First, the Bad News | Romans 1:1-25 | Gary Hamrick

so let's take your Bibles and go to the Book of Romans if you would please if you don't have a a Bible I'm sure you can pull it up on your phone the book of Romans we're going to be looking at chapter one and as I uh always do whenever we start a new book study I'm going to give a brief introduction to the book so you can understand a little bit about the background and who wrote it and why it was written and if you're new to Cornerstone this is what we do around here we go straight through the Bible from cover to cover Genesis to Revelation and and so we find our our place here in the Book of Romans we finished the book of Acts just prior to Christmas and so now we're coming to the next book in the Bible which is Romans now if you were here for our study in the book of Acts you might remember that the book of Acts ended with Paul in Rome standing trial before emperor Caesar Nero there's no detail in the Bible about how that trial went uh all we can assume is that it went in Paul's favor because he obviously got released he did a little bit more in terms of missionary travels after that so even though we don't have the details it must have gone favorably for for Paul and you would think that because acts ends with Paul being in Rome that the next book in our Bible is Romans and it would make sense that Paul the author of Romans is writing from Rome seeing as how he's there at the close of the book of Acts but in fact The Book of Romans does not chronologically follow the book of Acts yes Acts ends with Paul being in Rome but the book of Romans actually fits chronologically back in the in the book of Acts in chapter 18 when Paul was in Corinth because it was there in Corinth that Paul by inspiration of the Holy Spirit penned this letter to the church at Rome around 57 to 58 ad which was was actually 3 years before he had ever gotten to Rome so even though it follows the book of Acts in chronologically would fit back in Acts 18 when Paul was in Corinth and Greece and he wrote the book from that location Paul did not plant this particular church here in Rome he had never met the people to whom he is writing although he is well acquainted with many of them because he lists 26 names at the End of This Book so he knows them at least from a distance this church was not planted by Paul as I said which is typically the case whenever Paul would go on his missionary Journeys he would often plant a church spend a little bit of time there and then send a letter back to that church to see how they're doing he didn't plant this church It is believed that this church in Rome was planted because there were some Jews who traveled to Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost the Pentecost recorded in Acts chapter 2 and having got gotten saved there because there was this Great Harvest of souls in Acts chapter 2 that there were Jews who became Believers in Jesus and yeshua's Messiah and so after the Feast of Pentecost they go back to Rome and they plant this church there now as Jewish Believers in Jesus and thus the makeup of the Church of Rome was both Jewish Believers and Gentile Believers and sometimes in in Romans Gentiles are just known as Greeks so you have have the Jews and you have the Greeks who make up this church here in Rome which makes for a um a a somewhat difficult in terms of cultural differences uh blending together because you have Jews who come from the standpoint of God's law they had a familiarity with God and those Jewish Believers just had a a foundation of knowing god and then receiving Christ as their savior whereas the Greeks SL gentiles they have no knowledge of God no knowledge of God's word they they are a part of a polytheistic Society in the Greco Roman culture and but they're believing in Jesus and so you have these two very different cultures that are coming together in the church at Rome under the lordship of Jesus Christ which even though it creates a little cultural confusion this is exactly the way the church should be because Jesus died for all for every nationality for every ethnicity for every person of every uh background to come to together under the lordship and the banner of Jesus Christ so while the church at Rome had this uh potentially cultural challenge it also was consistent with what Jesus came to do by uniting all people from different backgrounds under his lordship now most of Paul's letters that he writes in the New Testament and Paul wrote 2third of our new testament most of the letters that Paul wrote to the various churches in the first century dealt with some church problem or some Church issue but Romans is different Paul doesn't address any kind of a church issue the book of Romans really focuses more on God and his great Plan of Redemption for mankind all right one last bullet point as a background to this book and this part is very important there are several key words that are found more often in the Book of Romans than any other book and the these key words lay some key doctrines uh in the Book of Romans so if you're there in Romans chapter 1 I look for a moment at verse one and we're going to see one of the words that is found more in the Book of Romans than any other New Testament book verse one of chapter 1 Paul a bond servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle separated to the gospel of God so circle the word gospel in your Bibles or highlight in your electronic Bibles and if you're taking notes uh the word gospel is mentioned 12 times in the Book of Romans as I said that's more than any other New Testament book it is the Greek word because Greek was the original language of the New Testament it's the Greek word euangelion and it translates good news or good message that's what gospel means so