Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. But I'm excited to be here and I this is an incredible study we're about to have and this is one of those

Passages that I might not immediately be drawn to and then once you kind of drilled down in it you go wow we just hit gold.

So this is like spindletop in East Texas, you know, all of a sudden, what's this black stuff coming out of the ground?

Yeah. stuff coming out of the ground. Yeah, so yeah, H.L. Hunt just hit gold, hit oil.

Okay, if you've got your Bibles, turn with me to Romans chapter 2, and let me welcome those who are watching us live stream.

Literally, everywhere I go, people come up to me and say they're watching on live streams so

thank you for being a part of this study you're really sitting around the table

with us and we're in Romans chapter two and I want to begin by reading what's going to be our passage that we'll

look at today and the heading on this is really part 2 from what we looked at last time the moralist condemned and

the moralist is the person who is outwardly very moral, very straight, but inside their heart, they're just

as corrupt as the person who is involved in deep sin actions of sin.

And so Paul wants to address the moralist now that don't think that you will escape the

wrath of God if you've not been born again. So I do want to read this but before I read this let me just remind us get a walking start beginning in verse one I gave you five statements last time and I'm just going to walk

back through those and I want to make sure that you got these because we're going

to expand the fifth and final statement here. In verse one, Paul says, you practice

the same sin. Therefore you have no excuse every one of you who passes judgment, for in that which

you judge another you condemn yourself, for you judge, you who judge practice the same things.

And he's referring back to the end of Chapter 1.

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