In the last message, we saw how God will judge those who have inverted his truth. We saw how God

is going to judge those who have perverted his gifts. We saw how God who will judge those who

have darkened mind. And immediately following that pronouncement that we saw in the last message, literally, if Paul was speaking and not writing, you can literally sense that he has not taken a breath.

He did not even take a breath in without immediately jumping straight immediately upon those moralistic, self-righteous religious Pharisees, immediately,

from chapter 1 to chapter 2. There is no division in the original. Those who probably were

saying, when they heard Paul talk about those people who will be judged by God who inverted the truth,

who perverted his gifts,

they probably were the ones who were saying, at a boy, Paul, sock it to them, Paul,

whack them on the head by this truth, Paul. We are with you, Paul, because we are not like

these wicked people. We are much better.

We are good.

And that is why, as I said, without even taking a breath,

Paul turns immediately, and he warn those who have perverted the truth about God and those who are moralistic people, religious, self-righteous Pharisees,

and says, you too, busters, well, that's my word,

not his. You are not going to escape the judgment of God. And that is why in verse one,

and Navi said, therefore, whenever you see the word therefore in the Bible, find out why it is therefore.

It is to tell those moralist do-gooders, religious hypocrites that you too are without an excuse.

If you think that God only going to judge the pagan Gentiles, and you've got a big shock coming to you,

for you too are going to be judged. In fact, your judgment probably going to be much stricter than theirs.

Why? Because you have refused to acknowledge the Messiah, your Messiah.

Beloved, this principle applies today to Christians who are nominal, Christians who are

professing Christians only, because they have greater knowledge of the truth.

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