ROMANS Study Guide

coming judgment of those who harden their hearts and refuse

to repent (change their mind) about their unrighteous condition.

b. God will judge us not on what we believe to be true but on what

we do each day…vs.6 ( this is a serious situation for many who

sit in churches across our country and believe they are secure

because of what they know but are not doing).

4. Not the possessor of the Law but the doer of the Law is right in

God’s eye’s (vss.7 -26)

a. God looks at right doing not just right knowing !

1) Paul lays out a clear message… if you do good…God accepts

you but if you do bad…you come under judgment vss.8 -10

2) There is no distinction between Jew and Gentile in this fact of

the law… either you do the law and are justified, or you don’t

do the law and are judged by it. Vs.11

Rom 2:12 For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law. Rom 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. Rom 2:14 For when the nations, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law unto themselves. Rom 2:15 who show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or even excusing one another, Rom 2:16 in a day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

b. God will work with the understanding a person has in judgment:

(Those ignorant of the law and those who know it) vss.12-16

1) If one never knew the law then God will judge that person by

natural revelation and their conscience. There will be those

who have instinctively done the law and God will honor that.

Vss. 14-15