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Introduction
Through this quarter on Sunday nights we are going to be taking a look at what the Bible says about our mind.
Everyday we all use our minds.
Thousands of thoughts rush through our brain as we go through our day.
I was curious so I looked up how many thoughts a person has per day.
Most of the resources stated people have anywhere from 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day.
That is a lot of thinking.
Have you ever heard of the “placebo effect”?
Some believe that you can train the mind to help heal the body or at least remove pain.
Tests have been done to attempt to prove this.
Even us who are not in the area of Neuroscience discuss the power of suggestion.
How many of you parents have described in an honest way but in a more exciting way something about a food you were giving your child and they loved it.
After the meal you tell them in a more bland way and they immediately say they do not like it even though they had more than one helping.
Think about the imagination of a person!
Through the thousands of books, play-writes, films, and articles that have been written.
Think of the art and music that have been created.
The list truly goes on.
Think of the lives that have been saved on the operating table or the modern conveniences we have today!
Seriously, how do a bunch of 1’s and 0’s turn into letters!
We could go negative and give negative examples of the power of our minds.
No matter how you look at it our minds are powerful.
Oxford defines the mind as the set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory, which is housed in the brain (sometimes including the central nervous system).
It is usually defined as the faculty of an entity's thoughts and consciousness.
It holds the power of imagination, recognition, and appreciation, and is responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes and actions.
Therefore it is vital that we as people understand the importance of guarding and keeping our minds with all diligence.
Our mind stands as the battleground of our lives.
Our flesh, worldly influence, and Satan himself does what they can to tear down the walls of your mind, of my mind!
How you behave/act does convey your mind and what you believe!
When the Bible states that out of the heart come the issues of life and the mouth speaks, it is talking of the mind!
Throughout this series we will be seeing the condition of the mind, how to have a godly mind, the consequences of an ungodly mind, examples of people who lived with a godly mind, and how to train and mold our minds as God would want us!
Tonight for our first look into the mind of man we are going to start with the sad state of the mind--depraved.
-Let’s Read Our Passage
Here is a quote from Lord Bertrand Russell:
There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell.
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching.…
You do not, for instance, find that attitude in Socrates.
You find him quite bland and urbane toward the people who would not listen to him, and it is, to my mind, far more worthy of a sage to take that line than to take the line of indignation.2
-Lord Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian
This evening we are going to be looking at the reason why the gospel matters.
What we look at tonight will reveal the importance of the power of the Gospel!
We are going to see the utter wickedness of man.
I want us to pause quickly and pray and ask God to clear our minds and hearts that we not look at this passage tonight and say that this is good to hear but I am saved and it does not matter for me.
This is a erronious thoguht.
This book was written to believers.
Though Paul is talking about most likely the condition of the gentiles, even as believers elements of these attitudes can impact and creep into our minds.
Also truly grasping the truth of this passage oughtto strenghten your mind and help you to live with gratitutde for God saving you from the end that those in this passage arive.
Pray.
The context immediately before was preached to us last Sunday afternoon.
IT is in fact our theme for this year!
Salvation the gospel is the power of God of which the Christian lives in the righteousness of God and does not have to fear eternal punsihment in hell (6:23).
Paul then takes a break from discussing the righetouesness of God to show the unrighteousness of man.
He takes 1:18-3:20 to explain the wickedness and lostness of man without God.
He begins in our passage but showing what many refer to as the depravity of man.
Man is utterly sinful and without excuse.
Main Principle: God reveals his wrath because man has rejected God resulting in God's retribution for their rejection of Him and turning to idolatry.
Main Application: Elevating our thinking above God produces passions of idolatry resulting in God's punishment.
I. God revealed His wrath, 18
Explanation:
The structure of verse 18 parallels that of verse 17.
Righteousness of God and the unrighteousness of man are structurally the same.
This is significant because it gives to us a contrast situation of God and man.
It is always about God.
Paul starts here as he brings man into the picture to make sure their is no doubt who is greater and who is truly righteous.
The righteousness of God is revealed through the gospel.
Unfortunately, man in their ungodly and unrighteous mind suppress the truth of God.
Because of this wrong thinking, God’s wrath is revealed.
What does Paul mean by God’s wrath?
The moral desolation of human society throughout history, which is referred to by the use of past tenses for ‘handed over’ in verses 24–28, is an evidence of God’s judgment and wrath, anticipating what will happen on judgment day [BECNT- Schreiner, Gdt].
We see today in God’s grace a restrained version of God’s wrath because of the ungodly and unrighteous living.
We should understand the wrath in eschatological terms, but should also not overlook its present reality [BECNT, HNTC, ICC1, Mor, NAC, St].
The eventual revelation of God’s wrath at the end-time is anticipated by the same principle of his wrath being revealed in the world here and now [BECNT, HNTC, NAC, TNTC, WBC].
It is the response of God’s holiness to human wickedness and rebellion that suppresses the knowledge of God and embraces a lie instead, the retribution that must operate in a moral universe [TNTC].
The word here is orge, which signifies a settled and abiding condition.
It is controlled.
“The wrath of God” is not human wrath, which at its best is only a distorted reflection of God’s wrath because it is always compromised by the presence of sin.
“The wrath of God” is perfect, settled, controlled.
Paul speaks here of God’s wrath as being present with future implications.
In other words we see God’s wrath today but will not see all of God’s wrath until His second coming and millennial reign when God defeats Satan for a final time and all of hell , Satan, his fallen angels, and those who never accepted Christ are cast in to the lake of fire for eternity.
God follows this by destroying this earth and creating a whole a whole new one without sin and death.
This wrath of God is incurred because of their suppression of the truth.
Paul further explains this as he details the rejection of God.
The wrath of God is not what we want in life for the Bible states that it is fearful to fall into the hands of an angry God.
The word suppress carries the idea of holding down, to keep from being known, to hide.
When I think of the word suppress, I think of a suppressor on a gun.
It is fixed to the gun so that others will not know it has been fired.
It seeks to take the noise and hide it or hold it down and unnoticeable.
In the same way the unbeliever takes the truth about God and of God and hides it, restrains it, holds it down from impacting their thinking and mind.
The truth that the one true God is to be honored and worshipped is suppressed as people unrighteously refuse to do this [BECNT].
This means that by their unrighteous acts and rebellion against God’s just rule, people actually hinder or suppress the effect the truth would otherwise have had on their religious and moral state [NICNT].
What is the truth that has been suppressed?
The truth that has been suppressed is that God should be honored, worshipped, and esteemed as God, and the fundamental sin is the refusal to worship God and give him proper sovereignty in one’s life [BECNT].
In the NT, truth is something to be obeyed, not just to give mental assent to, and acting sinfully is to rebel against God’s rule and what he has said should be done [NICNT].
They suppress this truth by being and living unrighteously.
Their unrighteousness is the method in which they suppress the truth.
Application:
People today are as through the years seeking to suppress the truth of God and His very nature of existence.
The idea of a God of wrath and judgment is offensive to modern man’s sensibilities (Hughes, Romans, p32).I can remember as I learned about World history how many people tried to eliminate God’s Word through book burnings.
Evolution itself tries to eliminate God and the need for God.
Modern society has become highly pragmatic and self-focused.
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