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Why I Am in Such a Mess

Romans 2:1-3:20

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

Romans 1:18

²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.                                 Romans 1:29-31

     I.        ______________________________

“You see, it was I who killed all those people… No man’s really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he’s realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and sneering, and talking about ‘criminals,’ as if they were apes in a forest ten thousand miles away… till he’s squeezed out of his soul the last drop of the oil of the Pharisees; till his only hope is somehow or other to have captured one criminal, and kept him safe and sane under his own hat.”                        Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…                                                      Romans 3:23

“In each of us there is sin – not just the susceptibility to sin, but sin itself.”                                                     Augustine

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“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good… Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through state, nor between classes, not between political parties either – but right through every human heart.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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1. The Principle of Judgment – ________________

1. The Standard of Judgment – ________________

1. The Evidence of Judgment – ________________

²¹ But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. ²² This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference.             Romans 3:21-22