Why do we follow God? What is our motive? What are we trying to achieve? You can hide the reasons from people but not from God. Pastor Mike Hilson teaches on why our inner reason matters more than what people can see. Worship by the NEWLIFE @ Your House team. David Sylvain and Emily Bradford host.

Questions:
What is Paul beginning to do?
Who did God give the law to?
Who are gentiles?
Does God change?
Who is qualified to judge?
Can you follow the law even when you don’t realize it?
Is there a better(superior) way to live?
If you are teaching others, are you also teaching yourself?
What is circumcision?
When the world acts better than the church, maybe the word is following God better than the church is.
What should I get out of this passage?
Knowing that God sees the integrity of your actions, what is your motive?
God sees the intention of your status, what do you intend to do with it?
Are you focused on what God wants or are you focused on what the world is saying?
God sets our identity, gives you a community,
How do you want people to talk about you at your funeral?

Verses:
17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;
19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark,
20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.
26 So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?
27 The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Host
3:28 Worship
17:39 Host
21:29 Segment
22:27 Host
24:37 Sermon
56:54 Host
59:29 Kid's Service
1:16:27 Outro

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