whenever you're going to read the word gospel in the Book of Romans or whenever you hear that word thrown out the gospel of Matthew the Gospel of Mark Mar Gospel of lukee or John it just means the good news or the good message so that's one important word because the gospel is the good news that no matter what you've ever done in your life salvation is available and the Forgiveness of sins to all who believe in Jesus Christ so that's the good news of this book if you keep reading with me here in chapter 1 look at verse 2 separated to the gospel of God which he promised before through His prophets in the Holy scriptures talking about the Old Testament concerning his son Jesus Christ Our Lord who was born of the seed of David according to the Flesh and declared to be the Son of God with proper well sorry with power according to the spirit of Holiness by the resurrection from the dead through him we have received Grace the there's the other word grace and apostil ship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ verse 7 to all who are in Rome beloved of God Called to be Saints Grace here it is again grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ so this is the other word that is repeated more in Romans than any other New Testament book it is the word great R found 26 times in Romans it is the Greek word carus and you translate carus it it's it's sometimes is translated love it's sometimes translated Mercy but it basically means God's undeserved favor toward unworthy people do we have any unworthy people here today and are you happy for God's grace yes and amen amen I am and so Grace is an important word for us to understand again it's mention men more times in Romans than any other book so we're going to we're going to study it carefully I just want to point out before I move on verse 7 again where it says Paul writes to all who were in Rome beloved of God Called to be Saints you know sometimes we have this more modern notion that a saint is someone who's been you know venerated and uh somebody who has died and they did a wonderful a lot of wonderful things while they lived and so uh you know especially with those of you with Roman Catholic backgrounds you understand there's a whole list of saints people who have received sainthood I just want you to know okay that that's a more modern way of looking at uh people who have gone before us but the reality is that we're not to venerate people we're not to worship people but that the Bible speaks of everyone who's a Believer is a saint the word in the Greek is hagios it means one who has been separated unto the Lord so in the truest biblical sense every believer in Jesus is a saint that's why Paul writes that way all the saints We're All Saints so try it out you can call me St Gary it Wells it wears well on me and um I don't mind actually I do don't don't do that but it's uh but just out of fun so so you're a saint I'm a saint We're All Saints if you know Jesus okay then there are some key verses here this is all the introduction it's at no charge friends all right some key verses here chapter one look at verses 16 and 177 Paul writes here inspired by the spirit for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God to Salvation for everyone who believes first for the Jew and also for the Greek by the way that doesn't mean that the Jew is more special in fact Paul will later say that the Jew is first in priority but also first in penalty he's going to say in Chapter 2 they're going to be more accountable because the Jewish race has been entrusted with this wonderful Savior Jesus has come through the Jewish people so there is this there is this opportunity for them to trust first because Jesus has come among them and sadly though Jesus it says he came among his own but his own received him not most of them so they are first and privileged in that sense but they are also first in penalty because they're most accountable he'll talk about that in Chapter 2 but he writes there he says this is the the gospel it's the power of God for salvation everyone who believes first for the Jew then also for the Greek verse 17 for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from Faith to Faith as it is written the just shall live by faith it's the third word that you find more in the Book of Romans than any other book of the Bible faith it is found 39 times in this book it is the Greek word pus and it translates belief Trust TR and Reliance on God who he is and what he promises so these are some important words that we're going to see repeated often so I just wanted to remind you or set the stage up front gospel Grace and Faith um we need to learn a lot about all three of these words but especially Grace especially Grace those of you with Catholic backgrounds you're going to struggle with embracing Grace because you have been taught that the way to God is through your good efforts and your hard work and do what you can to make God happy so that he's not upset with you and the whole concept of Grace is foreign really to all of us but particularly those of you with Catholic backgrounds and I pray that by the end of the book of Romans we will all have embraced Grace in its right and proper context in a healthy way to really understand the Liberty we have in Christ not Liberty for sinfulness but the Liberty that we have knowing that this is not dependent on me this is all on Christ and what he's done for us I just get to respond to what Christ has done so it's a very freeing thing if you if you come to embrace and understand this let me just briefly quote a few of the early church fathers who wrote about the impact of the book of Romans on them personally Augustine would right in 386 ad he said quote a clear light flooded my heart and all the darkness of Doubt vanished