#48. Romans 2:6-10 – God Pays (Judgment Series, Part IX)
Part II: The Conduct of Humanity [God] will be paying each one in accord with his acts: to those, indeed, who by endurance in good acts are seeking glory and honor and incorruption, life eonian, yet to those of faction and stubborn, indeed, as to the truth, yet persuaded to injustice, indignation and fury, affliction and distress, on every human soul which is effecting evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek, yet glory and honor and peace to every worker of good, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek. The entire passage above concerns us with God’s payment. This may sound strange to some who have recognized that God is indeed in control of the entire story (as He Himself is undeniably alluding to, in 1:22, 24, 26-28, etc.) God uses this term, pay, because there is an active, relative story going on that demands our attention. It is fundamental that He involves you in the story, for He is not demeaning your existence to some petty or small, insignificant place. It is ofte...
