 Good morning everyone and welcome to class. Hope you all had a good weekend, good time at church, good time with family and friends over the weekend and ready for another week. Okay, we'll begin looking at Romans chapter two. We will study Romans chapter two today and before that we just pause for a word of prayer. Can I ask one of you to please lead us in prayer? Please anyone, John Paul or Anita, anyone can lead us in prayer. Okay, let's pray. Lord Jesus, we want to thank you for this morning. Thank you for bringing us together in your presence. We pray Lord that you would speak to us, help us to understand your word. We submit past our hands and we pray that she'd be able to reveal the mysteries of your word to us, God, Holy Spirit, leaders and guide us, teach us Lord Jesus so that we would be able to understand the truths of your scripture Lord. We thank you in Jesus name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you John Paul. We'll begin Romans chapter two so we can read through Romans chapter two and can somebody you know read maybe the first there are around 29 verses so maybe you know all of you can read about five or six verses can somebody start reading verses one to five or six and then we can move on please. Romans chapter two verses one to five, one to six therefore you are inexcusable oh man whoever you are you who judge when whatever you judge another you condemn yourself for you who judge practice the same thing but we know the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things and do you think this oh man you who judge those practicing such things and doing the same that you will escape the judgment of God or do you despise the riches of his goodness forbearance and long suffering not knowing that goodness of God leads you to repentance but in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God who will render to each one according to his deeds. Thank you Jefina. Thank you Jefina so in someone else read verses seven to maybe 14 or 15 in someone else read verses seven to was 14 or was 15 please. Okay was anyone wants to read? Okay. Thank you. Eternal life to those who by patience continents in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality were said but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and Raj 19 oh sorry nine tribulation and anguish on every soul of man who does evil of the Jew first and also of the great then by glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works the what is good to the Jew first and also to the great 11 for there is no partiality with God 12 for as many as have seen without law will also perish without law and as many as have seen in the law will be judged by the law 13 for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God but the doers of the law will be justified 14 for when Gentiles who do not have the law by nature do the teams in the law this although not having the law are a law to themselves 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witness and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them or was 16 as well as the other three just was 16 please 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel amen thank you so even as we read verses one to a 16 is there anything that you know any thought that has come to your mind any verse any phrase any word that just left out that you with from scripture anything that you remember it's starting before hearing before God has spoken to you through any of these verses anyone would like to share some thoughts chapter 2 verses 1 to 16 or anything that just stood out for you even as we were reading it maybe the Holy Spirit just prompted something something just came to your mind anyone would like to share Romans chapter 2 was 1 to 16 sorry jeffina you're saying okay jeffina saying she's just excited to learn the you know the interpretation or the meaning or the revelation from these verses okay thank you yes hello to me verse 11 stood up the most for me as it says for there is no partiality with God like in the past when I was 13 in ministry I happened to work under some leaders who you know show very partiality I can see but you know as I'm going to the scriptures it just stood out and reminded me no matter what you know I just need to make my heart right my attitude right and you know I'm not serving the leader I'm serving the Lord and these really helped me in working along with that the leader yeah yes thank you so much for sharing that I think that's so true there is no partiality with God sometimes even in family parents with their children you know there is partiality we see that schools that we study and teachers the way we treated us of friends there's partiality among siblings there's partiality even in the workplace and sometimes we get very frustrated we can get very dejected we can feel down let down but it's so wonderful to know that with God there is no partiality yes he loves us all the same he looks at us all the same and that's so wonderful thank you Zealotoli for sharing that anyone else would like to share anything that stood out for you anything you reminded that you studied before any scripture passage from this verses that we looked at Romans chapter 2 verses 1 to 16 and Oma yes yes Abu Bakr please go ahead Romans chapter 2 verse 5 says but after the hardness and repentance will be in penitence art the cereal is opened to the shelf right at the base of rock and the rhythm of the righteousness fragrance of God so this piece is telling us that is soft and the repentance art is needed to avoid God right God rocks on the base of product on the base of judgment the final judgment first to the best families someone to plot Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins but most of but unfortunately most people story now product for themselves on the final day so that that is very very very something that is going on around the world now people don't care about the day of judgment anymore and because of this the wrath of God is upon many people and the only solution