September 2, 2026 • 25 mins
The scariest kind of judgment is the kind you don’t see coming, because life looks fine on the surface. We open Romans 1:18 and ask the question people have asked for centuries: why do the wicked prosper, and why does God seem quiet when evil is loud? Dr. Timothy Mann answers with a sober reminder that God’s wrath can be delayed without being denied, and that a postponed reckoning can still be a righteous reckoning.
We also dig into what Paul actually means when he says “the wrath of God is revealed from heaven.” That phrase isn’t abstract or poetic. We talk through two ways God reveals wrath: through the moral order of the world, where sin carries built-in consequences, and through God’s direct personal intervention, where the Lord acts according to his will in real history. Along the way, we challenge the idea that God is a distant force and confront the comforting slogan that “God is not angry” when Scripture says otherwise.
Then the message gets personal. God’s wrath is revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness, which means none of us escapes by comparison, tradition, or good deeds. We unpack ungodliness as a failed relationship with God that refuses reverence and true worship, and unrighteousness as the outward life that follows. We also face the hard diagnosis of Romans 1: people suppress the truth by holding tightly to sin, even though God has made knowledge of himself evident within them.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to Foundations of Truth, the
(00:02):
biblical teaching ministry ofDr.
Timothy Mann.
Our mission is to help you buildyour life on the unshakable
foundation of God's Word, rootedin Scripture, anchored in the
grace of the gospel of JesusChrist.
Each week, Dr.
Mann opens the Bible to bringclarity, conviction, and
encouragement for everyday life.
Today on Foundations of Truth,we continue our series From
(00:25):
Guilty to Glory, a journeythrough the Book of Romans.
Today's message is part two ofthe Wrath of God.
Here now is Dr.
Timothy Mann.
SPEAKER_02 (00:35):
The British commentator Jeffrey Wilson
wrote, God is no idle spectatorof world events.
He is dynamically involved inhuman affairs.
The conviction of sin isconstantly punctuated by divine
judgment.
The historian J.
A.
Freud wrote, One lesson and onlyone.
(00:57):
History may be said to repeatwith distinctness that the world
is built somehow on moralfoundations.
That in the long run it is wellwith the good.
In the long run, it is ill withthe wicked.
Of course, the question is, andit's the question that's often
been asked, we wonder then whyso many wicked people prosper,
(01:22):
seemingly doing evil without anysort of punishment.
But listen, if God's wrath isdelayed, his bowl of wrath is
all the while filling up.
Increasing judgment forincreased sin.
And they're only storing upwrath for the coming day of
(01:43):
wrath.
Donald Gray Barnhouse, Dr.
Barnhouse recounts, the greatpreacher of a different era,
recounts the story of a group ofgodly farmers in a Midwest
community being irritated oneSunday morning by a neighbor's
plowing his field across fromthe church.
(02:05):
You can kind of hear that thismorning, right?
The church windows are open, youhear the tractor going.
Noise from his tractorinterrupted the worship service.
And as it turned out, the manhad purposely chosen to plow
that particular field on Sundaymorning in order to make a
point.
He wrote a letter to the editorof a local paper, asserting that
(02:28):
although he did not respect theLord nor honor the Lord's day,
he had the highest yield peracre of any farm in the county.
He asked the editor howChristians could explain that.
With considerable insight andwisdom, I must say, the editor
printed the letter and followedit with a simple comment God
(02:49):
does not settle all his accountsin the month of October.
And that's true.
The timing of God's wrath ismentioned here.
Not only that, we see in verse18 the source of God's wrath.
It says, For the wrath of God isrevealed what?
(03:10):
Where?
From heaven.
From heaven.
God's wrath is rendered fromheaven.
Do not have any doubt aboutthis.
Despite Satan's present power asprince of the air and of this
world, the earth is ultimatelydominated by heaven.
The earth is ultimatelydominated by the throne of God,
(03:34):
from which his wrath isconstantly and dynamically
manifested in the world of men.
Paul frequently speaks about thewrath.
The wrath, indicating a specifictime or a type of wrath.
