Righteous Wrath
ROMANS: THE ROAD NOW TAKEN • Sermon • Submitted
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For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,
For God’s WRATH is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness…
Wrath (ὀργὴ) = anger, punishment
Be careful!
for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
Because (…and this is Part 1)…
God has revealed (God has manifested, shown)…
God has revealed…
TRUTH [ἀλήθειαν: truth (quality of someone)] (1.18)
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.
Romans 1.25
The entirety of your word is truth, each of your righteous judgments endures forever.
I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place among you.
“You are a king then?” Pilate asked.
“You say that I’m a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
John 8.37
WE have chosen suppression, muffling (squelch).
WE have chosen suppression, muffling (squelch).
His ATTRIBUTES [ἀόρατα: invisible aspects, (attributes)] (1.19-20)
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands. Day after day they pour out speech; night after night they communicate knowledge. There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard. Their message has gone out to the whole earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming from his home; it rejoices like an athlete running a course. It rises from one end of the heavens and circles to their other end; nothing is hidden from its heat.
So, what about the person who’s never heard the Gospel? [v. 20]
WE have chosen excuses, claiming not to see.
His GLORY [δόξαν: splendor, glory, brightness] (1.21-23)
Now to him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
All who make idols are nothing, and what they treasure benefits no one. Their witnesses do not see or know anything, so they will be put to shame. Who makes a god or casts a metal image that benefits no one? Look, all its worshipers will be put to shame, and the craftsmen are humans. They all will assemble and stand; they all will be startled and put to shame. The ironworker labors over the coals, shapes the idol with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Also he grows hungry and his strength fails; he doesn’t drink water and is faint.
All who make idols are nothing, and what they treasure benefits no one. Their witnesses do not see or know anything, so they will be put to shame. Who makes a god or casts a metal image that benefits no one? Look, all its worshipers will be put to shame, and the craftsmen are humans. They all will assemble and stand; they all will be startled and put to shame.
Isa
I am the Lord. That is my name, and I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.
WE have chosen a foolish exchange.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
rom 1.