for that is a soft and the repentance art so that we can avoid day of that judgment amen amen thank you thank you thank you for sharing that yes so important you know we harden our hearts some of us even you know even if we are pastors or teachers or teachers or the ministry or you know just basically receive salvation children of God we can harden some of the areas of our heart where we treasure up you know spin and you know ultimately the wrath of God and yes you know God is a gracious compassionate merciful and forgiving God but he's also a God who is a righteous God who will come as the judge and yes we will have to you know give an account for our lives yes thank you for pointing that out and you know people of this world also just treasure up wrath for themselves paying to know that there is a judgment that is coming awaiting them thank you anyone else would like to share okay there are no more thoughts or you and no one else wants to share we'll we look at or study chapter two now in chapter two Paul is dealing with the issue of law and conscience both with the Jews and Gentiles and Paul is basically you know debating within himself thinking in terms of what the you know his readers or those who are going to read his letter you know thinking according to their mindset or what they would be thinking in their minds and according to what they are thinking in their minds or what they would you know what their thoughts would be he's he's thinking and he's addressing that or he's basically writing it so he's basically debating within himself at the mind of the readers and this whole issue of law and conscience with respect to the Jews and the Gentiles so he's saying for the Jews they have the law and the Gentiles they don't have the law so how is God going to judge the Gentiles okay yes of course the Jews they have the laws they're going to be judged by the law or according to the law and how are the Gentiles going to be judged so Paul says there is a law an inbuilt law that is in every person and what is this inbuilt law that is in every person there are two things one is reason and the other is conscience so there is reason and there is conscience which means that within every person the way God has designed us he's already given us these two things what are these two things you know these two things is the reason and conscience and these reason and this conscience actually tells us about God it tells us what is right and wrong and that is what he is talking spoken about in chapter one he says hey if you look at creation creation reveals the eternal power the the the godhead it reveals the you know the nature of God okay sorry Lubega I think you got the link only now it's 742 okay yeah I will basically I just finish another class I have first two hours so by the time I move from that classroom to this classroom and set things up so the link goes in goes out late but I'll ensure that I post the link right on time from next week on sorry for the inconvenience and yeah so what we were basically doing is so far was you didn't miss anything much we were just reading we read Romans chapter 2 verses 1 to verse 16 and I just asked a couple of them to share so three of them shared Jeffina said that she's looking forward to learning from Romans chapter 2 then we have Zealotoli who talked about Romans chapter 2 verse verse I think it was verse 6 so where God says you know there is no partiality with God was 11 and then Abu Bakr he shared also from Romans chapter 4 where you know people um sorry verse 5 where he talks about people heartening their hearts and storing up for themselves wrath when they are going to face a judgment from God and then I just began Lubega you know giving a background to Romans chapter 2 he's left the meeting again okay so he'll I think maybe he's lost his connection okay so in chapter 2 as I said that Paul is dealing with issue of law and conscience both with regards to Jews and Gentiles so Paul says that inside all of us there is an inbuilt you know law that is there in every in every person and these two things is reason and conscience that means within every person the way God has designed us he's already given us these two things reason and he's given us conscience so reason is you know what he was talking about in the latter part of chapter one where he says hey you know nobody can say that they do not know there is a God you know or they can't say that there is no God sure to me God approved to me that the existence of God just creation itself you know proves the the the eternal power the eternal nature it reveals the Godhead and so people are without any excuse so by reason reasoning of their mind they can know that you know this inbuilt thing that God is designed they know that there is a God that there is the existence of our God and it's not things or man or animals that is God but there is a God who created all of this and then you know so reason actually tells us about God it reveals God to us which is an inbuilt thing that God is given to us and then there is conscience conscience basically helps us to know what is right and wrong okay so there is reason and conscience so those who do not have the law Paul is saying you know they have the reason and conscience to know about God to know about what is good and bad so they are not left without any excuse so the Jews have no excuse because they have the law they'll be judged by the law the Gentiles say hey we we don't know what is right and wrong because God has not given us the law but Paul is saying hey you can't say that because you know there's something that's inbuilt the way God is designed as he's given us a conscience and a conscience tells us what is right and wrong okay and then Paul very interestingly says you know but everyone will not will be judged by the how will everyone be judged by what does he say in Romans chapter 2 he says everyone will be judged according to the gospel whether it is Jew or Greek you know verse 16 he says in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel