Without Exuse
Introduction
The Wrath of God
Where is it seen
What are the results
Man’s Rejection of God
Nature, as we know, abhors a vacuum, and the same thing can be said of the human spirit. Man’s unwillingness to glorify and thank God in the way that he was created to function has left in his innermost being a great void which cannot stay empty. Into this void has poured all manner of spiritual disease, and men and women “became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools” (Rom. 1:21, 22). Thought life became controlled by futility, aspirations and desires were shrouded in the darkness of egotism, folly conquered wisdom, and man didn’t even seem to know what was happening.
The word “fool,” which is so common in Scripture, needs to be carefully studied. In modern language, a fool may be an uninhibited person who is the life and soul of the party, an unfortunate person who is deficient in intelligence, or someone given to unwise actions. But the fool in Scripture is a person who willfully makes moral decisions contrary to God’s instructions—a person who has adopted a stance in opposition to God’s position, one who has said in his heart, “There is no God” (Ps. 14:1).
God’s Response to the Rejection
The challenge comes to mankind through the realization that the rightness of human action must be determined not by the fluctuating moral standards of a volatile society but by the unchanging revelation of an eternal God.