Please forgive the delay of Today’s Nugget.  Jo Ann and I got up at 5 AM this morning and drove 135 miles to preach a prophecy conference in Tucson, AZ.  I preached three times today and will preach again tomorrow night, Tuesday night and finish on Wednesday night at the Temple Baptist Church with Bro. Cliff Lawton.  Bro. Lawton and his people are such gracious hosts and doing a great job of rebuilding a church in a very needy area of Tucson.  We have had a wonderful day.

Rom 2:1-16 – “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.  2. But we are sure that the judgment of God is ac­cording to truth against them which commit such things.  3. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?  4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?  5. But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;  6. Who will render to every man according to his deeds:  7. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:  8. But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indigna­tion and wrath,  9. Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gen­tile;  10. But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gen­tile:  11. For there is no respect of persons with God.  12. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;  13. (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.  14. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.  15. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excus­ing one another;)  16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”

In the latter part of the previous chapter, the apos­tle drew a terrible picture of the sin of the heathen world.  He gave to us without any doubt its awful condem­nation and punishment.

Here is something that is interesting.  All the time Paul was talking about the heathen and telling about their descent into idolatry, he was conscious that there were those around him who were agreeing.  They were saying, “Yes Paul, that is right. We know they have fallen into those sins and they will get what they deserve.”

Now Paul turns to them and says, “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O Man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest an­other, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.”