away end quote when he read the book of Romans Martin Luther would write this in 1515 now Martin Luther was an an an augustinian monk he was Catholic and uh again the Catholic Doctrine basically puts the emphasis on man to to be good and do good Works in order to get to God and Martin Luther was burdened by this because it's this sense of like how can I be good enough for God until he read the book of Romans and realized it was not about what he does for God it's what God has done for him and so it really launched the Protestant Reformation now there are some Jewish Believers in our congregation but for the most part we're Protestants and we're here because of a stream that came out of this Revelation Martin Luther realized Romans is about Grace and Faith in what God has done it launches the process of reformation we're here in large part because the book of Romans moved in that man's heart to launch this Reformation here's what Martin Luther wrote in 15:15 he said quote I greatly longed to understand Paul's epistle to the Romans and nothing stood in the way but that one expression quote the righteousness of God because I took it to mean that righteousness whereby God is righteous and Deals righteously in punishing the unrighteous and night and day I pondered until I grasp the truth that the righteousness of God is that righteousness whereby through Grace and sheer Mercy he justifies Us by faith thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into Paradise this passage of Paul became to me a gateway to Heaven end quote and so he he posts his 95 thesis on the Wittenberg Church door and he's like I'm no longer going to identify with the Catholic church in the sense that I can't work my way to heaven and the emphasis on Works he came to understand is a wrong emphasis that it should be an emphasis on Grace and Faith John Wesley in 1738 quoting one more he said I felt my heart strangely warmed when he read the the the book of Romans he said I felt I did trust in Christ Christ alone for my salvation and an assurance was given me that he had taken my sins away even mine and saved me from the law of sin and death end quote let's pause there and pray Father in heaven we thank you for this book we're about to read we thank you Lord for your word for all of it and we pray God with open eyes and ears and hearts we would read and study and receive what you would say to us through the pages of the book of Romans and particularly on this topic of Grace thank you Lord that you are a gracious and merciful god and we pray that we would come to understand especially what Grace is all about and we love you Lord and we thank you that you first loved us and died on a cross for our sins we give you this study now help us to learn help us to receive help us to grow grow in our faith and We Praise You In jesus' name and everybody said amen well I heard the story about a a man who um was very curious about what life would be like in heaven and so he kept praying to God you know what will life be like in heaven and his one main prayer request was whether or not there would be baseball in heaven this guy was a lifelong baseball fan he just wanted to know God is there going to be baseball in heaven that was his prayer finally one day an angel appeared to this guy the angel said I've been sent in response to your prayer and the guy said you mean in response to the prayer whether or not there's baseball in heaven the angel said indeed and I've come to tell you and the guy said all right tell me and the angel said well I've got some good news and I got some bad news he said the good news is there is baseball in heaven he says you know there's there's no evening in heaven it's day all the time because of the glory of God so and there's no bad weather either so every day is a beautiful day meaning there's baseball every day 247 in heaven and this guy's just like wow this is amazing it's an answer to my lifelong prayer I'm so excited to know that there's baseball in heaven and the guy said to the angel what what's the bad news then and the angel said well you're pitching on Thursday now there's there's some good news and there's some bad news as it relates to the Book of Romans the good news that I'll mention just briefly is that it is Faith in Jesus Christ and what he has done for us that saves a person not faith in what we can do for God by being a good person because there is nothing that we can do to compensate for the sin problem that we all have except to respond to what Christ has done by dying on a cross for the sin problem that we all have so that's the good news the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the message that Jesus died on a cross for your sins and my sins and that if you believe in him him and if you accept what he did for you by faith you can be forgiven and saved now the question becomes saved from what and here comes the bad news and I'm going to spend the rest of today and next week and maybe even the week after talking about the bad news so happy New Year welcome to church but listen Paul spends the first three chapters talking about the bad news and here's why it's important to understand and hear and grasp the bad news if you don't hear and understand the bad news you will a not understand the good news certainly not appreciate it and B you won't even see your need for the good news we have to hear the bad news nobody likes to go to the doctor and hear bad news but if you don't hear the bad news you can't hear what the remedy is there's medicine there's a cure but I got to tell you the bad news first so that you can appreciate the good news and see your need for the good news so we got a lot of bad news to get through today and the next couple weeks um and keep coming because we're going to see who the real