Romans 1 24 32 24 Therefore God gave

Romans 1: 24 -32 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

Romans 1: 24 -32 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Romans 1: 24 -32 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 1: 24 -32 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Romans 1: 24 -32 28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 1: 24 -32 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,

Romans 1: 24 -32 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Romans 1: 24 -32 32 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.

Amazing Grace… That Saved a Wretch Like Me Romans 1: 18 -32

John Newton and Dan Spann

Paul describes the nature of man l A picture of “our condition” without God l A catalog of the sinfulness of man who does not acknowledge God l Man is not good. Man is evil. His nature is bent on sin and, given his prerogatives, he will inevitably end up in the pit of immorality.

Romans 1: 16 -18 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith. ” For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

The wrath of God has many sides l Eternal wrath l Eschatological wrath l Cataclysmic wrath l Consequential wrath l The wrath of abandonment

The wrath of God revealed by abandonment SOMETIMES GOD’S WRATH COMES BY WAY OF WHAT HE DOES. SOMETIMES GOD’S WRATH COMES BY WAY OF WHAT HE ALLOWS.

God gave them up…

WHY? l They knew God l They glorified Him not as God l They changed the truth of God l They rejected the knowledge of God l They worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator