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the Resurrection are slim. To God, it’s not a matter of which day, it’s a matter of what we do with that
day.

There are people: doctors, nurses, policemen, firemen, who MUST work on Sunday. I can’t think that
God would condemn that as long as there is an observance of rest and of praise and of worship.

Again, being obedient brings reward.

Chapter 59 - Main Idea: The Lord looks on our wickedness and works
His own salvation and vengeance on the earth.

Romans 3: 10-12 No one is righteous. Mankind is full of sin and depravity.

V. 1-2 This chapter continues the thought that God is not answering prayers…so He continues the
thought that it is because of sin. It’s not be God’s hand is too short or that He can’t hear. It’s because of
sin.

There are some pretty grim details offered up in V. 3-5
Hands defiled by blood. Fingers defiled with iniquity. Lips filled with lies, tongues speaking perversity,
not for justice.

Most people are somewhat repulsed by spiders and snakes, and here we are told that in God’s eyes, it’s
like we are hatching viper’s eggs and weaving spider’s webs.

V. 6-8 The webs of deceit that are being woven will not ‘clothe’ us or cover our sins. The image of feet
‘running’ to evil, making haste to shed innocent blood shows that sin is not something that entraps us
unexpectedly—it’s something we are drawn to, something we seek out.

V. 8 ends with this: whoever goes this way, the way of sin, will not know peace.

V. 9-15 amounts to a confession. We know we are far from justice. We know that righteousness has no
part in us. We are looking, but it’s like a blind man groping.

This is all because, in V. 12, our sins are many, multiplied before a just God. The confession here is that
we humans can’t do this on our own. When we do depart from evil, we are like prey to the evil world.

God is not pleased with this.

V. 16 This is not meant to imply that God was unaware of this problem. He didn’t just wake up one day
and realize that there was no intercessor. The fancy word for this kind of wording is
‘anthropomorphism’ which means assigning human characteristics to God…mostly because it’s beyond
human comprehension.

‘His own arm brought salvation for Him, and His own righteousness, it sustained Him’. Salvation and
righteousness could come from no other.

V. 17-20 Ephesians 6: 10-18

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