1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,229 Speaker: Romans two. 2 00:00:01,590 --> 00:00:05,520 We're continuing on in Romans chapter two. 3 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:10,440 So something that, um, I went, I went to school to, uh. 4 00:00:11,355 --> 00:00:12,915 To do pastor stuff. 5 00:00:12,975 --> 00:00:17,655 And, uh, one of the things that I, I took a class on how to preach a sermon and, 6 00:00:17,655 --> 00:00:21,165 uh, one of these classes actually Pastor PJ was, was helping teach this class. 7 00:00:21,555 --> 00:00:24,285 And we did these things, they call them sermon reviews. 8 00:00:24,854 --> 00:00:28,695 And in a sermon review, what you do is you sit down with like. 9 00:00:29,460 --> 00:00:32,850 One of the pastors, so like, it'd be, it was like me and Pastor pj, and we 10 00:00:32,850 --> 00:00:36,419 sit down and we just watch one of my sermons, and this is like one of the most 11 00:00:36,419 --> 00:00:38,280 awkward, painful things you can imagine. 12 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,490 Like, imagine watching a video of like, like you, have you 13 00:00:41,490 --> 00:00:42,510 done a presentation at school? 14 00:00:42,510 --> 00:00:43,710 Or like, something like that. 15 00:00:44,130 --> 00:00:48,480 Imagine someone sits down with you and you guys watch that presentation together 16 00:00:49,020 --> 00:00:50,430 and they're like, why'd you say that? 17 00:00:51,030 --> 00:00:51,870 Why'd you do that? 18 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:53,490 Wait, what? 19 00:00:53,699 --> 00:00:55,050 How did you, how did you make that point? 20 00:00:55,050 --> 00:00:55,440 What was that? 21 00:00:55,934 --> 00:00:56,684 Why'd you say that? 22 00:00:56,684 --> 00:01:00,615 So I was, I was doing this, this sermon review with Pastor PJ and he pauses 23 00:01:00,615 --> 00:01:06,375 it three seconds into my sermon and he goes, what's wrong with this picture? 24 00:01:08,025 --> 00:01:08,625 I was like, what? 25 00:01:08,805 --> 00:01:09,104 What? 26 00:01:09,104 --> 00:01:11,354 It's been three seconds and I'm already doing something wrong. 27 00:01:11,685 --> 00:01:12,285 It was crazy. 28 00:01:12,614 --> 00:01:15,435 So the prob, there was a lanyard in my pocket and it was like hanging. 29 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:17,610 And apparently it was distracting. 30 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,490 So if you notice, I never have anything in my front pockets when I preach 31 00:01:20,490 --> 00:01:24,360 anymore, because I'm scarred for life from that moment because I'm scared 32 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,400 that he's gonna watch the sermon and be like, what are you doing? 33 00:01:26,430 --> 00:01:27,509 Why do you have something in your pocket? 34 00:01:27,509 --> 00:01:28,380 So anyway. 35 00:01:28,725 --> 00:01:30,735 But sermon review was scary, right? 36 00:01:30,735 --> 00:01:32,265 Sitting down with, with pastor pj. 37 00:01:32,265 --> 00:01:35,625 Imagine if you had to sit down with, with like your teacher, or maybe 38 00:01:35,655 --> 00:01:37,005 if you're, you play a sport, right? 39 00:01:37,005 --> 00:01:40,155 You watch film, like imagine you watching film of, of your swing 40 00:01:40,155 --> 00:01:44,085 or, or of your concert with someone who's like a professional, right? 41 00:01:44,085 --> 00:01:46,574 Someone who's really good at their job and they're gonna evaluate you. 42 00:01:46,574 --> 00:01:48,164 They're gonna be like, all right, why'd you do that? 43 00:01:48,465 --> 00:01:49,245 What was that for? 44 00:01:49,574 --> 00:01:50,175 How'd you do that? 45 00:01:50,175 --> 00:01:51,435 That wasn't very good, right? 46 00:01:51,435 --> 00:01:54,945 What if you did that with someone that was really good at their job? 47 00:01:56,039 --> 00:01:56,789 That's what happened to me. 48 00:01:56,940 --> 00:02:00,450 And see, here's the thing, is every single one of you and every single one 49 00:02:00,450 --> 00:02:06,240 of us, like me, myself, included, one day, every single one of us is gonna 50 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:12,360 sit down before God and he's going to judge us according to what we've done. 51 00:02:13,020 --> 00:02:16,200 He's, we, we are gonna be accountable to God for everything We've done, 52 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,480 everything we've thought, right? 53 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,240 Imagine all of the things you ever thought, all the things you ever 54 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,920 said, all the things you ever felt. 55 00:02:24,494 --> 00:02:26,114 You are gonna have to give an answer to God. 56 00:02:26,114 --> 00:02:26,744 Why'd you do that? 57 00:02:27,195 --> 00:02:27,945 Why'd you think that? 58 00:02:28,035 --> 00:02:28,785 Why'd you say that? 59 00:02:29,054 --> 00:02:31,964 Why'd you feel that you're gonna be accountable to God 60 00:02:32,084 --> 00:02:34,845 for all of those things? 61 00:02:34,964 --> 00:02:39,285 God is going to judge every single one of us one day when you, 62 00:02:39,404 --> 00:02:41,625 when you meet him face to face. 63 00:02:42,285 --> 00:02:46,454 And that is either gonna go really well or, or really bad for, for some of you. 64 00:02:47,250 --> 00:02:53,730 So our main point tonight is that God gives people exactly what they deserve. 65 00:02:54,660 --> 00:03:01,230 God gives people exactly what they deserve, not more and not less. 66 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,930 So turn your Bibles to Romans chapter two if you're not there already. 67 00:03:04,140 --> 00:03:09,690 And look with me, we're gonna be looking at verses six all the way down to 16. 68 00:03:10,410 --> 00:03:13,710 All right, so let's start here in verse six. 69 00:03:15,315 --> 00:03:18,795 God says, or the apostle Paul's writing this letter, he says, God will 70 00:03:18,795 --> 00:03:23,684 render to each person, he'll give to each person according to his works. 71 00:03:23,744 --> 00:03:26,834 So God will give proportionately to someone's works. 72 00:03:26,834 --> 00:03:28,815 He'll judge people based on their works. 73 00:03:28,815 --> 00:03:33,915 Verse seven, to those who by patience and well doing, seek for glory and honor 74 00:03:33,915 --> 00:03:36,404 and immortality, he'll give eternal life. 75 00:03:36,795 --> 00:03:38,924 So that will go really well for them, verse eight. 76 00:03:38,924 --> 00:03:42,793 But for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, 77 00:03:42,793 --> 00:03:44,174 but obey unrighteousness. 78 00:03:44,670 --> 00:03:47,279 So if you're selfish, if you're obeying unrighteousness, 79 00:03:47,279 --> 00:03:49,529 there will be wrath and fury. 80 00:03:49,860 --> 00:03:52,440 God's white hot anger towards sin. 81 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:53,850 We talked about that a few weeks ago, right? 82 00:03:54,959 --> 00:03:56,880 And then he goes on to say some of the same things. 83 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:57,870 Verse nine. 84 00:03:57,870 --> 00:04:00,870 There'll be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil. 85 00:04:01,409 --> 00:04:03,269 The Jew first and also the Greek, right? 86 00:04:03,269 --> 00:04:06,209 The people who don't have God's word at this time. 87 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,159 But verse 10, glory and honor. 88 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:09,870 And peace for everyone who does good. 89 00:04:09,959 --> 00:04:11,909 The Jew first and also the Greek. 90 00:04:11,909 --> 00:04:13,050 We'll talk more about what that means. 91 00:04:13,230 --> 00:04:13,950 Verse 11. 92 00:04:14,505 --> 00:04:17,654 For God shows no partiality, right? 93 00:04:17,654 --> 00:04:19,274 God is a good judge. 94 00:04:19,815 --> 00:04:22,035 God gives people exactly what they deserve. 95 00:04:22,035 --> 00:04:23,925 He doesn't show favoritism. 96 00:04:25,575 --> 00:04:29,025 This paragraph right here really only shows two outcomes 97 00:04:29,025 --> 00:04:30,135 of this judgment, right? 98 00:04:30,135 --> 00:04:33,105 There's only two categories of people, right? 99 00:04:33,105 --> 00:04:34,515 Look, look with me at these verses here. 100 00:04:36,075 --> 00:04:38,835 God's gonna judge every single person according to their works, right? 