Peter Barnes | Romans 2:9-11
SERMON NOTES
NO PARTIALITY WITH GOD
(Romans 2:9-11)
– John Chrysostom called Romans 1-2 ‘a most rueful shipwreck’. All are condemned by works, yet works give evidence of a true faith.
1. We will all know either trouble and distress forever or glory, honour and peace forever.
– 2:8-9 deal with the wrath to come. Calvin says that the tribulation and distress refer to the outward and inward aspect of judgment
– 2:10 harks back to 2:7; note that Paul says that the person who experiences this has been doing good.
2. There are covenant blessings and curses.
– 2:9-10. Both judgment and blessing go to the Jew first (note the covenant blessings and curses in Lev.26 and Deut.28); see Amos 3:2
– 1 Peter 4:17 for the church
3. God shows no partiality.
– 2:11; note Lev.19:15; Deut.10:17
– not by country, nationality, gender, state, attainments, titles, popularity, privileges, or denomination.
– 1 Cor.15:58