2. God Reveals His Law Where do we find God’s Law?

3. Question #1 Where is one place we find God’s law? Where is one place we find God’s law?

4. Romans 2:14-15a Romans 2:15b Ephesians 4:18-19 Key Point #1 Romans 1:21 1 Corinthians 8:7 Psalm 119:105 Deuteronomy 5:22 Key Point #2 Key Point #3 Matthew 22:37-40 Key Point #4 Conscience what God wants clouds conscience heart sin darkens heart Law sin God wrote his law in the Bible clearly Love God Love my neighbor Image

5. Romans 2:14-15a 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, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts,

6. Romans 2:15b since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.

7. God’s ___ is written in our _____, and our __________ remind us to __ or ________. Key Point #1 law hearts consciences do not to do

8. Question #2 Why can’t we always depend on what our consciences tell us?

9. Ephesians 4:18-19 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

10. Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

11. 1 Corinthians 8:7 But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

12. Key Point #2 Because ___ darkens people’s _____, they may have ______ or mistaken __________. sin hearts clouded consciences

13. Question #3 Where do we find a reliable record of God’s Law?

14. Deuteronomy 5:22 These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

15. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105

16. Key Point #3 The law written in the ____ is ______ because it shows us _____ what God’s ___ is. Bible reliable clearly will

17. Question #4 How is God’s law summarized for us in the Bible?

18. Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.‘ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.‘ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

19. Key Point #4 God’s ___ can be __________ with the word _____. law summarized LOVE

20. What I’ve Learned I find God’s law written in my heart, but the most reliable place I find God’s law written is in the Bible.

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