so Paul is saying the Jews will not just be judged by the law the Gentiles will not be judged by their conscience the inbuilt way God is designed them of reason and conscience but Paul says that everyone would be judged according to the according to the gospel of Jesus Christ okay whether you are a Jew or a Gentile so then he we'll just begin looking at Romans chapter 2 verse 1 okay so we see that you know Paul in chapter 1 says man is sinful he has suppressed the truth he has gone after his own wild passions and thoughts of his corrupt mind and therefore man you are inexcusable and he says that you know even if you are judging somebody you are in you're not excused you're inexcusable and he's speaking to the Jews and he's saying if you are a teacher of the law and you don't keep the law it's pointless and you know because God is going to judge you by the law he's going to judge you by what you are teaching so it's it's pointless you know you are just holding on to the law you're saying hey you know we are these great people we have the law we have the prophets we have the covenants and you're looking down on the Gentiles but what is the point you know you are teachers of the law you are the custodians of the law the law is given to you and you don't keep the law then it's basically pointless and God is going to judge all of us okay and Paul is saying hey Jews we can point to the Gentiles saying that hey you're doing all of these things you know and which is not right and he's saying but we too are inexcusable because we judge others and you know when we judge others we will be judged by the same standard so he's basically saying you know don't judge others whether you're a Jew or a Gentile you know you don't judge others but he's basically talking from the point of view of the Jews and he's including himself because he's a Jew and he's speaking to Jews and he says if you are a teacher of the law and you don't keep it it's pointless because going God is going to judge us and he says no we can point to the Gentiles and say hey you're not doing all of these things but at the same time we are as Jews inexcusable because when we judge others we too will be judged by the same standards okay verse 3 he says and do you think this oh man you will judge those practicing such things and doing the same that you will escape the judgment of God okay so verse 3 is saying you are doing the same thing and when you do the same thing and you expect others to do what you are not doing then you cannot escape the judgment of God. Everyone you know whether they are Jew or Greek all says we are all going to be judged by the life that we are living the kind of life that we are living and then he says there is no partiality with God you know but he says those who will be judged are who will be judged first the Jew first and then the Greek he mentions this twice he says this in verse 9 and verse 10 he says you know the Jew first and then the Greek so says we are all going to be judged so we can't point our fingers at others you know for whatever point or whatever place we are judging others we are doing it ourselves and we are going to be judged by the same standards verse 4 he says although you despise the riches of his goodness forbearance and long suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance okay so in verse 4 he says don't despise the goodness the patience and the long suffering of God why why is he asking us not to despise the goodness the patience and the long suffering of God why is he asking us in verse 4 not to despise the richness of his goodness forbearance and long suffering thank you jeffina because he says it's you know because the goodness of God leads to what it leads you to repentance now think about this the goodness of God leads you to repentance what does Paul really mean by saying that the goodness of God leads you to repentance any thoughts okay we know that God is a just God and he is a God who demands justice okay for sin he's also a righteous God which means that you know he demands that there is a judgment for sin every sin you know you know when we sin God is just he's righteous he has to punish sin okay but how does God deal with sinful man Paul is saying yes you know at one hand God is just and he's righteous when he sees sin he has to judge sin he has to pass the judgment at the same time we know that God is good he's gracious he's compassionate he's merciful forbearing loving so it's like you know the weighing balance okay two sides God is just and also God is loving and forgiving and merciful and compassionate so how does God deal with sinful man when we say hey he's just in punishing sin but also he is good and gracious and compassionate merciful Paul says that goodness of God leads people to repentance yes God will judge sin but what is really God doing when he judges sin he's drawing people by his goodness his mercy his forbearance and his long suffering okay so when God judges sin he passes out the judgment which means we face the consequences for our sin right we do face the consequences for our sin sin is not overlooked it's not condoned it's not you know hidden under the carpet so to say you know God is not saying hey okay this is the grace period you can do what you want I'll just cover up your sin I will just act like I didn't look at it no there is consequences for our sin and what these consequences of the sin that we go through is not something that God wants us to go through because you know he wants us to be punished and feel terrible for our sins and feel like this worm but we read in scripture that you know just like a father disciplines his son so our heavenly father also disciplines us because he loves us how much more a heavenly father will discipline us because he loves us so when an earthly father disciplines his or her child he's doing it because he loves the child he's doing it because he doesn't want the child to go away do things that are wrong commit the same mistake that can be harmful detrimental