Christians are it's like well he told us last week there's going to be more bad news I'm not going I can sit home watch online I don't have to even be there okay all right I'm just telling you you got to be here for the bad news too and the bad news has to do with what we're saved from and what we're saved from that Paul writes about here is God's Wrath and this is another word we have to add on our list of key words in the Book of Romans and it is the word wrath it is the Greek word oray it is found 12 times in Romans and with the exception of the Book of Revelation which mentions this word 13 times it is found more often in Romans than any other book and in fact if you say proportionally speaking because Revelation has many more chapters in The Book of Romans you could still make the argument that proportionally speaking the word wrath is found in Romans more than any other book of the Bible and wrath means this God's righteous anger his Divine indignation and just punishment in response to human sin and we have to understand his wrath if we're going to understand the good news and so if you look in your Bibles there in chapter 1 if you have your Bibles still open there to chapter 1 look at Verse 18 first time the word wrath is mentioned here in the Book of Romans is verse 18 and this is what it says for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness now I got to read this again this is important for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness okay that's Verse 18 folks listen we got to we got to get this when Christians go around saying or worse when pastors go around saying from the pulpit well God God is love and love is God he's like a warm blanket on a Snowy Day picture butterflies on a spring day that's God he's like the wind beneath my wings that makes me sore okay he's like raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens those are a few of my favorite things if we go around talking like that okay now let me make it clear God is love there's a verse on it that's his character God is love but that's only half the story the other half of the story is that God is just and holy and when we sin it makes him angry we have to get this God is a just and holy God yes God is love that's only half the story and it would be counter to his character for God to allow sin to go unpunished he's angry about Sin and he must punish it now we get this on some small level because if you're a parent and you have children if your children deliberately intentionally disobey you and you don't impose some kind of consequences for their deliberate intentional Disobedience you're a negligent parent and the same is true about God when we disobey God when we sin against him if he if he just overlooked sin and gave us a pass it would undermine the righteous character and Holiness of God he cannot allow sin to go unpunished and so if we present God as just this sympathetic benevolent being who because of his love for us overlooks and tolerates our sin well then we would be misrepresenting God at at best and we would be maligning his holy character at worst so so we can't give half the picture God is love Yeah but God is just and holy and he is a god of wrath and he will punish sin and Disobedience and here's here's the kicker to even all of that Paul goes on to say and by the way no one has an excuse nobody has an excuse and we are all guilty and what Paul does is in in chapters 1 and 2 he's going to categorize all human beings in the world under three particular categories and here are the categories for those of you who are taking notes he's going to talk about the unrighteous the self-righteous and the over righteous and these are all bad categories and every human being in the world falls under one or multiple of these three categories and and so Paul is going to mention this here here in the course of these first couple of chapters and he's also going to tell us that God reveals himself uniquely to each of these categories of people so that he is just in his judgments if after revealing himself to these three different categories of people people still deny him and disobey against and disobey him he's going to be just in his wrath because Paul says he has revealed himself in specific ways to each of these three categories now we're only going to have time today to get through the first category which is the unrighteous so again you have to come back next week for more punishment but this is the first group we need to understand the unrighteous and if you have your Bibles there in Romans 1 I want you to look at verses 18 to 25 with me now I already read Verse 18 I'm going to read it again down through verse 25 so here we go for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness because what may be known of God is Manifest to them for God has shown it to them verse 20 for since the creation of the world Circle creation for since the creation of the world his invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and godhead so that they are without what excuse so that we're all without excuse verse 21 because although they knew God they did not glorify him as God nor were thankful but became feudal in their thoughts and their foolish Hearts were darkened professing to be wise they became fools and changed the glory of The Incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creature or some of your translations say the created things rather than the Creator who was blessed forever amen okay now now listen if if that isn't a comma if what I just read isn't a commentary on our culture today I don't know what it is I mean he writes this in the first century and this is just as relevant now as it was then and so what God does here is he indicts the first group and and they're referred to as the unrighteous