Romans 1:16-32
Big Idea: The Choice Is Yours: Believe In God And Receive Salvation And The Righteousness Of God Or Reject God And Experience The Wrath Of God
God’s Wrath:
1) The reason for God’s wrath: our rejection of God (v. 18-23)
“both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written, ’None is righteous, no, not one.’”
- Romans 3:9b-10
“For the wages of sin is death …”
- Romans 6:23a
3 ways the ungodly and unrighteous reject God:
1) Suppress the truth about God (v. 18-20)
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork.”
- Psalm 19:1
2) Refuse to honor and thank God (v. 21)
3) Foolishly and futilely exchange their worship of God (v. 22-23)
3 foolish and wrath-inducing worship exchanges:
1) Am I exchanging worshipping the Creator for the created? (v. 23; 25b)
2) Am I exchanging God’s absolute truth for the world’s lies? (v. 25)
3) Am I exchanging natural relations for unnatural relations? (v. 26-27)
2) The revelation of God’s wrath: God giving man over (v. 24-32)
God gives the ungodly and unrighteous up:
1) To the impure lusts of their hearts (v. 24-25)
2) To their dishonorable passions (v. 26-27)
3) To a debased mind to do things that ought not to be done (v. 28-32)
3) Our rescue from God’s wrath: the gospel of God (v. 16-17)
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
- Romans 6:23
“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
– 1 Corinthians 6:9-11