Romans Chapter Three Lesson 35
Review:
- From the point of the fall on, the human race has turned aside from God's way and from His truth and have
in their unregenerate state become worthless, rotten, useless from God's vpt.
If one's character is unrighteous as the evaluation of God
says it is;
- then it logically follows that
one's conduct will also be unrighteous.
3:13a first line
is a quote comes from Psa. 5:9
The throat being an open grave, gives vent to the corruption of the heart under the sin nature's rulership; implied is the inner corruption and its effects;
- Since the UB'r is dead, as far as God is concerned, [Eph 2:1-3]
nothing but corruption and death can come out of his mouth
3:13b line 2 With their tongues they keep deceiving dolio,w
imperfect = habitual practice since the fall.
- The Psalm speaks of the smooth tongue, today we might
say, they butter them up, tell them what they want to hear; Psa. 52:2-4
applies
3:13c "The poison of
asps is under their lips."
The asp
speaks of an Egyptian cobra which has a sack of poison under its lips.
- We have a moral poison sac that the mouth, the tongue,
the lips can tap into to spew forth our venom like words; sin nature.
Quote
Comes from Psa 140:3
- Quote is from Psa. 10:7 context
emphasizes the treachery of those who use and abuse others with their tongue,
speech.
bitterness
is an
attitude that speaks of animosity towards someone or as is often the case
toward God for the circumstances of your life, an ingrained view you deserve
more than you have!
In
- Just as
man's words are deceitful so are his ways destructive.
- The quote here is from Isa
59:7-8
- Will Durrant wrote in his Lessons
from History: "In the last 3421
years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war."
William
Newel: commenting at this point says, For further details
read your daily newspaper.
- Should not be surprising then that in vs:16 it follows with "destruction and misery are in
their paths" [manner of life]
Look at the wider context is speaking of the unrighteous
in
59:1-15; also 57:20-21
- We find
here the sinner's arrogant pride detailed
What
happens when you rip God totally out of the picture, out of our lives? Out of a nation?
From
this context you must conclude that there will be sucked into the resulting
vacuum, corruption,
deception, violence, murder;
Root
underlying cause is that there is no fear of God before their eyes.
After
the giving of the Decalogue to the people of