The definite article, the isbefore wrath in many places.
(03:57):
For example, in Romans 3:5, whoinflicts the wrath?
In chapter 5, he speaks of ourbeing saved from the wrath of
God through Christ.
In chapter 12, he talks aboutour leaving room for the wrath.
In chapter 13, he talks aboutbelievers being in subjection to
(04:17):
God, not only because of thewrath, but also for conscience'
sake.
In his letter to Thessalonica,he assures believers that Jesus
delivers them from the wrath tocome.
Heaven reveals God's wrath anddoes it primarily two ways.
Two ways.
(04:37):
One is through his moral order,and the other is through his
personal intervention.
When God made the world, and Godmade the world, by the way, when
God made the world, he built incertain moral as well as
physical laws that have governedits operation since.
(04:58):
For example, just as you wouldgo out here and climb up on top
of this building and jump off,you're gonna fall to the ground
and it's gonna hurt.
Just in the same way when aperson falls into God's judgment
when you deviate from God'smoral law.
It's just the exact way.
That is built-in wrath.
(05:21):
When a person sins, there is abuilt-in consequence that
inevitably works.
And in this sense, God is notspecifically intervening, but is
letting the law of moral causeand effect work.
The second way, though, in whichGod reveals his wrath is through
(05:44):
his direct and personalintervention.
He is not, listen, he is notsome impersonal cosmic force
that set the universe in motionto run on its own course.
God's wrath is executed exactlyaccording to his divine will.
(06:04):
And whether it is the cause andeffect wrath or the personal
fury of God being meted out,understand the wrath according
to God's word originates inheaven.
It's quality, its time, itsorigin.
But I want you to notice, verse18, the extent and the nature of
(06:31):
God's wrath.
For the wrath of God is revealedfrom heaven against all the
ungodliness and unrighteousnessof men.
This fourth and fifth featureconcerns the extent and nature
of God's wrath.
God's wrath is universal.
(06:54):
Being discharged against all whodeserve it.
And no matter what others maysay, no matter what others may
teach or preach, no matter whata preacher says, no amount of
goodwill, no amount of giving tothe poor, no amount of
helpfulness to other people,even service to God can exclude
a person from all from the allthat Paul mentions here.
(07:19):
As he explains later, moreexplicitly in Romans chapter 3,
both Jews and Gentiles are allunder sin.
Chapter 3, verse 9.
All have sinned and fall shortof the glory of God, verse 23.
Now listen, I know, I get it.
Obviously, obviously, somepeople are morally better than
(07:41):
others in how they live and whatthey do.
But even the most moral andupright person falls far short
of God's standard of perfectrighteousness.
No one escapes.
Not even my granny.
(08:01):
No one escapes.
Your relative goodness, man'srelative goodness compared to
God's perfect standard, thatcould be illustrated by a
hypothetical attempt to jumpfrom the mainland at Granada
Bridge to somehow to thebeachside.
(08:22):
I mean, a few of you, I mean,let's be honest, could not
manage to jump at all.
Many maybe could jump a fewfeet.
There might be a rare few amongus, I don't know who you are,
but there might be a rare fewamong us, maybe, who could jump
20 or 25 feet.
But the longest conceivablejump, however, would only cover
(08:46):
the smallest of the fraction ofthe distance required to get
across the Halifax.
Everybody in this room wouldstill get wet.
All of us.
The most moral person has nochance of achieving God's
righteousness in his own power,just as the world record holder
in long jump, Mike Powell, hasno chance of making that jump
(09:10):
across the Halifax River.
Everybody falls short.
Everyone.
SPEAKER_00 (10:01):
Thank you for praying, for giving, for
listening, and standing with us.
If you'd like to give a gift,you can go online to
foundationsoftruth.net.
That's foundationsoftruth.net.
Here now is Dr.
Timothy Mann.
SPEAKER_02 (10:15):
So the second emphasis here of God's wrath is
on the nature of God's wrath.
Second part of this phrase, onthe nature.
It's not like the wrath of amadman who indiscriminately
strikes out, not caring who'sinjured or killed.
