Sermon: Romans 2:12-29; "It's In Your Nature"
Date: September 28, 2014
Pastor: Michael Howard


Scripture: Romans 2:12-29

12 All 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.
13 For 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.
14 (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.
15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts,
their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing
them and at other times even defending them.)
16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through
Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are
instructed by the law;
19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those
who are in the dark,
20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have
in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against
stealing, do you steal?
22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery?
You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you
have become as though you had not been circumcised.
26 So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will
they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?
27 The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn
you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely
outward and physical.
29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision
of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is
not from other people, but from God.


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