for that child the same way our heavenly father punishes us so that we do not go away in the parts of sin and unrighteousness and unholiness but we walk in parts of righteousness and holiness so it's only when we face the consequences of our sin now when we face consequences of the sin how do we react sorry yeah when we go through you know suffering when we go through pain what do we basically do we realize what sin we have committed right we said hey I've done this and that is why I've done this sin or even if we have not done I mean nothing comes to mind we say God you know I'm going through this hard struggle this period in my life where I'm just seeing dead ends hindrances mountains giants I'm facing you know what sin did I commit God show me what sin I commit I will you know I would seek your forgiveness I was I would repent God so that I can do away with all of this difficult phase of life that I am so they can receive your mercy and grace and your favor and your goodness so actually when we go through difficulties we are thinking about our sinful habits sinful ways and how we can repent and we come back you know to God so you know so Paul is basically saying that God will judge sin but God is really trying to do this even as he judges sin or when we face the consequences of sin he's drawing people to himself by his goodness mercy for parents and long suffering and people realize that hey you know when I was doing obedient to God doing what he want I enjoyed his favor enjoyed his goodness enjoyed his blessing now I've stepped away and you know what happens when you step away from your spiritual covering right you step away from the spiritual covering you you encounter whom Satan and Satan is all out to steal kill and destroy our life and this is what we will also study the next semester when you when you study Paul writing to Timothy he says you know there is this man who is you know committing this grievous sin you know correct him and he's you've corrected him but he's not changed so I want you to throw him out of the fellowship so we can think hey you know how rude of Paul to say throw him out of the fellowship have nothing to do with him and but Paul says you know by doing so he can you know you will you will save his soul so how what does Paul mean even when Paul is writing to the church at Corinth he says you know give that person up to Satan you know and when you read that you can say how rude of Paul to say give that person up to Satan but what Paul is basically trying to say is you know when this person is out of the fellowship he's basically he or she's basically outside the spiritual covering of God and when he or she's outside the spiritual covering of God they're open to the attacks of the evil one who's all out to steal kill and destroy and when they go through troubles and difficulties they will recognize their sin they would repent and they would come back so it's actually going to work for their benefit it's actually going to work for that good and that is what Paul says so we see it here that you know God would judge sin but God is really trying what is God trying to do even as he punishes people this sin it's a draw people by his goodness mercy for parents and long suffering so what Paul is saying is you know hey when we are dealing with the issue of sin and sinfulness with people we know what is right and wrong but we need to know that the goodness of God leads to repentance so don't judge people you know it also doesn't mean don't overlook their sin don't condone their sin it does not mean don't encourage sin no we have to deal with sin you know we need to correct them but we also need to demonstrate the goodness and the mercy of God knowing that the goodness of God leads one to repentance okay so even as you don't condone the sin even as you don't overlook and don't encourage sin but even as we correct the people deal with the sin and not the person don't you know be rude or you know just ignore the person or you know do harm that person with the person's character this whole person's mind or you know his emotions is so broken the way we treat him and the way we punish him for the things that he's done but deal with his sin in a way that demonstrates God goodness his mercy his loving kindness so that it will lead them to repentance so Paul says you know we are all doing the wrong things we're all going to be judged for the wrong that we do and he says Jews first and then the Greeks so we can't point our fingers at others because we ourselves are doing it and we cannot judge others but be kind be good be merciful to everyone okay and verses 12 to 16 he talks of how everyone will be judged and he says the Jews have the law the law will judge them the Gentiles are without the law but they too will perish without the law and when he says they too will perish without the law he's not talking about the law that God gave to the Jews so what what about the Gentiles you know who don't have the law you know Paul is saying in verse 14 for when Gentiles who do not have the law by nature do things in the law these all although not having the law are law to themselves okay so he's telling Gentiles by nature they do things pertaining to the law which means he's saying you know he's not talking about the law that God gave the Israelites he's saying the way people are designed we are designed with something inside us inside of us we all have a conscience that tells us what is right and wrong okay but so Paul is saying hey you don't have the law the Gentiles the law is not given to you but you have an inbuilt law and what is that something that is inside you and that is your conscience okay look at what he says in verse 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witness and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them so the law he's saying is written in their hearts and what is this law that is written in the hearts of the Gentiles he's talking about the conscience okay he says their conscience tell them that this is okay