Posted on 08/23/2018 1:36:31 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood:Destruction and misery are in their ways:And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.(Romans 3;10-17)
The summary of the teaching of Romans 1-2, is a Divine, fourteen count indictment of the human race, all are included in it, Jew and Gentile. Drawing from Isaiah and the Psalms, the whole human race is declared by God to be ‘under sin’.
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;(Romans 3:9)
The very phrase,’under sin’ is revealing, because it causes us to understand that sin itself is more than an action it is a state of being, a spiritual status. One is either ‘under grace’ or ‘under sin‘. The Law of God that Paul cites, is testimony that all, gentile and Jew are ‘under sin’, and in need of salvation.
There is none Righteous- This is a quote from Psalm 14, where the Lord actually searches the earth for even one good man, and declares that no one, not even one is good enough…
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
There is none that understandeth–This probably comes from the same Psalm, as well as incorporating Proverbs 9- which declares that “By the Knowledge of the Holy is understanding”. Those who have a sense of God’s holiness, that leads to worshipful awe and reverence, have ‘understanding’.
But Who has lived by such a sense and acted on it ? Nobody- says the Lord.
There is none that seeketh after God-This dispels the oft repeated myth about false religions such as Islam, Bhuddism, and Hinduism, that those who practice such are for the most part seeking after the true God and unable to find Him. Nothing could be further from the Truth- There is none that seeketh after God!
These religions and all false religion and irreligion are manifestations of God rejection. Man would worship anything but the true God, whose wrath is revealed from heaven, and who made us in His Image and claims sovereignty over our lives!
Since it is true that “There is none that seeketh after God”, how does anyone ever ‘find God’ ? Those who come to the saving knowledge of God didn’t seek Him until He himself put it into their hearts to seek Him. As Jesus said in John 15,
You did not choose Me but I chose you…(John 15:16)
They are all gone out of the way…-This means that everyone is turned away from God, His will, desire for Him, literally it means that we all lean away from Him. We were created to know and enjoy God forever, but since the fall of man, we have all inclined ourselves away from God as much as possible.
They are together become unprofitable- The word for a useless slave, a horse with a broken leg, spoiled merchandise. God has declared that in our natural state, there is not one person that He can actually use as they are.
There is none who do good-God’s evaluation is what counts, not man’s.Man says something like, ‘Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, or Ghandi sure do a lot of good in this world.”But God has said there is none that doeth good !
This is hard for people to accept, because deep in the heart of the human race, there is the false belief that there is still a lot of ‘good’ in the human heart, in spite of all of our glaring ‘faults’. My hope at one time was that my “good deeds would out weigh my bad deeds” so that I could get to heaven.
What a bitter pill to swallow, that there is none that doeth good… then as if to emphasize it to the humanistic hopers among us, he states, …no, not one.Do you believe in God’s indictment of you? can you justify the one who brings such a damning charge against you? We will continue this tomorrow…
Something intrinctically insidious about demoralizing psychological beatdowns, but Christians are used to hearing how worthless and no good they are.
It should be a huge red flag but it’s the same as women who won’t leave their abusers. They don’t have any comprehension of what a loving husband would do or say to bring life and light into the home, as it is completely outside anything they’ve known and experienced. All they know is the manipulator who knocks them down hard and then offers his “loving, forgiving” hand up.
The Messiah is more likely to be kicked out of his own church for lifting the room darkening shades and opening the windows.
Plenty of regular people [who aren’t in bondage to the established wisdom] will flock to the man, because he’s a loving, caring listener. He wants to heal them because he loves them. Those are the folks who will learn from his uplifting example of mercy and kindness and will be eager to go out and do likewise.
Mercy is the key to the Redemption. Those who are forgiven much, love much. If people aren’t inspired to go out in joy, to love as they were loved, maybe it’s because they have been constantly told over and over and over that they are filthy piles of garbage.
Plenty of surprises on the horizon.
I agree,but this is scripture I am citing, not some cranky,raving preacher. God shows us how lost we are before he saves us
If the man-god Jesus is the way (the one the church insists is the real Jesus of the Bible), why do his shepherds keep beating the flock? The flock doesn't have any awareness of another way, like the woman so demoralized by her accuser that she's convinced she is stupid and worthless and deserves what she gets.
Nobody seems willing or able to escape the Scripture-citing beatings. The whole miserable system is about to collapse. The warning has been the fall of the political establishment, masks coming down. Everyone assumed that the system was too big and too entrenched to fail. President Trump stepped up anyway, and stated plainly that it's all fake news.
Mercy is the Key to Redemption. Merci and mercy, people should give thanks, and then go out and do likewise.
In fact, the parable of the debt forgiveness is directly related to Daniel chapter 9, where Daniel was appealing for mercy. Seventy times seven. Matthew 18:21-35
Besides, there really was a king whose servant agreed to pay him 10,000 talents.
John 16:2-3 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Beatings will improve morale when the Clintons and Obamas of the religious establishment get what's coming to them. They sure won't be expecting it.
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