In Romans Chapter 2, 1 to 5,

Therefore you are without excuse every man of you who passes judgment,

for in that you judge another, you condemn yourself.

For you who judge practice the same things.

And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.

And do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment upon those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Or do you think lightly of the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you

to repentance, but because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Well on our trek through the book of Hebrews, I mean Romans, we did go through Hebrews. On our way through

Romans, we have now arrived at chapter 2 and we have completed 22 messages in case you've not been counting

and this is number 23 and we pick it up at chapter 2 this morning.

And it might be good to step back here for a moment and ask the question,

why would anybody or any church devote eight years to studying the

Book of Romans? I did a little mathematics and thought if we keep going

at this pace it will be about eight years before we finish these 16 chapters. Why would any institution on the face of the earth week in and

week out devote itself to thinking and studying one letter written 2,000 years ago like this.

This is really a remarkable thing.

And as I pondered why I would do this, I came up with more questions than answers, but the question would be what's so special about this letter in the Bible and then the bigger questions what's so special about the Bible?

That one would even devote so much energy and time week in and week out to trying to base one's life on the Bible.

So as a kind of transitional introduction from verses 1 to 32 of chapter 1 into chapter 2,

I thought I would step back and try to answer that question for a moment.

And I have seven answers and they're just little bullets.

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