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    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2016
    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2016
    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2016
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    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2016

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    College and Career is the young adult quarterly directed toward students ages 18–24. The lessons are designed to address the unique experiences of African- American young adults as they venture into the world of higher education and work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
    Release dateApr 23, 2016
    ISBN9781681671321
    College & Career: 3rd Quarter 2016

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      College & Career - R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation

      MATCHING WORDS WITH ACTIONS

      Unifying Topic: Ignoring God’s Truth Within Us

      ROMANS 2:17–29

      BACKGROUND SCRIPTURES: PSALM 104; ROMANS 2:14–29

      Romans 2:17–29

      INTRODUCTION

      How do actions reveal what one actually believes? There is great power in what a person says, but the real force is in the actions behind those words and the actions that result from saying them. Words can be used as weapons to destroy, as seen in Adolf Hitler’s charismatic and genocidal governance in Germany. Words can also be used to inspire a peaceful movement, as when Martin Luther King, Jr. stood at Washington Monument and spoke to the crowds of hope for the future.

      Anticipating his future visit to the city, Paul wrote this letter to the church in Rome. Though he had neither been to Rome at this point, nor had he planted the church there, Paul had a lot to say to the believers in Rome. They were a community made of both Jews who had recently returned from exile and Gentiles who had stayed behind in the city. This letter is one of Paul’s most dense and comprehensive because of both his lack of prior evangelistic work in Rome and the possibility of fracturing due to the differences between Jews and Gentiles. He wanted them to fully understand what it means to live converted lives for Christ. He also needed them to know that no one can escape God’s judgments if they willfully choose to disobey God’s Law. Some Jews boasted about the Law but seemed powerless to live within the boundaries of that same Law. The text for today’s lesson focuses on the importance not just on knowledge and saying the right things but also on doing the right things.

      EXPOSITION

      I. KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE (Romans 2:17–23)

      As Paul prefaced in Romans 2:13, it’s not the hearers who are just before God but the doers of the Law. It was a misunderstanding of God’s intentions for His people Israel to assume that keeping His laws, especially the ritual and sacrificial laws, was the best way to please Him. It was this kind of thinking that caused Jesus to rebuke the Pharisees when He said, ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!’ (Matt. 23:23–24, NRSV). These religious leaders led many astray in their love for the tiny details of the Law and disregard for the intent of the Law.

      Life.Point

      Knowledge must lead to action or it is useless.

      Lesson.Point

      More is required of God’s people than simple knowledge and ritually keeping laws.

      Section I

      Why might a very religious person seem condescending to others?

      Section II

      What brings shame to God?

      Section III

      Why is knowing the Law important for Christians today?

      Paul was also educated in the Law, but he knew that reliance on keeping the Law perfectly was dangerous for his people. Furthermore, he knew how easy it was to teach the Law without keeping the Law. The Pharisees that Jesus rebuked knew that the Law and the Prophets had always called for the people to practice justice and righteousness, and they taught these things but did not do them (see Matt. 23:3). Paul challenged the Jewish believers in Rome, asking them, If you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth, you, then, that teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? You that forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples? You that boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? (Rom. 2:19–23, NRSV). Though the believers might not have actually been stealing or committing adultery or stealing from temples, these examples challenged them to consider what they taught and what they actually did. They could very easily fall into hypocrisy just as the Pharisees had

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