Romans 215 Hebrews 1016 Gods moral law Rom 215 Gentiles have not the law Rom 214 Gentiles do by nature the things of the law Rom 214 Gentiles are the law unto themselves Rom 214 ID: 536141
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The law written on the heart
Romans 2:15, Hebrews 10:16Slide2
God’s moral law – Rom. 2:15
Gentiles “have not the law” (Rom. 2:14)
Gentiles “do by nature” the things of the law (Rom. 2:14)
Gentiles are “the law unto themselves” (Rom. 2:14)Slide3
God’s moral law – Rom. 2:15
Showing the law written on the heart through the continual practicing of things as right or wrongSlide4
God’s moral law – Rom. 2:15
Showing the law written on the heart through the continual practicing of things as right or wrong
Such moral knowledge is witnessed by the conscience Slide5
God’s moral law – Rom. 2:15
Showing the law written on the heart through the continual practicing of things as right or wrong
Such moral knowledge is witnessed by the conscience
Such moral knowledge revealed through moral reasoning: either accusing or excusing each otherSlide6
God’s moral law – Rom. 2:15
Showing the law written on the heart through the continual practicing of things as right or wrong
Such moral knowledge is witnessed by the conscience
Such moral knowledge revealed through moral reasoning: either accusing or excusing each other
Example of “murder” (Rom. 1:29)Slide7
Knowledge apart from written law…
Creation (Rom. 1:20, Psalm 19:1)
Everlasting Power
Godhead (Divinity)
No excuse!Slide8
Man’s digression…
Failing to act appropriately With knowledge (v.21).
Did not glorify Him as God
Did not give thanks to God (Acts 14:17)Slide9
Man’s digression…
Lusts of the hearts lead to unclean use of the body – (v.24)
lesbianism, homosexuality (v. 26.27)Slide10
Man’s digression…
Worshipped and served the
creature
rather than the
creator
(v.25). Slide11
God Gave Men Up to his own digression…
To the lusts of their hearts (v. 24)
To the vile passions (v.26)
To the Reprobate mind (v.28)Slide12
The law of Christ written on our hearts (Heb. 10:16)
Jesus accomplished what the Law of Moses could not accomplish:
Perfect them that draw nigh (Heb. 10:1)
Blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin (Heb. 10:4, 8)
Sanctification through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ (Heb. 10:10, 11)Slide13
The law of Christ written on our hearts (Heb. 10:16)
Holy Spirit is a witness through prophecy of a “new covenant” (Heb. 10;16, Jer. 31:33,34)
“
perfected for evermore them that are sanctified” (Heb. 10:14)
We can be sanctified now by the one time offering of Christ (v.10)
Forgiven of sins through the one time offering of Christ (v. 12)
Also a holy people who belong to God – His law in their heart governing their life Slide14
How is the law written on our hearts
God’s laws were written in the hearts of man in two distinct ways:
God through creating man in His own image – created man with a moral (right and wrong) perspective.
God through the Gospel created hearts of faith and lives governed by the Law of Christ (2 Cor. 10:5)Slide15
How is the law written on our hearts
created man with a moral (right and wrong) perspective.
There is a “natural affection” component in man that cries out in the inner man that partial birth abortion is just wrong!
corrupted men and women place own convenience or avoiding hardship over life – but inwardly they know better (Rom. 1: 31)Slide16
How is the law written on our hearts
God through the Gospel created hearts of faith and lives governed by the Law of Christ
Example of Paul ( Gal 2:20, I Cor. 9:21, 24-27)Slide17
As we teach others the Saving Gospel which will produce faith in the heart of the sinner, understand we are also appealing to a person who is made in the image of God with a moral perspective of right and wrong