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Unveiling the Religious Deception in Romans

Explore the false notion of earning God's favor through work in Romans, emphasizing grace over religion. Quotes and insights from Romans 2 and 3 shed light on the true essence of faith.

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Unveiling the Religious Deception in Romans

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  1. R O M A N S

  2. The big lie “arbeitmachtfrei” “Work will make you free”

  3. Galatians 5.4 You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

  4. Religion (defined as any attempt to earn God’s favor) separates us from God. It inhibits rather than enhances our ability to connect with Christ.

  5. “To continue to work for our justification instead of accepting our justification is the essence of religion.” -Christianity Today 8/01/11

  6. Stop being religious!

  7. 17If you’re brought up Jewish, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s revelation, a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest doctrines! -Romans 2:17 (MSG)

  8. 19 I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have it all together yourselves and, because you know God’s revealed Word inside and out, feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights and confused emotions to God. -Romans 2:19 (MSG)

  9. 22While you are guiding others, who is going to guide you? I’m quite serious. While preaching “Don’t steal!” are you going to rob people blind? Who would suspect you? The same with adultery. The same with idolatry. You can get by with almost anything if you front it with eloquent talk about God and his law. -Romans 2:22 (MSG)

  10. 24The line from Scripture, “It’s because of you Jews that the outsiders are down on God,” shows it’s an old problem that isn’t going to go away. -Romans 2.24 (MSG)

  11. 25Circumcision, the surgical ritual that marks you as a Jew, is great if you live in accord with God’s law. But if you don’t, it’s worse than not being circumcised. The reverse is also true: The uncircumcised who keep God’s ways are as good as the circumcised—in fact, better. Better to keep God’s law uncircumcised than break it circumcised. -Romans 2.25 (MSG)

  12. 28Don’t you see: It’s not the cut of a knife that makes a Jew. You become a Jew by who you are. It’s the mark of God on your heart, not of a knife on your skin, that makes a Jew. And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics. -Romans 2.28 (MSG)

  13. “whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel better than someone else we can be sure that we are being acted upon, not by God, but by the devil” -CS Lewis

  14. “What then? Are we [Jews] better than they [Gentiles]? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin.” • –Romans 3.9

  15. R O M A N S

  16. 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? -Romans 2.17-21 (NIV)

  17. 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.” -Romans 2.21-24 (NIV)

  18. 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.-Romans 2.25-27 (NIV)

  19. 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. -Romans 2.25-27 (NIV)

  20. “In this life, we never outgrow our need for ever-new experiences of brokenness and humility because of our sinfulness.” • -pastor/theologian John Piper

  21. Love uses truth to bless others but sin uses truth to exalt self

  22. “But knowledge puffs up while love builds up” -I Corinthians 8.1

  23. “My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;    a broken and contrite heart    you, God, will not despise.” -Psalm 51.17

  24. “21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.” • –Romans 3.21-22

  25. R O M A N S

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