101 00:04:39,045 --> 00:04:41,805 One category, I'm scared to erase this. 102 00:04:42,375 --> 00:04:43,225 Will I get in trouble if I erase it? 103 00:04:44,374 --> 00:04:44,664 Okay. 104 00:04:46,025 --> 00:04:46,614 Verse seven. 105 00:04:49,530 --> 00:04:50,669 There's one category, right? 106 00:04:50,669 --> 00:04:52,830 People who get judged and it goes well for them. 107 00:04:53,039 --> 00:04:55,380 People who get judged, they get eternal life. 108 00:04:56,010 --> 00:04:59,249 Another category of person who are self-seeking, there's 109 00:04:59,249 --> 00:05:00,780 gonna be wrath and fury. 110 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:02,099 There's really only two categories. 111 00:05:02,099 --> 00:05:05,159 There's only two outcomes of this test, if you will. 112 00:05:05,159 --> 00:05:06,510 This is pass fail, right? 113 00:05:06,510 --> 00:05:09,900 This isn't 80%, 90%, 70%, 60%. 114 00:05:10,140 --> 00:05:11,520 This is pass fail. 115 00:05:11,580 --> 00:05:12,299 It's one or the other. 116 00:05:16,665 --> 00:05:19,455 Those are the only, only ways this is gonna go for you. 117 00:05:19,485 --> 00:05:24,344 There's not, well, I'm, maybe I'll just get some of, some of the good 118 00:05:24,344 --> 00:05:25,605 stuff and some of the bad stuff. 119 00:05:25,665 --> 00:05:25,815 Right. 120 00:05:25,815 --> 00:05:28,665 Or maybe, well, I'm not that bad of a person, so maybe it'll, it won't be, 121 00:05:28,695 --> 00:05:31,005 maybe it'll just be like, I don't know. 122 00:05:31,005 --> 00:05:33,855 Some consequences, but not like wrath and fury. 123 00:05:34,185 --> 00:05:34,335 Right? 124 00:05:34,335 --> 00:05:38,505 Or, well, I'm not a great person, so I'll just get some good stuff from God. 125 00:05:38,534 --> 00:05:40,125 No, it, it is only gonna go one of two ways. 126 00:05:40,125 --> 00:05:41,415 It's a hundred percent or 0%. 127 00:05:42,090 --> 00:05:45,840 You're in one of these two categories tonight, right now, if you died, 128 00:05:46,020 --> 00:05:50,010 you would end up in one of these two categories, eternal Life or God's Wrath. 129 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:56,130 And I hope you know which one you're in, and I hope you know if you're in this 130 00:05:56,130 --> 00:05:58,770 one, that you're in a dangerous spot. 131 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,260 So I want you to be thinking about this. 132 00:06:04,380 --> 00:06:08,190 I want you to, to really be thinking, okay, one day I'm going 133 00:06:08,190 --> 00:06:10,320 to stand before God, and one of two things is gonna happen. 134 00:06:11,445 --> 00:06:15,734 I am going to have the best day of my life, or I'm gonna 135 00:06:15,734 --> 00:06:16,844 have the worst day of my life. 136 00:06:17,835 --> 00:06:23,775 I'm gonna either spend forever enjoying God and and his glory, 137 00:06:23,775 --> 00:06:29,085 or I'm gonna spend forever hating everything about what's going on. 138 00:06:30,405 --> 00:06:32,085 There's only two options here. 139 00:06:32,385 --> 00:06:35,534 And if you thought about that, man, I'm gonna stand before God one day 140 00:06:35,534 --> 00:06:36,405 and this is what's gonna happen. 141 00:06:36,435 --> 00:06:36,495 In. 142 00:06:37,575 --> 00:06:41,685 I think that would change a lot about what you did and what you thought. 143 00:06:41,925 --> 00:06:43,605 And I know that would be the same for me. 144 00:06:43,605 --> 00:06:45,135 So ignore this slide. 145 00:06:45,135 --> 00:06:48,465 But my first point tonight is to think about God's judgment. 146 00:06:48,705 --> 00:06:49,155 Often. 147 00:06:49,995 --> 00:06:55,575 Often I think that would change a lot about us, about what we did, 148 00:06:55,575 --> 00:07:00,465 about what we thought was important, about what we thought was good 149 00:07:00,465 --> 00:07:04,110 for us, the decisions we make, the words we said, the jokes we made. 150 00:07:04,725 --> 00:07:06,885 Would change a lot about us if we just thought, man, I'm 151 00:07:06,885 --> 00:07:08,115 gonna stand before God one day. 152 00:07:08,355 --> 00:07:10,335 And he's gonna say, why'd you do that? 153 00:07:14,595 --> 00:07:17,475 I don't know if you guys still do this. 154 00:07:17,655 --> 00:07:20,895 When I was in high school, this is how we sound really old, when I was 155 00:07:20,895 --> 00:07:26,925 your age, we wrote essays and uh, they were, we would like peer review each 156 00:07:26,925 --> 00:07:28,065 other's essays, you know what I mean? 157 00:07:28,095 --> 00:07:32,265 Like, here, this person's gonna grade my essay and I'm gonna grade their essay. 158 00:07:32,685 --> 00:07:35,325 And we're gonna read it and, and we're gonna mark it up and whatever. 159 00:07:35,325 --> 00:07:39,405 And what I realized very quickly about, you know, these peer graded essays is 160 00:07:39,405 --> 00:07:41,385 that no one's honest on these things. 161 00:07:41,474 --> 00:07:43,485 You know why no one's honest on a peer review essay? 162 00:07:44,145 --> 00:07:47,534 Because they're scared if they say something bad about you, that you're 163 00:07:47,534 --> 00:07:48,855 gonna say something bad about them. 164 00:07:49,034 --> 00:07:49,275 Right? 165 00:07:49,275 --> 00:07:52,605 They're like, oh, well this sentence doesn't make any sense. 166 00:07:52,605 --> 00:07:57,495 But you know what, Josh is reading my paper, and if I write something 167 00:07:57,495 --> 00:07:59,534 really, really bad on his paper, then. 168 00:07:59,865 --> 00:08:03,915 He's probably gonna be like, oh, well since you did that, I'm gonna do this. 169 00:08:03,945 --> 00:08:04,185 Right. 170 00:08:04,245 --> 00:08:08,475 So a peer, peer graded essay never really worked because everyone was 171 00:08:08,475 --> 00:08:09,615 just really nice to each other. 172 00:08:10,605 --> 00:08:12,885 Everyone just was like, well, uh, I don't know. 173 00:08:12,885 --> 00:08:16,785 I'm not gonna say what I normally would say if it was anonymous, because I'm 174 00:08:16,785 --> 00:08:20,865 thinking, I'm thinking about, oh, this other person is judging me just as 175 00:08:20,865 --> 00:08:22,815 I'm judging them, they're judging me. 176 00:08:24,465 --> 00:08:28,825 And that thought of, oh, I'm gonna have to like actually give this back to them. 177 00:08:29,819 --> 00:08:32,159 That's why it's easy to say mean things over text, right. 178 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:35,308 Or on Twitter, because you're not actually like talking to the person. 179 00:08:36,299 --> 00:08:39,179 You don't have to actually like face a reaction for what you're saying. 180 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,929 Same with these, with these peer review essays, you, you have to 181 00:08:42,929 --> 00:08:44,339 actually hand it back to the person. 182 00:08:44,339 --> 00:08:45,660 They're like, oh, you wrote that? 183 00:08:46,260 --> 00:08:49,439 You, you said that about, about my intro paragraph. 184 00:08:49,620 --> 00:08:51,420 You said that about my thesis. 185 00:08:51,420 --> 00:08:51,719 Right? 186 00:08:53,370 --> 00:08:56,365 So that thought of judgment. 187 00:08:57,660 --> 00:08:59,040 It changes the way you grade the essay. 188 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,189 And I think the same thing should be true of us. 189 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,400 That thought of God is gonna hold me accountable for what I do. 190 00:09:06,510 --> 00:09:08,490 That should change the way that we act. 191 00:09:08,550 --> 00:09:11,220 That should change the way that we think the things that we think are important. 192 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:19,530 If you aren't a believer in this room, if you know, man, I'm, I'm in that 193 00:09:19,530 --> 00:09:21,840 second category, I'm under God's wrath. 194 00:09:21,900 --> 00:09:23,430 I don't trust Jesus to save me. 195 00:09:24,150 --> 00:09:25,425 I, I do want you to think about it. 196 00:09:26,535 --> 00:09:31,155 I want you to, to really realize what you're saying, right? 197 00:09:31,155 --> 00:09:34,515 If I died tonight, I would be going to hell. 198 00:09:36,195 --> 00:09:41,655 That's where you sit right now, and I, it's easy to just hear the sermon, feel 199 00:09:41,655 --> 00:09:43,845 bad about it for 30 seconds and move on. 200 00:09:44,265 --> 00:09:45,795 You get in the car, you start talking about something else. 201 00:09:46,064 --> 00:09:47,595 You go to sleep, you move on with your life. 202 00:09:48,345 --> 00:09:49,605 It's, it's easy to do that. 203 00:09:50,265 --> 00:09:53,235 And I want you to think about, man, I'm in danger, right? 