Do you Despise the Goodness of God

Appreciating God’s Goodness
Romans 2:4
Romans 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
… do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering…
His goodness
(kindness)
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.


His forbearance (self control even when provoked)
Matthew 5:45 for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Romans 3:25 to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

His patience (self restraint which does not hastily retaliate)
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
… do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering…
Romans 2:4 (ESV) do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
View blessings as proof of God’s approval
Lack of immediate judgment seen as God’s approval
Presume on God’s patience to let them repent in the future
Rely on outward rituals to grant salvation
Allow grace to be a license to sin
Appreciating God’s goodness
Appreciating God’s goodness
Romans 6:16-18 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

2 Peter 3:18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Appreciating God’s Goodness
Romans 2:4