Misunderstanding of human unrighteousness and God's righteousness

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Misunderstanding of human unrighteousness and God's righteousness (Romans 3:5-8)

There was a man wearing a shoulder belt and handing out tracts on the street, encouraging me to believe in Jesus. 

I asked him this question, "do you know  how to believe in Jesus?"

Do you know well how to believe in Jesus?

The way is to hear the Word, die with Christ, be found as born again, and  as a new creature who be born again and has gained eternal life, follow the truth as a child of God and become one spirit with the Lord and come to the Father.

In the gospel, God's righteousness is revealed, and that righteousness leads from faith to faith, reaching the righteousness that follows works, and becoming a child of God who achieves love.

However, there are many believers who believe in Jesus as an object and take acting lessons to live according to the Word, or give substitutes to God to obtain material or real blessings.

The Jews firmly believed that they were righteous, but Paul exposed them as unrighteous.

Even now, it may not be true to say that we have been forgiven of our sins and have been made righteous.

Q. Isn't it enough if our unrighteousness reveals God's righteousness?

“But if our unrighteousness commend the  righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)” (Romans 3:5)

A. If our unrighteousness meets God's righteousness, our unrighteousness is exposed.

If that's the case, that's it, why does God pour out His wrath on them?

If I'm wrong and God is right, that's enough. Why are you trying to kill me?

So, isn't God doing something wrong?

Like the theory of the gospel of Judas Iscariot, Judas sold Jesus to die on the cross, so did he not contribute to the work of the Lord? 

This is the thinking of human beings who have become sinners. 

That's the pragmatic theory.

Modern philosophical thought is to not argue about righteousness or unrighteousness if it is helpful to me.

It is rampant in the modern church.

It is enough if we have revealed God's righteousness, why does God take vengeance on us?

It's a human thought.

In other words, it is a counter-question that it is too much to say in our own way.

Paul guessed this kind of human thought in advance and wrote the book of Romans.

“God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?” (Romans 3:6)

Paul nailed it by saying, “Absolutely not.”

In fact, when we look at God from our point of view, it seems that God is oppressing us, but in fact, it is because of the sin in us, that is, unrighteousness, not us.

God never oppresses people, but expresses His wrath on the sins of those who disobey the truth through unrighteousness.

A person who is in a good mood with a grenade is insane.

If he has sin and unrighteousness, he feels the wrath of God because of that sin and unrighteousness.

Q. Could Paul be lying?

“For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?” (Romans 3:7)

If my lies contributed to God's truth and thus became an element of abundance in God's glory, should Paul still be judged like a sinner? It's like this.

Then, Paul himself is questioning whether my words are lies.

From the standpoint of Judaism, Jesus and Paul were liars, that is, heretics.

“And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.” (Romans 3:8).

A. Paul already knows the evil thoughts of humans.

People say that the more evil we become, the more good God becomes.

Then they can say, 'Let's do only evil' because that will be the glory of God.

They are trying to escape Paul's logic that  there is no choice but to be a sinner.

This is a false apologetic.

Even now, where sin abounds, grace also abounds (Rom. 5:20), so sometimes it seems like a better faith to taste the grace of God greatly from time to time in the midst of sin.

However, Paul makes it clear that we cannot be in sin, that grace may abound. (Rom. 6:1-2)

The problem is, believe in Jesus, believe in His death on the cross and shed blood, but we do not know how we escaped from the body of sin and death and became servants of righteousness and life.

We believe in Jesus, cry out to Jesus and may make you wait for the Lord to come again in the position of sin.

So doctrine is important.

A doctrine is a rationalization of a fact.

The Gospels tell the historical facts of Jesus, and Paul's epistles logicalize these factual facts into doctrines to apply to us.

That is why it is the gospel of truth.

For the Jews who believed in God and were in charge of the law and the temple, they thought it would be righteousness if they offered substitute sacrifices.

But Paul says that if you hear the gospel of Christ and do not obtain righteousness in Christ, God's wrath is upon you because that is unrighteousness.

That is why Paul is explaining the fact that the Jews were entrusted with the Word, but just because they disobeyed the Word, it was not wrong with God who entrusted the Word to them.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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