Romans 1:18 – 3:20 fosters Paul's contention that nobody can guarantee by their own work or legitimacy to be good in God's sight, not the majority, not the Romans, not even the Jews. All individuals wherever merit God's judgment for their wrongdoing.
We know that there are a multiple of sins that can be committed, but is the classification of the sinner designated by the type of sin that he commits? Or are there different types of sinners? Are any of us one of those types of sinners and if so, which one?
Romans 1:18-32: The Rational Sinner -
This passage of Scripture discusses God’s anger at sin. It depicts why God legitimately censures humankind and some of what he has done with regards to it. Mankind's fall is imagined as a descending movement. It begins with dismissing God as the creator, declining to see the significant awareness of him by what he has made. Humans likewise rejected that he is the supplier and quit giving him the thanks that he is due. Humanity loves his creation rather than him. At long last, God acts by giving us over to the unchecked articulation of our degenerate sexual cravings and any remaining sorts of transgression. To some extent, he communicates his anger by giving us what we want and sentencing us to endure the excruciating fallouts.
• The Rational Sinner believes that there is a God. They know of God, but they do not glorify him or give him thanks.
• The Rational Sinner professes to be wise and intellectual. This in itself often brings up various intellectual problems.
• The Rational Sinner believes in anything that supports their self-centered life.
• The Rational Sinner have rejected God.
• 2 Kings 17:15, And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
• Jeremiah 10:14, Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Romans 2:1-16: The Reformed Sinner -
Romans 2:1-16 springs a snare, of sorts, for each peruser who felt that Paul's overwhelming rundown of sins toward the end of Romans chapter 1 was about others. In truth, everybody is at fault for wrongdoing. The individuals who judge others are blameworthy, additionally, of being hypocritical. No one will get away from God's judgment for individual sin, including the religious Jews and Gentiles. God will totally pass judgment on every individual as per what the person has done. Assuming somebody has lived a sinless life, only doing good, he will get rewards and everlasting life. If not, he merits anger and rage. This point sets up Paul's clarification of the way that we can, indeed, get salvation: through faith by grace.
• The Reformed Sinner are inexcusable. They think that they themselves are capable of judging, and they judge others for the same thing that they do.
• The Reformed Sinner believes that they will escape judgment.
• The Reformed Sinner think that they are as good as anyone else or even better.
• The Reformed Sinner do not know God.
• 2 Samuel 12:5-9
• Proverbs 11:21, Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Romans 2:17-29: The Religious Sinner -
Romans 2:12–29 depicts two gatherings of individuals, with an accentuation on the way in which their transgression connects with their insight into God's composed Law for the country of Israel. Here, ''Gentiles'' are the individuals who sin separated from the law, while ''Jews'' are the people who sin under the law. Paul shows how, in the two cases, God will pass judgment on individuals dependent on whether they kept the law and were circumcised in their souls. Indeed, even Gentiles who observe the law out of genuineness would be viewed by God as really Jewish. In the meantime, God will limit the Jewishness and circumcision of somebody under the law who violates the law and doesn't have a genuine heart. Paul will show in the accompanying part that, in truth, nobody can keep the law.
• The Religious Sinner trust in religion or in a denomination for salvation.
• The Religious Sinner has knowledge of God’s will but refuse to live by his guidance. They trust in religious ceremonies & rituals.
• The Religious Sinner thinks that they are the ones to direct others in proper living.
• The Religious Sinner does not do that which they instruct others to be doing.
• Is the Religious Sinner better than the others because they at least have the Word of God? But if the Religious Sinner does not come to Christ and believe in his heart, he will still die and go to hell. Man’s nature is to run from God. They are unwilling to accept Christ and to be saved. Many know the truth, but they deny they truth.
• The Religious Sinner does not know God. Hypocrisy is the one that does not practice what he or she preaches.
• 2 Timothy 3:5, Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
• Matthew 23:3, All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
• Ezekiel 36:20, And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
Romans 3:9-24: All are Sinners -
Romans 3:9-23 contains a series of statements from the Old Testament Scriptures. Paul utilizes these to show that the Jews and Greeks are similar under transgression. Subsequent to setting up that “there is none that doeth good” from Psalm 14:1, Paul utilizes statements from Psalms and Isaiah to show ways we have consistently utilized our bodies, throats, tongues, lips, feet, and eyes, to verbalize our wrongdoing. Yet, he finishes the part with his most grounded articulation, that no individual will be exonerated by adhering to the works of the law in God’s sight. The law can show us our transgression, it cannot save us from it.
• In verse ten, all of humanity are Unrighteous (Psalm 14:1-3).
• In verse eleven, none Understand and none Seek after God. Basically speaking, all are Unreasonable.
• In verse twelve, they are Unrepentant, all have gone out of the way. They are Unprofitable, meaning that none have any value. They are Unregenerate, there is none that doeth good.
• In verses thirteen through eighteen, it describes the Attributes of a Sinful man. Their throat is an open tomb, their tongue is deceitful, and their lips are poisonous. They speak cursing and bitterness. They are quick to shed blood. They bring about destruction and misery. They do not know peace and there is no fear in their eyes of God.
• In verse twenty-three, all have Sinned.
