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'But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.'

'Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.'

Here is the dire state of humanity in unbelief. God’s law shows us our guilt, but we are vastly too fallen to earn acceptance with God. Here, then, is God’s promises of acceptance and righteousness as a gift, secured through faith in the saving work of Christ.

Here are the tremendous advantages of being a Jew, not a pagan, that would draw Jews to seek transformed hearts and lives. But so many of them preferred to preserve only the outward trappings of religion. Is this the case with many ‘nominal’ Christians today?

Judgement will come to Jews and Gentiles alike, for the Jews have the Law in Moses, while all have it engraven on their conscience. Here is the imagined superiority of many Jews, contradicted by their conduct. Are not Christians often the same? A call to self-examination.

Romans 2 emphasizes the personal stirring of every person. Here is how, but the general response despises the greatest and kindest benefits of God, being ignorant of the reason of His longsuffering – the call to salvation. Here also is the seeking that leads to God.

Here is the bleak human condition away from God, with 23 evils that infect hearts. In the light of these, we consider the price paid by Christ of salvation, the extent of transformation in conversion, and how the opposite virtues should be growing in believers.

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.'

'And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their…