204 00:09:53,235 --> 00:09:55,635 We talked about how God's wrath is. 205 00:09:56,025 --> 00:09:57,765 Is being stored up, right? 206 00:09:57,765 --> 00:10:00,015 The way you're living is storing up God's wrath. 207 00:10:00,525 --> 00:10:01,755 It's hanging over you. 208 00:10:02,325 --> 00:10:05,505 You know, like that lightning cloud in Mario Kart that makes you go faster 209 00:10:05,505 --> 00:10:07,605 and then it zaps you at the end, right? 210 00:10:07,605 --> 00:10:09,225 And you're like trying to get that thing, you're trying to bump 211 00:10:09,225 --> 00:10:10,305 someone to get that thing off you. 212 00:10:10,305 --> 00:10:11,715 'cause you're like, I'm gonna get zapped. 213 00:10:12,765 --> 00:10:13,695 That's you right Now. 214 00:10:14,115 --> 00:10:17,355 You're driving around with this thunder cloud over you that's, 215 00:10:17,385 --> 00:10:21,465 that's gonna zap you and you're just hoping it doesn't zap you yet. 216 00:10:23,445 --> 00:10:24,405 I want you to think about that. 217 00:10:24,495 --> 00:10:28,755 It's, it's hanging over you and, and you don't know when it's gonna, 218 00:10:28,815 --> 00:10:30,015 when when you're done, right? 219 00:10:30,015 --> 00:10:31,155 You don't know when your last day is, 220 00:10:35,625 --> 00:10:37,065 and I don't want you to suppress that. 221 00:10:37,065 --> 00:10:38,415 We talked about people suppressing the truth. 222 00:10:38,445 --> 00:10:39,855 You, it's easy for me to say that. 223 00:10:39,855 --> 00:10:41,835 And you like, oh man, yeah, I really should become a Christian. 224 00:10:41,835 --> 00:10:42,290 Oh, maybe later. 225 00:10:42,570 --> 00:10:44,220 And you procrastinate, you suppress it. 226 00:10:44,220 --> 00:10:47,220 You say, oh, well, I don't know if real Bible is really true, or, oh God 227 00:10:47,220 --> 00:10:48,840 can't be good 'cause bad things happen. 228 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,060 Or, I don't really know if Jesus is God, or, I don't really 229 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:51,990 know if God would save me. 230 00:10:51,990 --> 00:10:52,800 And you just push it back. 231 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:53,610 I'll do that when I'm older. 232 00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:54,630 I don't wanna do that right now. 233 00:10:54,630 --> 00:10:56,010 It's, it's so easy to do that. 234 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:59,940 And what I'm asking you to do is to just think about, to realize, man, I am. 235 00:11:00,270 --> 00:11:02,175 I am as one famous person. 236 00:11:02,195 --> 00:11:06,840 Put it, you're like a spider hanging over, hanging over a fire 237 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:08,820 by just the little, little web. 238 00:11:11,805 --> 00:11:13,815 But if you're a Christian in this room, you may have not 239 00:11:13,815 --> 00:11:16,725 thought about this before, but, but God judges Christians too. 240 00:11:17,295 --> 00:11:17,985 It's not the same. 241 00:11:17,985 --> 00:11:19,215 It's not a heaven or hell judgment. 242 00:11:19,395 --> 00:11:23,175 But God judges, Christians here in Romans 14. 243 00:11:23,175 --> 00:11:24,765 Later in, well actually we won't get here. 244 00:11:25,035 --> 00:11:27,495 Verse stopping at chapter eight, um, because otherwise 245 00:11:27,495 --> 00:11:28,785 we'd be doing this for years. 246 00:11:29,295 --> 00:11:31,875 Um, Romans 1412, Paul, right? 247 00:11:31,935 --> 00:11:32,625 Paul's a Christian. 248 00:11:32,805 --> 00:11:37,125 He says, each one of us will give an account of himself to God if 249 00:11:37,125 --> 00:11:38,085 you're a Christian in this room. 250 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,550 You're still gonna be held accountable for the things that you did. 251 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,890 Yes, Jesus will pay for your sin, but you still have to answer 252 00:11:46,890 --> 00:11:48,720 to God for what you've done. 253 00:11:49,439 --> 00:11:53,580 God still holds you responsible for how you use your time, how you use your 254 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:56,850 energy, the, the things that you've thought about, the things that you've 255 00:11:56,850 --> 00:12:00,240 prioritized, and I hope that clarifies for you what your priorities are. 256 00:12:01,170 --> 00:12:02,400 I hope that clarifies for you. 257 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,820 Oh man, I'm gonna have to, to turn my life into God one day. 258 00:12:08,175 --> 00:12:09,855 Answer for how I used it. 259 00:12:09,944 --> 00:12:11,385 God gave me a life. 260 00:12:11,745 --> 00:12:14,444 He gave me a phone, he gave me a car. 261 00:12:14,444 --> 00:12:16,485 He gave me a school to be at. 262 00:12:16,485 --> 00:12:17,745 He gave me talents. 263 00:12:17,745 --> 00:12:18,675 He gave me a voice. 264 00:12:18,675 --> 00:12:21,135 He gave me a body, and I'm supposed to use them for him. 265 00:12:23,444 --> 00:12:26,625 So I hope that you think about that, but also I hope you think 266 00:12:26,625 --> 00:12:28,755 about too as, as we looked at in 267 00:12:31,454 --> 00:12:32,295 this passage, right? 268 00:12:33,645 --> 00:12:36,675 There's, there's good things that you get from being a Christian. 269 00:12:37,695 --> 00:12:42,045 The judgment of Christians is also one of rewards, right? 270 00:12:42,045 --> 00:12:42,825 Christians don't. 271 00:12:42,825 --> 00:12:44,025 It's not just, oh, great, you're saved. 272 00:12:44,025 --> 00:12:44,355 Cool. 273 00:12:44,565 --> 00:12:44,745 No. 274 00:12:44,745 --> 00:12:47,415 Christians get things for the good things that they've done. 275 00:12:48,255 --> 00:12:49,485 Jesus talks about this all the time. 276 00:12:49,485 --> 00:12:51,195 He talks about rewards in heaven. 277 00:12:52,635 --> 00:12:55,245 God rewards some Christians more than others. 278 00:12:57,315 --> 00:12:59,175 God is not communist, right? 279 00:12:59,175 --> 00:12:59,535 God is. 280 00:12:59,925 --> 00:13:01,575 Capitalist, if you want to put it that way. 281 00:13:02,925 --> 00:13:07,485 God rewards Christians for the, for the things that they've done, 282 00:13:09,045 --> 00:13:13,695 and so you will never do something for God that's not worth it. 283 00:13:15,105 --> 00:13:18,105 Think about that as a Christian, you'll never, you make a sacrifice 284 00:13:18,105 --> 00:13:19,785 that God won't make worth it for you. 285 00:13:19,790 --> 00:13:19,910 One. 286 00:13:21,405 --> 00:13:23,655 You lose a friend because you share the gospel with them and they don't 287 00:13:23,655 --> 00:13:26,714 like you anymore, or you'd miss out on that, on that party or that 288 00:13:26,714 --> 00:13:31,185 relationship because you know that that's gonna lead you away from God or you. 289 00:13:31,185 --> 00:13:35,564 You don't click on that video or you don't read that book, or you're not part of that 290 00:13:35,564 --> 00:13:37,395 conversation or that friend group anymore. 291 00:13:38,895 --> 00:13:39,854 It's gonna be worth it. 292 00:13:40,094 --> 00:13:43,245 God will make it worth it for you one day, maybe not this week, 293 00:13:43,635 --> 00:13:46,365 but one day he will, and you can trust him for that as a Christian. 294 00:13:46,755 --> 00:13:48,795 So I hope that's motivating for you too of man, I could 295 00:13:48,795 --> 00:13:50,094 never give up too much for God. 296 00:13:50,954 --> 00:13:55,724 God will reward your faithfulness, you, and even if no one else sees it, right? 297 00:13:55,724 --> 00:13:58,064 Even if your parents don't see it, even if your leader doesn't see it, 298 00:13:58,064 --> 00:13:59,505 even if no one knows about it, right? 299 00:14:00,854 --> 00:14:02,745 You know that God will reward you. 300 00:14:02,745 --> 00:14:03,824 That's what Jesus says, right? 301 00:14:04,125 --> 00:14:07,064 Your don't let your right hand know what your, your left hand 302 00:14:07,064 --> 00:14:07,935 know, what your right hand's doing. 