The Gospel A series in Romans

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 1. What they THINK: The way they judge others. 2. What they DO: The merit of their works. 3. What they KNOW: The extent of their knowledge.

Levels of Knowledge & Accountability Everyone (1:18-20) Educated (1:21-31) Moral (ch. 2:1-16) Jew (ch. 2:17ff) “So that people are without excuse.” Romans 1:20

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 1. What they THINK: The way they judge others. “You have heard it said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder,’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subject to judgment.” Matt. 5:21-22 “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”Matt. 5:21-22

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 1. What they THINK: The way they judge others. “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you” Matthew 7:1-2 People dictate the terms of their own Condemnation.

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 1. What they THINK: The way they judge others. People dictate the terms of their own Condemnation. God’s Judgment is perfectly Fair and Right God’s wrath cannot be Escaped The Liberal Gospel is a Monumental Presumption

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where ‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ Mark 9:47-48; Is. 66:24 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. Luke 16:23 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 2 Pet. 2:4

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. Rev. 20:14-15 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ … “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” Matt. 25:30,46 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.2 Thes. 1: 9

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 1. What they THINK: The way they judge others. People dictate the terms of their own Condemnation. God’s Judgment is perfectly Fair and Right God’s wrath cannot be Escaped The Liberal Gospel is a Monumental Presumption Everyone chooses to Harden their heart or be Broken.

God will judge everyone based on: 2. What they DO: The merit of their works. “I only want what’s coming to me. I only want my fair share.” Sally

God will judge everyone based on: 2. What they DO: The merit of their works. Everyone will get exactly what they Deserve. Those who do “Good Works” will go to heaven. This is working FROM salvation, not FOR it. OR this is a Hypothetical that cannot be realized. Those who do “Evil Works” will not go to heaven. God does not play Favorites.

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 3. What they KNOW: The extent of their Knowledge If you know God’s Will, you will be judged by that. The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. Luke 12:47-48

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 3. What they KNOW: The extent of their Knowledge If you know God’s Will, you will be judged by that. If you don’t know God’s Will, you will be judged by your own Conscience Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can not really get rid of it. However, they do not in fact behave that way. They know the law of nature; they break it.” C.S. Lewis

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 1. What they THINK: The way they judge others. 2. What they DO: The merit of their works. 3. What they KNOW: The extent of their knowledge.

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 3. What they KNOW: The extent of their Knowledge If you know God’s Will, you will be judged by that. If you don’t know God’s Will, you will be judged by your own Conscience Jesus Himself will judge every Secret

God’s Wrath is Real and His Judgment will Really Fall on Everyone who Refuses to Repent. God will judge everyone based on: 1. What they THINK: The way they judge others. 2. What they DO: The merit of their works. 3. What they KNOW: The extent of their knowledge.

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Matthew 7:13-14 “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6

“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?”Romans 10:13-14

Clear Truth about Homosexuality Suppress the truth by their wickedness (18) Brain Body Being Foolish hearts darkened (21) They are full of envy, murder, strife… (29) “Who do not walk in the flesh but in the Spirit” (8:4) “Those who live / are being in the Spirit set their minds on what the Spirit desires” (8:5)