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Romans 1:18-32
Before revealing the Righteousness of God provided on the basis of faith, Paul first establishes why we (all of humanity) needs it.
Everyone stands condemned under sin and unable to conquer the power of sin to live.
Humanity needs God’s righteousness provided by grace.
So Paul shows us through four distinct ways the that all men are condemned under sin.
The Condemnation of the Heathen World (1:18-32)
The Condemnation of the moral man (2:1-16)
The Condemnation of the religious man (2:17-3:8)
The Condemnation of the whole world (3:9-20)
Paul shows us that everyone needs God and His grace.
The whole world is born under the condemnation of sin.
I.
The Wrath of God (Vs18)
a.
What is the wrath of God?
The Greek word means “not a sudden or arbitrary anger or passion, but a consistent indignation based on a holy righteous standard, God’s standard.
It is revealed.
Literally continually revealed.
The idea is to uncover, make visible.
The wrath of God is revealed in two ways:
Natural consequences.
For example someone who abuses drugs and ends up with physical health problems, even death.
The Word of God.
Eternal Wrath= Hell
Prophetic Wrath= Day of the Lord
Cataclysmic Wrath= Flood, Sodom
Consequential Wrath= Sowing and Reaping
Abandonment Wrath= Removing Restraint
b.
Against who is the wrath revealed?
Those who suppress the truth.
Suppress means to hold down, or reject truth.
This is primarily done in two ways:
Ungodliness
Lack of reverence , devotion to and worship of the
true God.
One has said “it refers vertically to
human violation of the first four commandments
directed at God.”
2. Unrighteousness
Lack of conformity in thought, word or deed to
the character of God and His laws.
This refers
horizontally to violations to human rights by
disregarding the last six commandments.
II.
Why is the Wrath of God revealed?
(vs18)
The wrath of God is revealed because God revealed Himself and they rejected Him.
How did He reveal Himself?
Two primary ways God revealed Himself:
1 God revealed Himself through Conscience.
Paul begins by saying in vs 19 that in the heart of every man is the knowledge of right and wrong, put there by God Himself.
David Jeremiah writes “There is in a man that which longs to correspond with God, a God shaped vacuum, a sense of oughtness, a realization of guilt.
Just a few verses later Paul explains that those without the law of God, by nature do the things in the law.... their conscience also bearing witness.”
John makes it clear that such knowledge is in the heart of every man.
For example do you remember in Acts 28 when Paul had been shipwrecked and was snake bitten?
The pagan natives concluded that was being punished for doing wrong.
How did they have that knowledge?
Paul says it was put in the heart of every man.
2 God has revealed Himself through creation (Vs19-20)
Creation reveals two things about God.
First of all it reveals His Eternal Power, and second it reveals His Divine Nature.
Psalm 8 (NKJV)
O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth!
There is a general revelation of Conscience and Creation and there is a specific revelation.
Dr Clifford Marquardt said “ if someone accepts the general revelation , God will send someone to Him/her with the specific revelation of the Gospel.
III.
How did they reject Him? (Vs21-27)
A. They rejected Him by not acknowledging Him for who
He is.
They did not glorify Him as God.
Glorify means to acknowledge Him as to His being, attributes and acts.
They refused to acknowledge Him as God.
B. They rejected Him in their ungratefulness.
(vs21)
Do you know ungratefulness or unthankfulness is a characteristic of unsaved people?
Their refusal to acknowledge God as God led them to being unthankful.
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