STUDIES IN ROMANS

LESSON 11

GOD’S PRINCIPLES OF JUDGMENT –JEWS/GENTILES (PART 6)

Romans 3  (KJV)

3 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?  ² Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.  ³ For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?  ⁴ God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.  ⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) ⁶ God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?  ⁷ For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?  ⁸ And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Romans 3  (CEB)

God’s faithfulness and justice

3 So what’s the advantage of being a Jew? Or what’s the benefit of circumcision? ² Plenty in every way. First of all, the Jews were trusted with God’s revelations. ³ What does it matter, then, if some weren’t faithful? Their lack of faith won’t cancel God’s faithfulness, will it? ⁴ Absolutely not! God must be true, even if every human being is a liar, as it is written:  So that it can show that you are right in your words; and you will triumph when you are judged.  ⁵ But if our lack of righteousness confirms God’s justice, what will we say? That God, who brings wrath upon us, isn’t just (I’m speaking rhetorically)? ⁶ Absolutely not! If God weren’t just, how could he judge the world? ⁷ But if God’s truth is demonstrated by my lie and it increases his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner? ⁸ Why not say, “Let’s do evil things so that good things will come out of it”? (Some people who slander us accuse us of saying that, but these people deserve criticism.)

1.    WHAT ADVANTAGE IS IT BEING A JEW? V.1-2

Ø  What profit in circumcision?

Ø  Much in every way, first: Jews trusted with God’s revelations

2.    WHAT IF SOME DID NOT BELIEVE? V.3

Ø  Their lack of faith won’t cancel God’s faithfulness

3.    LET GOD BE TRUE, BUT EVERY MAN A LIAR v.4

Ø  God is justified when people judge him (because He is true)

4.    DOES ‘BAD’ = ‘GOOD’? v.5-7

Ø  If our ‘bad’ = showing God’s goodness, would that make our ‘badness’ good?

Ø  Absolutely not!

Ø  If God’s truth is shown by my lie and He is shown to be more glorious because of that, why am I judged as a sinner?

Ø   “Let’s do evil things so that good things will come out of it”?

LIVING RIGHT BRINGS GOD MORE GLORY, SO LIVE RIGHT.