Romanos 2:1-16

I. THE RUIN.

FALLEN MAN WITHOUT THE GRACE OF CHRIST, Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20.

1. Condition of the heathen world, Romans 1:18 to Romans 2:16 .

The structure of human salvation must base its pillars deep in the profound of human ruin. Of that ruin, therefore, the apostle furnishes a just but gloomy picture.

1. He first portrays the heathen world, illustrating man’s fall by the extremes of depravity to which condemning history shows that human nature can go, (Romans 1:18-32.)

2. Leaving this deep depravity of the heathen masses, and approaching the Jews by covered advances, he next takes the case of the more moralized yet inconsistent heathen, whose rebukes of vice condemn themselves, (Romans 2:1-10.)

3 . He touches the case of heathen who may be considered as keeping the law, (Romans 2:11-16.)

4. Having approached by ascending steps, he may now, without cause of offence, treat the case of the Jew, and through much and earnest debate with the Jew, conceptually present, he attains the conclusion that all are under sin, (Romans 2:17 to Romans 3:20.) Such being the Ruin, there comes a demand for the Remedy.