this is not okay their conscience tells them this is right and this is not right so every man is spawned with the conscience or he's saying this conscience is a law written in their hearts and it's a capacity to know the right and wrong which is an inbuilt thing in every person which God has designed all of us in that way with our conscience and he's calling this conscience as the law for the Gentiles now can the conscience be smeared or damaged can your conscience be smeared damaged or even dead yes or no and I have some answers please yes what about okay jeffina saying yes what about our online students can our conscience be smeared you know dead damaged yes no yes our conscience can be damaged it can be smeared it can be dead thank you zealotoli you know and our ability to know right and wrong can be damaged okay so when we continue indulging in sin people's it's we know that our conscience is dead to that part so you know we don't even have to think about lying because we're so used to lying it becomes a habit and our conscience is dead to lying so we can just lie in end out lying becomes like a natural self a natural part of our character or who we are and he says that you know we need to remember that the conscience does not replace the gospel the conscience does not replace the gospel the conscience is an alternate law but it cannot replace the gospel so what basically paul is saying here is hey your jews have the law but you will you know you can follow it the the the gentiles don't have a law but they have an inbuilt law that is got a design in everyone and that is their conscience but he finally says the jews will not be judged by that law the gentiles will not be judged by the law that is their conscience but all of us will be judged by the gospel of jesus christ okay so in verse 16 he says in the day when god will judge the secrets of men by jesus christ according to my gospel so in verse 16 he concludes that god is going to judge the secrets of men according to my gospel so the judgment of god which is a righteous judgment which is not an impartial judgment and a judgment according to the truth will be done according to the gospel of jesus christ it will not be done according to the law or the conscience but all of us irrespective of jews or gentiles will be judged according to the gospel of jesus christ so we can say hey what happens to those people who do not hear the gospel how will they be judged okay so paul has explained so far in chapter one and chapter two that you know there are people who have the law and there are people who don't have the law the jews have the law the gentiles don't have the law but he's saying that even though the gentiles don't have the written law that god is given the jews there are two things in every person in every person that is in built that god has designed them that you know that reason and conscience reason tells them hey there is a god telling them to seek the true and living god so every person has a reason and he says that you know through creation every person can look and say yes there is a creator god the invisible attributes of god are seen clearly in creation and also every person has a conscience whether there's jew or gentile every person has a conscience and that conscience tells them what is right and wrong so these two things in every person is basically directing us or it's convicting us and telling us hey there is a god that you should seek out the true and living god and every person who seeks after this god the true and living god every person who's searching for this truth paul says god in some way will bring that gospel of jesus christ to that person now if a person dies without hearing the gospel what will happen to them true they have the reason true they have their conscience and their conscience says that there is a true and living god and you have to seek after him but they never hear about jesus christ and they die okay but we can state according to verse 16 that everyone will be judged according to the gospel of jesus christ no excuse so will god have any other way that he will judge these people who've never heard about the gospel now scripture does not mention that to us so hence we cannot come up with an alternative we cannot come up with an alternate option all we know is what we read in verse 16 where it says that in that day god would judge the secrets of man by jesus christ according to my gospel so there's no other option so what should we do is you know say that hey conscience is not an alternative it's not a replacement to the gospel you know law is not an alternative it's not a replacement for the gospel and in verse 16 it says people will judge according to the gospel so what is the gospel what is the gospel those who believe in the law jesus christ will be saved and without christ there is no salvation there is no other name given to men by which they can be saved so we cannot say that god will use conscience to judge the people who have not heard the gospel this is a wrong conclusion we cannot say that we cannot say that you know people the jews will be judged according to the law because they did not hear the gospel of jesus christ we preached them no but according to verse 16 we just know that everyone will be judged according to the gospel of jesus christ there is no other alternative and when people seek the true and living god the gospel god in some way will have the gospel preached to them and that is why you know it is important for us to share and proclaim the gospel okay because everyone will be judged and no one can you know uh say you know can we say hey our conscience can judge us no and that is why we need uh to proclaim that is why we need to share the gospel okay anyone has any questions so far any questions jeffina has a question yeah so um basically this chapter i'm just i just want to know whether i'm uh understanding in the right way so basically this chapter talks about the judgment of god like how people get like the final judgment i ask or aside