God’s Anger at Sin
This lesson is taken from Romans 1:18-30; Psalm 19:1-6; psalm 106:20; Jeremiah 10:12-16; Romans 6:23
Did you know that God shows His anger from Heaven against all sinful, wicked people who pushed the truth about God away from their selves? The truth about God is known to all people. This truth is naturally born in people, for God put this knowledge into their hearts. From the time the world was created by God, people have seen the earth, the sky, and everything else that God made. They can clearly see what God has done.
People have no excuse what so ever for not knowing God! For the heavens tell us of the glory of God. The sky shows us, God’s beautiful work. Day after Day the sky talks to us. Night after night the sky makes God known to us. The skies make no sound for their voice is silent, but still they talks to us. Yet, their message has gone out to all the earth. The sun lives in the heavens, where it was placed by God, and it shines forth with a bright light. The sun rejoices like a great athlete who is eager to run the race. It will rise at one end of the heavens and it follows a path to the other end of the heavens. Nothing can hide from the heat of the sun.
Yes, everyone knows of God. But everyone will not worship God or even give God thanks, for what He has done. They began to think up foolish ideas, of what God is like. Then what happens is their minds will become dark and confused. They claim to be wise, but they become complete fools instead. And instead of worshiping the great forever living God, they worship idols that are made to look like people, birds, animals, or even snakes. These people have traded our great God for a statue. So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful thing their hearts desired. The word shameful mean to do something that bring shame on yourself or family.
So these people end up doing things that was full of shame and evil. Instead of believing what they know was the truth about God; they on purpose chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things that God had made, but they didn’t worship God, the Creator, Himself. God is to be praised forever! God made the earth by His own power, and He protects it by His own wisdom. He has extended or stretched out the heavens by his own understanding.
When God talks, there is thunder in the heavens. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain. God let lose the winds from His storehouse. Compared to God all people are foolish and they have no knowledge at all! They make idols, but these idols will disgrace their makers, for they are not real. They have no life or power in them. Idols are worthless, for they are lies! The time is coming when the idols will be destroyed! But God is no idol. He is the Creator of everything that exists. The Lord Almighty is His name.
When people refuse to believe in God, He leaves them to their evil minds. Their lives become full of all sorts of things.
* Wickedness * deception (something that is not true)
* Sin * malicious behavior (harmful behavior)
* Greed * haters of God
* Hate * insolent (disrespectful )
* Envy * proud
* Murder * boastful
* Fighting
These people are forever finding new ways of sinning and they don’t obey their parents. They also do the following
· refuse to understand
· break their promises
· heartless
· unforgiving
They are fully aware of God’s death penalty for those who do these things, yet they will go right ahead and do them anyway. And even worse, they will encourage others to do them, too! They know that the pay for sin is death, but the free gift from God is eternal life through His Son, Jesus Christ. For there is only one way to get to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ, who is our Lord.
There are no questions for this lesson. But, there is something to think about. After reading the truth about God are you a believer or a non-believer? Think about it!
