Welcome, my name is Richard Granan. I run a website called SpartanLifeCoach.com. What I predominantly do is I help people to overcome trauma, particularly childhood trauma and abusive relationships that would typically be with somebody who would be defined as narcissistic or having borderline personality disorder. The first thing I want to do with you guys that is necessary is I need to share something with you and the thing I'm going to share with you takes about 10 minutes to get through and it will make all of you smarter than 90% of psychotherapists and councillors out there. And I can give it to you inside of 12 minutes. The purpose of this talk is to help men avoid and escape and recover from abusive relationships with women who are toxic, with women who probably would vector in for the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder. But before we get into that, I need to share with you something from psychology that is not very well known, not very well understood and is a very underused concept. And it's a concept that I believe if people were using it more frequently, we would have a lot of people stuck in therapy or needing therapy. And it's the concept of, it's called CPTSD. CPTSD. Now, when you think about PTSD because of movies, mass media, you'll think usually of combat veterans or people who've been through a single incident. PTSD usually is thought of as being singular. It's a singular event that you can recall visually, auditorily and kinesthetically.  You'll remember shoving stuff in your face and you'll remember the sounds around you, the flavour of it and how you feel and who you were talking to at that time. So you will have recall of the singular event. Similarly, if you got shot by a sniper or you were beaten up in a nightclub or you were the target of a con, you'll remember the singular event that made you feel a certain way. You'll all be familiar with the concept of flashbacks typically spoken of either as something that somebody who has PTSD would experience or somebody who's taken psychedelics experiences. Have any of you had psychedelic flashbacks? Right. It's intense, right? Because the psychedelic experience is so intense, it lays down neural pathways that are thick and strong from a singular incident. The only other thing that can do that is intense pain or intense pleasure. The only other thing that can do it, which is why right before the session we were talking about psychedelics being used to resolve trauma. It's the only thing that can affect the neuroplasticity of the brain to the extent that these neural pathways can be burnt out, potentially, potentially. So, classic PTSD, singular event, you have recall and you have flashbacks that are visual, auditory, kinesthetic. You remember what you saw when it happened, you remember what you heard, you remember how you felt. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder. I think discovered in 1991 by a psychiatrist called Judith Herman. She was working both with combat veterans or had worked with combat veterans and she'd worked with people who had grown up having survived extensive childhood trauma and she saw the overlap in the symptoms and she put forward a hypothesis called complex post-traumatic stress disorder. In complex post-traumatic stress, it is never a singular event.  It has the same impact on the system, on the biology, on the brain, on the hormonal system and on the HPA axis. Complex post-traumatic stress is harder to treat because it is harder to see, it's typically thought. So it's actually a series of events and it needs to have another element to it where there is no escape. The client must have felt trapped, there's no escape. There is no recall or little recall necessary for it to be CPTSD and the flashbacks are not visual and auditory and kinesthetic. The flashbacks are purely emotional. So you're experiencing memories through the emotions. Weird idea, but it happens. Visual auditory kinesthetic flashback, I hear a loud noise and I remember how it felt when my father hit me round the head. X equals Y. CPTSD, nothing happens or something vague happens or I'm standing up here and I'm talking to a crowd of people and for a moment I go into an emotional state of triggered by the fact that I'm outnumbered. I'm under the light, I'm being judged, I'm being watched. Instant response of toxic shame, guilt. We were laughing and joking yesterday about Anthony introducing me and then skipping over his words every time he mentioned his abusive relationship. It is a joke, but he actually was going into an emotional flashback. I can see it, I've been doing this with clients for years and I can see it on people's faces when they're flashbacking. An emotional flashback can be so intense that it shuts down the whole system. Here's another way of thinking about it because when I was first learning about this was one of the times my first time was going to America and my first time at a shooting range and we were playing with, because in America they just say what do you want, here's a basket and then you put your guns in the basket you put your ammo in the basket and they go there's the range.  We were like okay, me and my brother-in-law and he's originally from Texas, he's never fired a gun before so we're loading the guns up, shaking hands like that going I think it goes in here. And we had a .357, which is a very very powerful pistol with a lot of kick, I ended up with a bruised palm the next day from it and we had a combat shotgun. This PTSD being singular would be like what happens when you fire the .357 at the target.   So we were hitting the head. Dink, dink, dink, three or four little holes. My brother-in-law was a bit of a nutcase. He picked up the combat shotgun and he fired six shells inside about five seconds, his first time firing the thing. There were so many scattered pieces of trauma in the target that it split in half and fell. Scattered pieces of tiny bits of trauma that a psychiatrist or a psychologist or a councillor would otherwise be compelled to pick out one by one. Very, very difficult. Emotional flashbacks are memories. They're not emotions in the authentic sense.    Many of you have experienced this. I gave my ex-girlfriend a gift that she told me she wanted and she became enraged. Why? It's a confusing experience. It's the emotional flashbacks that count. In terms of psychology and understanding the human mind, we have to talk in terms of complex post-traumatic stress and emotional flashbacks. You all get the difference between the two. So, the only way to move forward in terms of mental health and whatever it is you want to do, and this goes through every topic we've discussed, you've got to understand what it is to be emotionally regulated as opposed to being riddled with emotional flashbacks. Complex PTSD and PTSD are always co-morbid. They always cross. This is my hypothesis, this is not the published literature, but based on what I've seen, it's something as somebody with pure PTSD who doesn't have CPTSD and vice versa. People who come to me with CPTSD, you have to deal with their PTSD as well. Whatever the issue is, you've got to look in terms of trauma because guess what? All human beings are traumatised because life on earth is traumatic. From birth to death, it's a series of traumas. 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Hello everyone. Welcome. Welcome again. I'm Weiping Wu, the Director of the Master of Science and Urban Planning here at Columbia, Chisa. Good evening, good day, good morning, wherever you are. Welcome to you all. I hope you're doing well and we appreciate that you're taking time to get to know our program a little bit. So we have an hour and a half and so let me just outline a little bit of how we're going to go about in that time. And we're also recording the session so I hope you are okay with that and if you are not, you know, just turn off your video. So I have my colleague, Keon Goldman, also on the line. She's the Assistant Director of the UP program. Good evening everyone. And we also have the Chisa auditions also in the background in case you're having any trouble with Zoom and so on and so forth. So I'm going to spend about 25 minutes to 30 minutes or so outlining the program, the curriculum. And then, you know, if you have any questions while I'm talking, just jot down in the chat box. Keon can answer or I will answer a little bit later. And then around 740ish, we'll have a few of our current students joining me and I will have some questions for them. Very general questions. Often prospective students are interested in knowing and then you can then ask them questions, ask me questions until about 830. So I hope this will be helpful for you. So as you can see from the image, this is the home of Chisa, Avery Hall. And so I know you all have made the decision to study urban planning, so I don't have to convince you about that. But why New York City? Why Columbia? And why Chisa? And that's, I guess, we want to outline a little more today to help you to make that decision. As much as we would like to welcome all of you to be on campus at Chisa when fall 2023 comes, really the most important, one of the most important decisions for you is to see the match between your interests and what we have to offer. So let me outline what we have to offer. So New York City, obviously, is a great context to study urban planning. And it's a global city.  