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(not your works) 2:5-10</B></div> <bR> <div> Ezek 26:26</div> <div> Gal. 6:3; Rom. 12:3</div> <div> Obad. 1:3-4; Dan 5:20-21</div> <div> 2 Chron. 32:26</div> <bR> <div> <B>Trust in God's _</B><B><U>impartiality</U></B><B>_ (not your partiality) 2:11-16</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Our only hope of acceptance is </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>God's impartial judgment of His work in our life.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> There is nothing we can do or even know that can create God's acceptance if our heart is not right with God.  Do you have a hard heart or a broken heart?  Are you characterized by being right all the time, or always going to God with a repentant heart?</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Acceptance in Life / Judgments of God</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>     </B></FONT>The Roman believers were judging others, but not themselves.  Paul wrote that they were subject to God's judgment.  What is God's judgment?<B> </B></div> <div> All judgment has been committed to Jesus Christ John 5:22-23; 2 Tim. 4:1.  Why?</div> <div> Judgment is a manifestation of perfect justice.  God is a God of love, but He is also a God of judgment, because He is holy.  A day of judgment will come to all who reject His provision of deliverance from judgment [salvation].  When a person accepts God's judgment on Jesus Christ, he passes out of judgment into life.  For those who have not accepted the judgment of God on Christ Jesus, there is a yet a future judgment John 3:17-18; 5:24.</div> <div> Jesus was made sin in the flesh and judged on the cross 2 Cor. 5:21; John 9:39; 19:13.</div> <div> God the Father judged Jesus for even the thoughts of man Rom. 2:16.</div> <div> The sins of the whole human race were judged on Jesus 1 John 2:2</div> <div> The sacrifices before Christ merely “covered over” (atoned) for sins, until the one payment by Jesus was accomplished Lev. 1:4; Heb. 10:1-4. </div> <div> When believers confess their sins to God, God remembers to remember to not bring up their sins again Heb. 10:17; Ps. 103:12.</div> <div> There is a judgment for believers in the future called the Judgment Seat of Christ Rom. 14:10; 2 Cor. 5:10.  This judgment is after the Rapture (God removes the church prior to the Tribulation) in heaven prior to the wedding supper of the Lamb.</div> <div> Every believer should judge himself 1 Cor. 11:28,31.</div> <div> If believers neglect to judge themselves, they will be chastised by the Lord 1 Cor. 11:32.  The key for self-judgment is to confess the sin to God in repentance 1 John 1:9; 2 Cor. 7:9-11.  There will be seven factors evident in the believer when true repentance has happened 2 Cor. 7:11. </div> <div> There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Rom. 8:1 </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>X Ray Questions</U></B> by David Powlison</div> <div>      Here's several excellent questions for self-examination.</div> <div> What do you want, desire and wish for?  Who desires do you obey?</div> <div> What do you seek, aim to pursue?  What are your goals and expectations?</div> <div> Where do you bank your hopes?</div> <div> What do you fear? What do you not want? What do you tend to worry about?</div> <div> What do you feel like doing?</div> <div> What do you think you need?  What are your “felt” needs?</div> <div> What are your plans, agendas, strategies and intentions designed to accomplish?</div> <div> What makes you tick?  What sun does your planet revolve around? What is your garden of delight? What lights up your world? What is your fountain of life and satisfaction? What is the food that makes your life go?</div> <div> Where do you find refuge, safety, comfort, escape and security?</div> <div> What or who do you trust?</div> <div> Whose performance matters? On whose shoulders does the well-being of your world rest?</div> <div> Who must you please?  Whose opinion of you counts? From Whom do you desire approval and fear rejection? Whose value system do you measure yourself against?  In whose eyes are you living?</div> <div> What do you love? What do you hate?</div> <div> Who are your role models? What kind of person do you think you ought to be? What kind of person do you want to be?</div> <div> On your death bed, what would sum up your life as worthwhile? What really matters? What gives your life meaning? </div> <div> How do you define success or failure in any particular situation?</div> <div> What would make you feel rich secure, prosperous?  What would make you happy?</div> <div> What would bring you the greatest pleasure, happiness and delight?  The greatest pain and misery?</div> <div> Whose coming into political power would make everything better?</div> <div> Whose victory or success would make your life happy? How do you define victory and success?</div> <div> What do you see as your rights? What do you feel entitled to?</div> <div> In what situations do you feel pressured or tense? Confident and relaxed? When you are pressure, where do you turn?  What do you think about? What are your escapes?  What do you escape from?</div> <div> What do you want to get out of life?</div> <div> What do you pray for?</div> <div> What do you think about most often? What preoccupies or obsesses you? In the morning, to what does your mind drift instinctively? What is your mindset?</div> <div> What do you talk about? What is important to you?</div> <div> How do you spend your time? What are your priorities?</div> <div> What are your characteristic fantasies, either pleasurable or fearful?  Daydreams? What do your night dreams revolve around?</div> <div> What are the beliefs that you hold about life, God, yourself, others?  What is your worldview, your personal “mythology” that structures the way you look at and interpret thins?  What do you value?</div> <div> What are your idols or false gods? In what do you place your trust, or set your hopes? What do you turn to or seek? Where do you take refuge? Who is the savior, judge, controller in your world? Who do you serve?  What “voice” controls you?</div> <div> How do you live for yourself?</div> <div> Where do you implicitly say, “If only…” (get what you want, avoid what you don't want, keep what you have)?</div> <div> What instinctively seems and feels right to you?  What are your opinions, things you feel are true? What instinctively drives and motivates you?</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Romans 2:1729"><U><B>Next Page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B><IMG SRC="0c740400.gif" border=0 width="64" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>