#44. Romans 2:3-4 – What Causes Repentance? (Judgment Series, Part V)
Part II: The Conduct of Humanity Yet are you reckoning on this, O man, who art judging those committing such things, and art doing the same, that you will be escaping the judgment of God? Or are you despising the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance? Runaway Train, Never Going Back… Up until this point in Romans, we have seen man stand in stark contrast to God. Where man has been shown irreverent in ignorance, God is shown to be reverent in sending His Son. Where man’s actions are poor and self-centered, God’s actions are proper and other-oriented. And, as we are witnessing in chapter 2’s alternating structure, where man is at fault for injustice, God has a faultless, righteous justice. In mankind’s present circumstance, God, being just, and being responsible for His universe, must enact one of two actions: He must either immediately correct the “Sin” situation, or, with some kind of methodo...