the link so sometimes people use this uh in saying uh like you should not judge my character uh you who are you to judge uh so what do you think about that like we had a devotion we are reading romans to at hostel every morning we girls have a group devotion so at hostel we were reading this today and that's why i was so excited to see this real perspective like what really understanding was like so basically i've seen people use this scripture who are you to judge me who are you to condemn me who are you to correct me uh you should not judge another uh how do you judge me you'll be you'll be judged in the same way so what do you think about people using it in the other way like i mean in judging others yes so how uh see uh judging is you know when um it's like you know judging the person and putting down the person and condemning the person you know romans ate there is no condemnation for those who are in christ uh jesus that does that that does that mean that god is not going to condemn our sin or he's just going to overlook our sin he's going to cover our sin he's uh not going to look at our sin no he is a righteous god he is a just god and he looks at sin and he punishes sin okay so doesn't mean that god covers up sin but he does not condemn us so when we when we're talking about judgment is judging are you judging the sin or judging the person you know so we need to help the person so that's why he says here you know the goodness of god leads to repentance goodness forbearance mercy so in this verse he's saying hey you know um he's basically talking the context of jews who's saying you have the law and you are trying to you know in the early church uh this was a problem the jews were trying to bring in uh you know certain kind of eating habits food habits telling the gentiles you have to follow these rituals these specific days they were bringing in endless genealogies they were bringing in the circumcision ritual and they were saying you know you have to do all of these things and even you have to keep the law and you say hey you jews you don't keep it yourself and when you don't keep it how can you judge somebody else you know that they are not keeping it because you are you yourself are breaking the uh law so he's talking about in a sense of pride in a sense of thinking that you're greater you're having a place of dominion but at the same time paul is saying that you know god is the one who judges but even look at when he judges sin how does he do it even though he's a judge and righteous god he does it with goodness mercy with forbearance and with patience so he's saying maybe when somebody does something wrong it doesn't mean that we don't we we overlook their sin no we don't overlook their sin we help them you know come out of their sin but how do we do it we do it with a sense of love goodness patience you know and forbearance okay good question okay any more questions if not we'll move on to worse uh uh 17 uh so can somebody please read verses 17 to 20 repeat this anyone can read verses 17 to 20 nobody wants to read verses 17 to 20 Romans chapter 2 verses 17 to 20 indeed you are called a jew and rest on the law and make your boast in god and know his will and approve the things that are excellent being instructed out of the law and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind a light to those who are in darkness an instructor of the foolish foolish a teacher of faith having the form of knowledge and the truth in the law 17 to thank you jebina so verse 17 verse 17 you know he's strongly rebuking the jews it's a strong rebuke to the jews he says hey jews you're resting you're relying in the law and making your boast in god and in verse 18 he says we know his will and we can tell you what is uh you know right and wrong but paul is telling them you know what is right and wrong you're teaching it but you yourself are not doing it and when you're teaching it and you yourself are not doing you're also breaking the law okay so paul is basically building up the case here he's telling the jews jew the truth that you have the law you know everything in the law but you are also breaking the law and then verses 19 and 20 he says and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind a light to those who are in darkness and instruct the foolish a teacher of babes having the form of knowledge and the truth in the law you therefore who teach another do you not teach yourself you who preach that a man should not steal do you steal you who say do not commit adultery do you commit adultery you who abhor idols do you rob temples you who make your boast in the law do you dishonor god through breaking the law for the name of god is blaspheming among the gentiles before because because of you as it is written so paul is saying here you have the law jews you boast about it but you are teaching it but you yourself are not able to keep it and because you are not able to keep it at every point you are breaking not just one law but you're breaking all of the laws so you saying don't steal but you're stealing you're saying don't commit adultery but you're committing adultery and by doing this what are you basically doing you're bringing blasphemy to the name of god and for the for the jews you know to blaspheme the name of god is something really big for that there's something that they won't even want to do or dare to do but he's equalling it by not keeping the law breaking the law and judging others he's saying you're basically blaspheming the name of god okay we'll continue verses 25 to verse 29 just a few more thoughts and then we'll end this chapter any questions anyone else anyone else has or any questions does anyone has any questions any thoughts anything that you didn't understand anything that you like to share no okay if there's nothing you'll like to share or no questions we'll end class today thank you everyone for joining class have a blessed day and a blessed week ahead and I will see you on Friday thank you thank you poster thank you zenith all