Nor is it the sin-tainted angerof a person who's even seeking
(10:38):
to avenge a wrong done to him orher.
God's wrath is reserved for andjustly directed at sin.
Now, these words, ungodlinessand unrighteousness, they're
synonyms.
They're closely related.
But the first word, ungodliness,stressing a faulty personal
(11:03):
relationship to God.
God is angered because sinfulmen and women are his enemies.
They have made themselves hisenemies.
And therefore they are childrenof wrath.
(11:24):
Ungodliness, this first word,ungodliness refers to the lack
of reverence for, or the lack ofdevotion to, or the lack of
worship of the true God, whichis a failure that inevitably
leads to some form of falseworship.
Although the details and thecircumstances are not revealed,
(11:46):
Jude, in his little letter,right before the book of
Revelation, he reports thatEnoch, the righteous
seventh-generation descendant ofAdam, prophesied about God's
coming.
SPEAKER_01 (12:03):
And I quote Jude, as he quoted Enoch.
SPEAKER_02 (12:08):
His coming was to execute judgment upon all, and
to convict all the ungodly ofall their ungodly deeds, which
they have done in an ungodlyway, and of all the harsh things
which ungodly sinners havespoken against him.
You think he's trying to make apoint?
Four times, four times he usesthe term ungodly to describe the
(12:33):
focus of God's wrath againstsinful mankind.
Ungodliness.
Then there's also the wordunrighteousness, and that
encompasses the idea ofungodliness, but it focuses on
its result.
See, let me tell you whathappens.
Sin first attacks God's majesty,and then it attacks his law.
(12:58):
People do not act righteouslybecause they're not rightly
related to God, who is the onlymeasure of righteousness, who is
the only source ofrighteousness.
And ungodliness inevitably leadsto unrighteousness.
(13:22):
And because people's relation toGod is wrong, their relation to
their fellow man is wrong.
Hey, people treat other peoplethe way they do because they
treat God the way they do.
That's the issue.
Man's enmity or man's hatredwith his fellow man originates
(13:44):
with his being at enmity withGod.
Let's just settle the issuehere.
And it's this sin is the onlything God hates.
God does not hate poor people orrich people.
He does not hate dumb people orsmart people.
(14:07):
He does not hate highly talentedpeople or completely untalented
people.
He only hates the sin that thosepeople and all others naturally
practice, and sin inevitablybrings his wrath.
(14:29):
He is angry with sin.
I didn't mention this in theearly service, but I'm going to
mention it now.
As you drive to Orlando,somewhere along Longwood, after
Longwood, you'll notice abillboard on the left that says,
God is not angry.
Anybody seen that?
A few people.
I hear a little bit of amurmuring.
That's a lie.
SPEAKER_01 (14:51):
That's a lie.
That's a church's billboard, bythe way.
That's a twisted take on whatscripture teaches.
God is angry.
(15:12):
And we see in verse 18 the causeof his wrath.
SPEAKER_02 (15:18):
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousnessof men who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness.
But how is it?
We ask, and isn't this alwaysthe question that comes up?
How is it that God can holdeveryone responsible for moral
and spiritual failure and be soangry when some people have so
(15:43):
much less opportunity thanothers for hearing the gospel
and coming to know God?
You ever been asked thatquestion?
Maybe you thought that question.
The answer is this the answer isthat because of your sinful
disposition, because of everyperson's sinful disposition,
(16:04):
because of mine, because of hissinful disposition, every person
is naturally inclined to followsin and resist God.
This phrase literally could berendered.
Who are constantly attempting tosuppress the truth by
steadfastly holding to theirsin.
(16:28):
Unrighteousness is so much apart of our nature.
It is so much a part of man'snature that every person has a
built-in, natural, compellingdesire to suppress and oppose
God's truth.
Every person.
(16:49):
And as Paul declares in the nextverse, I said I'm going to teach
on it really as much, but I haveto read verse 19 because it
speaks to this question.
Verse 19 says, Because what maybe known of God is manifest in
them, for God has shown it tothem.
