Don’t you get it?
Romans 2: 17 – 23
I. Are we judging people by a higher standard that we ourselves don’t live up to, do we tend to take on an attitude of privilege or perhaps a holier than thou attitude?
1. We may think this text is just for the Jews
• In Galatians Paul says there is no distinction from Jew /Greek, slave / free, and male/ female we are all one in Christ and that if we belong to Christ we are then descendants of Abraham.
• This message is for us also.
• Do we sometimes act like we have a monopoly on church?
2. We talk about being a Christian, we look like a Christian , we act like a Christian but are we really practicing what we are preaching
• Do we love God with all of our being?
• Do we love our neighbor?
• Do we walk the walk and talk the talk?
• Or maybe we just think because grandma and grandpa founded the church or Mom or dad donated a pew we are in.
II. I go to church , I pay my tithes
1. It’s more than that, we must have a change of heart
• Salvation isn’t about just going to church
• Saying the right prayers
• Sitting in the right pew
• It’s about Jesus and what happens when you begin to establish a relationship with Him.
III. Salvation is about more than an outward appearance , it’s about an inward change
• No one has a monopoly on salvation
• It’s not about what we do or how we look
• It’s about what Jesus has done for us