It's a city still trying to come back during a pandemic.  What better location to study urban planning than New York City? So this graph actually is a GIS illustration of inequality in New York City. And it illustrates the kind of critical analysis that planning students do in the program to try to understand where in the city inequality is most concentrated, for instance, where in the city is vulnerability most acute, say to sea level rise or to other disasters, natural or man made. And so the planning program here is very much grounded in this kind of social, economic and political analysis of neighborhoods and cities and using New York as a major laboratory. But of course, other cities and the global conditions the other cities are situated in as well. At the same time, this illustration is also very useful. It's also illustrates the kind of technical skills and especially spatial analysis skills that you will gain in our program. Our program is very much known for its spatial analysis. And so GIS is a core record course and our students gain very critical kind of not just skills but understanding of how to use GIS in your process of understanding a city and analyzing the city. We are also very much using New York to understand climate change and the changes that will be brought to the cities. So this is one of our data analytics courses called the environmental data analysis. So our students use actual data to analyze the scenarios in which sea level rise will affect different parts of Manhattan. And so you can see, right, when the sea level rise is at certain level, how much of lower Manhattan will be actually affected or flooded, right, lower east side, just east side of lower Manhattan. So to say New York is a laboratory is not overstatement, but also we are very much connected to the global contacts in which cities are situated. And so because of this kind of connection with practice and with what's going on out in the world, our curriculum is constantly changing and innovating. And I just want to give you some examples of the new courses we've created in the last three years, right. So we have every semester we offer about 17 to 18 electives. So each year we have something like 35 or so different electives offered to students just in the planning program. Of course, you can take electives across GISA and across Columbia as well. But as you can see, we're constantly trying to make sure that our curriculum is up to date with what's going on out in the world and what's going on out in the planning practice. And you can see some classes are more comparative in its approach. Other classes are directly addressed climate change and the need to plan for disasters, plan for sea level rise and plan for the kind of mobility that we need in this age of climate change. So for instance, I'm going to give you this example of future mobility workshop is a terrific new course we're offering right now this semester. It really uses big data using cell phone related kind of data to understand mobility, but also to analyze what future mobility patterns could be for different cities. So it's a course about the built environment and how we move around in the built environment. But it's also a course using big data. So we have a number of courses that are kind of like that. So I'll illustrate a little more. And then we have co-curriculum or extracurriculum activities. And so the weekly lectures in planning series is a major attraction to our students and alumni. And I hope some of you were able to download this earlier today for Michelle's talk about the native indigenous populations, water relations in the context of Canadian cities. So this is something we do quite a bit in fact, there's a lot's going on at Columbia. And another example was last weekend, our group of Chinese students or Chinese American Chinese Canadian students organized a urban China forum to look at how in the current environment and climate that sustainable urban development should take place in China and comparable places. And so it was incredible amount of interest that we had thousands of people dialing in in China through the WeChat platform. I'm pretty sure on this call right now, there will be students also dialing in from China. So again, you can see we really even in this kind of challenging situation trying to connect with what's going on on the grounds in China and have scholars in China speak to our students. So urban planning in China, sorry, at Columbia, I just kind of outlined some of these unique features. And let me then outline a little bit of our curriculum. And of course, we have a fairly storied history. It's been something like 80 to 90 years old program. And along the way, social equity has always been at the core. And then a global outlook, joined in as a very key component of the program fairly early on. And then we also have a accompanying PhD program that a lot of interactions between doctoral students and master's students. So quite a bit cross fertilization. And we have a dedicated group of full time faculty, you can essentially look up on the UP main webpage and Keon just put in the chat box, the URLs to go to our main page and you can see what faculty we have. And our faculty, the full time faculty is very productive in a sense of producing no knowledge about American cities, European cities, Middle Eastern cities, Chinese cities. And we are constantly on the look for new areas of research to inform our teaching. And so all of our full time faculty teach required core courses. So you'll have an opportunity to interact and get to know them. We also have a terrific group of very seasoned professional practitioners who primarily work in New York City, but also beyond as adjunct faculty teaching, you know, the elective courses and a couple of them teach also required courses. And they are not only seasoned practitioners, they're also committed educators in a sense they have been many of them have been with us for a number of years. And they have great confidence and attention in our students in a way that they've connected some of our students and alums to their own work for internships for jobs and for other kinds of connections. So it's really a win-win situation in a way that our students are readily connected already with practitioners, well at school and with opportunities that these practitioners and others can bring to students. So just give you this is just an example right at any given time in each semester we have about 15 to 20 also adjunct faculty with us and then the next semester following semester another 15 to 20. So over an academic year we have anything between 35 to 40 essentially you know that 35 to 40 electives right and we have these activities that connect students with adjunct faculty you know to have coffee to have other interactions. And so you get to know them of course taking courses is the best way to getting to know them. So the program is accredited and we just actually received the seven-year maximum accreditation last year for the next seven years. Two-year program full-time with 60 points required. Each point is somewhat similar to a credit so just think of as that. 27 points are required that include courses and the studio in the second semester of first year and then thesis a capstone in the second year. So then you have 33 credits for or points as electives and you can take it 12 of them in a