(17:12):
The New American Standardrenders it this way: that which
is known about God is evidentwithin them.
For God made it evident to them.
His point, the Holy Spirit'spoint here is that all people,
(17:32):
regardless of their relativeopportunities to know God's word
and hear his gospel, all peoplehave internal, God-given
evidence of his existence andhis nature.
But the sad truth is they're allalso universally inclined to
resist that evidence and evenassault that evidence.
(18:09):
Jeremiah 29, verse 13 says, Youwill seek me and find me when
you search for me with all yourheart.
We'll talk more about thatlater.
But the issue at hand, the factof the matter is, people are not
naturally inclined to seek God.
(18:32):
That truth, if you doubt it,hey, that truth was proved
conclusively in the earthlyministry of Christ.
I mean, my word, even when faceto face with God incarnate, the
light of the world, the Biblesays, John 3, men love darkness
rather than light, for theirdeeds were evil.
(18:53):
For everyone who does evil hatesthe light and does not come to
the light, lest his deeds beexposed.
John 3, verse 19 through 20.
As David had proclaimed hundredsof years earlier in Psalm 14,
verse 1, most of us know thefirst part of that verse.
(19:15):
Psalm 14, verse 1 says, The foolhas said in his heart, There is
no God.
But the rest of that verse says,They are corrupt and they have
committed abominable deeds.
There is no one who does good.
(19:36):
Listen, I suggest to you thissinful people oppose the idea of
a holy God because they innatelyrealize that such a God would
hold them accountable for thesins that they love and do not
want to relinquish.
Every person.
(20:16):
You will.
(22:18):
Worship doesn't have to beboring to be reverent, it
doesn't have to be highfalutinto be reverent.
That's reverence is from yourheart.
Genuine worship of God ischaracterized by the awe of his
holiness.
Genuine worship of God ischaracterized by godly fear
(22:39):
because you know where you couldhave been apart from his mercy.
You ought to be afraid.
And it ought to be godly fearand reverence and worship.
I want to ask you, are youtrusting our awesome God?
(23:00):
Do you see him for who he is?
Don't fool around with this.
SPEAKER_01 (23:07):
This is the truth of God's word.
SPEAKER_02 (23:11):
Our God is an awesome God.
The writer of Hebrews says, Itis a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God.
If our God is a consuming fire,do not dismiss that reality.
(23:31):
Have you trusted Jesus, what hedid on the cross, and taking the
penalty of sin, absorbing thewrath of God, his resurrection
from the dead to give you powerover sin?
And thank God someday He's goingto give us the freedom from the
presence of sin itself.
I can't wait for that day.
(23:53):
Are you trusting our awesomeGod?
Or are you under his wrath?
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Welcome to Foundations of Truth, the
(00:02):
biblical teaching ministry ofDr.
Timothy Mann.
Our mission is to help you buildyour life on the unshakable
foundation of God's Word, rootedin Scripture, anchored in the
grace of the gospel of JesusChrist.
Each week, Dr.
Mann opens the Bible to bringclarity, conviction, and
encouragement for everyday life.
Today on Foundations of Truth,we continue our series From
(00:25):
Guilty to Glory, a journeythrough the Book of Romans.
Today's message is part two ofthe Wrath of God.
Here now is Dr.
Timothy Mann.
SPEAKER_02 (00:35):
The British commentator Jeffrey Wilson
wrote, God is no idle spectatorof world events.
He is dynamically involved inhuman affairs.
The conviction of sin isconstantly punctuated by divine
judgment.
The historian J.
A.
Freud wrote, One lesson and onlyone.
(00:57):
History may be said to repeatwith distinctness that the world
is built somehow on moralfoundations.
That in the long run it is wellwith the good.
In the long run, it is ill withthe wicked.
Of course, the question is, andit's the question that's often
been asked, we wonder then whyso many wicked people prosper,
(01:22):
seemingly doing evil without anysort of punishment.
But listen, if God's wrath isdelayed, his bowl of wrath is
all the while filling up.
Increasing judgment forincreased sin.
