"Those People, Not Us" | Romans Week 2

"Those People, Not Us"Romans • May 29, 2022Teacher: Daniel Bunn--Romans 2:1 NIV"You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else,"Romans 2:11-16 NIVFor God does not show favoritism. All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.Karl Barth“God’s judgment takes place ‘with no respect of persons,’ which literally means: in such a way that through every mask God sees the real faces of men.” Paul doesn't focus on being right, he focuses on being unified.