In the last message, the Apostle Paul tells us that the moralists, the moralists, people who think

they're good, and they're better than others, and they compare themselves with the worst in society,

and so, well, I'm not as bad. And he's talking about these moralists, both Jews and Gentiles, by the way. He said,

they will be brought before the courts of justice of heaven, before the heavenly judge at the end times.

He said, neither of them have any basis or should have any basis for security. Any security that they may devise to convince

themselves is a false sense of security. Any security that they devise other than being saved

through the shed blood of Jesus Christ is a false sense of security. And here, beginning in this passage,

the Apostle Paul turns from talking to the moralists, both Jews and Gentiles, and he focus

exclusively upon the Jewish people of his day, the religionists, those people of the covenant.

Why? He said, because they have greater measure of light.

They have greater measure of God's knowledge.

They have greater measure of God's blessings.

They have greater measure of privilege to know God.

And so with all of that, he says, comes as stricter judgment,

is going to come as stricter accountability. And therefore, he turns onto them like a laser

being in order to remind them that any security they have, other than coming to the Messiah, the Lord Jesus

Christ, is a false sense of security. Three things that we can see in this passage. False sense

of security, verses 17 to 29. Personal responsibility, chapter 3, verse 1 to 8. Accountability,

chapter 3, verse 9 to 8. Accountability, chapter 3, verse 9 to 18. First, he's saying it is dangerous,

it is dangerous to have this false sense of security. In fact, if it is so dangerous to have a

false sense of security about your job or about your finances or about

your future, in fact, not anywhere near as dangerous as having a false sense of spiritual

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