303 00:14:08,535 --> 00:14:12,405 Your father who sees what's going on in secret will reward you. 304 00:14:13,425 --> 00:14:16,515 So I hope that's encouraging for you as well, if, if you 305 00:14:16,515 --> 00:14:17,834 are a Christian in this room. 306 00:14:18,735 --> 00:14:21,015 Now, maybe you're sitting there and you're thinking, well, I'm not sure, right? 307 00:14:21,015 --> 00:14:22,125 I'm not sure if I'm a Christian. 308 00:14:22,125 --> 00:14:25,095 I don't know which category I'm in, and I would just ask you to, to just 309 00:14:25,125 --> 00:14:26,565 do some digging into that, right? 310 00:14:26,565 --> 00:14:27,495 You say you're not sure. 311 00:14:27,855 --> 00:14:29,745 Well, don't just sit there and be like, oh, well, I'm not sure. 312 00:14:29,805 --> 00:14:31,455 Oh, well, right. 313 00:14:31,965 --> 00:14:35,535 If you're not sure, you're one of your biggest priorities should be figuring 314 00:14:35,535 --> 00:14:37,665 out whether you are a Christian or whether you're not a Christian. 315 00:14:38,055 --> 00:14:38,925 So ask some questions. 316 00:14:38,925 --> 00:14:39,765 Why am I not sure? 317 00:14:40,170 --> 00:14:41,640 Maybe it's, oh, well, I keep sinning. 318 00:14:41,670 --> 00:14:42,959 Okay, well ask questions about that. 319 00:14:42,959 --> 00:14:47,969 Why, you know, is, is my sin something that a Christian is, would, would do, or 320 00:14:47,969 --> 00:14:49,170 something that a Christian wouldn't do? 321 00:14:49,829 --> 00:14:54,569 Am I trusting Jesus or am I trusting in myself? 322 00:14:54,780 --> 00:14:56,339 Ask questions to see. 323 00:14:56,369 --> 00:14:57,930 Okay, read the Bible, right? 324 00:14:57,930 --> 00:14:59,310 There's a book of the Bible, first John. 325 00:14:59,310 --> 00:15:01,439 That's all about whether or not you're a Christian. 326 00:15:02,010 --> 00:15:03,750 So God has given you things. 327 00:15:03,750 --> 00:15:04,800 Talk to your parents, talk to your leaders. 328 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:06,510 Do some digging and ask questions. 329 00:15:07,125 --> 00:15:08,745 But I want you to think about God's judgment. 330 00:15:08,745 --> 00:15:11,444 No matter who you are in this room, I want you to think one day I'm gonna 331 00:15:11,444 --> 00:15:14,655 stand before God and I'm gonna have to answer for everything that I've done. 332 00:15:15,015 --> 00:15:18,255 Every Jesus says in Matthew 12, every word, every careless word you've 333 00:15:18,255 --> 00:15:22,665 ever spoken, every text you've ever sent, every image you've ever seen, 334 00:15:22,785 --> 00:15:28,214 every website you've ever been to, every meme you've ever sent, you 335 00:15:28,214 --> 00:15:29,244 have to answer for that to God. 336 00:15:31,410 --> 00:15:33,870 So think about God's judgment often. 337 00:15:33,870 --> 00:15:39,240 But here's the thing, and what we'll see that, uh, in this passage is that thinking 338 00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:45,270 about God's judgment won't do you any good if you just assume that you're fine. 339 00:15:45,479 --> 00:15:47,160 So look with me here at verse 11. 340 00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:47,640 Okay? 341 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,240 So God says, God shows no partiality. 342 00:15:51,810 --> 00:15:52,890 God shows no partiality. 343 00:15:52,890 --> 00:15:54,510 That means favoritism, right God. 344 00:15:54,810 --> 00:15:56,459 God doesn't show any favoritism. 345 00:15:56,459 --> 00:15:57,750 God doesn't treat some people. 346 00:15:58,094 --> 00:16:01,724 Better than other people's just because oh, well they're from this country. 347 00:16:01,875 --> 00:16:01,964 Right? 348 00:16:01,964 --> 00:16:05,055 And that's what Paul's audience, he's talking to Jews and Gentiles and the 349 00:16:05,055 --> 00:16:07,755 Jewish people in the audience were saying, well, you know, we're, we're 350 00:16:07,755 --> 00:16:09,435 Jews, we're God's chosen people. 351 00:16:09,555 --> 00:16:10,875 God gave us the Old Testament. 352 00:16:10,875 --> 00:16:12,165 God sent us prophets. 353 00:16:12,314 --> 00:16:14,625 So we must be better off. 354 00:16:14,775 --> 00:16:16,305 We must, God must like us. 355 00:16:16,849 --> 00:16:18,199 Essentially is what these Jews are saying. 356 00:16:18,439 --> 00:16:22,609 God will treat us better than those other people because we're special to God. 357 00:16:22,790 --> 00:16:24,170 We're God's favorite people. 358 00:16:24,530 --> 00:16:27,829 And what Paul is saying is God doesn't have favorites. 359 00:16:27,859 --> 00:16:30,800 He doesn't not gonna treat the, the Jews better and the Gentiles worse just 360 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,989 because, well, you're from Israel, or you know who Moses is, or you know, 361 00:16:35,989 --> 00:16:37,130 the 10 Commandments or whatever. 362 00:16:38,719 --> 00:16:39,110 Why? 363 00:16:39,140 --> 00:16:43,219 Well, all who've sinned without the law will also perish without the law. 364 00:16:43,340 --> 00:16:45,620 But all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 365 00:16:46,049 --> 00:16:48,180 So what's the common denominator here? 366 00:16:49,739 --> 00:16:55,469 Everyone's sinned and everyone who sinned will perish, will be judged, right? 367 00:16:55,469 --> 00:16:58,140 Everyone's guilty before God. 368 00:16:59,309 --> 00:17:00,239 And then verse 13. 369 00:17:01,019 --> 00:17:01,709 Here's why. 370 00:17:01,829 --> 00:17:05,940 It's not the people who hear the law, who go to church, who hear sermons 371 00:17:05,940 --> 00:17:09,180 in true North, who memorize Bible verses who have Christian parents. 372 00:17:09,300 --> 00:17:12,210 It's not those people who are righteous before God, but the people 373 00:17:12,210 --> 00:17:17,250 who do the law, the people who live out what God says, those are the 374 00:17:17,250 --> 00:17:19,380 people who are gonna be justified. 375 00:17:20,430 --> 00:17:24,510 Paul is not judging PE or God is not judging people based on where 376 00:17:24,510 --> 00:17:27,480 they're from or their background or how much they know God's judging 377 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:28,980 people based on how they live. 378 00:17:29,580 --> 00:17:30,510 That's what, what. 379 00:17:30,930 --> 00:17:32,130 Paul is saying here. 380 00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:36,630 So for our second point tonight, don't count on favoritism for God. 381 00:17:36,930 --> 00:17:43,020 Don't be like these Jews who think, oh, well my sins not as bad because 382 00:17:44,010 --> 00:17:45,930 me and God, me and God are tight. 383 00:17:47,070 --> 00:17:50,280 I'm part of God's special group, so it's okay. 384 00:17:50,610 --> 00:17:55,290 Or those people over there, they don't know as much as me, so God 385 00:17:55,290 --> 00:17:58,770 will judge them harsher than me. 386 00:18:01,830 --> 00:18:04,860 So when I was in middle school, I was in band 'cause I was really cool. 387 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:10,140 Um, and I was my band director's favorite student. 388 00:18:10,860 --> 00:18:13,020 Like teachers always say we don't have favorites. 389 00:18:13,470 --> 00:18:15,420 Teachers have favorite students, a hundred percent right. 390 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,690 Um, and I was clearly my band director's favorite suit. 391 00:18:18,690 --> 00:18:19,740 And it was, it was awesome. 392 00:18:19,860 --> 00:18:20,970 It was like the best thing ever. 393 00:18:21,180 --> 00:18:23,805 So I needed to get something in the middle of class and I went up and got it. 394 00:18:24,315 --> 00:18:26,715 I came back, the person next to me did the exact same thing. 395 00:18:26,775 --> 00:18:29,025 They needed to get something, the same thing that I needed, went up 396 00:18:29,025 --> 00:18:30,045 and got it, and they got in trouble. 397 00:18:30,645 --> 00:18:31,875 I was like, this is epic. 398 00:18:32,535 --> 00:18:33,915 I can just do whatever I want. 399 00:18:33,915 --> 00:18:34,485 This is great. 400 00:18:34,695 --> 00:18:37,635 So, which I, I did need it and it did help me like it was like for a good 401 00:18:37,635 --> 00:18:39,045 purpose, but it was just hilarious. 402 00:18:39,225 --> 00:18:42,315 I felt really bad, but also I was like, that's hilarious that you got in trouble. 403 00:18:42,315 --> 00:18:42,735 And I didn't. 404 00:18:42,975 --> 00:18:46,965 So I was my band director's favorite student and so. 405 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,850 Naturally right there, there might be things that I would think, oh, I 406 00:18:50,850 --> 00:18:52,530 could take advantage of this, right? 