#60. Romans 2:24 – A Complete Study of Paul’s Use of the Hebrew Scriptures, Part II
Part II: The Conduct of Humanity From Romans 1:18-3:20, Paul makes a comprehensive argument for the necessity of God’s indignation and judgment, leveled against the irreverence and injustice of which all mankind involuntarily partake. Though this is a very pessimistic theme, it must be the blackest moral backdrop imaginable. This is only so that the evangel can be propped up on a pedestal, as the only resolution to such a backdrop. This, as mentioned at the beginning of the “Indignation Series,” is hinted at in the very structure of Romans 1:16-18. Paul states that he is not ashamed of the evangel, and then provides three reasons why: its authority (“It is God’s power for salvation to everyone who is believing, ”) its content (“In it, God’s righteousness is being revealed, out of faith, for faith,”) and, finally, its necessity (“ God’s indignation is being revealed on the irreverence and injustice of men… who are deserving of death … condemning yourself [in hypocritical judgment...