concentration which I will outline in a minute or you can take the rest 21 points anywhere GESA Columbia. So that's yet another unique feature of our program that is we are quite flexible we also encourage students to explore other interests related interests and to really broaden your perspectives. So we have four concentrations and I will illustrate each of them in a little bit. As you can see we don't cover every aspect of planning we do in the core courses and electives some do but in depth coverage happens in these four concentrations. So given the moderate size of a full-time faculty we don't try to be very comprehensive so let's say if you're looking at MIT's planning program they cover everything right everything literally maybe Berkeley and to some extent Rutgers or to some extent you can. So you know I know these programs pretty well because I'm very involved with the profession of teaching planning so I've looked at curriculum of various different programs so I think we are unique in the sense we have strong focused strength we have a very strong anchor in the built environment since we are in the you know architecture school we also have a very strong commitment to social and racial equity we have a very strong global outlook and then we have a very robust urban analytics concentration we are one of the first planning programs in the country to really embark on that direction. So we now since last year have had a part-time option which means if you've had two-year full-time or four-year part-time equivalent right prior to applications application deadline is January middle of January so by that point if you had that much experience and somewhere related to planning you can go for the part-time option part-time option is about half course load and so we expect part-time students to finish in about four years instead of two years. If you have any questions about part-time options feel free to ask or email us. So this is the outline of the curriculum as you can see the first two semesters a little more required courses so the courses I listed there are required and then second year is full-time exploration and you can you know pursue one concentration or two about 40 of our students actually choose two concentrations so they have more kind of coverage of different topics. I generally encourage students in the first year to really explore to really see where your interests are already or maybe down the road so some students do change their minds so it's at the end of third semester that we inquire with students about their chosen concentration to make sure by the fourth semester they would already have completed the 12-point requirement. So another thing that's very attractive about our program is this dual degree option that we have with programs both within GISA and beyond GISA. So we have dual degree programs with everything I've listed nine different programs and some students apply at the same time to both programs and then you get in you can start a UP first or the other program first we really don't care we'll help you either way or some students come in to UP really want to explore more and then they apply at the second semester of first year to the other program so any questions just feel free to let us know. So build environment is perhaps the most kind of diverse concentration in there we cover some land use we cover transportation mobility environment because we really believe many of these are connected and we need to look at them together so you will see the largest number of electives in this concentration it is also the most popular concentration for students. Any courses marked with asterisks really satisfy two concentrations because we do believe there are lots of interconnections among different topics and so we encourage this sort of cross-learning and you can see examples of students working in a studio related to build environment last spring when finally we're able to have in-person contact with clients with communities and stakeholders and so when we choose studio topics we really try to also make sure different interests of students are considered so the studio topics often are of different nature. Community economic development is the concentration that really embeds our long-held tradition and commitment to social and racial equity so as you can see here we have not only engagement kinds of courses but also courses about housing affordable housing and about local government neighborhood land use activism so and certainly during this time of climate change about low carbon and energy transition through community-based approaches and that's why the second to last course on the list satisfies two concentrations and then in this is just an example of student work related to this concentration so I also want to kind of share with you another way that we structure of our electives so I would like to tell students that we have three types of electives the first type is what we call knowledge intensive so for instance we have a course called climate adaptation in cities so it's quite a bit about some summary you know science about climate change and how climate change affects cities and how cities have been addressing such issues so very much quite a bit readings a lot of discussion seminar type classes then we have what we call skill intensive electives and those you know all the urban analytics courses right and are like that so you learn skills sometimes data skills sometimes technical skills like side planning in the environment built environment concentration and then the third type is what we call quite innovatively for planning programs is curriculum so this course was a practicum in which they embarked on the project it's not quite as large as a studio but it's a real project in collaboration with the high school in washington heights in new york city to look at a street project right in front of high school so we are practicum in a way it's a little bit like a mini studio but we also have practicum courses that are more like case studies right we you know many of you probably know business school uses a case study approach to really understand how companies do work and we understand we're trying to understand how cities and communities you know cope with planning issues and challenges and and so in a way that also forms a practicum so international planning and development is a very much a strength of the program we don't try to cover all of the various different geographical regions of the world what we really try to do instead is to help our students understand how you approach a sort of commonly seen plan issue in a different place by analyzing local conditions by analyzing how practices in other places say the united states and then your destination for studio for instance might be in hong kong and next year actually going to go be going to the netherland and canada and so how do you really make sure what knowledge you've gained in school can help you work in the local conditions so in these international planning courses we not only try to understand how different cities tackle and understand you know tackle and cope with planning challenges in different local conditions we also try to help our students gain that critical framework to do work that is very much situated in the local conditions so finally we're able to travel again next spring we'll have travel studios and this was a travel studio to chile a few years ago so we're very excited about next spring urban elix as i said is growing it's the the newest concentration so it perhaps has the shortest list of electives but there are also other digital what we call the visual studies courses in gsoft that you can take and we continue to grow this concentration and you can also see not only data that's sort of purely big analytics kind of course we also have courses that are combined with domain knowledge like environmental data analysis and then using sensors which is really quite new for planning programs last but not least so we have some skills courses that don't count for any concentration but very very important for students especially those who have never had any design background really want to gain that knowledge and we have some of these skilled skills courses and then you can see the example student work for big data and data analytics here so i'm also very very proud that our program has very much you know attention