Sermon Notes 9/15/2025

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Romans
Pastor Terry Lewis
Pointing Fingers

Romans 1:1-5

“Therefore, you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man – you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”

(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

When do you put up to hide your own faults?

How do you respond to the person you says: “I stay away from church because it’s so full of ”

(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Romans 2:1-16

“For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.”

Soul Exercise

Assignment 1: Ask yourself when and why do I put up a smokescreen when I accuse someone of wrongdoing just to get the attention off my own weakness and faults? Admit it to someone.

(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)

Assignment 2: Ask yourself when was a recent time God, in your inner life, pointed out the rightness or the wrongness of an action or thought?

Thank God for his faithfulness.

(MULTILINE REVEAL TINY)