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Ethics Without Evangelism — Romans Chapter 2

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF THE
INCONSISTENCY OF OUR HYPOCRISY
1. We ___________ people who
refuse to be identified with us
2. We put as much distance as
possible between us and others
who are not as ____________
3. We end up erasing our ____-
____________________ with
the name of Jesus, the person
of Christ, and the glory of the
gospel through our attitude
Point 1. God’s forbearance is
supposed to be leading you to
repentance, not leading you to
_______________________.
I. PART ONE: CONDEMNATION OF THE
HYPOCRITE, 1-16
A. Judgment BY the Hypocrite (No
Excuse), 1-4
1. By What He Feels, 1-2
2. By hat He Finds, 3
3. By What He Forgets, 4
By What he Faces:
B. Judgment OF the Hypocrite (No
Escape), 5-11
According to his works
1. Wrath on Behavior, 5-6
2. Reasons for Behavior, 7-8
3. Results of Behavior, 9-11
C. Judgment ON the Hypocrite (No
Pardon), 12-16
According to his worth
1. Discriminating Judgment, 12-15
a. Weighing their advantages, 12
b. Weighing their attitude, 13-15
2. Devastating Judgment, 16
II. PART TWO: CONDEMNATION OF THE
HEBREW, 17-29
A. Test of Orthodoxy (Belief
Confirmed), 17-24
1. By Access to Truth, 17-20
a. Confirmed intellectually, 17-18
b. Confident in complacency,19-20
2. By Accountability to Truth, 21-24
a. Ethical failure, 21-22
1) Insincerity, 21
2) Insensitivity, 22
b. Vocational failure (insolvency),
23-24
B. Test of Ceremony (Behavior
Condemned), 25-29
1. Rituals Exposed, 25-27
a. Vitality from obedience, 25
b. Voided by disobedience, 26-27
1) Devoid of rituals/devoted to
righteousness, 26
2) Devoted to rituals/responsible
for more, 27
2. Reality Essential, 28-29
a. Weighing the outward
appearance (Godliness), 28
b. Weighing the inward approval
(spirituality), 29

If we have the capacity to judge and condemn the behavior of

Thesis others without recognizing how our own soul is _________, that
will prevent us from giving and others from getting the gospel
 Resources
Getting the Gospel Right by C.
Gordon Olson
What Is the Gospel? by Greg Gilbert.
Crossway, 2010.
The Gospel-Driven Life by Michael
Horton. Baker, 2009.
The Gospel According to Jesus by
John MacArthur. Zondervan, 2008.
The Deliberate Church by Mark
Dever. Crossway, 2005.
The Gospel & Personal Evangelism by
Mark Dever. Crossway, 2007.
Whatever Happened to the Gospel of
Grace? by James Boice. Crossway.
Jesus: The Only Way to God by John
Piper. Baker Books , 2010.
Ashamed of the Gospel by John
MacArthur. Crossway, 2009.
The Truth War by John MacArthur.

Rev. 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that
hath part in the first resurrection: on
such the second death hath no power,
but they shall be priests of God and of
Christ, and shall reign with him a
thousand years.
Isa. 64:6 But we are all as an unclean
thing, and all our righteousnesses are
as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
John 3:15-16 That whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have
eternal life. For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
1 John 5:11-13 And this is the record,
that God hath given to us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son. He that hath
the Son hath life; and he that hath not
the Son of God hath not life. These
things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the Son of Point 2. We are saved by a
God; that ye may know that ye have
______________________, not
eternal life
Eph. 1:6-7 To the praise of the glory of a ritual.
his grace, wherein he hath made us
accepted in the beloved. In whom we Defn.: ____________________
have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the
is God’s law unwritten but
riches of his grace; implanted in the soul.
Gal. 2:16; 3:11 Knowing that a man is
not justified by the works of the law,
Point 3. In God’s measurement
but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we
have believed in Jesus Christ, that we ______________ is determined
might be justified by the faith of Christ, by what’s inside a man or
and not by the works of the law: for by woman, not what’s outwardly
the works of the law shall no flesh be
visible in a man or woman.
justified. But that no man is justified by
the law in the sight of God, it is
evident: for, The just shall live by faith. Point 4. In determining revival
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his you can’t just look at
grace, we should be made heirs
according to the hope of eternal life.
ceremonies and rituals, you
have to look at ____________
and fruit.

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