And they're only storing upwrath for the coming day of
(01:43):
wrath.
Donald Gray Barnhouse, Dr.
Barnhouse recounts, the greatpreacher of a different era,
recounts the story of a group ofgodly farmers in a Midwest
community being irritated oneSunday morning by a neighbor's
plowing his field across fromthe church.
(02:05):
You can kind of hear that thismorning, right?
The church windows are open, youhear the tractor going.
Noise from his tractorinterrupted the worship service.
And as it turned out, the manhad purposely chosen to plow
that particular field on Sundaymorning in order to make a
point.
He wrote a letter to the editorof a local paper, asserting that
(02:28):
although he did not respect theLord nor honor the Lord's day,
he had the highest yield peracre of any farm in the county.
He asked the editor howChristians could explain that.
With considerable insight andwisdom, I must say, the editor
printed the letter and followedit with a simple comment God
(02:49):
does not settle all his accountsin the month of October.
And that's true.
The timing of God's wrath ismentioned here.
Not only that, we see in verse18 the source of God's wrath.
It says, For the wrath of God isrevealed what?
(03:10):
Where?
From heaven.
From heaven.
God's wrath is rendered fromheaven.
Do not have any doubt aboutthis.
Despite Satan's present power asprince of the air and of this
world, the earth is ultimatelydominated by heaven.
The earth is ultimatelydominated by the throne of God,
(03:34):
from which his wrath isconstantly and dynamically
manifested in the world of men.
Paul frequently speaks about thewrath.
The wrath, indicating a specifictime or a type of wrath.
The definite article, the isbefore wrath in many places.
(03:57):
For example, in Romans 3:5, whoinflicts the wrath?
In chapter 5, he speaks of ourbeing saved from the wrath of
God through Christ.
In chapter 12, he talks aboutour leaving room for the wrath.
In chapter 13, he talks aboutbelievers being in subjection to
(04:17):
God, not only because of thewrath, but also for conscience'
sake.
In his letter to Thessalonica,he assures believers that Jesus
delivers them from the wrath tocome.
Heaven reveals God's wrath anddoes it primarily two ways.
Two ways.
(04:37):
One is through his moral order,and the other is through his
personal intervention.
When God made the world, and Godmade the world, by the way, when
God made the world, he built incertain moral as well as
physical laws that have governedits operation since.
(04:58):
For example, just as you wouldgo out here and climb up on top
of this building and jump off,you're gonna fall to the ground
and it's gonna hurt.
Just in the same way when aperson falls into God's judgment
when you deviate from God'smoral law.
It's just the exact way.
That is built-in wrath.
(05:21):
When a person sins, there is abuilt-in consequence that
inevitably works.
And in this sense, God is notspecifically intervening, but is
letting the law of moral causeand effect work.
The second way, though, in whichGod reveals his wrath is through
(05:44):
his direct and personalintervention.
He is not, listen, he is notsome impersonal cosmic force
that set the universe in motionto run on its own course.
God's wrath is executed exactlyaccording to his divine will.
(06:04):
And whether it is the cause andeffect wrath or the personal
fury of God being meted out,understand the wrath according
to God's word originates inheaven.
It's quality, its time, itsorigin.
But I want you to notice, verse18, the extent and the nature of
(06:31):
God's wrath.
For the wrath of God is revealedfrom heaven against all the
ungodliness and unrighteousnessof men.
This fourth and fifth featureconcerns the extent and nature
of God's wrath.
God's wrath is universal.
(06:54):
Being discharged against all whodeserve it.
And no matter what others maysay, no matter what others may
teach or preach, no matter whata preacher says, no amount of
goodwill, no amount of giving tothe poor, no amount of
helpfulness to other people,even service to God can exclude
a person from all from the allthat Paul mentions here.
(07:19):
As he explains later, moreexplicitly in Romans chapter 3,
both Jews and Gentiles are allunder sin.
Chapter 3, verse 9.
All have sinned and fall shortof the glory of God, verse 23.
Now listen, I know, I get it.
Obviously, obviously, somepeople are morally better than
(07:41):
others in how they live and whatthey do.
