In Romans 1.24-32, the Bible tells how God shows wrath. List and explain five ways God reveals and executes His wrath upon man.

The wrath of God being executed on man only happens for one reason: if one rejects Him, He rejects them.
1. He gives them up to do as they will.
2. He gives them up to uncleanness.
3. He gives them up to vile, unnatural affections.
4. He gives them up to reprobate, depraved minds.
5. He assures them final judgement of death.

Out of perfect righteousness God demonstrates an amazingly perfect amount of patience and mercy even in His wrath as it falls on sinful unrepentant man. How it must anger and pain him to let any one of His creation fall away. But this is part of His wrath, to allow the falling away deeper into sin, and further away from Himself. God could simply take the life of the person away in an instant and send them to hell, but He waits and gives them even more time to hear or remember the truth and repent of their wicked ways.

Just one look into our world gives ample evidence that sin knows only the bounds that God sets. And even then we wonder how could a loving God allow such boundaries to exist. The wretched sin we see today has always existed, the only difference is the technology with which it gets carried out. Ecclesiastes even states, there is nothing new under the sun. When one is unrepentant and is basically anti-Christ or anti-God, God has basically said, ok, you had your chances. I told you many times and many ways what the effects of your sin would be, and that was only part of it. I am releasing you to your own devices. Before you reach the moment of death, you will have even more chances to repent and accept the truth. But if you don’t, you will suffer the ultimate punishment for rejecting Me and My plan for your life, hell.

For every sin there is an effect that most people don’t realize until they are going through that effect. It’s only then that they either repent or continue on and make things worse for themselves. These types of sinners are the ones that would be diagnosed with the latest disorder the world has come up with to excuse the sinful nature, Oppositional Defiance Disorder. They are the ones that one could imagine as a child standing by the hot stovetop with a stern look on their face looking at God as they hold their hand directly on the blazing burner. They are so lost in their depraved minds that they are willing to suffer the painful consequences of their actions for that short moment of fun that sin brings in the disobedience, even though they were more than adequately warned.

The book of Romans

So it has been a loooong time. Life has been quite busy. Anyone with kids knows that. :-)
I thought I would offer some things from the book of Romans that I have been studying in class. The next 20+ posts will be from my class. Romans, like every book of the Letter from God is simply a great book. Full of doctrine and simple truths. Obviously this is not exhaustive nor is it a commentary. Just some questions that we had to answer in our class on Romans. Enjoy the start of the thought......care to add to it?? :-)

By referring to Romans 1.19-20, can you tell how a person can be saved without ever hearing the Gospel? In other words, can man know beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is a God?

Most of the time people ask about this because they are fishing for something that would make God an unjust God as far as they are concerned. However, there are many Bible believing Christians that lack the maturity or the study to understand how a God could punish those who have yet to have a Bible in their language or ever hear of the name Jesus Christ. After all, they say, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God – Romans 10.17.

These verses in particular coincide with the way in which the millions of people who lived and died before the life and death of Jesus Christ, were saved. Salvation comes through faith. This is how those whom we label as Old Testament believers were considered saved. They were saved through their faith, not the law as many teach. The purpose of the law was to magnify or exemplify their faith and trust in Yahweh.

These verses clearly support the teaching that each person has within them an innate sense of God. Liberals and non-Christians call it conscience. We all have within us a desire to know our Creator. The creation longs to know the Creator. An every day life example of this is seen in children of any age who have been left orphans for whatever reason. They have a desire to know who their parents were or are, depending on the case. There are many adults that are spending some of their time searching for their biological parents. So it is with every human being. We know we are not alone and that knowledge is directly from God when he formed us in our mother’s womb.

What is ever so clear here is that God covered all the bases. He left man with no valid excuses. Knowing the sinful state of man would prevent the gospel of Christ from reaching billions of ears worldwide, there is the complexity and beauty of the creation which surrounds us every day. From that alone, we get the sense that someone made all this at some point and must be keeping it in order. Here is where the innate sense kicks in. We see the creation and automatically start thinking about how awesome and powerful this Creator must be, there must be some way to find out more about Him.

This is why even the peoples that have not a copy of the Scriptures are without excuse when they individually face the judgment seat of Christ.