paid to helping our students develop professionally that means career development but career services but beyond that we really try to help our students understand what they want to do in their career and how that can connect with what they study during the two-year program so in terms of advising we have three different layers first is keon and myself we can do we do general advising to make sure you satisfy all the curriculum requirements and especially for dual degrees and kind of complex and then this year we have a new position already at work associate director focused on career planning offering a vast category of opportunities of training in terms of workshops one on one advising sessions to help you start thinking about your career directions as soon as you get in and then at different points of the two years continue to help students think about those and then through programs such as mentorship with alumni through networking with alumni through career fairs through visits to planning organizations and offices to really expose students to how the various different kinds of practices that are in planning one of our goals is also to make sure that our students not only are prepared for jobs that are more traditionally for planners right in the public sector or in planning consulting firms but also to broaden the perspective for our students to work in neighboring fields and or what we call adjacent fields so you'll see in a little bit of where our graduates work and in many ways is how we have developed our curriculum to allow those possibilities last but not least you will have a faculty advisor who will really help you more with intellectual growth and also think about your professional interests and so on and then certainly in your second year you'll have a thesis advisor who may or may not be actually academic faculty advisor so you'll have quite a big connection with you know faculty through this sort of advising so our graduates as you can see so this information is based on a survey of our recent grads and the kind of careers they are in so we kind of put together something like a dozen or so career pathways to help our students think about their own so you can see the top few are what we call somewhat traditional rules for planners or planning students right and then we say you know the example organizations are exactly the places where we have alumni and then then what kind of coursework you should focus on and then as you move down along the table you'll start seeing career pathways are less traditional right so global NGOs and the next page you will see real estate firm urban tech firm design firm these are all places in which our graduates have had the opportunity to work in you know we actually have students who have worked at Apple have worked at Microsoft Google because you know many of these tech companies also deal with the local governments right deal with sort of real environment issues every year we have some students going for doctoral studies so we also are very much able to help those students pursue those interests as well so just want to show you some images of the kinds of activities we organize for career fairs we are very excited next semester we'll be able to have in-person career fair again since pandemic and so this was just before and this is the UP our program lounge and every year we do the school does a end of year show this is the this was the urban planning's end of year show showcasing their work in building sensors doing advanced spatial analysis and we're also very excited next semester we'll be able to do in-person again in the last couple years we've been mostly only doing you know virtual end of year shows and this is the lounge where our students hang out a great deal and so next to the lounge is a computer lab with 30 computers with all of the software required and then next to both rooms is a classroom where a lot of UP classes are held so the UP students essentially live here in a way we don't want them to live too long over 24 hours we do want to encourage a good life and work balance but this is a space that you will find all of the students most likely so the students also have an urban magazine and in which they can exercise their talent identify issues that they want to address so last but not least let me talk a little bit about the application process and the admission reviews so we have seven full-time faculty so every single application will be reviewed by three faculty and three different faculty members and they will come together to get a comprehensive score for each application then we go from there so we do look at everything in your package so this year GRE is not required as such we encourage you to really identify and tell us a little more about your analytical experience and skills in your personal statement we ask that you write at least 800 words I believe but double check on the application admissions page you know your experience can be quantitative or qualitative or both but we really want to understand how much analytical experience you've had because planning in a way it's a combination of design and social sciences I will be lying if I say you don't deal with numbers you definitely deal with numbers in this program I will be lying if I say you don't deal with the maps you definitely deal with maps and GIS and spatial analysis you definitely will be dealing with visualization you know how do you tell people or present to people ideas you have both in narratives and in visual forms so we would like to encourage you to do that so if I have to say that if one piece of your application is perhaps the most important I would say the statement the personal statement right that why do you want to study planning it's okay if you don't have any planning experience before our students come from a variety of backgrounds architecture is the simple the single largest a concentration of prior background but it's less than half and then we have people coming from geography political science sociology urban studies environmental studies biology math philosophy arts media communication everything literally everything so if you never had any urban or planning related experience tell us why do you want to study right tell us what's attractive to you and even tell us a little bit what do you want to do after you studied urban planning so that statement if anything go for longer not for short the more we can know about you the more we can gauge your interest in the field and your readiness to enter the field so not last but not least we do offer scholarships and there are three types of financial aid or in terms of scholarship that I can outline to you quickly you should really check out the school website for financial aid and they also have done some sessions they also they should have some tapings that you can watch if you missed those sessions so quickly while you apply if you're interested in scholarship you should indicate that interest you should also if you are an American student fill out the federal you know FAFSA form so that we have some understanding of your need but the scholarship that comes at admission is merit based so generally goes to applicants who have the highest you know scores after the collective comprehensive review by faculty so that's one type of financial aid the second type is TAs and RAs those are usually open more to second year students but if you have decided to enroll you will actually have the opportunities to apply and we have 18 positions every year for TAs and RAs each position is one semester and then occasionally first year students will get that it really depends on the match between the student's interest and preparation and the faculty and program needs the third type of scholarship is what we call need-based and that is only open to enroll the students once you come to Columbia TESAP there's a need-based scholarship it's five thousand dollar per person I believe you can apply not every semester but again you should check out the TESAP website okay so that's really quite a bit and I went a little bit over time but still if you have any questions feel free to ask now or in the chat box or send us an email or come visit if you can


