God knows it and because God knows it God will have to judge it and therefore it is good to develop an attitude in our hearts that realize after all God i am in a need of the Savior of the Messiah and i am.

In a need of recognition that i am a failing person i need grace every day the apostle Paul said in second Corinthians 7 and verse 1 in his charging the corinthian believers he says having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse notice then let us cleanse ourselves from the filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the field of God. In other words, make sure he's saying to them that you seek to live a moral life, but it is all coming from the help of the Lord, because otherwise we are a failing people. And here he's now speaking, of course, when he's writing to the Roman believers, he's speaking in general about the whole world, that the pagan Gentile world is guilty before God, but not only the pagan Gentile nations, also the.

The moral person, the one who is a decent person, the one who is a good-mannered person, the one who is a civilized person, cultured person, he or she are also guilty before God. And so back to our second chapter of the book of Romans, and here now from verse 2 on, from verse 2 to verse 16 of Romans chapter 2, verse 2 to 16, The apostle is now presenting here in verses 2 to 16 that the cultured, moral, good-mannered person need to learn a lesson of the judgment of God. You notice this, brothers and sisters, how many times the word judgment is mentioned here in this passage, in this Romans 2 verses 1 to 16. You know that we read in verse 1, Who art thou that judgest?

For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself for thou that judgest. Do the same thing. You notice how many times the word judging is mentioned here. In verse 2 he said, But we are sure that the judgment of God. In verse three but thinkest thou o man that Judges them which do such things you notice how many times the word judgment mentioned here at the end of verse three it says here that thou shall escape the judgment of God the Hebrew word is mishpat here the judgment of God he continually go a little bit further down in verse five at the end he says here that you are treasuring up unto yourself a wrath against the day of wrath and Revelation of the righteous judgment of God in verse 12 at the end it says that as many as have sinned in the law they shall be judged by the law in verse 16 this is the last verse it says in the days when God shall judge the secrets of men.

You know, in the Word of God, there are many times that the word judgment is mentioned. It's very interesting, beloved brothers and sisters. In fact, there are judgments mentioned in the Word of God many times. In fact, we can mention that the first time that we think about the judgment of God is that God, the judgment of God against sin that happened at the cross. That's why Yeshua had to die, the Messiah had to die. Judged a holy man, a perfect man, the Mashiach, the Rasaiah of Israel and the Savior of this world, he judged him. You remember what we read in Matthew 27, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

God forsook this man by the name of Yeshua, Jesus. In Hebrews chapter 12 we read of the judgment of God as a father. His own people and he Judges on people every day whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth he Judges he scourges everyone that he received in second Corinthians 5 and verse 10 we know that all believers must appear before the judgment seat of the Messiah of Christ for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ In chapter 20 verse 37-38 there is the judgment of God in refining his earthly people Israel during the tribulation period. And from the book of Jeremiah we read of the day of tribulation period where the judgment will come upon the face of this earth.

Matthew chapter 19 speaks about 21 judgments that will fall upon the face of this whole world because of the rejection of the Messiah, because of the sin of man. In fact at the end of the tribulation period all the nations of the world will come to the land of Israel to be judged by the Messiah. Verse 31 to 33 all will gather and he will sit the king will sit upon his throne to judge the nation the judgment of the nation in chapter 20 of Revelation verses 11 to 15 we have the great white throne judgment where the Lord Jesus the Messiah will sit on the throne and he will judge all the souls of the unregenerated people that will be after the thousand years reign of the Messiah doing the messianic kingdom and not only that even you and i are called to have self-judgment the believers are called to judge ourselves every day first Corinthians 11 verses 28 to 31 and then beloved brothers and sisters do you know that we shall judge the angels according to first Corinthians 6 verses 1 to 3 the apostle Paul said to the Corinthian believers that the believers after the rapture of the assembly will judge the angels so judgment mishpat in Hebrew is mentioned throughout the word of God and therefore we have to realize that it's not foreign to the Scripture because we sometimes like to hear about love and grace.

And goodness and provision, but God does judge. And judgment must begin at the house of God. First Peter tells us that. But here, beloved brothers and sisters, we have the moral individual, the civilized person, the good-mannered person have to realize and to learn lessons about the judgments of God. Don't think for a moment, he's saying to them, that because you live a pretty decent life that you will escape the day of judgment. And so he does here in these verses three things that he's mentioning about the judgment of God. Number one, verses two, three, four, and five, that God's judgment is based upon the truth.