now in reality all of us fall in this category because Paul will later say in Romans there's none righteous no not one we're all unrighteous but in but primarily Paul is talking about the person who claims to have zero knowledge about God or the Bible has has never or rarely been to church this is this is the uninformed person or the misinformed person this is that proverbial what about the guy on the island who's never heard is he accountable everybody talks about the guy on the island I don't know who that guy is but um this is trying to answer the question What Becomes of the person who has never heard or doesn't want to hear like it's in their face but they don't want to hear and God's answer is they're guilty well wait a minute they never heard and God says no they have heard I've revealed myself to them and how does Paul say that God has revealed himself to an unrighteous world creation through creation so that men are without excuse God says creation testifies of me that's why Paul here in chapter 1 in verse 19 he says God has made his existence plain to people but verse 18 says but they have suppressed the truth by their wickedness see there are people who who cannot deny the existence of God but the reason they suppress the truth is because they just want to live their evil sinful lives so I don't want to acknowledge God so I'm going to pretend like he doesn't exist meanwhile the reality is the existence of God is undeniable that's why Paul writes there in verse 20 for since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes well people say well I can't see God yeah but his invisible attributes are clearly seen because of his handiwork being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and godhead God the Father Son and Holy Spirit so that people are without excuse look in other words you have to work really really hard at denying the in the existence of God you have to work hard at that because he is so plainly seen in the handy work of creation I mean when you consider when you consider the complexities of the universe the interdependence of the systems of the cosmos when you look at the uniqueness the intricate details how amazing for example the human body is it you cannot with an ounce of intellect deny the existence of God you have to be completely in denial of a Creator to think that all of this just randomly happened over long periods of time it just all came into existence yeah friends that takes a lot more faith than to believe what the Bible says you got to have more faith to believe that the random spontaneous mutations and gradual modifications got us all this really that's what we're supposed to believe listen to Sir Isaac Newton who is considered the father of modern physics he said this quote he said this most beautiful system of the sun planets and comets could only proceed from the council and Dominion of an intelligent and Powerful being this being governs all things not as the soul of the world but as Lord over all and on account of his Dominion he is want to be called lord God Universal ruler end quote consider the complexity of life in the universe let me just give you a few stats friends the earth the earth is 25,000 mi in circumference it weighs six septian 588 sextilion tons yet hang suspended in space it spins on its axis at 1,000 M hour it Corin through space around the Sun at 67,000 mph consider lightning a bolt of lightning travels an average distance of 8 Miles a single bolt contains 15 million volts that voltage could power 1 million light bulbs for life that's a single lightning bolt consider the human heart it's roughly the size of your fist it weighs about a half a pound yet it does enough work in 12 hours to lift the equivalent of 65 tons off the ground if you were to place a coin just the size of a qu quarter on the palm of your hand the area that that quarter covers on the palm of your hand covers one yard of blood vessels four yards of nerves 25 nerve ends 100 sweat glands 3 million cells and I can go on and on in other words when you look at a watch it screams watch maker when you look at a house it screams Carpenter when you look at an automobile it screams manufacturer and when you look at creation it screams Creator his handiwork is evident it's not this result of random successive gradual modification but it's the handiwork of God Jeremiah the prophet said in Jeremiah 32:1 17 ah Lord God you have made the heavens and the Earth by your great power and your outstretched arm nothing is too difficult for you but what the world would have you to believe what modern science would have you believe is that one day when back where back when there was an ultraviolet ray from the Sun that put a freckle on your forehead and that Freckle over years became an eyeball and then it sank into a socket of its own started to move and you could start to sea and you became a salamander and then you crawled out of a pond and you scraped your belly on some rocks and just so to compensate where the scrapings were on your belly you started to grow legs and then you stood upright and you became an ape and then you found a club and then you not a club that some of you go to a club club and then you kill killed your food and then you made some clothes and then you got a job at Walmart the end that's the way they want you to believe that's what they want you to believe friends that is an insult to my intellect that's why Paul writes here in verse 21 they have become darkened in the foolishness of their minds because people are believing something that is nonsense now why does the world want you to believe that kind of nonsense was just all evolutionary and they still call it a theory friends because it's never going to be proven it's evolutionary process gradual modification random