1. someone has to charge a person with a crime. And the removed, this count of this indictment is true for all of us. With our tongues we both curse people and flatter them at
charged that he gives here is I've previously done it. And Charged number three: There is no one who seeks the same time. What comes out of our mouth tends to be
where I did it was in chapter 1, verse 18, "For the wrath of God. Verse11. Now Paul is quoting here from Psalm 53:2-3. totally inappropriate to God.
God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and "God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if Charged number eight: "with their tongues they have
unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in there are any who understand, who seek after God. They practiced deceit" (NKJV). verse13. In other words what
unrighteousness" (NKJV). Notice in verse 9, he doesn't say have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; he's saying is, left to ourselves we will try to take advantage of
that all have sinned; he says all are "under" sin. That means there is none who does good, not even one." Did you notice people with our tongues. We're deceitful in the way we use
we are under the penalty of our sin that we have sinned is a the universal words there: all fallen away; No one who does our tongues because we want to use our tongues to our
given. That we pay for it. So Paul's charge is that we are all good; all have become corrupt. Naturally, we do not seek God. advantage, not to the benefit of others.
under the penalty for our sin. Well that moves him right into In fact, the Bible tells us very clearly, unless the Spirit draws Charged number nine: "the poison of [snakes or]
the second phase of his legal presentation here, and that is the us, we never come to Him. asps is under their lips" (NKJV). verse13. It's like we
indictment. Look at verse 10. “As it is written . . .” Now an Charged number four: "They have all gone out of the have poisonous tongues. The things we do, the things we say
indictment has to be a written charge, a formal accusation way" (NKJV). Verse 12. People like you and me have gotten that destroy peoples' lives, we are equally guilty just as a cobra
that a person has committed a criminal offense. He says, "As off the path to God. We've created our own paths. We've would be. Psalm 140:3 "They make their tongues sharp as
it is written." Now he's probably quoting mainly from Psalm listened to the path of someone else, and so we're traveling serpents; and under their lips is the venom of asps."
14, from Psalm 53, and again from the Book of Isaiah. Now around on our own journey, our own way, going our own Tenth count of the indictment: "whose mouth is full
ordinarily, you have a one count indictment, two and maybe destination, and not finding God in the process. of cursing and bitterness" (NKJV). verse14. Psalm
three counts. There are three occasions where the law 10:7 says that, "The mouths of the wicked are full of cursing
enforcement people can say you did this on three different The and deceit and oppression; under his tongue is trouble and
times, or you did three different things. Paul is so detailed in
his looking at humanity, standing before God knowing that we
Wrath iniquity" (NKJV). Well, Paul says, "Look, left to ourselves, we
will curse; we will be bitter; we will say things that we wish we
need a Saviour, that we are guilty for our sin; Paul was so
thorough, he lists no less than 14 counts to the indictment. Of hadn't said." And that happens to all of us. Sometimes we just
have a sharp word to a child or a sharp word to a friend, and
We're going to see all 14 charges that Paul brings against all of oh, we wish we could take that word back. But it's indicative
humanity which he has to prove that charges.
Charged number one: there is no one righteous, "no,
Romans 1:18 God
Charged number five: "they have together become
of the entire human race.
Charged number eleven. "Their feet are swift to shed
not one." Verse 10. Righteousness is to have a right unprofitable" (NKJV). Verse12. So what he's saying here is blood” (NKJV). Verse 15. Paul is likely quoting here from
relationship with God. And he says, "God looks around the we have created in our own lives a certain un-profitability Isaiah 59:7-8, "Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to
universe and He doesn't find a single person who has a right toward God because of our own sin. God has designed us to be shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
relationship with Him. He finds lots of moral people; He finds useful to Him to bring praise to Him, bring glory to Him, to desolation and destruction are in their highways. The way of
lots of religious people; He finds lots of other kind of people; help others come to Him. But our own sin keeps us from peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths;
but nobody who is righteous." So the first count to his doing that, so we're kind of like soured milk to God. We're they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on
indictment is none of us possesses God's righteousness. good, but unprofitable. Therefore, he says in this indictment, them knows peace." Did you notice the expression in there,
Charged number two: There is no one who we're not good at all, because sour milk is of no good to us. that their thoughts are the thoughts of wickedness? Now you
understands. Also in verse 10. Now he's not talking about Charged number six: "there is none who does good, can say, "Hey, that's not true," unless, of course you pick up
mental understanding here, he's talking about spiritual no, not one" (NKJV), verse12 again. What he's meaning the morning newspaper. All the kinds of senseless violent
understanding. It's not that we don't have the mental power here is that we can't do anything spiritually good that buys us crime we see every day is just an absolute depiction of
to understand what God says in His Word, most of it. We any chips that gives us any stock with God. There is nothing what is being said here. In this year alone, Abbotsford is
don't have the spiritual discernment to understand what God we can do spiritually that will take away the stain of our sin. elevated as the murder capital of Canada. In the mind of the
says in His Word. In fact Ephesians 4:18 speaks about Psalm 14:1 "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'” average individual today is the potential to devise a plan to
people "having their understanding darkened, being They are corrupt; they do abominable deeds, kill a lot of people. So what he says in his indictment here is
alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that there is none who does good. None of us left to ourselves can absolutely true today, as it was in Paul's day.
is in them, because of the hardening of their heart" (NKJV). make it to Heaven on our own. Charged number 12: "destruction and misery are in
There is just this veil that comes over people's faces that they Charged number seven: "Their throat is an open their ways" (NKJV). Verse 16. Now I think we have to
do not understand what God has to say to them. They don't tomb" He says, "Their throat is like an open graveyard." They understand this in the active sense. These people that he's
even understand they need a Saviour. And until that veil is have graveyard throats. We sweet-talk with our tongues. talking about, and that's you and me, these people that he's
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2. talking about actively try to find a way to ruin the lives of ourselves. And that's what the person who doesn't know the
other people. I mean we go out of our way to make things
difficult for our neighbour, our parents; sometimes our
Lord Jesus is trying to do. That's what the moral person has
tried to do. That's what our religious friends tried to do. The
The
friends. things of the Law, and Paul comes to the conclusion, by no
Charged number thirteen: "and the way of peace they
have not known" (NKJV). Verse 17. Now we have the
deeds of any law can anyone ever be justified. Now what Paul
is saying here is pretty clear. If we needed educated, God
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