407 00:18:52,530 --> 00:18:54,180 Because I'm my band director's favorite student. 408 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:58,740 I can, I can mess around, I can get away with things that maybe other students 409 00:18:58,740 --> 00:19:00,120 wouldn't be able to get away with, right? 410 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:03,360 I get the special perks of, of being, you know, the band director's favorite student 411 00:19:03,630 --> 00:19:06,960 I got, for some reason, they let me play percussion with the orchestra and I got 412 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:08,340 to go to San Diego with the orchestra. 413 00:19:08,340 --> 00:19:09,420 I was like, I shouldn't be. 414 00:19:09,420 --> 00:19:10,560 We have real percussionists. 415 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,410 They picked the guy who plays trumpet to, anyway. 416 00:19:13,410 --> 00:19:14,430 It was, it was, it was great. 417 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,640 Um, so I got to do all these cool things because I was my 418 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,710 band director's favorite student. 419 00:19:20,790 --> 00:19:26,130 Now, some of you and some of us, I think we, we don't actually say, 420 00:19:26,130 --> 00:19:30,060 oh yeah, God must like me more than other people, but we kind of assume. 421 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:31,170 Here. 422 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:34,830 Here I'll show you some things you might think that God will be partial 423 00:19:34,830 --> 00:19:39,300 to you, will will be like you're one of God's favored people, that God won't 424 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:44,640 be as harsh on you in his judgment for, for maybe certain reasons, right? 425 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:50,430 Maybe you think, well, I go to church, so in implicitly you think, oh, well 426 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:56,095 I must be a Christian, or, oh, well I won't, I won't suffer as much. 427 00:19:57,030 --> 00:20:00,210 Of god's of, of God's wrath as people who don't go to church. 428 00:20:00,210 --> 00:20:01,080 'cause at least I go to church. 429 00:20:01,110 --> 00:20:03,900 Maybe I'm not a Christian, but I, I know, I know the Bible. 430 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:06,540 I go to church so I can't be as bad at. 431 00:20:06,870 --> 00:20:10,470 We even talked about a couple weeks ago, people who really reject God's 432 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:13,500 even natural design, you think, no, maybe you're not as bad as those people. 433 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,400 That's you saying that God's gonna show you favoritism 434 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,015 just 'cause you go to church. 435 00:20:19,230 --> 00:20:21,210 Just 'cause you, you go to the right church or you have the right 436 00:20:21,210 --> 00:20:25,290 parents, or maybe you assume, oh, I must be a Christian because 437 00:20:25,290 --> 00:20:26,520 I serve, I serve in kids, men. 438 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,910 I help set up, I, I share the gospel with people at school. 439 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:33,690 I, I do religious things and maybe you think, oh, that must make me a Christian. 440 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,220 I memorized Bible verses. 441 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,930 I know a lot about the Bible. 442 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,580 Maybe you think, oh, I must be a Christian because I feel bad about my sin. 443 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,660 I feel really bad when I sin, so I must be a Christian now. 444 00:20:46,470 --> 00:20:47,580 It's a good sign, but. 445 00:20:48,165 --> 00:20:50,385 Guess who else feels felt really bad about his sin? 446 00:20:51,195 --> 00:20:51,705 Judas. 447 00:20:52,245 --> 00:20:54,465 So doesn't mean you're a Christian, right? 448 00:20:55,815 --> 00:20:59,985 Maybe you think, oh, well, um, I'm young so God won't, won't really 449 00:20:59,985 --> 00:21:01,035 hold me accountable for my sin. 450 00:21:01,695 --> 00:21:03,375 He only holds like adults accountable for their sin. 451 00:21:03,945 --> 00:21:06,225 Maybe you wouldn't say it like that, but that's maybe something you think about, 452 00:21:06,255 --> 00:21:07,545 oh, I can just become a Christian later. 453 00:21:08,175 --> 00:21:08,750 It's not a big deal. 454 00:21:10,035 --> 00:21:15,495 Well, God judges everyone, not just older people. 455 00:21:17,895 --> 00:21:22,455 Or maybe you think, well, I have like this moment, this salvation moment 456 00:21:22,455 --> 00:21:26,085 I was at camp and the worst that music was, was whatever is is great. 457 00:21:26,085 --> 00:21:29,025 And I was crying and I talked to my leader and I, I prayed this prayer 458 00:21:29,025 --> 00:21:30,675 and that's why I'm a Christian. 459 00:21:31,335 --> 00:21:33,345 Like, well that doesn't make you a Christian. 460 00:21:33,375 --> 00:21:33,585 Right. 461 00:21:33,585 --> 00:21:37,275 Some experience you had, or I talked to my mom when I was four years old 462 00:21:37,485 --> 00:21:40,125 and we, we prayed this prayer together and that's what makes me a Christian. 463 00:21:40,845 --> 00:21:42,555 Experience doesn't make you a Christian, right? 464 00:21:42,555 --> 00:21:45,405 Just having this this moment doesn't make you a Christian. 465 00:21:45,405 --> 00:21:47,775 Trusting Jesus is what makes you a Christian. 466 00:21:48,135 --> 00:21:51,315 So there's a lot of things that maybe you can just behind the scenes think, 467 00:21:51,315 --> 00:21:55,545 oh, well this must be, I'm, I'm better off than, than the other people. 468 00:21:56,385 --> 00:22:00,585 That God's wrath isn't really as much for me as it is really for those people. 469 00:22:02,115 --> 00:22:04,635 Maybe you just think, well, I'm just, I'm not, you know, I'm not a serial killer. 470 00:22:04,635 --> 00:22:08,175 I'm not a, I'm not a really bad person, so. 471 00:22:09,435 --> 00:22:10,635 I must not be that bad. 472 00:22:11,505 --> 00:22:15,075 And that's, the Bible is simply not, that's not true. 473 00:22:15,105 --> 00:22:16,455 There's, there's two categories, right? 474 00:22:16,455 --> 00:22:18,075 There's eternal life and there's God's wrath. 475 00:22:18,705 --> 00:22:20,595 There's not this, well, you're a good person, but you're 476 00:22:20,595 --> 00:22:21,435 not a Christian category. 477 00:22:22,065 --> 00:22:23,865 Or you go to church but you're not a Christian category. 478 00:22:24,015 --> 00:22:25,515 There's, that's not a real, that's not a thing. 479 00:22:26,325 --> 00:22:31,755 There's two categories, but sometimes also as Christians, we can kind of do 480 00:22:31,755 --> 00:22:33,375 the same thing and minimize our sin. 481 00:22:34,575 --> 00:22:37,170 I think a lot of us Christians in the room has said something like this 482 00:22:37,170 --> 00:22:39,120 before, well, God will forgive me anyway. 483 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,940 And so our sin is not as big of a deal or God loves me. 484 00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:43,920 So now that we've become a Christian, we don't see our sin 485 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:44,970 the same way we used to see it. 486 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:47,490 We see other people sinning and we're like, oh, that's really bad. 487 00:22:47,730 --> 00:22:50,190 And then we look at our sin, we're like, well, I'm working on it. 488 00:22:50,610 --> 00:22:51,390 So it's not that bad. 489 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:53,760 Well, it's still sin, right? 490 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,640 It's still, still God. 491 00:22:56,700 --> 00:22:58,440 God's wrath is still directed at that sin. 492 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,510 Jesus still died for that sin. 493 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:01,885 Maybe we think. 