But even the most moral andupright person falls far short
of God's standard of perfectrighteousness.
No one escapes.
Not even my granny.
(08:01):
No one escapes.
Your relative goodness, man'srelative goodness compared to
God's perfect standard, thatcould be illustrated by a
hypothetical attempt to jumpfrom the mainland at Granada
Bridge to somehow to thebeachside.
(08:22):
I mean, a few of you, I mean,let's be honest, could not
manage to jump at all.
Many maybe could jump a fewfeet.
There might be a rare few amongus, I don't know who you are,
but there might be a rare fewamong us, maybe, who could jump
20 or 25 feet.
But the longest conceivablejump, however, would only cover
(08:46):
the smallest of the fraction ofthe distance required to get
across the Halifax.
Everybody in this room wouldstill get wet.
All of us.
The most moral person has nochance of achieving God's
righteousness in his own power,just as the world record holder
in long jump, Mike Powell, hasno chance of making that jump
(09:10):
across the Halifax River.
Everybody falls short.
Everyone.
SPEAKER_00 (10:01):
Thank you for praying, for giving, for
listening, and standing with us.
If you'd like to give a gift,you can go online to
foundationsoftruth.net.
That's foundationsoftruth.net.
Here now is Dr.
Timothy Mann.
SPEAKER_02 (10:15):
So the second emphasis here of God's wrath is
on the nature of God's wrath.
Second part of this phrase, onthe nature.
It's not like the wrath of amadman who indiscriminately
strikes out, not caring who'sinjured or killed.
Nor is it the sin-tainted angerof a person who's even seeking
(10:38):
to avenge a wrong done to him orher.
God's wrath is reserved for andjustly directed at sin.
Now, these words, ungodlinessand unrighteousness, they're
synonyms.
They're closely related.
But the first word, ungodliness,stressing a faulty personal
(11:03):
relationship to God.
God is angered because sinfulmen and women are his enemies.
They have made themselves hisenemies.
And therefore they are childrenof wrath.
(11:24):
Ungodliness, this first word,ungodliness refers to the lack
of reverence for, or the lack ofdevotion to, or the lack of
worship of the true God, whichis a failure that inevitably
leads to some form of falseworship.
Although the details and thecircumstances are not revealed,
(11:46):
Jude, in his little letter,right before the book of
Revelation, he reports thatEnoch, the righteous
seventh-generation descendant ofAdam, prophesied about God's
coming.
SPEAKER_01 (12:03):
And I quote Jude, as he quoted Enoch.
SPEAKER_02 (12:08):
His coming was to execute judgment upon all, and
to convict all the ungodly ofall their ungodly deeds, which
they have done in an ungodlyway, and of all the harsh things
which ungodly sinners havespoken against him.
You think he's trying to make apoint?
Four times, four times he usesthe term ungodly to describe the
(12:33):
focus of God's wrath againstsinful mankind.
Ungodliness.
Then there's also the wordunrighteousness, and that
encompasses the idea ofungodliness, but it focuses on
its result.
See, let me tell you whathappens.
Sin first attacks God's majesty,and then it attacks his law.
(12:58):
People do not act righteouslybecause they're not rightly
related to God, who is the onlymeasure of righteousness, who is
the only source ofrighteousness.
And ungodliness inevitably leadsto unrighteousness.
(13:22):
And because people's relation toGod is wrong, their relation to
their fellow man is wrong.
Hey, people treat other peoplethe way they do because they
treat God the way they do.
That's the issue.
Man's enmity or man's hatredwith his fellow man originates
(13:44):
with his being at enmity withGod.
Let's just settle the issuehere.
And it's this sin is the onlything God hates.
God does not hate poor people orrich people.
He does not hate dumb people orsmart people.
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He does not hate highly talentedpeople or completely untalented
people.
He only hates the sin that thosepeople and all others naturally
practice, and sin inevitablybrings his wrath.
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He is angry with sin.
I didn't mention this in theearly service, but I'm going to
mention it now.
