When people respond positively to revelation given, more is received.

1. Romans 1:18-19
The wrath of God is being revealed from
heaven against all the godlessness and
wickedness of men who suppress the truth
by their wickedness, since what may be
known about God is plain to them, because
God has made it plain to them.
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2. Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s
invisible qualities—His eternal power and
divine nature—have been clearly seen,
being understood from what has been
made, so that men are without excuse.
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3. Romans 1:21-23
For although they knew God, they neither
glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to
Him, but their thinking became futile and
their foolish hearts were darkened.
Although they claimed to be wise, they
became fools and exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images made to look
like mortal man and birds and animals and
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4. Romans 1:24-25
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful
desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for
the degrading of their bodies with one
another. They exchanged the truth of God
for a lie, and worshiped and served created
things rather than the Creator—Who is
forever praised. Amen.
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5. Romans 1:26
Because of this, God gave them over to
shameful lusts. Even their women
exchanged natural relations for unnatural
ones.
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6. Romans 1:27
In the same way men also abandoned
natural relations with women and were
inflamed with lust for one another. Men
committed indecent acts with other men,
and received in themselves the due penalty
for their perversion.
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7. Romans 1:28-29
Furthermore, since they did not think it
worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God,
He gave them over to a depraved mind, to
do what ought not to be done. They have
become filled with every kind of
wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They
are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and
malice. They are gossips,
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8. Romans 1:30-31
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant
and boastful; they invent ways of doing
evil; they disobey their parents; they are
senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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9. Romans 1:32
Although they know God’s righteous decree
that those who do such things deserve
death, they not only continue to do these
very things but also approve of those who
practice them.
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10. Theologians can be guilty
of espousing complex
THEORIES while missing
simple TRUTHS.
No one who has NEVER heard of Jesus is
condemned for rejecting JESUS, though that
doesn’t mean God is unjust in judging them.
No one is ever UNDESERVABLY judged…

11. God’s wrath is
revealed against
GODLESSNESS
and WICKEDNESS
God’s creation provides SUFFICIENT
evidence to leave us without excuse, even if
it is INSUFFICIENT to save.

12. We have the mental
capacity to recognize that
behind a complex creation
is a CREATOR
‘Their ignorance of God was not due to a
lack of OPPORTUNITY to know him, but to
their DELIBERATE refusal’ (Leon Morris)

13. Those who haven’t heard
are not judged for rejecting
JESUS, but rejecting the
FATHER.
When people respond positively to
revelation GIVEN, MORE is received.
‘God holds people accountable for the
knowledge made AVAILABLE to them and
how they have RESPONDED to it’ (Douglas
Groothuis)

14. Please take a moment to fill out your
Communication Card
My Next Step Today is to:
( ) Do the home life help (in bulletin)
( ) Ask God to reveal any ways that I may be
guilty of suppressing truth.
( ) Evaluate what I am prone to put before
God
( ) Reflect on how I am responding to Jesus
( ) Read Acts 10 and/or Romans
( ) Other________________________