Transcript The State of the world Looking at Romans 1:18-32 The self-revelation of God     He reveals his power in salvation (16) He reveals his.

The State of the world
Looking at Romans 1:18-32
The self-revelation of God
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He reveals his power in salvation (16)
He reveals his righteousness in the gospel
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He reveals his wrath (18)
He reveals his glory (19,20)
Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
The wrath of God? Two views
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C.H.Dodd: God’s wrath is “wholly
impersonal [and is] the inevitable process
of sin working itself out in history.”
- realized eschatology
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John Stott: “God’s deeply personal
abhorrence of evil.”
- annihilationism
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Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
Against what is God’s wrath
directed?
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Godlessness (asebeia…..against God)
Wickedness (adikia… against men)
Specifically, against those who suppress
the truth (v18) of the knowledge of God
(19,20). (Romans Applies to us Today!!!)
GENERAL / Natural REVELATION.
- “so that they are without excuse” v. 20
Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
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…so that they are
without excuse…
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Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
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2Peter 3 (3) ... scoffers will come in the last days, walking
according to their own lusts, (4) and saying, "Where is the promise
of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue
as they were from the beginning of creation."
(5) For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the
heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the
water, (6) by which the world that then existed perished, being
flooded with water. (7) But the heavens and the earth which are
now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day
of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (8) But, beloved, do not
forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day. (9) The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is
longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that
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Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
Natural Revelation
2Pe 3:4 … "Where is the
promise of His coming?
For since the fathers fell
asleep, all things
continue as they were
from the beginning of
creation.“
2Pe 3:6 by which the
world that then existed
perished, being flooded
with water.
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Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
How is God’s wrath revealed?
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Not Judgement Day (1 Thess) or civil
punishment (Rom 14) but NOW
(fear of conscience, rage and desolation, depression/separation)
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(Heb 10:31 NKJV) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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Not by God intervening but by God NOT
intervening: “Gave them over.” v.24
Despite their knowledge (21,25,28), they
turned to idolatry…
(26-27) does this apply today?
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Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
Reference to Judgement Day…
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(1Th 5:3 NKJV) For when they say,
"Peace and safety!" then sudden
destruction comes upon them, as labor
pains upon a pregnant woman. And they
shall not escape.
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Does this apply today?
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Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
Reference to Civil Punishment
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Romans 14 deals with Christians judging
or punishing each other in the here and
now. – don’t reject what God has accepted
Also deals with our ability to interact
directly with God and conscience to work
out the way we are called to act in a way
so as to be pleasing to God (and men).
Warns against acting against a doubting
conscience.
Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
What is the consequence of their
rejection?
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Sexual impurity (24)
Shameful lusts (26)
Depraved minds (28)
Stage 1 vv21-24
Stage 2 vv25-27
Stage 3 vv28-32
Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
Summary v32
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(Rom 1:32 NIV) Although they know
God's righteous decree that those who do
such things deserve death, they not only
continue to do these very things but also
approve of those who practice them.
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Yes, this all applies today!
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Looking at Romans 1: 18-32
Summary v32
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1. They KNOW that these things deserve
death
2.They disregard their knowledge and
actively encourage others.
There is an antithesis between what
people know and what they do.
Looking at Romans 1: 18-32