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He isn't but excited You want to go home? exciting This week a whole week of Nicky you don't all right. Let's get going Cleo Any trouble boss? Ha just pie little guy in that store even thanked me for the protection. We give him Nicky What baby nothing just Nicky you're not smiling Nicky trouble. Oh, not much Cleo yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I'll take it slow get down the car baby Nicky Get down. I told you I'd beat it Sheila honey. What? You know why that happened?  Didn't about you Nick while I was mixing this drink.  Well if anybody asks you I've been here for the last five hours sure, but what happens if anyone asks you? You were here five hours Nick Now you tell me Listen to your guy got killed who what differences it make he was hauling a lot of booze Montreal. They didn't make it He got hijacked. He didn't like it. He didn't do it. He was taller. There was always dead.    Who's this Brock? He's here Brock. You want to talk to him? How long has he been there? Five hours Listen Sheila tell him something for me. I'll tell him Nick Did good I'm scared Touch this to you baby Scares away the scare 50,000 times One for each dollar all that money all that happy time, baby Put it away for any day for us. You like Cuba, baby Right now.  I want to talk to you Sit on you want a drink. No You want Nicky. What did you do to him?  I Swear he was with me Brock.  Sheila.  He was the only one that knew about that load of booze from Montreal I Got a phone call from Patterson, New Jersey a guy who runs things over there.  You want to see Nick?  Nothing's gonna hurt anymore.  All right. It's what we got for you.   Come on. Come on. Yeah, you better believe it Sheila. It just happened to him He's bringing you miss Rosemary Clooney in st. 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Mm-hmm Let me make up my mind about something whether we should ride back to where Nicky got his and throw you away You think that would be exciting Sheila do it right here.  Oh, listen. I gotta get them. I gotta get Brock. You're hurt. You're hurt so terrible rock Bring them to me. You need a doctor Nicky. I'll get you a doctor. I want one What Brock get them for me dying Sheila Gotta get Brock before I can do it for you Nicky and a gun. Yes Go to Clio He'll give you a gun. Yes Lie down Nick Here put your arm around me. We'll do it.  Oh miss Sheila. Hello Clio. May I come in? No, sure you do. I want a gun Clio Oh, I can't do that miss Sheila. Why not well Brock didn't say give you a gun. It doesn't matter Oh, you're wrong miss Sheila. That's what matters the most you see if Brock called me and said give you a gun It'd be all right. I'll call him all right You want to know what I'm gonna tell him. Yeah, I know about the gun How wasn't it about how you were waiting for me when I left his place? How we went riding and had some drinks and how I'm how I'm here now And I want to go home and you won't let me please miss Sheila put the phone down. All right What about the gun Clio? I'll get it. Thanks Clio Miss Sheila. Yes What do you want it for? Let me ask you something Clio. Did you like Nicky? I liked him. All right He's alive. Oh, you're kidding Brock got Rick Nicky's alive Clio. He liked you. I Thought you'd want it Clio don't hand over seven nine seven one five Clio. I got to miss Sheila Brock's my boss He's got to know you don't you've got to understand Miss Sheila Hello Brock Sheila I'm lonely Brock. It'll take you about an hour to get to my place. Won't it Brock? That's how long I can stand it without you. It's me, honey. How do you feel? It's better now. You're here. I got the gun Nick. Give it to me three bullets missing Sheila. I know I Been fired Not long go eat it. I know What happened? I told Clio you were alive.  Let me hold you Nick Yeah, Nicky It was easy You'll be here in about a half hour Hold me, baby.  I'd do it Just show him and a living room, baby Then I'll make an entrance you snapped your fingers and I came running Sheila. I'll snap them again Brock What are you gonna do now? Are you tell me? I mean it.  We'll have some music Yeah, sure.  I couldn't stand that Nick All I did was say goodbye to everybody. What are you gonna do Brock? Don't do it Nick. He's going to go. No, no, please. Please Nick. No Please please Now we'll get a doctor It's all right, baby. It was fun Wasn't it fun Sheila Nick don't die Received by st. James infirmary one buddy dead on arrival Brock Garvey Also received one Nick Valpe died five minutes after arrival Right Now what's she doing in there a girl. No, just standing by his table staring at him get her. Okay. I miss Policeman want she says you got to go with him now. Yes. She is officer. 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Okay, so keep your place in Romans chapter 2, so you remember we took two weeks to get through Romans chapter 1, and Romans chapter 2, we continue on here with the same line of thought, and what I want to do tonight, my goal on this sermon tonight is this is a very confusing chapter to a lot of people including myself for many years, and my goal tonight is to kind of keep the rabbit trails to a minimum during the actual scripture itself. I want to make sure that I give you a clear understanding of what the Apostle Paul through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit is trying to tell you in Romans chapter 2. Then we'll make some application at the end, but what I don't want to do is cut this thing up into so many pieces that you'll miss the whole picture, okay? So I want to give you an idea of what Romans chapter 2 is actually telling us here. So we talked about the Gentiles in Romans chapter 1, okay? We talked about the Gentiles and how they were without excuse, they were without excuse because they're living in the same creation that we're all living in. So the world can be, we can tell that there's a God by the created world around us, and then we see that, you know, it was a warning of the things that can happen when you reject God, okay? So the Gentiles along with the Gentiles are without excuse, even though they did not have the law like the Jews had, okay? That's the main difference the Bible tells us about the Jews and the advantage that they had. So if we just start right into Romans chapter 2, look there in verse number 2 where the Bible says, therefore thou art inexcusable, oh man, sorry, chapter verse 1, thou art inexcusable, oh man, whosoever thou art that judges, for wherein thou judgesst another, thou condemnst thyself, for thou that judgesst doeth the same thing.  And if we continue in verse number 2, the Bible says, but we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them, against them which commit such things, and think as thou this, oh man, that judgesst them which do such things, and doest the same, hypocrisy, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God. Once again, we've talked about this in previous sermons in the last couple of weeks. If you go out and you judge people for certain things, and you have no mercy on people, then the Bible says that you are going to be judged with that same measure towards yourself. Matthew 5.7 once again says, blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. So we're not to be hypocrites, we're to be, to get the beam out of our eye before, you know, we help our brother with their own problems. In verse number 4, oh despise this thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. 