The Road
to Romans!
We are all
worth a wrath!
Romans
1:18–2:1 (ESV)
18For the wrath
of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
19For what can be known about God is plain to them,
because God has shown it to them.
20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation
of the world, in the things that have
been made. So they are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they
became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for
images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their
hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie
and worshiped and served the creature
rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable
passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are
contrary to nature;
27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with
women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless
acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do
what ought not to be done.
29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness,
malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are
gossips,
30slanderers, haters of God, insolent,
haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31foolish, faithless, heartless,
ruthless.
32Though they know God’s righteous decree that those
who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
1Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of
you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself,
because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Do you suppress the
truth????
18For the wrath
of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
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Paul takes a very harsh turn very quick
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It gets right to the point
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God will and does pour out wrath on the unrighteous
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Because when we don’t follow God we withhold the truth!
And then he explains
there is no way you don’t know God exists
19For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation
of the world, in the things that have
been made. So they are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they
became futile in their thinking, and their
foolish hearts were darkened.
22Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for
images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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How do we know, because God reviled it to us
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How did he show it?? Look around!!
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You breathing God gave you air
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Your heart work?? God gave you it
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You have kids?? God did that
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Ozone, night, day, rain hot cold, DNA
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It all came from God!
Because of our lack of
faith that God exist we make things up to believe in!
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Evolution
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Cults
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We worship the earth
o Others
o Our kids
o Our pets
Its called idolatry!
Exodus 20:2–5
(ESV)
2“I am the Lord
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery.
3“You shall have no other gods before me.
4“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or
any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I
the Lord your God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the
fourth generation of those who hate me,
And this
drives us to our next issue, Mans relentless pursuit of sin
24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to
the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie
and worshiped and served the creature
rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
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Sin is a heart
issue!
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It’s a dishonor
to you and to God
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When we worship
anything other than God we are lying to ourselves and leading others astray
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We are made to
follow, so make sure you show people the right way
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Be Jesus with
Skin on!
Sin is always a heart
issue! Are hearts drive our wants and desires, our needs and our passions, our
will and what we pursue
The laundry list of sin!!
26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable
passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are
contrary to nature;
27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with
women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless
acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do
what ought not to be done.
29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness,
malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are
gossips,
30slanderers, haters of God, insolent,
haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31foolish, faithless, heartless,
ruthless.
The list
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Sexual
immorality
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Unrighteousness
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Covetousness
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Malice
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Envy
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Murder
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Deceit
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Gossip
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Slander
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God haters
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Inventors of
evil
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Foolish
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Faithless
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Heartless
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Ruthless
We always want to pick
one that worst than the others don’t we???
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To make us feel
better about our sin!
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To point the
finger
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This list
covers us all!!!
Paul leaves no stone unturned! God hates sin and the
unbeliever Sin rules their lives!
Paul was in Corinth when he wrote this
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Idolatry was
everywhere
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There were week
long orgies
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Child scarifies
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Brutality and
immorality were everywhere
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And Paul lets
the romans know God will bring down his wrath on those who turn away from him!
Now or later it will happen unless you turn and run to God!!!
32Though they know God’s righteous decree that those
who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
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And he says it
again there is know excuse for not knowing there is a God! One ruler of the
entire universe!
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