494 00:23:03,585 --> 00:23:04,725 Other people are worse than us. 495 00:23:05,145 --> 00:23:08,505 All right, well, I've grown a lot, so that makes my sin better than theirs. 496 00:23:08,685 --> 00:23:11,325 It's like, well, no, it doesn't make your, I mean, yes, you have grown a 497 00:23:11,325 --> 00:23:14,115 lot that's great, but doesn't make your sin better than someone else. 498 00:23:14,805 --> 00:23:17,145 So there's, there's even ways that Christians, we do this too. 499 00:23:17,355 --> 00:23:22,365 We think that our sin isn't as big of a deal because of, of things about us. 500 00:23:22,695 --> 00:23:26,325 'cause we've grown a lot or because we've been saved or because God 501 00:23:26,325 --> 00:23:27,885 will forgive us or God loves me. 502 00:23:29,985 --> 00:23:33,495 Or maybe this is, this is for everyone, but no one knows about it, right? 503 00:23:33,765 --> 00:23:36,885 So you don't think it's a big deal, or it's not hurting anyone, so 504 00:23:36,885 --> 00:23:37,695 you don't think it's a big deal. 505 00:23:39,015 --> 00:23:40,005 That's simply not true. 506 00:23:40,455 --> 00:23:43,665 Just 'cause your sin doesn't hurt anyone, doesn't mean it's not that bad. 507 00:23:45,075 --> 00:23:49,515 So don't count on favoritism for God, for even those kind of things. 508 00:23:51,075 --> 00:23:55,965 God doesn't like your sin more for any reason. 509 00:23:56,490 --> 00:23:58,350 He's not more okay with your sin. 510 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,410 Even if you are a Christian, he's not like, oh, well your sin iss not 511 00:24:01,410 --> 00:24:04,170 that bad as long as you're saved. 512 00:24:04,170 --> 00:24:04,890 It's not that bad. 513 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:05,700 That's not true. 514 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:15,450 But talking about God's judgment, it naturally leads us to another question. 515 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,000 'cause maybe you've, you've had this question in the back of your mind and 516 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,990 maybe when someone asks you about, about have you become a Christian 517 00:24:21,990 --> 00:24:23,640 or what this is your go-to question. 518 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,740 Well, what about the people? 519 00:24:26,190 --> 00:24:28,980 Who have never heard of God? 520 00:24:29,460 --> 00:24:31,080 What about the people who don't know who Jesus is? 521 00:24:31,230 --> 00:24:36,450 What about the people who, and they live in an island somewhere and no one's 522 00:24:36,450 --> 00:24:37,620 ever gonna share their gospel with them? 523 00:24:37,650 --> 00:24:38,670 What about those people? 524 00:24:39,570 --> 00:24:41,490 How can God be a good judge? 525 00:24:42,570 --> 00:24:45,330 And what about these people they don't know? 526 00:24:45,330 --> 00:24:45,630 They don't. 527 00:24:46,530 --> 00:24:51,030 Well, that is exactly what Paul is gonna talk about in these next few verses. 528 00:24:51,060 --> 00:24:51,180 Okay? 529 00:24:51,180 --> 00:24:52,770 Look at verse 12 with me. 530 00:24:52,830 --> 00:24:54,360 So we saw this already for all. 531 00:24:55,155 --> 00:24:57,585 Who have sinned without the law. 532 00:24:58,425 --> 00:25:02,745 You see that without the law, these people don't have the Bible, 533 00:25:02,775 --> 00:25:03,765 essentially, is what Paul's saying. 534 00:25:04,935 --> 00:25:06,105 These people don't, they don't. 535 00:25:06,135 --> 00:25:07,545 They don't have the law. 536 00:25:07,575 --> 00:25:07,785 You know? 537 00:25:07,785 --> 00:25:09,345 They don't have Genesis, they don't have Exodus. 538 00:25:09,345 --> 00:25:10,305 They don't know the 10 Commandments. 539 00:25:10,305 --> 00:25:13,425 They don't know what God expects of them, supposedly. 540 00:25:14,505 --> 00:25:17,145 But Paul says those people will still perish even though 541 00:25:17,145 --> 00:25:17,835 they don't have the law. 542 00:25:18,285 --> 00:25:21,805 Those people are still under God's wrath, even though they don't have the law. 543 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,800 And then all people who have, who are under the law will be judged by the law. 544 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:26,820 Why? 545 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,740 Well, first thing, it's not just the, the people who hear the law, having the Bible, 546 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:38,250 going to church, being Jewish in this case is not an advantage before God because God 547 00:25:38,250 --> 00:25:39,930 will judge you based on what you've done. 548 00:25:40,410 --> 00:25:42,390 That the same standard is for everyone. 549 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:43,530 That's, that's the first thing. 550 00:25:44,550 --> 00:25:47,040 God has the same standard for all people. 551 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,240 God is a perfect judge. 552 00:25:51,990 --> 00:25:59,850 He, he gives this exact same judgment on everyone, people who have the law 553 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,070 and people who don't have the law. 554 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:05,820 So before we, we dive into more of this, there's three more 555 00:26:05,820 --> 00:26:06,840 verses that I wanna look at. 556 00:26:06,990 --> 00:26:08,520 I want you to write down our third point, okay. 557 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,120 Agree with God's perfect justice. 558 00:26:17,670 --> 00:26:19,795 One of my goals for you from. 559 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:27,150 Looking at Romans chapters one through three is I want you to be 560 00:26:27,150 --> 00:26:32,880 able to, to say God does the right thing when he sends people to hell. 561 00:26:34,110 --> 00:26:38,670 I want you to be able to say that, and that sounds kind of weird, but 562 00:26:38,670 --> 00:26:43,680 I want you to be able to say that because that's what, what really 563 00:26:43,860 --> 00:26:48,300 one of the reasons we should worship God is that God punishes sin. 564 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:49,530 We want God to punish sin. 565 00:26:50,850 --> 00:26:53,460 We want God who does something about all the bad people. 566 00:26:53,970 --> 00:26:56,850 We want God who does something about all the bad things that happen in the world. 567 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,250 That's one of the main objections to Christianity. 568 00:26:59,430 --> 00:27:01,620 If God is good, why do bad things happen? 569 00:27:02,190 --> 00:27:04,110 People want God to do something about bad things. 570 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,330 The answer is that God does do things about all the bad things. 571 00:27:10,020 --> 00:27:14,285 God punishes everyone's sin, and then we say, whoa, whoa, whoa. 572 00:27:14,290 --> 00:27:14,880 That's not fair. 573 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:17,490 You can't have both. 574 00:27:17,490 --> 00:27:17,820 Right? 575 00:27:19,335 --> 00:27:22,215 You either have a God who punishes sin or you have a God who doesn't care about sin. 576 00:27:23,415 --> 00:27:27,075 If you have a God who doesn't care about sin, then you have bad things 577 00:27:27,075 --> 00:27:29,865 happening and you don't have any right to complaint about it, right? 578 00:27:31,065 --> 00:27:31,845 'cause you don't have a judge. 579 00:27:31,845 --> 00:27:33,795 But if you have a good judge, then here's the problem is that 580 00:27:33,795 --> 00:27:36,555 judge is gonna care about you and about your sin and my sin too. 581 00:27:38,025 --> 00:27:41,805 So we have a God who cares about sin, who does something about sin, and I want you 582 00:27:41,805 --> 00:27:46,035 to to, to look at the book of Romans and say, okay, God does something about sin. 583 00:27:46,065 --> 00:27:46,815 And that's a good thing. 584 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,940 It's a good thing that God punishes sin the way he does. 585 00:27:50,940 --> 00:27:52,380 So look at the rest of these verses. 