Our situation is desperate — and in this section Paul lays bare just how lost we are. This is the height our need, the darkness just before the dawn…
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Continuing on with Paul’s argument against external “religion,” we see that God’s focus is on the state of our hearts.
As we turn to Romans 2, Paul turns his attention to another audience: the “religious” person.
After Paul’s Gospel introduction, he sends us into a full-scale diagnosis of the human condition… and it is difficult to hear. Mankind is deeply distorted and sinful, and God will not sit idly by while his creation is subjected to ruin. Rather, he enters in with wrath against sin…
As Romans begins, Paul seeks to help us be rooted and grounded in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, seeing that Faith in Christ alone can make us right before God.
