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There are none who seek Him (Romans 3:9-20)
Andrew Clark, 24 February 2019
Part of the In Christ Alone series, Sunday Morning service
What can we say? Paul doesn’t give the Romans an easy time. In this passage again he draws out the condition of the human heart, announcing that there’s very little in us that will make us seek God. God, however, is still at work. By his grace, he works by the Spirit, through the moral law, to bring us conviction. How does conviction bring freedom to the guilty? It forges the beginning of an important path towards hope.
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Romans 3:9–20 (Listen)
9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 “Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
(ESV)