2. TRUE JUSTICE
Romans 2:12-16

3. Fred Korematsu
1942 || Sought TRUE JUSTICE || 1983

4. Does Everyone Know God’s Laws?

5. Does Everyone Know God’s Laws?
“ D o l o re s U m b ri d g e ”

6. Does Everyone Know God’s Laws?
• Emperor Caligula’s (A.D. 37-41) laws
• How could he judge them for breaking them?
“ D o l o re s U m b ri d g e ”

7. Does Everyone Know God’s Laws?
• Emperor Caligula’s (A.D. 37-41) laws
• How could he judge them for breaking them?
• How can God judge the entire human
race impartially if God only gave
Jewish people the law? Doesn’t this
mean they have a much greater chance
of doing what God wants us all to do?
“ D o l o re s U m b ri d g e ”

8. Does Everyone Know God’s Laws?
• Emperor Caligula’s (A.D. 37-41) laws
• How could he judge them for breaking them?
• How can God judge the entire human
race impartially if God only gave
Jewish people the law? Doesn’t this
mean they have a much greater chance
of doing what God wants us all to do?
• Isn’t this unfair for everyone else? “ D o l o re s U m b ri d g e ”

9. ROMANS 2 12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish
apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged
by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are
righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who
will be declared righteous. (NIV)

10. The Torah was Israel-specific.

11. Will God Judge Everyone Fairly?

12. Will God Judge Everyone Fairly?

13. Will God Judge Everyone Fairly?
Gentiles Jews
Sin apart from the Torah Sin under the Torah
Will perish apart from the Torah Will perish under the Torah
On Judgment Day, God will judge each person according to what
they knew and then what they did with that knowledge.

14. Will God Judge Everyone Fairly?
Gentiles Jews
Sin apart from the Torah Sin under the Torah
Will perish apart from the Torah Will perish under the Torah
On Judgment Day, God will judge each person according to what
they knew and then what they did with that knowledge.

15. Will God Judge Everyone Fairly?
Gentiles Jews
Sin apart from the Torah Sin under the Torah
Will perish apart from the Torah Will perish under the Torah
On Judgment Day, God will judge each person according to what
they knew and then what they did with that knowledge.

16. Will God Judge Everyone Fairly?
Gentiles Jews
Sin apart from the Torah Sin under the Torah
Will perish apart from the Torah Will perish under the Torah
On Judgment Day, God will judge each person according to what
they knew and then what they did with that knowledge.

17. “Is Grandma Really a
Christian? Am I?”

18. ROMANS 2 12-13If you sin without knowing what you're doing,
God takes that into account. But if you sin knowing full well what
you're doing, that's a different story entirely. Merely hearing God's
law is a waste of your time if you don't do what he commands.
Doing, not hearing, is what makes the difference with God. (MSG)

19. Justified by Faith &
Judged According to Works

20. Justified by Faith &
Judged According to Works

21. Justified by Faith &
Judged According to Works
The Present Time Future Judgment Day
Justified by Faith in the Judged by how our lives reflected
redemptive work of Jesus our gratitude to God
Romans 3:23b-24 Romans 2:7-10; 14:10
Faith in what Jesus has done for us allows us to Knowing ahead of time that God’s judgment
believe we are forgiven and adopted back into will be based on whether we lived like God’s
God’s family. forgiven and grateful adopted children.

22. Justified by Faith &
Judged According to Works
The Present Time Future Judgment Day
Justified by Faith in the Judged by how our lives reflected
redemptive work of Jesus our gratitude to God
Romans 3:23b-24 Romans 2:7-10; 14:10
Faith in what Jesus has done for us allows us to Knowing ahead of time that God’s judgment
believe we are forgiven and adopted back into will be based on whether we lived like God’s
God’s family. forgiven and grateful adopted children.

23. Justified by Faith &
Judged According to Works
The Present Time Future Judgment Day
Justified by Faith in the Judged by how our lives reflected
redemptive work of Jesus our gratitude to God
Romans 3:23b-24 Romans 2:7-10; 14:10
Faith in what Jesus has done for us allows us to Knowing ahead of time that God’s judgment
believe we are forgiven and adopted back into will be based on whether we lived like God’s
God’s family. forgiven and grateful adopted children.

24. Justified by Faith &
Judged According to Works
The Present Time Future Judgment Day
Justified by Faith in the Judged by how our lives reflected
redemptive work of Jesus our gratitude to God
Romans 3:23b-24 Romans 2:7-10; 14:10
Faith in what Jesus has done for us allows us to Knowing ahead of time that God’s judgment
believe we are forgiven and adopted back into will be based on whether we lived like God’s
God’s family. forgiven and grateful adopted children.

25. ROMANS 2 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the
law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for
themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show
that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their
consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes
accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This
will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets
through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. (NIV)

26. Who Then Will Be Saved?

27. Who Then Will Be Saved?

28. Who Then Will Be Saved?
Those Who Don’t Call Those Who Call
Themselves ‘Christians’ Themselves ‘Christians’
Have been given an innate sense Have been given God’s Word in
of God’s morality Jesus and the Bible
All fall short Some won’t? All will be saved Some won’t?
Believing in Jesus and His redemptive work is clearly the best way to
prepare for God’s coming judgement. But let’s not forget to “work
out our salvation with fear and trembling.” (Phil 2:12)

29. Who Then Will Be Saved?
Those Who Don’t Call Those Who Call
Themselves ‘Christians’ Themselves ‘Christians’
Have been given an innate sense Have been given God’s Word in
of God’s morality Jesus and the Bible
All fall short Some won’t? All will be saved Some won’t?
Believing in Jesus and His redemptive work is clearly the best way to
prepare for God’s coming judgement. But let’s not forget to “work
out our salvation with fear and trembling.” (Phil 2:12)

30. Who Then Will Be Saved?
Those Who Don’t Call Those Who Call
Themselves ‘Christians’ Themselves ‘Christians’
Have been given an innate sense Have been given God’s Word in
of God’s morality Jesus and the Bible
All fall short Some won’t? All will be saved Some won’t?
Believing in Jesus and His redemptive work is clearly the best way to
prepare for God’s coming judgement. But let’s not forget to “work
out our salvation with fear and trembling.” (Phil 2:12)

31. Who Then Will Be Saved?
Those Who Don’t Call Those Who Call
Themselves ‘Christians’ Themselves ‘Christians’
Have been given an innate sense Have been given God’s Word in
of God’s morality Jesus and the Bible
All fall short Some won’t? All will be saved Some won’t?
Believing in Jesus and His redemptive work is clearly the best way to
prepare for God’s coming judgement. But let’s not forget to “work
out our salvation with fear and trembling.” (Phil 2:12)

32. “TRUE JUSTICE--the sort that
people long for, plead for, thirst for around
the world to this day--true justice will be
done, and will be seen and known to be
done. God will judge all human secrets
through the Messiah Jesus. That is Good
News for a world in which true justice is
still hard to find.”
B i s h o p N . T. W r i g h t ( 3 5 )
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1998