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Sermon: Romans 1:18-23

Roms 1:18-23


Wrath Revealed


We are continuing to unpack from Paul's letter to the
Romans, what the Christian gospel is about.
It is a gospel we have discovered that Paul tirelessly
preaches because it proclaims to all - those in the
ancient C1 world and us today God's great rescue
mission that he has undertaken in Jesus. His salvation;
his deliverance that we desperately need to embrace.


However, immediately we hear about
salvation/deliverance/a rescue mission we naturally ask
the question: rescue from whom? Saved from what?
From which forces or powers or persons do we require
deliverance?


Probably most of us, if we think we need rescued at all,
think we need rescued from ourselves and from the evil
that seems to frustrate our every effort to make a better
world. Man's greatest enemy is himself or so the
looming war in Iraq implies.


And there is a great deal of truth in this. As we probe
further into Romans we will discover that the evil in
man is unquestionably a force from which we need
delivered and from which only God through Jesus can
ultimately free us; but when we examine these verses
we read this morning we make the startling discovery
that the first person we need to be saved from is God
himself.


Notice the words of vv16-18


'I am not ashamed of.... for the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven...'


The clear and present danger we face is God himself.
God's wrath. God's anger. God is says the Bible -
outraged. He is angry with human beings.

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