586 00:27:52,410 --> 00:27:56,610 Okay, so we talked about, great, we know that the Jews are responsible for 587 00:27:56,610 --> 00:27:57,840 their sin 'cause they have God's law. 588 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,510 But what about that thing Paul said about people without the law? 589 00:28:00,630 --> 00:28:01,230 What about them? 590 00:28:01,260 --> 00:28:01,920 Well, here we go. 591 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,870 Verse 14, for when Gentiles who do not have the law by nature, 592 00:28:06,870 --> 00:28:08,670 do what the law requires. 593 00:28:08,970 --> 00:28:09,570 So what does that mean? 594 00:28:09,780 --> 00:28:10,950 Okay, so Gentiles, right? 595 00:28:10,950 --> 00:28:12,060 People who, who aren't Jewish. 596 00:28:12,555 --> 00:28:14,175 They don't have the law, right? 597 00:28:14,175 --> 00:28:16,725 They, they didn't get to, to, to hear the 10 Commandments. 598 00:28:16,845 --> 00:28:19,335 They didn't get to read the, the book of Leviticus. 599 00:28:19,425 --> 00:28:20,655 They didn't get to read Genesis. 600 00:28:20,655 --> 00:28:21,585 They don't know, right? 601 00:28:21,795 --> 00:28:22,845 They don't have God's law. 602 00:28:23,055 --> 00:28:28,065 But still, they do what the law requires, which is they, they 603 00:28:28,065 --> 00:28:32,655 sometimes do the things that God thinks people should do, right? 604 00:28:32,655 --> 00:28:37,035 Like every culture says murder is bad, right? 605 00:28:37,035 --> 00:28:38,790 Every culture says stealing is bad. 606 00:28:40,245 --> 00:28:46,515 Every culture has these, these similar morals because as we'll see 607 00:28:46,515 --> 00:28:50,595 here, they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. 608 00:28:51,405 --> 00:28:56,625 Everyone has an inherent sense inside of, of what God, what God's law is. 609 00:28:57,375 --> 00:29:00,795 Everyone has an idea of, oh, that's bad. 610 00:29:00,855 --> 00:29:02,055 That's, that's good. 611 00:29:02,805 --> 00:29:04,125 Everyone has an inherent sense. 612 00:29:04,125 --> 00:29:05,955 It's called your conscience, right? 613 00:29:05,955 --> 00:29:08,485 That's why that everyone feels bad when they lie. 614 00:29:10,170 --> 00:29:14,130 Everyone feels bad when they lie, unless you keep doing it over and 615 00:29:14,130 --> 00:29:16,200 over and over and over and over and you don't feel bad anymore. 616 00:29:16,350 --> 00:29:18,270 You've seared your conscience at that point, right? 617 00:29:18,570 --> 00:29:20,790 You've, you've burned it so it doesn't feel anything anymore. 618 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,910 Kind of like if you, you ever seen something get cauterized, right? 619 00:29:26,940 --> 00:29:27,900 Not a fun word. 620 00:29:28,530 --> 00:29:29,220 That's what they're doing. 621 00:29:29,220 --> 00:29:30,900 They're burning it, so you can't feel it anymore. 622 00:29:33,180 --> 00:29:38,100 So everyone feels bad about their sin because everyone knows. 623 00:29:39,105 --> 00:29:44,775 God's has has a general idea of God's law and their conflicting thoughts 624 00:29:44,775 --> 00:29:48,945 accuse or even excuse them on that day when according to my gospel, God judges 625 00:29:48,945 --> 00:29:51,255 the secret of men by Christ Jesus. 626 00:29:51,315 --> 00:29:55,305 So what Paul is saying here is that every single person has 627 00:29:55,305 --> 00:29:56,295 an idea of right and wrong. 628 00:29:57,705 --> 00:30:01,485 Every single person knows enough about God's law to know 629 00:30:01,485 --> 00:30:02,685 that they break God's law. 630 00:30:03,195 --> 00:30:03,825 Does that make sense? 631 00:30:04,095 --> 00:30:07,070 Every single person knows enough about God's law to say. 632 00:30:08,010 --> 00:30:08,610 I broke it. 633 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:14,610 I, I'm not good enough because everyone feels bad about things they've done. 634 00:30:15,060 --> 00:30:19,860 Everyone feels bad about, oh, well I lied, or I stole this, or I hated 635 00:30:19,860 --> 00:30:24,510 this person, or I coveted this person, or I dishonored this person. 636 00:30:24,510 --> 00:30:26,970 Everyone knows these things implicitly. 637 00:30:27,090 --> 00:30:30,930 So everyone has God's law written on their hearts, 638 00:30:33,450 --> 00:30:35,280 so that gives God. 639 00:30:36,570 --> 00:30:38,490 More than enough reason to judge them, right? 640 00:30:38,580 --> 00:30:41,880 If they know that they've sinned, of course God can say, 641 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,410 yeah, definitely you've sinned. 642 00:30:44,190 --> 00:30:45,000 'cause they already know. 643 00:30:46,620 --> 00:30:50,490 So it's not like, oh, they're gonna show up on on Judgment day and be like, oh, 644 00:30:50,490 --> 00:30:51,930 I didn't know that I was a bad person. 645 00:30:54,780 --> 00:30:58,620 So everyone knows what they should be doing. 646 00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:02,760 God's law is written on, on everyone's heart, and everyone 647 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:03,540 knows they're a sinner. 648 00:31:04,410 --> 00:31:07,080 Their conscience, it says bears witness, right? 649 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,230 Like in a courtroom, it's almost like you do something wrong and your conscience 650 00:31:10,230 --> 00:31:16,410 is like, like an attorney saying, Hey, what you did was just wrong, right? 651 00:31:16,410 --> 00:31:20,790 Like when you, like the very first time you ever stole something, right? 652 00:31:20,790 --> 00:31:25,290 You felt terrible about it because your, your conscience attorney was 653 00:31:25,290 --> 00:31:27,480 like, Hey, you shouldn't have done that. 654 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,740 Or the, like, the very first time that, that you hurt someone and, and like 655 00:31:31,740 --> 00:31:33,270 really tried not to apologize for it. 656 00:31:33,795 --> 00:31:38,925 Your attorney and your conscience was like, Hey, that's bad. 657 00:31:39,045 --> 00:31:40,065 You shouldn't have done that. 658 00:31:41,565 --> 00:31:46,545 So everyone knows that they're a sinner, and so God can righteously condemn every 659 00:31:46,545 --> 00:31:51,705 single person, even if they don't have a Bible, because you don't need a Bible 660 00:31:51,825 --> 00:31:58,605 to know that you're a sinner because your, your heart, your conscience. 661 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,150 Testifies to what God says, right? 662 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:09,900 There're a law unto themselves, so the the person right on in the jungle or 663 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:16,080 the person on the island knows enough to know that they've broken God's law. 664 00:32:17,790 --> 00:32:18,120 Now 665 00:32:20,365 --> 00:32:22,290 it's one thing to answer that question, right? 666 00:32:22,290 --> 00:32:23,370 And be like, okay, cool. 667 00:32:23,730 --> 00:32:24,060 Sure. 668 00:32:24,060 --> 00:32:28,315 I kind of understand a little bit better why God can send people to hell. 669 00:32:28,965 --> 00:32:29,385 Cool. 670 00:32:30,285 --> 00:32:35,505 But what I hope that that does for you is that gives you confidence in 671 00:32:35,505 --> 00:32:40,815 God, confidence that God is a good judge, that you can trust God to make 672 00:32:40,815 --> 00:32:42,135 the right decisions about people. 673 00:32:42,975 --> 00:32:48,375 That you can trust God and, and you don't have to worry about, oh, well, 674 00:32:48,765 --> 00:32:52,965 you know, is maybe, maybe, uh, we didn't know if, if this really young 675 00:32:52,965 --> 00:32:56,625 person that died was a Christian or, oh, we don't really know about. 676 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,950 This, this family member who died. 677 00:32:58,950 --> 00:33:00,300 We're not sure if they're a Christian. 678 00:33:01,530 --> 00:33:03,120 I hope that gives you confidence that you know what? 679 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,020 God's a good judge. 680 00:33:04,890 --> 00:33:07,080 I can trust God to judge them the right way. 681 00:33:08,730 --> 00:33:08,940 Right? 682 00:33:08,940 --> 00:33:09,720 Maybe we can hope. 683 00:33:09,750 --> 00:33:13,290 Yeah, I hope they were saved, but no matter what we can trust, God's 684 00:33:13,290 --> 00:33:14,640 gonna make a good decision about them. 685 00:33:15,990 --> 00:33:18,540 That's another way that we agree with God's justice. 