Righteous judgment that is based upon truth. Secondly, in verses 6 to 10 of Romans chapter 2, God's judgment is based on action. How do we live our lives here as believers? How do men live their lives here? And thirdly, verses 11 to 16, which we will need to cover in all these verses, that God's judgment is based on the light that one has. The more light you have, the more you know, the more you are responsible. The more light one has, the more he or she are responsible before the Lord. So God is judging on a basis of truth. God is judging on a basis of actions. And God is judging on the basis of the light.

That a person has. The more knowledge of God and the things of God one has, the more responsible one is and the more discipline from God one will receive. So just let me read these verses. I see the time is passing so quick and I wanted to communicate these things for us all because it's so important for us to understand these verses in the book of Romans. So just to read verses 3, verses 2, 4, and 5, here in our chapter, Beloved Brothers and Sisters, in Romans chapter 2, we do read, in verses 2, 3, 4, and 5, we read, in verse 2, for I, Paul is continuing, and I'm going to get to the right chapter, in Romans chapter 2, in verse 2, the apostle Paul is saying here.

To get to the page to the right verse here Romans 2 and verse 2 we do read but we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things and thinkest thou this old man that Judges them which do such things and do is the same that thou shall escape the judgment of God or notice that despises thou the riches and the goodness of and forbearance and long-suffering of God, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? Verse 5, But after thy hardness and impatient heart treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and Revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Notice this in these verses. 2, 3, 4, and 5, these four verses, the apostle Paul speaks to the moralist, to the cultured person, and telling him and her, he's saying, listen, God's judgment is based upon the truth. You know, brothers and sisters, many times when we give a sentence, an opinion, we don't judge right. We don't judge fail. Why? Because we are inclined to judge on the basis of our feeling and our desires. And maybe because we like someone and we don't have the likeness to another, whether because we have a family member or someone is not a family member. We don't judge righteously, but God does. Isaiah predicted of the Messiah, in righteousness shall he judge the poor.

The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, judge righteously and in truth. And so we read here in verse 2, "The judgment of God is according to truth." And so we read, "But we are sure," Paul is saying, "that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that commit such things." In other words, God is a just God and He is judging according to truth and he knows everything later on in chapter 3 and verse 4 we read let God be true and every man a liar God is true God is light and in him there is no darkness at all and therefore when God is judging when God will judge in the future or even judging and examining the world today.

Mankind today even his own people today whenever he Judges he Judges on the basis of truth and because he knows all truth and he knows the hearts of all men all people he will always judge aright he will always judge aright beloved brothers and sisters it is fascinating to see as we read this in the word of God the word for truth is the Hebrew word emit you remember Yeshua said in in John 14 and verse 6 I am the way the truth and the life you remember what we read also in in John chapter 1 and verse 14 concerning the Messiah himself it says in John 1 and verse 14 and the word was John 1:17 God used Moses to give the law to our people of Israel, but it is based upon who God is.

In other words God is true God is light and in him there is no darkness at all 1st John chapter 1 and so the judgment of God is according to truth is according to truth and I mentioned already earlier that God knows the heart 1st Samuel 16 and verse 7 only on the outward appearance. Man does not know. People do not know all the truth. But God knows all the truth and he will judge on a basis of truth. This is verse 2. He continued in verse 3 and Paul continued to say that the judgment of God is inescapable. No one will escape the judgment of God whether those that are unmoral and live a terrible life here in this world.

Pagan, Gentile nations of the world, or the one who seeks to live a moral and decent life. He is a person that is a cultured person, a good mannered person, a person that is a civilized person, but he or she will also be judged by God because no one will escape the judgment of God. The religious Jewish person or all religious people will also be judged by God. No one will escape the judgment of God. He is judging according to truth, Romans 2:2. His judgment is inescapable. No one will escape the judgment of God, beloved brothers and sisters. I'm reading verse 3 again, Romans 2:3. Woman he's zeroing in on an individual that might say I'm not like him I'm not like hell I'm not like them I'm okay and he said do you think oh man or person or woman that you will escape do you think that oh man that the Judges them which do such thing that and you do the same that you shall escape the judgments of God It's not going to happen because God has to judge sin.

