Thursday, September 11, 2008

God's Wrath Against Mankind

Romans 1:18-32

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of human beings who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 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 people are without excuse.

21 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. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal human beings and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 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, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 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.

what do you think? do you agree? do you agree that what was said in this passage is the same as what is happening in this world in the present, and not only in the past? what do you think about this people? do you do the same things as they did? What do you think you should do?how sinful is the world today?

These are just some questions to reflect about what is going on. It is a simple reminder from Paul :).

Remember that all men and women are equal in the eyes of the Lord. He judges our hearts, our inner most being, not only by the deeds that we do nor how we behave. It is our hearts which God sees, for it tells all the truth about ourselves.

Psalm 50:22
Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to peicesm with none to rescue.

Who can escape from God? no one. All of us will be judged.

so my best advice to you is. "Repent and Fear the Lord" - the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. His love will bring us Salvation.

Psalm 103
12 as far as the east is from the west,

so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;

14 for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.

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