Text: Romans 1:18-3:20

Memory Verse: Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith,[a] as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."


1. The Case For Wrath 1:18-23

"Wrath": God's active anger toward sin (2Chron. 36:15-16)

A. The Great Suppression 1:18
B. The Great Denial 1:19-20
C. The Great Exchange 1:21-23

2. The Tragic Hand-Off 1:24-32

"God gave them up": When God stops resisting our demands.
Our desires become our prison...

A. Self-Worship 1:24-25
B. Sexual Perversion 1:26-27
C. Self-Destruction 1:28-32

Moral and Relational Chaos

Here's What We Need to Remember: To be lost means to be without excuse...
But it doesn't mean to be without hope!