He judged sin in the person of the Messiah when he laid upon him the iniquities of us all some 2,000 years ago when Yeshua died on that shameful altar, on the cross, on the tree. And if he judged the Mashiach for the sin of this world, anyone in this world will have to stand at the judgment. Of Christ. We read, it is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment, in Hebrews chapter 9. Thirdly, you notice that in these verses that the moralist or the cultured good man and person need to know that lessons concerning the judgment of God, that God's judgment is based upon truth, in verse 4 of Romans chapter 2, we read that the judgment of God is delayed sometimes, but it will surely come sooner or later.

It will surely come sooner or later. Listen to verse 4 of Romans chapter 2. Do you despise the riches and the goodness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads us to repentance? That God is rich in goodness and is forbearing with you, giving you additional grace, giving you a little bit time to repent and to turn to the Lord? Do you despise the riches, the goodness, the forbearness, the long sufferings of God? Are you going to despise that and say, no, God is not going to judge me. I'm okay. Don't you understand that the goodness of God, should lead you to repent?

You see, he or she might say, listen, I'm living a pretty godly life. I'm pretty moral. I'm a decent person. I'm a well-mannered person. I'm a cultured, civilized person. I'm a moral man. I'm not like him. I'm not like her. I'm not like them. That's how our hearts are. So, as if God is not going to deal with that one day. We're struggling with that, beloved brothers and sisters, even as believers, but imagine that knowing these things in the world in which we live, and people know that, but they in pride, this sin nature that one has, cause us to assume, I'm not like him, I'm not like her, I'm not like them, I'm a pretty civilized man.

A woman. I'm a cultured person. I'm a well-mannered person. I'm a moral person. But God has to judge it. He knows our hearts. And then finally for this meeting for today in verse 5, the judgment of God is according to accumulation of guilt. Realize the accumulation of sins and guilt that we accumulate that mankind in general is accumulating it is very interesting there's a verse in a Revelation chapter 20 if you turn with me for a moment to Revelation chapter 20 and in Revelation chapter 20 we have the great white throne judgment this is the judgment of all people, of all unsaved people, of all the ages, of all the time, of the souls of those nations and peoples of all time, that ultimately they will be cast into the lake of fire.

And we read in chapter 20, in verse 11, there we read, earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place in them and i saw the dead small and great listen great small doesn't matter who you are where you come from small and great people that are coming from every background every nation every every stages in life every activities in their life small and great before God and the books were open and another book was open which is the book of life and the dead were. Judge out of those things, listen to that, which were written in the books according to their works. Every sin that they have committed and was not judged at the cross when a Mashiach died, was not confessed before the Lord by accepting Yeshua HaMashiach and acknowledging that we are sinners, they will have to pay for that.

Messiah and the forgiveness of God, he or she will have to face this. They were judged out of those things which were written, notice in the books, plural, according to their works, plural. In other words, the judgment of God is according to the accumulation. The finality is the great white throne judgment. Judge already here and now and he's able to do so he might delay judgment but he will ultimately judge the finality of the judgment will be at the great white throne judgment and so beloved brothers and sisters we have covered in this meeting verses 1 to 5 of Roman chapter 2 that number 1 verse 1 these cultured good mannered person, a moralist, he should not look down upon the others, but recognize that he is capable to do the same things, he or she, and that breaking one commandment, he broke all the commandments of God, and that he or she have committed sin even in their thoughts.

And then verses 2 to 5, the moralist, the cultured person, the good mannered person. Need to learn these lessons that verses 2 to 5, that God's judgment is based upon the truth. You know what's going to happen, and I'm going to close with that. At the great white throne judgment, books will be opened. And the record of all what we have done, you and I will not be there because we have been receiving, we receive forgiveness. The great white throne judgment. But all the unbelievers in every generation, they will see all the record of their sins, and none of them will be able to say to God, "I didn't do it." In fact, it will be too late to even say, "I confess it." from the great white throne judgment, it is straight to the lake of fire.

Sad. Very sad. That's why praise God for the person of Yeshua HaMashiach, who loved us, gave himself for us, who died for your sins and mine, him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. May the Lord bless his word, my dear friends. May the Lord lead us all to appreciate what God has done for us through the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah. I gather now, Father, bless your word to the hearts of us all, we pray, for we ask it in Yeshua's name. Amen. Amen. God bless you, my dear friend. It was nice to have you with us. Until the next time, we say Shalom, Shalom.

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