Romans Chapter 3 1-8
Romans 3:1-8
God’s Faithfulness
1 What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? 2 Much in every way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
Paul is saying that God has a special plan for the Jews one of these was they were entrusted with the word of God.
3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness. 4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written:
“So that you may be proved right when you speak
and prevail when you judge.”
God will remain faithful even if some of the Jews did not remain faithful. Any man that questions this is a liar and will be judged by God accordingly. God stands firm on what he has said. “He is a man of his word.” Thank you God!
5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7 Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?” 8 Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—”Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved.
Paul is trying to head off a debate here about justifying yourself to continue to be unfaithful. The argument is if all of my wrong doing increases God’s truthfulness then I should do more wrong to glorify God more. Paul says this is a slanderous argument and God will judge you accordingly no matter what kind of excuse you make.
This weeks scripture to me speaks to how big God really is. He is faithful even to the unfaithful and a fair and just judge at the same time. Also I can not come with any kind excuse to escape Gods judgment. Excuses aren’t going to matter before God.
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Spot on Heath. Not that I would come up with anything different, but this is virtually the same thing I said. I love how this passage points to the bigness of God.
The thing I struggle with is the “fairness” of God. Hear me out before jumping to conclusions. There is no question to me that the Scripture always points to His justice. He always judges justly. But I think our human minds confuse perfect fairness. What I mean is that it seems logical for a person to say, “well, He shouldn’t judge me because its not fair to judge me when my evil pointed to His goodness.” However, it is completely in line with justice to condemn this person, mainly because they are evil. Justice require punishment of evil whether it brings about good or not, but fairness seems to beckon for some balance (i.e. I’m bad, but it made you look good, we’re even). I don’t want to go off saying that God is not fair, its just that I think justice is a more appropriate term.
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I agree with you, the judgment is for the just and unjust. I think one thing it reminds me of is when we as Christians try to find the knife edge and walk it. How much can we get away with before it is called “sin”. How far across the line can we go and still but without judgment, well, none. Great post Heath.
Good points all around. I came at this passage from another angle I think. I think we are in the same ballpark, and so that tells me even more about the bigness of our Father and how the Word is living and active…it speaks differently to each of us, but truthfully just the same.
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