3. PART ONE (DOCTRINAL) GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS
REVEALED IN THE GOSPEL (1:18-8:39)
I. THE CONDEMNATION OF PAGAN HUMANITY (1:18-32)
A. REASONS for Condemnation (1:18-23)
1) For Suppressing God’s Truth (18)
“wrath” ( )
“ungodliness”
2) For Ignoring God’s Revelation (1:19-20)
3) For Perverting God’s Glory (1:21-23)
B. RESULTS of Condemnation (1:24-32)
1) Abandoned to Fornication (1:24-25)
2) Abandoned to Sexual Perversion (1:26-27)
3) Abandoned to Depraved Lifestyle (1:28-32)
4. Characteristics of a dispensation
•There is a different governing relationship between God and the world
• There is a different level of responsibility for mankind in each differing relationship
•There is generally a test, a failure, and a judgment for each of the dispensations.
Below is a chart of the basically received dispensations in history:
Name Scripture Responsibilities Judgment(s)
Innocency Genesis 1:3-3:6 Keep Garden Curses, and physical and
Do not eat one fruit spiritual death
Fill, subdue the earth
Fellowship with God
Conscience Genesis 3:7-8:14 Do Good Flood
Civil Government Genesis 8:15-11:9 Fill earth Forced scattering by
Capital Punishment confusion of languages at
Babel
Patriarchal Rule Genesis 11:10- Stay in Promised Land Egyptian Bondage and
Exodus 18:27 Believe and obey God wilderness wanderings
Mosaic Law Exodus 19:1 – Keep the Law Captivities
John 14:30 Walk with God Or
Cross
Church Age Acts 2:1 – Believe on Christ Death/Loss of Reward
(age of grace) Revelation 19:21 Walk with Christ (poss) Tribulation*
Millennium Revelation 20:1-15 Believe and obey Christ and Death
His literal earthly Great White Throne
government Judgment
