{"id":22840,"date":"2022-08-26T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/romans-2_1-11-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:42:33","slug":"romans-2_12-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/romans-2_12-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Conscience is Leading You to Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romans 2:12-16\u00a0 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Romans 2:12-16.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Romans 2:12-16 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0All 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.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For 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.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0(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,
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 12-16:\u00a0 Here Paul addresses the question, \u201cHow can God judge everyone in the world when some people have heard of God\u2019s law through Moses and others have not?\u201d\u00a0 Paul says that whether people have heard of God\u2019s law through Moses or not, we all have God\u2019s law in our heart and will be judged on how well we obeyed that law.\u00a0 For those who grew up learning the Jewish law written down by Moses, the reason they have God\u2019s law in their heart is because they have heard or read the law of Moses.\u00a0 For others who did not grow up learning the Jewish law, the reason they have God\u2019s law written in their heart is because God gave them a conscience.\u00a0 Through their conscience they have a general understanding of God\u2019s laws for right and wrong.\u00a0 This conscience bears witness to their actions, defending them when they do right and accusing them when they do wrong (v14-15).\u00a0 So one way or the other, God has a law by which to hold people accountable.<\/p>\n

When will God formally hold us accountable?\u00a0 On the day when Jesus returns (v16).<\/p>\n

Also, what can we learn from Paul\u2019s statement in Romans\u00a02:12, \u201cAll 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\u201d?\u00a0 First, we learn that our sin separates us from God and the punishment for our sin is that we must die (perish).\u00a0Second, since no Jew or non-Jew has ever perfectly fulfilled the law (whether we\u2019re talking about the Jewish law or the general laws written on our consciences), everyone deserves to die for their sin.
\nThat is why Christ\u2019s sacrifice is such a game-changer.\u00a0 When all of us, Jews and Gentiles alike, failed to obey all of God\u2019s law and deserved to die for our sins, Christ came and took on our punishment, dying on the cross in our place as an atoning sacrifice.<\/p>\n

God, thank You for giving us Your laws as well as a conscience, and for using both to help us see our need for Jesus.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Romans 2:12-16.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Romans 2:12-16 (NIV)
\n12\u00a0\u00a0All 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.
\n13\u00a0\u00a0For 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.
\n14\u00a0\u00a0(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,
\n15\u00a0\u00a0since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)
\n16\u00a0\u00a0This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.<\/p>\n

On verses 12-16:\u00a0 Here Paul addresses the question, \u201cHow can God judge everyone in the world when some people have heard of God\u2019s law through Moses and others have not?\u201d\u00a0 Paul says that whether people have heard of God\u2019s law through Moses or not, we all have God\u2019s law in our heart and will be judged on how well we obeyed that law.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22843,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840\/revisions\/22843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}