(Lesson 416)(10-05-12) Romans 2:7-16, "To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and 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 shall 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 shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."
This lesson clearly establishes that, to the Jews, the Law of Moses, after the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, meant no more than the common laws of the Gentiles. Paul says that if one stands guilty within the parameters of one of these two laws, he is equally guilty under the other, "But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God."
He establishes that the ONLY law by which mankind is to be judged, is the new Law of faith he so devotedly preached, and that was enacted through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."
What this lesson is telling us, in essence, is that if one is not a born again believer in the sacrifice of the only begotten, perfect, Son of God for the remission of ALL sin, he/she is guilty and condemned to the eternal death as per the gospel of Jesus Christ which Paul preached.~
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