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. So people, this is interesting, right? So if you have mercy towards other people, the Bible says that God will have that same measure of mercy towards you. Now what we just read here is the exact inverse of that, okay? If you read it again, look at verse number 5, but after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath. So when you have a hard heart towards God and other people, and you resist God, the Bible says that you're treasuring up, you're storing up wrath against yourself. So that's important, that's the opposite of storing up mercy, right? So you can either store up mercy towards yourself, you can store up wrath towards yourself, the Bible is saying. Look folks, as we get into this, just let me, I have had a lot of false doctrine brought to me using Romans chapter 2 verses. And as we get into this, let me just say one of the reasons that I like Romans so much is because it's a very deep book. You cannot surface read this chapter, okay? So I'm going to try to explain to you the deep things that Paul is getting to in Romans chapter 2. And in verse number 6, we get to some of these verses that people use, they take the single verse and use to teach work salvation and works righteousness. And in Romans chapter 2, in verse number 6, the Bible reads, let's just, let's go from 5 to 6 where it says, 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, God who will render to every man according to his deeds, right? That sounds a lot like work salvation, but I'm going to show you how God will actually render to every man according to his deeds, okay? To them who by patient continuance and well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality eternal life, but unto them now the opposite in verse 8, but unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile. Now I want you to put a little bracket around verse number 9 and verse number 10 because he basically repeats the same thing he said in verses number 7 and 8 and he repeats it in verse number 9 and 10 where he says, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first and also the Gentile. So if a Gentile does evil or a Jew does evil, it's tribulation and anguish, but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.  Verse number 11 says, for there is no respect of persons with God. So what Paul is trying to, he's trying to say two things here. First of all, if you work good, well look at who works good in a minute, but he's basically saying it doesn't matter if you work evil if you're a Jew or a Gentile so that there's no advantage of the Jew because if you work evil you're going to have wrath and if you work good you're going to have good things, the Bible says. Now it sounds like justification through works, but here's what it's not saying. Remember the tip that I told you a few weeks ago on how to read the Bible where if you come across something in the Bible that sounds like it goes against clear scripture you need to dig into it a little bit more because the Bible doesn't contradict itself. Turn to Galatians chapter 3. Turn to Galatians chapter 3. Now we could spend a very long time going into verses that prove that justification is not through works, but we'll just go to a couple. And I'll try to give you some unique ones that maybe you haven't heard before. In Galatians chapter 3 starting in verse 10 the Bible reads, for as many as are the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written cursed is everyone that continues not, now underline these three words, in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. So does that say that you have to do some of the things in the law? Does that say you have to know the law and you have to do some of the law? No, it says there it says cursed is everyone that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It is evident for the law for the just shall live by what? Faith. And the law is not of faith. The man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us, for it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth on the tree. So the curse of the law is this. You have to keep the whole thing. That's the curse. So it doesn't matter how good you are. If you don't keep the whole thing, you're not good enough. You're cursed, okay? Now in Romans 3, keep your place in Romans. We're obviously going to keep going back to Romans. But go to Romans 3 in verse 10. We're going to read verses 10, 11, and 12. So remember in Romans 2, Paul says this. I'm going to read Romans 2, 9, and 10 again. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile, but glory, honor, and peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.  Let's see who's good. In Romans 3 starting in verse 10, the Bible says, as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way. They're all together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good, no, not one. So you see what Paul is saying here is that those that are trying, he's right. Those that are trying to live by the law will be judged by the law. Turn to Revelation 20. In verse number 6, Romans 2, verse number 6, I'm going to read that again for you while you turn to Revelation 20. And that is, who will render to every man according to his deeds.  In Revelation 20 in verse 11, we see the great white throne judgment. These are all the unsaved people and what they're going to be judged by after the millennial reign of Christ. And the Bible says, and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, the unsaved, small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to what? According to their works. Turn to Matthew 23. So what do you mean they're judged according to their works?   What do you mean you're judged by your works? Well I'm going to show you. Turn to Matthew 23. Matthew 23. And starting in verse number 13.  So he's upset with them. He's chastising them because they're not only not going to go to heaven themselves, they're not only going to not believe on Jesus themselves but they're stopping other people from believing. Remember when we talked about the reprobates? The funny thing, I don't know if I mentioned this in that sermon but there's two sorcerers that actually get saved in the book of Acts and one sorcerer gets saved at the beginning of the book of Acts and then there's another sorcerer, he doesn't, he does get saved and then another sorcerer, at the end Paul actually calls him a reprobate basically. But you'll notice that barred Jesus in that story, he was trying to stop other people from getting saved. He was changing the word of God into a lie and he was stopping the guy that Paul was talking to. Paul was witnessing to someone and this sorcerer was trying to stop him. So that's, Jesus is saying woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you devour widow's houses and for a pretense make long prayer, therefore ye shall receive the what? The greater damnation.  Knowest thou not that I have the power to crucify thee and the power to release thee? And Jesus answered, thou couldst have no power at all against me except it were given thee above, therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. There's people that will receive greater damnation than others. That's what the Bible is teaching. So when the unsaved are at the great white throne judgment, they're being judged according to their works because some people are going to have a greater damnation than others. So look, if you're not going to get saved, you better go like full blown Joel Osteen, live your best life now. I don't even know if that's what that book means. But I mean, I'm saying you better get good. If you're not going to get saved, you better be as good as possible because you're going to be judged by those works, period.  But that's my point. That's what Paul is saying here is that you will be judged by your works.  They're in this false religion. They think they are good to go. They think they're keepers of the law, okay? Go back to Romans chapter 2 and we just read verse 11, for there is no respecter of persons with God. You know, you just keep, you'd be good to just keep that phrase in your mind as well, no matter where you go in your life, no matter how plugged in you get to church, no matter what position you get in anywhere in your life. Just remember, there's no respect of persons with God. You know, I think about that myself. There's no respecter, God's not a respecter of persons. Just because I'm preaching to you right now, that doesn't mean that I'm anything special. There's no respecter, God is not a respecter of persons. Now on the Jews, he's basically saying you keep the law, you're good. But no one keeps the law, alright?  