Hey, this is Beth. What we live for at Living Proof is to serve people the word of God. We base our ministry on Hebrews 412 that tells us that the word is alive and active.

We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God is going to speak through it. Thank you so much for giving us this privilege.

Turn with me if you would please to Romans chapter two. Yes we are still there.

Very anxious to read these past. to yes we are still there.

Very anxious to read these passages to you in view of our last several lessons. I'm going to hope that many of you have been part of this series so far so that you've got

Some of the context because it's not going to hit you the same way I'm afraid if you haven't been

part of it. I want you to stick with me here, Romans 2

verse 17 through the end of the chapter. Bless you Jesus. Now you, if you call

yourself a Jew, if you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to God,

if you know as well and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law.

If you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark,

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. You then who teach others do you not

teach yourself. You who preach against stealing do you steal? You who say that people should not commit adultery?

Do you commit adultery?

You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Verse 23. You who brag about the law, do you Do you rob temples,

verse 23, you who brag about the law,

do you dishonor God by breaking the law,

as it is written, God's name is blasphe him

among the Gentiles because of you?

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the

law you have become as though you had not been circumcised. If those who are not

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