Do You Not Teach Yourself?
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Romans 2:21–23 The Context: Through Paul God is challenging the self-righteousness of the religious leaders. He says that they will have no excuse when God judges them no matter how much they can point out the sin in the lives of others. God has written on every heart a sense of God’s right and wrong. The religious leaders were prone to hold others to behavior standards higher than they themselves were willing to follow.
God Asks Us: you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.
JNE: I am very good at spotting hypocrisy in others. My challenge is to be honest with God and myself about my own sin. Only when I admit my own need of God’s gracious forgiveness am I truly ready to receive it. It offends us, but the Biblical truth is: God saves only sinners. We may try to hide behind our words but our actions (especially our secret ones) betray us and reveal our great need for a Redeemer.
Read "The Gospel?"
Romans 2:21–23 The Context: Through Paul God is challenging the self-righteousness of the religious leaders. He says that they will have no excuse when God judges them no matter how much they can point out the sin in the lives of others. God has written on every heart a sense of God’s right and wrong. The religious leaders were prone to hold others to behavior standards higher than they themselves were willing to follow.
God Asks Us: you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.
JNE: I am very good at spotting hypocrisy in others. My challenge is to be honest with God and myself about my own sin. Only when I admit my own need of God’s gracious forgiveness am I truly ready to receive it. It offends us, but the Biblical truth is: God saves only sinners. We may try to hide behind our words but our actions (especially our secret ones) betray us and reveal our great need for a Redeemer.
Read "The Gospel?"