_GOD’S GOODNESS_ ‘The riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering.’ Romans 2:4 What is that in God which is most fitted to affect and to subdue us? The greatness of His power? The infinitude of His nature? The severity of His holiness? Nay, the riches of His forbearance and longsuffe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AN INCENTIVE TO REPENTANCE_ ‘The goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance.’ Romans 2:4 ‘The _ goodness_ of God leadeth thee to repentance.’ God is very _ good_ to us. He gives us time for repentance. He waits to be gracious. He spares men who provoke Him to anger every day, that He might see i... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE WITNESS OF CONSCIENCE_ ‘When the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness.’ Romans 2:14 Nothing is sadder... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE JUDGMENT_ ‘The day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.’ Romans 2:16 This verse should be joined to the tenth. That asserts an impartial judgment of Jew and Gentile. The intervening verses give a parenthetic series of reasons for this impartiality.... [ Continue Reading ]
_COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD_ ‘For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter.’ Romans 2:28 If we were to read this pas... [ Continue Reading ]