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Romans 1:18-23
Paul has concluded the introduction to Romans
1-7 Salutations
8-15 Personal Communication
16-17 Main Theme
No matter how powerful the gospel is, it cannot save a man until he sees his guilt.
You gotta get ‘em lost before you can get ‘em saved.
Paul declared exactly what the gospel was in verses 16-17, now he shows that there is a universal need for the gospel.
God sent His son because the world was lost in sin.
Paul had to declare why there was a need for salvation in the first place.
I. Wrath Revealed
The reason - the wrath of God.
There are a lot of sermons on the love of God, but very few on the wrath of God!
So Paul goes directly from his theme into the first doctrinal section: Condemnation - the wrath of God revealed Chapter 1:18-3:20
In this section he shows that the world is lost.
All the world is guilty before God.
It’s not exactly seeker sensitive!
But it is what we need to hear!
Paul tells them that we are all without excuse!
Notice..
hold the truth 18
known of God is manifest 19
God hath shewed 19
Clearly seen 20
understood 20
they knew God 21
God has revealed himself to them and showing them that compared to His holiness they are lacking.
Paul says that the wrath of God has been revealed from heaven ...
A. Against Ungodliness
ungodliness - impiety - without righteousness - without reverence
God is deserving of all reverence - He worthy of all praise, but man in his lost state is without reverence for God.
Some do not believe judgment is coming, but they will see.
They are like the wicked Scottish lawyer who rented a horse and through ill-usage, killed the animal.
The owner insisted on being paid its value, together with some compensation for the loss of its use.
The lawyer acknowledged his liability, and said he was willing to pay, but at the moment he was a little short on ready cash.
The owner of the animal agreed to accept a promissory note?
Whereupon the lawyer further said that he must be allowed a long date.
“You can fix your own time,” said the creditor.
The wicked man then drew the note, making it payable at the Day of Judgment.
Eventually the creditor took the matter to court, and there, in defense, the lawyer asked the judge to look at the note.
He did so, and then replied: “The promissory note is perfectly good sir and as this is the Day of Judgment, I decree that you pay tomorrow.”
God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and irreverence
The good news is that is exactly who God came to save!
Against ungodliness, But also...
B. Against Unrighteousness
unrighteousness - not conformable to justice - unjust
why are they unjust - because they hold the truth in unrighteousness.
A Brooklyn man was once arrested for burglary and sentenced to several years in the state penitentiary.
A few years into his sentence, the man escaped from prison and disappeared.
Police detectives spent hours searching for him, following leads, and analyzing his escape, but to no avail.
Although many detectives gave up on the case after several years, one young detective never gave up.
Bit by bit, he tracked down every clue and kept searching for the escapee until one day, many years later, he finally found the escaped criminal.
Following him to a convenience store, the detective approached him from behind, laid his hand on his shoulder, and notified him that he was under arrest.
Shocked, the escapee said, “What’d I do officer?”
“I know what you did years ago.
I know how you broke out of prison, disappeared out west, got married, then came back to live with your family.”
Realizing his future would be in prison, the man asked the officer if they could at least go to his house so he could say goodbye to his family.
Seeing the sorrow in his eyes, the officer agreed.
When they arrived at his house, the man asked his wife, “Have I been a good husband to you? Have I been a good father to our children?”
“Why yes,” replied the wife, “you have.
But why are you asking me this?”
At that point the escaped man explained everything to his wife, relaying past events he thought would stay hidden.
He begged the detective to recognize how he had turned his life around and pardon him, yet the detective still handcuffed him and led him away.
While the escaped criminal may have lived several years as a law-abiding citizen and had demonstrated love and kindness for his family, he was still guilty of burglary and had not finished his sentence.
He may have been good, but his good actions didn’t outweigh his past actions.
It doesn’t matter how much good we do, it does not erase the debt we owe.
Only repentance and acceptance of Christ can pay the price.
The Bible says they do not believe the truth - they treat truth as if it is unrighteousness.
So the wrath has been revealed.
II.
Righteousness Revealed
verse 19-20
God has revealed His righteousness, and the right way of living
His standard by which we are to live.
He has revealed this to us in two ways:
A. Conscience
“in them”
God has put inside all of us that which recognizes God and what is right and what is wrong.
In 1984, Avianca Airlines, Spanish airline 707, had a crash, hit a mountain.
They went into the rubble, everybody died, the plane is all over the place.
Finally, they found little black box which has the cockpit recorder on it so they can get the dialogue that’s going on in the cockpit just before the crash so they can reconstruct what happened.
They get the tape out of the little black box and found a frightening discovery when they listened to the tape.
The cockpit recorder indicates that just before the crash, a computer synthesized voice from the plane’s automatic warning system starts saying, “Pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up,” in English.
Inexplicably the pilot shouts back, “Shut up, foreigner,” flips off the switch.
Within seconds, the plane hits the mountain and everybody is dead.
God has placed within us that which warns us when we are straying off course.
We get to think that we know more than that warning system, and ignore our conscience until it is seared.
God has given within us that which declares His existence
Even in Athens, Paul stood up and preached
Even these philosophers knew that there had to be a God that made the world.
B. Creation
God has shown the whole earth His glory through creation.
vs 20
Scientist - There has to be a creator
Einstein is quoted as saying, “I’m not an atheist.
The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages.
The child knows someone must have written those books.
It does not know how.
It does not understand the languages in which they are written.
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