There certainly isn't any distinction between those HE has Chosen, save for the TRUTH of their allegiance! NO ONE can FEIGN allegiance, it runs far deeper than proclamation, or display! It is of the heart, and therefore, of the mind, which in turns frees the spirit, which IS the REALITY of our existence, and which IS the image of *GOD*, and IS that which is eternal, though where eternity is spent IS dependent upon the heart, the mind, the actions, and reactions of this time in the flesh!!!
CHRIST JESUS, as well as the Apostles/Disciples spent much time trying to enlighten stubborn people, whom IMAGINED that they were superior, righteous, and HOLY, which HAS NOT curtailed even in this late date, even by Christians! It is like people hear ONE sentence, or ONE thought, and that is all there is! There is MUCH involved in Salvation; it IS a PROCESS which begins with FAITH, which then, produces FAITHFULNESS, and HUMILITY, which then, clears THE WAY OF *GOD*, via THE HOLY SPIRIT to work in us, through us, and around us!!!
The TRUTH of those who ARE OF *GOD* SHALL be REVEALED IN all they think, say, or do, as they are becoming, or are now, beacons, or reflections OF THE LORD *GOD*, and are no longer enslaved by what is against *GOD*!!!
The Jews could not be justified by the law of Moses, any more than the Gentiles by the law of nature.
1+++Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
2+++And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.
3+++But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?
4+++Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
5+++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,
6+++who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS:
7+++to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;
8+++but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
9+++There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,
10+++but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
11+++For there is no partiality with God.
12+++For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;
13+++for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.
14+++For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
15+++in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
16+++on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.
But in true repentance, there must be hatred of former sinfulness, from a change wrought in the state of the mind, which disposes it to choose the good and to refuse the evil. It shows also a sense of inward wretchedness. Such is the great change wrought in repentance, it is conversion, and is needed by every human being.
The ruin of sinners is their walking after a hard and impenitent heart. Their sinful doings are expressed by the strong words, “treasuring up wrath.”
In the description of the just man, notice the full demand of the law. It demands that the motives shall be pure, and rejects all actions from earthly ambition or ends. In the description of the unrighteous, contention is held forth as the principle of all evil.
The human will is in a state of enmity against God. Even Gentiles, who had not the written law, had that within, which directed them what to do by the light of nature. Conscience is a witness, and first or last will bear witness. As they kept or broke these natural laws and dictates, their consciences either acquitted or condemned them. Nothing speaks more terror to sinners, and more comfort to saints, than that Christ shall be the Judge. Secret services shall be rewarded, secret sins shall be then punished, and brought to light.
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