#10 12-03-06 AM – HCBC
The Wrath of God – Part V
Romans 2:5-11
The Lord’s Table Celebrates Repentance
The Wrath of God Against All Mankind. 1:18 – 3:20
Depraved Gentile society Hedonist 1:18-32
He lives for pleasure, denies that God exists, and sees no need to get right with Him.
Critical moralizers Moralist 2:1-16
He thinks he will be in a right relationship with God because of his good behavior.
Self-confident Jews Legalist 2:17 – 3:8
He thinks that because he is a Jew he is in a right relationship with God.
The whole human race Everyone 3:9-20
No one is righteous, no one has responded to God on his own.
The Wrath of God – Part I Suppressing the Truth Demands the Wrath of God (18-20)
The Wrath of God – Part II Exchanging the Truth Denies the Worship of God (21-25)
The Wrath of God – Part III Rejecting the Truth Discards the Wisdom of God (26-32)
The Wrath of God – Part IV Man’s Sinful Judgment vs God’s Righteous Judgment (2:1-4)
Vs 1 People who judge others… Are without excuse… Because they too sin!
Vs 2 God’s judgment… Is based on Truth
Vs 3 People who judge others will be judged!
We are mere men… We judge others… We sin… We will not escape judgment.
Vs 4 God’s kindness, tolerance, and patience leads to repentance!
Vs 4 God’s Kindness Leads to Repentance
2 Peter 3:1-9 = God’s Patience
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a
watch in the night.
1 Tim 1:15-16 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst. 16 But for that very
reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might
display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him
and receive eternal life.
Vs 5 Unrepentance Calls for Wrath
Stubbornness = stiff-necked Acts 7:51
Acts 7:51 "You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just
like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit!
Unrepentant = un-turned Mt 4:17
Mt 4:17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven
is near."
Day of God’s wrath = future
Ps 110:5-6 The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of
the whole earth.
Rev 6:15-16 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty,
and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the
mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and
hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of
the Lamb!
Vs 6-11 God does not Show Favoritism
6- each person…
7- those who do good…
8. those who are self-seeking…
9- trouble + distress
10- glory, honor + peace
11- no favoritism
What is Repentance?
Elements:
Sight of sin…
Acts 26:18 “to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light…”
Lk 15 The prodigal son “came to his senses…”
He sa himself a sinner and nothing but a sinner.
Sorrow for sin…
Ps 38:18 (KJV) For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
2 Cor 7:8-11 worldly sorrow vs godly sorrow
Statement of sin… confession
1 Cor 11:31 “if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment.”
Lk 15:18 “…Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.”
Shame for sin…
Ezek 16:61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you
receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are
younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my
covenant with you.
Lk 15:21 The prodigal son was so ashamed of his sin that he thought himself not
worthy to be called a son any more.
Shame is the result of the realization of guilt.
Scorn for sin… Hatred
Rom 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but
what I hate I do.
Ps 119:104 I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every
wrong path.
Surrender of sin… Turning from it
Ezek 14:6 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'This is what the Sovereign
LORD says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable
practices!
Acts 26:20 First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all
Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn
to God and prove their repentance by their deeds.
Results:
A new attitude toward sin.
Lk 15:18-19 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called
your son; make me like one of your hired men.'
Rom 6:21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed
of? Those things result in death!
A new attitude toward self.
It is radical:
Lk 15:18-19 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be
called your son; make me like one of your hired men.'
Rom 6:21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now
ashamed of? Those things result in death!
It is perpetual:
Rom 13:14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think
about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
A new attitude toward God.
Ps 130:3-4 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
Fear of the Lord
Love for God
Obedience to God
Thankfulness to God
Service to God