GOD’S ANGER AGAINST SIN

Newsletter 252 July 17, 2011

Romans 1:18-27

King James Version (KJV)

SIN STIRS GOD TO ANGER

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; (Romans 5:9, Ephesians 5:6, Galatians 3:6, 2Thessalonians 2:6)

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. (Acts 14:17, Acts 17:24)

HIS ANGER IS REVEALED IN TWO WAYS.

1. Through natural events, unnaturally violent..
The flood.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, wars, famines
2. Through clear, immediate action
Adam and Eve, Able, The tower of Babel, the plagues of Egypt, Annanias and Saphira, Destruction of Sodom, Wall of Jericho.

HIS POWER IS CLEAR TO BE SEEN

His power holds everything, from every single atom to the universe from flying apart in self destruction. Common sense tells us that these things could not create themselves. The “Big Bang” is yet to come, but it will not be creative in nature. Mankind even struggles with how God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, can be one. Some things are taken on faith. If God says, this is fact, and this is what He expects of us, then we need no more.

We all need a savior, because we have all sinned and fallen short. It is just much a sin to know to go good and not do it, as it is to know not to do something and to do it anyway.

We have a loving God who chose to send His own Son as a sacrifice that would make salvation a possibility. (John 3:16)
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20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (Mark 10:6, Job 12:7-9, Psalm 19:1-6, Jeremiah 5:2)

It is the fool who has said in his heart, “There is no God.” (Psalm 14:1) There is no excuse for even him, for the proof is all about us in what He has made and done.

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (2 Kings 17:15, Jeremiah 2:5, Ephesians 4:17)

One does not have to look very far to find those who flaunt their graduate degrees, but deny God, who made all they see and use in a single week of time. Time is nothing to God. He spoke these things into being. Man struggles to extinguish a simple grass fire; what can he do when the earth itself is burning? .

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (Jeremiah 10:14, 1 Corinthians 1:20)

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (Deuteronomy 4:16-18, Psalm 106:20, Jeremiah 2:11, Acts 17:29)

The priests of Egypt made a god of almost every creeping animal, thus it was that when God gave the law to Moses, that was forbidden. They were instructed to hate these pagan gods so much that they were to utterly destroy all the people, and even the animals of the promised land. Those people killed their own children as sacrifices to those gods and glorified prostitution in worship to them.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (Romans 1:26, Romans 1:28, Ephesians 4:19, Ephesians 2:3)

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. (Isaiah 44:20, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 13:25, Jeremiah 16:19, Romans 9:5, 2 Corinthians 11:31)

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (Romans 1:24, 1 Thessalonians 4:5)

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. (Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, 1 Corinthians 6:9)

As we look about us, it is clear that the world is making a complete cycle back to the sins of Scripture. Can we be surprised at the reaction of the anger of God? This is the same God who told Noah to build an ark and by it saved one family out of the millions living on earth at the time. There is one thing that God does hate, that is sin.

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READ THE BIBLE THROUGH AGAIN IN 2011
JULY

17th. Sunday – 2 Kings 23, Romans 6, Psalm 86:1-10
18th. Monday – 2 Kings 24, 25, Romans 7, Psalm 86:11-17
19th. Tuesday – Amos 1, 2, Romans 8:1-17, Proverbs 17:13-20
20th. Wednesday - Amos 3, 4, Romans 8:18-39, Psalm 87
21st. Thursday - Amos 5, 6, Romans 9:1-19, Psalm 88:1-9
22nd. Friday – Amos 7, 8, 9, Romans 9:20-33, Psalm 88:10-18
23rd. Saturday - Hosea 1, 2, Romans 10, Proverbs 17:21-28

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THIS WEEK'S SCRIPTURE

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, bur after the Spirit.“

Romans 8:1

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