686 00:33:18,780 --> 00:33:23,220 As we say, God, I trust you with these people's future not. 687 00:33:24,165 --> 00:33:28,515 I'm not, I'm not gonna question you and be upset if you make 688 00:33:28,515 --> 00:33:29,655 a decision that I don't like. 689 00:33:29,985 --> 00:33:30,855 'cause then who's judging? 690 00:33:30,855 --> 00:33:31,875 Who, right? 691 00:33:31,875 --> 00:33:32,625 Then we're judging God. 692 00:33:34,815 --> 00:33:41,595 But also, I hope that this helps you realize how, how universal sin is. 693 00:33:42,645 --> 00:33:42,885 Right? 694 00:33:42,885 --> 00:33:47,025 Every single person knowingly breaks God's law. 695 00:33:48,015 --> 00:33:50,230 Every single person doesn't matter where they're from. 696 00:33:50,940 --> 00:33:52,650 How much they, they've been to church. 697 00:33:52,679 --> 00:33:56,159 Every single person knowingly rebels against God. 698 00:33:57,389 --> 00:34:02,100 And so where this is gonna set us up is eventually we're gonna realize 699 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:05,790 that God doesn't have to save anyone. 700 00:34:07,739 --> 00:34:13,259 God doesn't have to save anyone because no one, no one deserves it. 701 00:34:16,230 --> 00:34:16,860 And so. 702 00:34:20,054 --> 00:34:24,195 That is, is, is honestly gonna to change a lot of your conversation 703 00:34:24,195 --> 00:34:27,705 about, about what's fair and what's not fair with God, right? 704 00:34:28,695 --> 00:34:31,275 Because if, if you come from the perspective of, oh, I'm a good person. 705 00:34:31,275 --> 00:34:32,445 I deserve things from God. 706 00:34:32,534 --> 00:34:33,824 I deserve good things from God. 707 00:34:34,005 --> 00:34:35,475 God should do good things to me. 708 00:34:35,835 --> 00:34:39,375 If you come from that perspective, of course you're gonna question God, right? 709 00:34:40,094 --> 00:34:42,375 Because you're saying, oh, well, I deserve all this from God. 710 00:34:42,375 --> 00:34:43,155 God should be good to me. 711 00:34:43,155 --> 00:34:44,475 My life should go really well. 712 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,800 But if you come from the perspective of, hey, the, we all break God's law. 713 00:34:49,830 --> 00:34:54,960 Every single person, every single person makes really selfish decisions. 714 00:34:54,989 --> 00:35:00,330 Every single person is actively telling God We don't want you. 715 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,590 And then it helps you realize, oh, that's why the world is so messed up. 716 00:35:05,370 --> 00:35:10,170 Oh, that's why that, that God is, is right to condemn people. 717 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,575 So I hope that this is also shaping your view of people. 718 00:35:14,845 --> 00:35:15,225 Because 719 00:35:17,415 --> 00:35:20,805 it's easy to, our culture will tell you people are good, right? 720 00:35:21,945 --> 00:35:26,654 People are good, everyone's got good inside them, and everyone 721 00:35:26,654 --> 00:35:28,035 deserves good things that happen. 722 00:35:29,745 --> 00:35:31,815 And that's not the biblical view of people. 723 00:35:32,715 --> 00:35:36,045 So I hope that's also helpful to, to reorient the way you view the 724 00:35:36,045 --> 00:35:38,025 world and the way you view people. 725 00:35:39,810 --> 00:35:43,230 So anyway, one day you will stand before God and God will give 726 00:35:43,230 --> 00:35:45,750 you exactly what you deserve. 727 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:46,020 Right? 728 00:35:46,020 --> 00:35:54,300 If you're, if you are not saved and you've rejected God, God will condemn you and 729 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:55,800 you'll have to answer for, for everything. 730 00:35:56,010 --> 00:35:59,400 But even if you are a Christian, God will reward you for all the 731 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,510 good things that you've done. 732 00:36:00,510 --> 00:36:03,210 He'll, he'll, even if you don't see any credit for it here, 733 00:36:03,210 --> 00:36:05,850 even if no one notices God will. 734 00:36:06,780 --> 00:36:09,210 Reward you and, and bless you for those things. 735 00:36:09,210 --> 00:36:15,840 But you might have noticed, actually my main point is not entirely true. 736 00:36:16,740 --> 00:36:17,670 Does anyone catch that? 737 00:36:19,290 --> 00:36:21,690 My main point is not entirely true. 738 00:36:21,690 --> 00:36:23,880 It's probably the only time I'll have a main point in a sermon. 739 00:36:24,210 --> 00:36:27,210 That's not an entirely true statement. 740 00:36:29,460 --> 00:36:32,610 The, the, the best news in all the world. 741 00:36:34,740 --> 00:36:39,990 That God doesn't always give people exactly what they deserve because 742 00:36:39,990 --> 00:36:42,930 if God gave every person exactly what they deserved, he would 743 00:36:42,930 --> 00:36:44,940 send every single person to hell. 744 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,060 The good news 745 00:36:50,070 --> 00:36:52,890 is that God withholds what you really do deserve. 746 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:54,450 We talked about that last week with patience. 747 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,250 You really deserve God's wrath. 748 00:36:56,580 --> 00:36:57,600 God is patient. 749 00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,520 He wants you to repent, so he holds that back. 750 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,860 He says, I'm not, I'm not gonna punish you from your first sin. 751 00:37:02,655 --> 00:37:05,205 Or your second one or your third one, or your 500th one 752 00:37:05,205 --> 00:37:07,515 or your 1000000th sin maybe. 753 00:37:08,835 --> 00:37:11,955 And I will wait to give you a chance to repent. 754 00:37:12,675 --> 00:37:14,835 I won't give you what you, what you do deserve. 755 00:37:14,835 --> 00:37:15,645 That's called mercy. 756 00:37:16,395 --> 00:37:20,655 And if you trust Jesus, I'll give you what Jesus deserves, and that's called grace. 757 00:37:21,915 --> 00:37:23,805 You can get what you don't deserve. 758 00:37:23,835 --> 00:37:24,645 That's the gospel. 759 00:37:26,145 --> 00:37:28,965 You can get what Jesus earned for you. 760 00:37:30,420 --> 00:37:36,630 With his perfect righteous life, you can get acceptance by God, full 761 00:37:36,630 --> 00:37:39,480 righteousness, adoption as his child. 762 00:37:40,620 --> 00:37:44,010 You get God's grace if you trust Jesus, because if you trust 763 00:37:44,010 --> 00:37:47,850 yourself, you'll get what you deserve and God will send you to hell. 764 00:37:48,175 --> 00:37:51,510 But if you trust Jesus, you get what you don't deserve. 765 00:37:51,570 --> 00:37:54,090 You get what Jesus deserves. 766 00:37:54,930 --> 00:37:58,080 What this is all going to in Romans chapter three is that God is a good 767 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,930 judge, even though he gives some people what they don't deserve. 768 00:38:01,950 --> 00:38:07,110 God is a good judge to give Christians righteousness they don't deserve because 769 00:38:07,110 --> 00:38:14,040 Jesus took away their punishment and earned their righteousness for them. 770 00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:15,720 So let's pray and we'll go to small groups. 771 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,960 God, I pray that you help us to think about your judgment, that we would 772 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,320 take that seriously, that we would remember, that we have to answer to you. 773 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,380 For everything that we've done, we will give an account of ourselves to you. 774 00:38:28,770 --> 00:38:36,330 I pray for all of us in this room that we would on that day not hear depart from me. 775 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:41,400 I never knew you, that we would not hear your wrath poured out 776 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,500 on us, but rather we would hear. 777 00:38:44,955 --> 00:38:48,735 Joy, we would hear well done, good and faithful servant, and that 778 00:38:48,735 --> 00:38:50,685 we would live faithfully for you. 779 00:38:51,105 --> 00:38:53,924 In the meantime, knowing that you will reward us for every single 780 00:38:53,924 --> 00:38:55,065 thing we do for your glory. 781 00:38:55,665 --> 00:38:56,625 We pray this in Jesus' name. 782 00:38:57,015 --> 00:38:57,345 Amen.