Nov. 10, 2024

“Religious Vaccination”
Romans 2:17-29
Central Idea: It doesn’t matter how religious you are, God judges
all sinners the same.
1. Falsely trusting religious _________________ (17-20)
Paul wrote what he did, not because he _________ the Jews, but
because he _________ them and wanted them to be __________.
• No place for anti-semitism.
Privileges of the Jews:
• 1. Their _________: Jew = Judah = ____________ by God
• 2. Possession of the law - recipients of the special ____________
• 3. Boast in God - The people of God in a ___________ way.
• 4. Know God’s will - law __________ the will of God
• 5. Approve what is essential - _________ of blessing in life
• 6. Instructed from the law - whole ________ for their living
Also responsible to instruct the rest of the __________ about God.
• Behaving correctly on the _________ will not cleanse the inside.
• Religion has a way of turning ___________ of God into badges
of self-righteousness.
2. Falsely trusting in religious _______________ (21-24)
• What you ______ vs. what you ____?
• Isaiah 52:5
3. Falsely trusting _____________ (25-29)
• symbol without _______________ (25)
Symbol must always be backed by substance, or it becomes
__________________.
• _______________ without symbol (26-27)
If you are uncircumcised, but you _________, it is as if God sees
you as having been circumcised.
• substance with ___________ (28-29)
• Deuteronomy 30:6
• Acts 7:51
• Many Jews thought physical circumcision exempted them from
God’s judgment - ___________.
Application:
1. Close the _______ between what you know and how you live.
• ______ helps us to do so.
• Often we _______ more than we do.
2. ____________ symbolic actions do not prepare you for an eternity
with God, only _______________ in Jesus can prepare for eternity.
• God is not going to populate heaven with ____________ people.
• God is not going in filling heaven with people who have done
some outward ritual, but never had a _________ change.
• God is going to fill heaven with people who acknowledge
they’ve ____________ and fallen short of the glory of God.