God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Rom 1:19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
Rom 1:20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Rom 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Rom 1:25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
Rom 1:27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Rom 1:28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Rom 1:29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Rom 1:32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Thanks for hose verses- we are all guilty of sins, this is true, even guilty of committing sins that God condemns as abominations- however, the difference between a saved person and an unsaved person is that our sins have been defeated by Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, and al5hough we may commit abominations still, we don’t actually do so without being conscious of the fact (thanks to the promptings of the holy spirit convincing us that we have sinned) that they are sins, and need to be repented of.
The unsaved person however ignores the prompting of the holy spirit, and refuses to obey, and makes their abomination a major part of their life, and go to bed each night with no thought of their sins being sins.
It is also true that a saved person can fall so far away from fellowship with God that they continually ignore the prompting of the holy spirit, and thatnis a bad thing because there might come a time when God has given his last warning to repent, and he might turn them over to their sins- and the person is also susceptible to the consequences of their sin, ie drug addiction, alcoholism, loss of family, aids or other stds etc while still alive. Hey don’t lose their salvation, but they do suffer a loss of close communion with God, and must face the co sequences of their actions, and God might choose to end their life far sooner than if they had obeyed him.
The unsaved have to face 2 things, the consequences of their actions, and life in hell for eternity for refusing to listen to the promptings of the holy spirit and failure to accept christ.
Unless sinners are completely, soberly convinced of their utter damnation, what is there to be save from?