successive things all why do they want you to believe that here's the reason because if you can deny the existence of God then somehow you don't have to be accountable to him you think I don't believe in God we're going to suppress it by our wickedness we're going to just pretend like we don't see his handiwork through the universe all these things are explainable through scientific theories and random successive modifications we're going to deny God because in denying God then somehow a person thinks that he or she is not accountable to God but God says the whole time you can't get away with that I'm too obvious in the universe and that's why Paul says man has no excuse and that's why he writes here further talking about how they've been darkened in the foolishness of their minds because he writes here that mankind has inverted God's divine order what's God's divine order God is supreme then he created man to have dominion over creation here's what our world has done and Paul outlines it in Romans 1 they've inverted it now creation is supreme man is secondary we worship creation the created things that's what Paul says and God has been relegated to some third level if you even believe in him that's why Paul writes in verse 25 that we that the people have exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creature the created thing rather than the Creator now think about this ladies and gentlemen yes this is a yes or no question yes or no generally speaking there is more of an obsession with the planet and the environment than with God in our country today yes of course there is it's all about carbon footprint it's all about going green it's all about recycling saving the sea turtles saving the spotted out all the while will kill our unborn babies is that inverted or what you go to South Florida you see all these warning signs penalty punishment for fines you disturb these little sea turtles okay I love sea turtles they're cute little creatures God made them too okay but they are not more valuable than a child inside a mother's womb they're not it's all inverted we're worshiping the created things rather than the Creator I I had this encounter this is several years ago I was downtown in in Georgetown in DC and I was standing outside in a line to the Apple Store now what wasn't there cuz I went to get the latest phone I'm not that guy okay I was there because I had to get some kind of repair I don't remember why I was there but I was in a line outside outside on the sidewalk and this guy came up to me I think he was like a third-year freshman from Georgetown and he has this clipboard he has a clipboard in one hand and he has an empty tunic can in the other hand and he sees me and he's standing he's just going down the line he goes excuse me sir excuse me do you know what I'm holding here and I said yeah I think it's a it's an empty tunic can he goes right you are he says do you know what the problem is I said I'm sure you're going to tell me he says yes I will he says are you outraged are you outraged by the bludgeoning of tuna in our world today how tuna have been bludgeoned all over the world and then Their little bodies have been stuffed into millions of cans just like these and he says to me with this clipboard in hand would you like to sign a petition today to end the senseless Slaughter of tuna I looked at him and I said no but I tell you what you've really made me hungry for a tuna fish sandwich I went out and had the biggest tuna fish sandwich that day it was delicious what is happening what is happening in our world today I tell you what's happening we've elevated creation above Creator we've inverted God's divine order we are darkened in the foolishness of our minds because we have suppressed the existence of God even though he has manifested himself because of our wickedness and therefore the wrath of God is going to be poured out because because man is without excuse David would write in Psalm 19 verses 1 to 4 the heavens declare the glory of God the skies proclaim the work of his hands day after day they pour forth speech night after night they display knowledge there is no speech or language where their voice is not heard their voice goes out into all the Earth their words to the end Of The World God is telling us to an unrighteous world my existence is undeniable and you are accountable to me and no one has an excuse now there is more bad news as I shared that we'll be talking about next week but just so that we can always end the bad news with a reminder of the good news would you go to Romans chapter 5 and we'll close with these two verses Romans chapter 5 because Paul here in Romans 5 directly addresses the solution to the Wrath that we all deserve Romans 58 and9 but God demonstrates his own love toward us and that while we were still sinners Christ died for us much more then having now been justified by his blood we have been saved from what wrath through Him Father we end on that note because we want to always be reminded that the bad news has been overcome by the good news but we can't appreciate nor will we see our need for the good news unless we first understand this bad news so thank you Lord for your word all of it you are a just and a holy God and you are angered by sin but thanks be to God thank you Lord that through Jesus Christ and his sacrifice on the cross we can escape the wrath that we deserve because you are a loving and a merciful father so as we go through the next few chapters to understand all of this we pray that we would be reminded of that we can escape your Wrath because of what Christ has done and we give you the praise and the glory in jesus' name and everybody said amen and amen God bless you all

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Published: Mon Jan 08 2024