Romans 1
Revealed
Hide and Seek in the dark can be scary and fun
But don’t play Hide and Seek with God
Righteousness is not a game
Moses warned the people
"But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the LORD; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23
BUT
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives. 1 John 1:9-10
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel a righteousness from God is REVEALED
Adam and Eve could not hide their sin, King David could not hide his sin
Uncover the Gospel and find righteousness
Before your sins are uncovered and revealed
"The righteous will live by faith."
Revealed
Kids, at night, love to play hide and seek,
Kick the Can and Ghost in the Graveyard.
Under the cover of darkness and behind objects,
kids are trying not to be revealed by “Your IT”.
Playing any type of Tag,
the one who is “It” tags another person
and cries out “Your It”.
In real life, you do not want to be “It”.
Hiding started at the beginning of time.
God and man walked together in the wonderful
Garden He had created for them.
But when that was not enough,
Adam and Eve disobeyed God and hid.
King David sinned by taking another man’s wife
and having her husband killed.
When God revealed to the prophet, Nathan, what David did…
He told David a compelling story of injustice
which enraged David to the point of anger
to put the unjust person to death.
It is at this point, Nathan says
“You are the man!”
in other words “Your It”.
Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man!
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes?
2 Samuel 12:7-9
Like Adam and Eve, David was given so much from the Lord
and yet disobeyed the Lord and went into hiding.
Sin and disobedience causes all of us to hide.
In Romans 1:17, we read…
“righteousness from God is revealed”
The word “reveal” means to take off the cover; to disclose
In the Gospel, the Good News of God
we find the covers being taken off.
Romans 2:4 says it this way…
Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness,
tolerance and patience, not realizing
that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?
God in His goodness, desires to lead us
out of hiding and toward repentance.
A Godly sorrow that brings change and
enables us to walk out of hiding
by God’s forgiveness.
Sadly, many will not come out of hiding,
no matter how good God has been to them.
This is where Romans 1:18 and following comes in…
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven
against all the godlessness and wickedness of men
who suppress the truth by their wickedness
Romans 1:18
God’s wrath “IS” being revealed.
You do not want to go into hiding
and be tagged by God in your sin.
So how do we become “Righteousness”?
Three times we find in Scripture these words…
"The righteous will live by faith."
In Habakkuk, God reveals, gives revelation to Habakkuk,
who is standing watch.
God reveals or uncovers…
The sin of the people and the righteousness of people.
God also reveals the timing.
Although God sees and now Habakkuk sees.
God says…
The revelation awaits an appointed time;…
it will certainly come and will not delay
Although sin is uncovered,
the uncovering of God’s wrath,
His judgment, will come later.
The reading of Habakkuk 2:4 is interesting…
“but the righteous will live by his faith—"
The word faith is also translated “faithfulness”.
So, it would read like this…
“but the righteous will live by his faithfulness—"
This shows us faith will have faithfulness.
The question that comes from this is…
Does your faith have faithfulness?
Paul uses the words…
"The righteous will live by faith."
Galatians 3:11
Paul is pointing out living by faith
is not keeping the commandments.
The righteous will not live by law…
They will live by faith.
This is a very important difference.
When Paul uses these words in Romans 1:17…
“The righteous will live by faith.”
Paul says Righteousness starts with faith and ends with faith.
Righteousness is living faithfully every day from start to finish.
Righteousness is revealed or uncovered by God in the Gospel…
The uncovering of God’s goodness and what is right.
Not to be a law, but a lifestyle we live.
If you do not repent,
expose ourselves before God
and find forgiveness…
God in the appointed time
will pour out His wrath and judgment.
Hide and Seek in the dark can be scary and fun.
But don’t play Hide and Seek with God.
Righteousness is not a game.
Moses warned the people…
"But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the LORD;
and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.
Numbers 32:23
BUT…
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
1 John 1:9-10
Romans 1:17…
For in the gospel a righteousness from God is REVEALED
Adam and Eve could not hide their sin.
King David could not hide his sin.
Uncover the Gospel and find Righteousness…
Before your sins are uncovered and revealed.
"The righteous will live by faith."
Scripture Reading
Romans 1:17 NIV
17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
Habakkuk 2:2-4 NIV
2 Then the LORD replied:
"Write down the revelation
and make it plain on tablets
so that a herald may run with it.
3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time;
it speaks of the end
and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it;
it will certainly come and will not delay.
4 "See, he is puffed up;
his desires are not upright —
but the righteous will live by his faith—
Galatians 3:11 AMP
11 Now it is evident that no person is justified (declared righteous and brought into right standing with God) through the Law, for the Scripture says, The man in right standing with God [the just, the righteous] shall live by and out of faith and he who through and by faith is declared righteous and in right standing with God shall live
Galatians 3:11-14 NIV
11 Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them." 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