Jew or Gentile, that is the curse of the law. Now on the Jews, we should not hate the Jews. It's just another false religion. It's just another false religion, I mean pick one. You know, the one thing about Judaism today is that it just happens that it's a pretty prideful religion, which means it's hard to get them saved. They're not going to want to accept Christ. You know, unfortunately, you can kind of, that's unfortunate for them, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try if we meet someone who is Jewish, we should give them the same gospel that we give everyone else. The Word of God has power. Look, this, you know, this weird God's chosen people thing, it just spews arrogance. Right? I mean it's very, it's very arrogant from the, it's even got the arrogance of Calvinism. I think Calvinism is just rooted in arrogance too. You know, God chose me, not you, right? Why would he choose me and not you? It doesn't make any sense. You know, I asked my pastor, this isn't a sermon about, you know, Bible prophecy or anything like that, but I asked my pastor once because, you know, this is a big problem in Christianity today and Baptist churches today where there's the Jews or God's chosen people. I'm going to prove that wrong to you here in the next few verses, but it does a disservice to the Jews is what it does because they're not saved and they need to be saved. I asked my pastor of an old IFB church one time who, you know, he was a saved man, he was teaching the right gospel and I just asked him, I was like, you know, you believe that a Jew that dies today without Christ is going to hell, right? He said, well, yeah, because you just can't, you can't get away from that, right?  I mean, you can't get away from that. So I was like, all right, so what does, what does being a Jew buy you? What does that get me in life? And you know, there's no answer to that, unfortunately. You know, unless you come up with some weird doctrine which people have that the Jews don't need to accept Christ and all this kind of stuff, which is just heresy, you know, that's the only place you can go with it. So there's no, God's not a respecter of persons, Jew or Gentile, you know, it's all the same. Let's go back to Romans chapter 2. Romans chapter 2, the Bible reads in verse number 12. The Bible reads in verse number 12, for as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law. That's the Gentiles. Remember chapter 1, and as many have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. That's the Jews, okay, because they had the law. And then in verse number 13, he repeats it, for not the hearers of the law are just before God, that's the Jews, they were the hearers of the law, right, because they had the law, but the doers of the law shall be justified. So he's saying to the Jews once again that you have to keep the whole law, that's what he's saying. It's not good enough to just hear the law, you have to keep it. You would have to do the law, all of it. That's what he's saying. Okay? Look, Paul is soul winning here, that's what he's doing. The difference between what Paul is doing and what we do when we go out on Saturday is we kind of just skip to chapter 3.   This is not a problem that we have today. It's a huge problem with what Paul was dealing with there. He had these Jews, these Pharisees, they thought they were righteous. There's none righteous, no not one. You tell any American in this city that there's none righteous, no not one, and they're like, yeah. So we don't have to go into this huge treatise on keeping the whole law. You see? That's what he's doing. He's going into this huge explanation and treatise of how you have to just, you have to not only hear the law, you have to do the whole law. And it doesn't matter if you're a Gentile because God wrote the law in your heart and they're condemned by that same law. That law becomes a law unto itself and they're condemned as well.  That's what he's doing. And he's doing it in a very poetic, beautiful way of writing, but you can't just pull one verse out of Romans chapter 2 and create a whole doctrine around it. It contradicts everywhere in the Bible. So Romans chapter 2 is a very, very deep chapter and I actually really enjoy the way it's written. Now that I know what it's saying. So look, he was just dealing with the problem of his day. It's kind of like when Jesus went up to the woman at the well, Jesus was Jesus so he gave her the gospel in a different way. She was starting from a different point. He was also God so he knew what she already believed and what she didn't. But Paul is dealing with a very specific issue with the Jews that he's talking to. Okay? I'm really going to get on the Jews here in the next few verses. Now let's go to the next verse. Let's go to verse 14. And the Bible says in verse 14, for when the Gentiles, and I stole this verse, if you remember, this is talking about the conscience written in your heart, for when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law or a law unto themselves, which show the work of the law written in their heart. Their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another, in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Then he goes back to the Jews, and he just stays on the Jews for the rest of the chapter. And he says in verse 17, behold thou art called a Jew. Notice how he says, he starts into something here where he says you're called a Jew. He doesn't say thou art a Jew. He says thou art called a Jew. You could even underline that in your Bible. And resteth in the law, and makest thy boast of God. It's interesting that they're resting in what they will be judged by. That's just ironic, I find. But notice that, that they're called a Jew. And then in verse 18, the Bible says, and knowest his will, and approve us the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law, they had the law. They had the Bible. And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, and a light of them which are in darkness, and instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which has the form of knowledge and of the truth and the law. Thou, therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself, thou that preachest a man should not steal, thus thou steal. He's calling them hypocrites. Again, Jesus would have just been hypocrite. Jesus was much more direct. Paul's a little bit more poetic about it. In verse 22, thou that sayeth a man should not commit adultery, thus thou commit adultery, thou that abhorst idols, thus thou commit sacrilege, again, hypocrisy, thou that makeest boast of the law. They were proud. They were like, we know the Bible. We're the scribes and the Pharisees. They had their big robes and their garments. Thou breaking the law dishonorest, thou God. Now, this is a good one in verse number 24, for the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. So he's calling them hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites. And then Paul, just think of this for a second. Paul is in Rome, or he's writing to Rome, and he's writing to them on the Gospel on how to be saved. He's preaching Jesus Christ. And here are these people that are supposed to be righteous, and they're the chosen people of God. They have the Word of God. Paul used to be a Pharisee. They killed Jesus Christ. That is the ultimate hypocrisy. That is who Paul is seeing when he's preaching this. That's why he says the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you. He's like, you claim to be representatives of the one true God, and you killed him. That's what he's saying. It's the ultimate hypocrisy. That's why he starts with hypocrisy. At the end, he explains the sin and how you have to keep the whole law, whether you're a Jew or a Gentile. And then he goes right back to hypocrisy again, because they're the ultimate hypocrites, because they killed the Lord Jesus Christ. They were supposed to be the chosen people of God. And then he gets into it even more in verse number 25. And this part isn't as hard to understand. He basically starts teaching who the real Jews are. And in verse number 25, he says, for circumcision, verily, profiteth, if thou keepeth the law. But if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. He already proved that everyone's a breaker of the law. So circumcision is nothing. No one's a keeper of the law. Look at Romans 3, 19, and 20. In Romans 3 and verse 19, the Bible reads, Now we know that the things soever the law sayeth, it's sayeth to them who are under the law, that every mouth shall be stopped and the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law, that's works, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. So once again, there's no justification there. Of course, they're not keepers of the law, so their circumcision is made uncircumcision. It means nothing. That's what he's saying. They're physical circumcision. And then in verse number 25, or 26, I'm sorry, he says, Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision. So he's saying if the Gentiles were perfect and did the whole law, it'd be pretty much, it'd be just like circumcision. That's what he's saying. But then he gets into what he's actually meaning here. And he says, and shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfilled the law, judge thee who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law. For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly. Neither is that circumcision, that outward circumcision, which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew which is one inwardly. And circumcision is that of the heart. He just did undid physical circumcision right there. So this thing that the Jews were so proud of, that they had, and even when Peter was not wanting to go and eat with the Gentiles, it was like, should I go eat with the uncircumcised? And when they talked about the big debate in Jerusalem in Acts was about should we have the Gentiles that get saved be circumcised? This is a big deal to the Jews. He's just undoing the whole thing right here. That means nothing. Once again, verse 29, but he is a Jew which is one inwardly. Turn to Matthew 23 while I finish reading this. And circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men, but of God. He just undid physical circumcision. He's talking about the inward, the inward spirit and how circumcision is an outward sign. And in Matthew 23, Jesus talks about this same theory, the same doctrine. Matthew 23, verse 23, the Bible reads, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you pay tithe of mint and anise and common, and have omitted the way to your matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith. These ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, just like Paul was saying, blind teachers. Ye blind guide which strain in a net and swallow a camel. Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Inside they're rotten. Thou blind Pharisee, verse 26, cleanse first that which is within the cup and the platter that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited sepicultures which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.  Just think, I mean just think what Jesus and Paul thought of the Pharisees when they saw them. They were probably some of the only people that saw this.   You know, remember in verse 17, the phrase called a Jew, circumstances of the heart, not the flesh. Paul introduces for the first time what we would call replacement theology. Look, Jew or Gentile, we are without excuse before God. That's the whole point of Romans chapter one and Romans chapter two. And we're gonna get into Romans chapter three and we're gonna see what we actually have, what he's actually culminating together that there's none righteous, no not one. Then he's gonna talk about the gospel from there. But the summary of Romans chapter two, if you have to highlight two verses in Romans chapter two, the two verses would be verses number 12 and verses number 13. If you had to just summarize the entire chapter and those verses read, for as many have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, the Gentiles. And it continues, and as many have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. For not the hears of the law, the Jews are just before God. Not the hears of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. You'd have to do the whole law. So the Jews and the Gentiles are without excuse. That is the point of Romans chapter two. Okay, now, if we're gonna take some application from this, the first lower level application is, don't be a hypocrite. I mean, we've talked about that a little bit over the last couple of weeks. The Pharisees and the Jews of this time were incredibly fake people. They were somebody on the outside that was completely different to who they really were. And that's the last thing that we wanna be. Go to Luke chapter eight. Luke chapter eight and verse 17. So if you're one of these people, or we probably all are in some way, but if you just have this outward appearance that is nothing about what's on really on the inside, the Bible says in Luke eight verse 17, for nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest, neither anything hid that shall not be known and come abroad. Look, it's gonna come out. I mean, people are gonna find out who you are is basically what the Bible is saying here. Hypocrisy is very damaging to yourself and it's also very damaging to the family unit. You know, I've been pretty hard on the men over the last couple of weeks, but I mean, if you wanna talk about the ladies, hypocrisy amongst women raising their children will be very, very damaging as well.   And look, mothers who homeschool their kids, if you wanna put off the public school system and you want to take that responsibility on yourself, that ultimate responsibility, that ultimate freedom in homeschooling carries a big responsibility to it.  The character of children is formed through their parents' actions and when they see things, when they see hypocrisy, they're gonna see who you are at church and who you are at home. So hypocrisy is a very, very damaging thing. But whenever you see, if you see a virtuous young lady, all I have to do is say, where's her mother? I'm sure you can tell where that young lady came from. And it's the same thing with hardworking kids in general. You just look to the parents and you're gonna see that that's where it came from.  Look, when you look at Paul and you look at Jesus Jesus called the Pharisees vipers and hypocrites and they killed the Lord Jesus Christ. Imagine what, that's why Paul was being so hard on them in Romans chapter two because they're walking around in their robes and all this kind of stuff and they killed the Lord Jesus Christ. So the takeaway there is just pray, get sin out of your life and be real. That's the takeaway there. The second takeaway I wanna give you tonight, which is a little bit larger takeaway is just the danger of false religion that we see in the book of Romans. You know, the Judaism was a major false religion at this time because they did not accept the Lord Jesus Christ. It was a false religion. Now, it was very difficult. They were actually the ones persecuting the church at the beginning. And you'll find this. You'll find this that it's almost, and I've heard many people say this who are experienced soul winners, that you would almost knock on the door of someone who had no religion these days. And I see a lot of heads nodding, but you would almost just start with that blank slate because once that false religion gets in, you'll find people out there. We were just talking about this out soul winning on Saturday. You will find people out there that are so twisted around the axle that it seems they'll never get saved. And it's very sad, but there's Protestantism, the Reformation, all this stuff. I do not believe that the Reformation was, there was anything good about it. Anything. I believe it was the devil's plan B.  The devil is subtle, the Bible says. And the Catholic church just, it wasn't very subtle anymore.   The devil's like, you know what, this isn't, oh, people are getting wise to this. So he, he designed the Reformation. And he redefined words like grace. And he redefined words like faith. You will find people out there that are like, oh yeah, grace through faith. And they believe in works from that, their whole body believes in works. And then you will preach the gospel to them and you will do the best job you possibly can. And you will say, you see how the Bible teaches something different than what you said? And they will say, oh, that's pretty much what I believed anyway. They're so wrapped up, they'll never get saved. That is the power of false religion and what the devil uses to keep people unsaved, to send people to hell, okay? Look, in conclusion tonight folks, Romans two is not teaching works salvation. It's just teaching that no one is without excuse. Everyone needs the Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone needs to be saved, okay? It's by faith, it's not of works.  That is Romans chapter two. In Romans verses, chapter three, we'll bring it all together and it'll make even more sense than it does now. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the Bible. We thank you for the book of Romans. We thank you for all these deep writings that you've given us and just how every doctrine is covered and everything makes perfect sense once you study it through and understand what you're trying to tell us. Lord, please bless this church. Bless soul winning this weekend and church on Sunday. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.