As you drive to Orlando,somewhere along Longwood, after
Longwood, you'll notice abillboard on the left that says,
God is not angry.
Anybody seen that?
A few people.
I hear a little bit of amurmuring.
That's a lie.
SPEAKER_01 (14:51):
That's a lie.
That's a church's billboard, bythe way.
That's a twisted take on whatscripture teaches.
God is angry.
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And we see in verse 18 the causeof his wrath.
SPEAKER_02 (15:18):
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousnessof men who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness.
But how is it?
We ask, and isn't this alwaysthe question that comes up?
How is it that God can holdeveryone responsible for moral
and spiritual failure and be soangry when some people have so
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much less opportunity thanothers for hearing the gospel
and coming to know God?
You ever been asked thatquestion?
Maybe you thought that question.
The answer is this the answer isthat because of your sinful
disposition, because of everyperson's sinful disposition,
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because of mine, because of hissinful disposition, every person
is naturally inclined to followsin and resist God.
This phrase literally could berendered.
Who are constantly attempting tosuppress the truth by
steadfastly holding to theirsin.
(16:28):
Unrighteousness is so much apart of our nature.
It is so much a part of man'snature that every person has a
built-in, natural, compellingdesire to suppress and oppose
God's truth.
Every person.
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And as Paul declares in the nextverse, I said I'm going to teach
on it really as much, but I haveto read verse 19 because it
speaks to this question.
Verse 19 says, Because what maybe known of God is manifest in
them, for God has shown it tothem.
(17:12):
The New American Standardrenders it this way: that which
is known about God is evidentwithin them.
For God made it evident to them.
His point, the Holy Spirit'spoint here is that all people,
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regardless of their relativeopportunities to know God's word
and hear his gospel, all peoplehave internal, God-given
evidence of his existence andhis nature.
But the sad truth is they're allalso universally inclined to
resist that evidence and evenassault that evidence.
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Jeremiah 29, verse 13 says, Youwill seek me and find me when
you search for me with all yourheart.
We'll talk more about thatlater.
But the issue at hand, the factof the matter is, people are not
naturally inclined to seek God.
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That truth, if you doubt it,hey, that truth was proved
conclusively in the earthlyministry of Christ.
I mean, my word, even when faceto face with God incarnate, the
light of the world, the Biblesays, John 3, men love darkness
rather than light, for theirdeeds were evil.
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For everyone who does evil hatesthe light and does not come to
the light, lest his deeds beexposed.
John 3, verse 19 through 20.
As David had proclaimed hundredsof years earlier in Psalm 14,
verse 1, most of us know thefirst part of that verse.
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Psalm 14, verse 1 says, The foolhas said in his heart, There is
no God.
But the rest of that verse says,They are corrupt and they have
committed abominable deeds.
There is no one who does good.
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Listen, I suggest to you thissinful people oppose the idea of
a holy God because they innatelyrealize that such a God would
hold them accountable for thesins that they love and do not
want to relinquish.
Every person.
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You will.
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Worship doesn't have to beboring to be reverent, it
doesn't have to be highfalutinto be reverent.
That's reverence is from yourheart.
Genuine worship of God ischaracterized by the awe of his
holiness.
Genuine worship of God ischaracterized by godly fear
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because you know where you couldhave been apart from his mercy.
You ought to be afraid.
And it ought to be godly fearand reverence and worship.
I want to ask you, are youtrusting our awesome God?
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Do you see him for who he is?
Don't fool around with this.
SPEAKER_01 (23:07):
This is the truth of God's word.
SPEAKER_02 (23:11):
Our God is an awesome God.
The writer of Hebrews says, Itis a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God.
If our God is a consuming fire,do not dismiss that reality.
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Have you trusted Jesus, what hedid on the cross, and taking the
penalty of sin, absorbing thewrath of God, his resurrection
from the dead to give you powerover sin?
And thank God someday He's goingto give us the freedom from the
presence of sin itself.
I can't wait for that day.
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Are you trusting our awesomeGod?
Or are you under his wrath?
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of Truth, the biblical teachingministry of Dr.
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