ROMANS LECTURE XIII BROOKLAND BAPTIST CHURCH JANUARY 22, 2014 THEME: THE MEANING OF SALVATION IN CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
ROMANS 1:24-32 THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE CONDEMNATION; DIVINE ABANDONMENT. FIVE DEFINITIONS OF SIN 1. LAWLESSNESS IS SIN I JOHN 3:4 TO BREAK ANY LAW OF GOD OR MAN IS TO SIN MATTHEW 22:21; MARK 12:17 RENDER UNTO CAESAR 2. NEGLECT IS SIN JAMES 4:17
3. DOUBT IS SIN ROMANS 14:23; MARK 11:23 4. UNBELIEF IS SIN JOHN 16:8,9 THE CROWNING SIN OF ALL SINS IS TO NOT BELIEVE IN JESUS 5. ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS SIN I JOHN 5:17 MARK 7:21-23 SPECIFICATIONS THAT OUTLINE THE CHARACTER OF THE HUMAN HEART WHICH DEFILE MAN I JOHN 3:15 WHOEVER HATETH HIS BROTHER IS A MURDERER
ROMANS 6:23 THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH EPHESIANS 2:4,5; 8,9 OUR SALVATION; OUR HOPE. IMMENSE IN MERCY AND WITH AN INCREDIBLE LOVE, HE EMBRACED US. HE TOOK OUR SIN-DEAD LIVES AND MADE US ALIVE IN CHRIST. HE DID ALL THIS ON HIS OWN, WITH NO HELP FROM US. THEN HE PICKED US UP AND SET US DOWN IN HIGHEST HEAVEN IN COMPANY WITH JESUS, OUR MESSIAH. (MESSAGE BIBLE) WHEN MAN CONTINUED IN SIN, PAUL SAYS, GOD ALSO GAVE THEM UP. HE SAYS IT 3 TIMES (VERSES 24, 26 AND 28). THIS IS LIKE UNTO - GENESIS 7:4.
BETWEEN THE BOOKS OF MALACHI AND MATTHEW, WE HAVE IN INTER-TESTAMENT PERIOD. 400 YEARS OF SILENCE. PAUL SPEAKS OF TO DISHONOR THEIR BODIES BETWEEN THEMSELVES FOR EVEN THEIR WOMEN DID CHANGE THE NATURAL USE INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE. THIS HAS REFERENCE TO SEXUAL PERVERSION --- DEVIATING FROM WHAT IS NATURAL; AN ABERRATION. THEOLOGICALLY, SEXUAL PERVERSION IS IN OPPOSITION TO THE CREATIVE ORDER OF GOD. IT IS INCONSISTENT WITH GOD S ORDER IN CREATION.
GENESIS 1:27 TELLS US THAT GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, CREATED HE HIM; MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM. GENESIS 2:21-23 TELLS US AND THE LORD GOD CAUSED A DEEP SLEEP TO FALL UPON ADAM, AND HE SLEPT; AND HE TOOK ONE OF HIS RIBS, AND CLOSED UP THE FLESH INSTEAD THEREOF; AND THE RIB, WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD TAKEN FROM MAN, MADE HE WOMAN, AND BROUGHT HER UNTO THE MAN. AND ADAM SAID, THIS IS NOW BONE OF MY BONES, AND FLESH OF MY FLESH; SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN, BECAUSE SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN.
GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND A MIND DEVOID OF ALL SENSE AND JUDGMENT TO DISCERN. PAUL LISTS A NUMBER OF SINS THAT BEGAN TO OVERTAKE MAN. 1. UNRIGHTEOUSNESS FULL OF SIN. I JOHN 5:17 2. FORNICATION UNLAWFUL SEXUAL INTERCOURSE OF AN UNWED PERSON. SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE. I CORINTHIANS 6:18 3. WICKEDNESS INTENTIONAL EVIL. EZEKIEL 3:18; PROVERBS 11:5 4. COVETOUSNESS EXCESSIVE DESIRE OF WHAT BELONGS TO ANOTHER. EXODUS 20:17; ROMANS 7:7
5. MALICIOUSNESS HAVING OR SHOWING MALICE; WANTING TO HURT OR HARM SOMEONE; SPITEFUL. I PETER 2:16 6. ENVY HATE AND JEALOUSY TOWARD ANOTHER BECAUSE OF SOMETHING; QUALITY; GOOD FORTUNE; FAVOR. I CORINTHIANS 13:4; PROVERBS 3:31 7. MURDER DESTROY; TAKE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER EXODUS 20:13; I JOHN 3:15 8. DEBATE ARGUE AGAINST TO EXISTENCE OF GOD ISAIAH 57:9; ISAIAH 58:4 9. DECEIT INTENTIONAL MISLEADING OF ANOTHER PSALM 101:7; PROVERBS 12:17 10. MALIGNITY A STRONG DESIRE TO HARM OTHERS; WISHING HARM TO OTHERS PROVERBS 2:14
11. WHISPERS GOSSIPERS PSALM 41:7; PROVERBS 16:28 12. BACKBITERS TO SLANDER OR SPEAK EVIL OF ANOTHER PERSON IN THEIR ABSENCE PSALM 15:3; PROVERBS 25:23 13. HATERS OF GOD BLAMING GOD FOR THEIR MISFORTUNES JAMES 4:4,5 14. DESPITEFUL LOOKING DOWN UPON ANOTHER MATTHEW 5:44 15. PROUD ARROGANT; SELF-PROMOTING PSALM 10:2; PROVERBS 14:3 16. BOASTERS TO EXAGGERATE ONE S OWN WORTH MATTHEW 6:1-4 17. INVENTORS OF EVIL THINGS A HATE FILLED HEART MATTHEW 15:16, PSALM 141:3,4
18. DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS NO RESPECT FOR PARENTS COLOSSIANS 3:20; EPHESIANS 6:1; HEBREWS 5:8 19. WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THINKING WE KNOW IT ALL AND ARE NOT OPEN TO A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE II SAMUEL 19:35 20. COVENANT BREAKERS BREAK PROMISES; DO NOT HONOR YOUR WORD GENESIS 17:1-11 (ABRAHAM S COVENANT) 21. WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION HEARTLESS; COLD; MEAN-SPIRITED COLOSSIANS 3:2 22. IMPLACABLE INCAPABLE OF BEING SATISFIED; ALWAYS GRUMBLING AND COMPLAINING I THESSALONIANS 5:18; EPHESIANS 5:2
23. UNMERCIFUL STRICT OBSERVANCE OF LAW; PUNITIVE; NO COMPASSION, UNFORGIVING LUKE 11:4; MATTHEW 18:28-35 LOVE IS THE SIGNATURE WORD FOR BELIEVERS IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. I JOHN 3:14 THOU SHALT LOVE. MATTHEW 22:35-40; I JOHN 4:7,8