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The Diagnosis of Sin (Romans 1:18-32)
Study By: Jeff Miller
Abstract
How would you respond if a stranger stopped you on the
street and told you in an enthusiastic voice: “I have your cure!” Your first
response might be hope or joy or gladness as your react to his contagious
emotion. But it wouldn’t take long before you would have to confess, “I didn’t
know I was sick.”
The message of the Gospel is our cure. God’s righteousness
in exchange for our sin; Jesus Christ’s crucifixion in exchange for our death;
sonship in exchange for enmity; eternal life in exchange for eternal wrath –
these comprise the good news of the Gospel. But before Paul expounds on the
cure in his letter to the Romans, he must first remind them of their terminal
disease: Sin.
For next week, read Romans 2:1-16.
PP. 530-532 in the Zondervan NIV Bible Commentary (or equivalent
in the newly released volume entitled The Expositor’s Bible Commentary,
Abridged Edition, New Testament)
PP. 86-97 in the New American Commentary.
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