Sunday, March 24, 2013

this first part of Romans 2, I think can be split into two different parts. verses 1-11 are about judgement and then 12-16 are about Gods law.
verses 1-11 talk about judgement and how we should not judge people, because if we judge people we do the same things.
2:1-3 "1 you, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same thing 2 Now we know that God's judgement against those who do such things is based on truth 3 So when you a mere man pass judgement on them and yet do the same things, do you thing you will escape God's judgement.

If you take a  minute to think about this you will probably be able to think of time when you judged someone for what ever reason. Then think that thing that you are judging them about, have you done that something before. The answer is most likely YES! 

the next part few verses (12-16) talks about God's law, these four verses talk about the law and what happens if someone dose not know the law and if someone has heard the law. You could change the word law to the word. so if you have heard the law or the word of God then you will be judged by the law. But if you have not heard the law or it has not gotten to you just yet because you live in never never land, you will be judged by your laws and what is right 

2:12 " All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart fromthe law, ands all who sin under the law will be judged by the law"
Now we know the law so we know what we will be judged be the law. (NO we do not live in never never land)     

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Romans 2:1-16 (rena)

Romans 2:1-16 Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things. 2:2 Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things. 2:3 And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment? 2:4 Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! 2:6 He will reward each one according to his works: 2:7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 2:8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness. 2:9 There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, 2:10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek. 2:11 For there is no partiality with God. 2:12 For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 2:13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. 2:14 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves. 2:15 They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them, 2:16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

Therefore. I love this word in Paul's writing. It means we have to take what he wrote before and apply it to what will follow. Mainly because we fail at seeking God first in all things, we must not pass judgement on others who do the same as us. 


This reminds me of Matthew 7:3 When Jesus tells us to take the plank out of our own eye before we worry about the speck in our brother's eye.  However, Paul puts it in even stronger language. 2:5b "you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath." Basically you are securing your punishment and possible rejection from God. 


I must admit I too often put my own thoughts, hopes, dreams, wishes, and fears ahead of God. And since I put all of that stuff, which isn't necessarily 'bad', above God, I treat myself more important. Basically I make myself the most important thing in the universe. When that happens it is far too easy to selfishly obey my own truth and wishes. To treat others as lesser then myself. When I'm the center of the universe, I will always come first. But just as at one time scientists believed that the earth was in the center of the solar system and later had to change it to being the sun. So I must remove myself from being the center. I must put God in his proper place. When God is at the center, what I do is not for my good. Rather I do all things to mirror God's love and forgiveness. I am put on equal ground with the other sinful beings on the terrestrial globe. 


I pray that I would be constantly reminded to put God in the center of my life. That out of having Him in the right place, I might be loving and forgiving to those around me. That I might share God's mercy and grace. 

Monday, March 18, 2013

Romans 1:22-23

So I know that I have not written in a long time so here is my Romans 1:18-32
Romans 1:22-23 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23. And exchanged the glory of immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

This hits me kind of hard, when you think about it everything that we look at,  that we don't look through the eyes of God is and could be seen as sinful. To prove this just watch TV for a few minuets. It's a fact that sex sells, if you want to sell something put a hot women in your add and just like that you have sales. Now as Christians if we look at that and think, "she looks nice " or "I wish I looked like that" then we have pretty much said that that picture is more to us then he almighty God. Now don't worry just because of this it does not mean that we can't look at anything. If we look at the same picture of a good looking women and say: "wow she has the God given gift of Beauty," so that when you look at people you think of what God made them for. I know that God made everyone for a reason even the people that don't know or love him. Take the person that is in your life that you know, but they not your frenids and they are BAD people. Maybe they have had sex outside of marriage, or they do drugs. Are we to look at them and say that there is not a reason for their life? NO. There reason for this life might not be to glorify God, but maybe it is to have you love them, since God tells us to love everyone.

This part about not seeking other things shows up a lot in the Bible. In Psalms 4:2 " How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?" When we seek something that is not of God we are seeking false  gods or you could call it addictions. To me an addiction is not just drugs or something like that, but something that takes time away from God, or that something that takes up a lot of our life like FB games. FB games have become the addictions. Now I know that I am not perfect by a long shot, but I am going to try not to spend more time with other things then With God