Day Two -- Devotions

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Genesis III & IV
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I wonder that I never realized before how much Adam and Eve must have gone through. To be made perfect and placed in paradise, then through their own actions to fall from grace to sin and be driven from the only home they knew must have been terrible. And I can't imagine the guilt they must have borne. To know it was your sin that cursed the entire human race must have been unbearable at times. But God's grace sustained them; it's the only thing that could.


Romans II
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vs. 12-16
"For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though the do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus."