thank the Lord Jesus never fails take
your Bibles this morning please
turn to Romans chapter one and to
Genesis chapter 1
Romans chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 1
and if you are a guest with us
last week we began a brand new series
entitled
Avoid the Confusion now there's a lot of
confusion today
about very important issues ranging from
God's existence to the origin of life
to what is truth or what is justice and
we're going to be looking today at a
tremendous
topic and that is the very existence of
God
because if there is no God then all of
the behavior we see in society is
justifiable but if there is a God
then it makes a great difference in the
conscience and the hearts of
mankind and I want you to study with me
this morning this subject
the existence of God as we continue this
great
series together let's stand together as
we read
Genesis chapter 1 and we'll read just
the first verse and then we're going to
read
beginning in Romans chapter 1 and
beginning in verse 18
Genesis 1:1 let's read it together
ready begin
in the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth now we're going
to preach a message in three or four
weeks
on creation because there's a lot of
confusion about where we came from
and we want to see what the Bible says
about that but I want you to see those
words in Genesis 1:1
in the beginning God
right now let's turn over to Romans
chapter 1
and next week we have a great message
prepared
on the subject of life the origin of
life and
the sanctity of life but today the
existence of God Romans 1 verse 18
which says for the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
who hold the truth in unrighteousness
because
that which may be known of God is
manifest
in them for God hath showed it unto them
for the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world
are clearly seen being understood by the
things that are
made even his essential power and
Godhead
so that they are without excuse
because that when they knew God they
glorified him not as God
neither were thankful but became vain in
their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened
professing themselves to be
wise they became fools
and changed the glory of the
uncorruptable God
into an image made like to corruptable
man
and to birds and to four-footed beasts
and
creeping things let's pray and let's
dive right into this great text today
shall we
Father we love you we thank you that
Jesus never fails
we thank you that we can worship you we
ask that you would give us wisdom as we
are
in a different moment in our country and
in our world's history we pray for
protection and healing for those
battling Covid for those of our members
that are watching online with underlying
conditions we pray for their protection
but we ask that your church would go
forward through these days
that you would bless this time in your
Word and that if there's someone here
without Jesus
in their life that they would open their
heart to you and be saved is our prayer
in Jesus name amen you may be seated
well perhaps driving down the road you
have seen that sticker that says
coexist how many of you have ever seen
this let me see all right you've seen
this
sticker coexist and certainly in
this great land of America there's a
place for everybody
how many of you are thankful that we
live in a free country today
and we're thankful that we have
freedom of religion
but there is a subtle message behind
this sticker isn't there
there's a subtle underlying message that
seems to imply
that all of these religions have
an equal authority and that they are
all equally authoritative and so the
implication is that
whether you're a Wiccan or whether you
practice Taoism
or Christianity or Buddhism whatever
that they're all authoritatively about
the same
and of course we as Bible believers know
that there is a name that is above
every name and that is the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ
now that's why I've had our guys working
on a new sticker I'm going to put maybe
on my car in the upcoming days which
simply says
God exists and it has the empty tomb to
provide
proof for the fact that there is a name
that is above
every name and that at the grave of the
founders of every one of those other
religions
there are bones today but outside of
Jerusalem
in the garden tomb there are no bones to
be found
because our Savior is a risen Savior and
so
God exists and today we want to open the
Bible
and we want to consider our God how he
has manifested himself
how the world rejects him still and why
that is important
and has ramifications to the way people
live
their lives now the Bible opens with a
declarative statement about the
existence of God
it simply says in the beginning God
the Bible does not defend the existence
of God
it assumes his existence
since God gave us the Bible it would be
ridiculous then to start
the book by trying to prove the
existence of the author
I've written a number of books I've
never started the first page
trying to defend the fact that I exist
it is understood that the author exists
in the beginning God that is the
assumption
of the first book of the Bible we see
God revealed of course in many ways
we see him revealed in his Word the
Bible we see him revealed
in the person of his son the Lord Jesus
Christ who is equal in all of his
attributes of deity
and we'll study in upcoming weeks the
doctrine of the deity
of Jesus Christ but this morning in
Romans 1 I find
three manifestations or revelations
about the existence of God that I want
to speak to you about this morning
I see in Revelation 1 that there is an
inward
excuse me in Romans 1 that there is an
inward revelation
that there is an inward witness in the
heart of every man
to the fact that there is a God and
we're going to see that this morning
that within the heart of every man
there's a knowledge of God
secondly in this passage we're going to
see that there is an
outward revelation that all around us
creation screams and cries and testifies
of the existence of God and finally this
morning we're going to see that there is
an historical revelation that God
throughout history
has revealed himself to man it is
documented
it is understood in the very fabric of
our human race
that there is a God now our text this
morning begins with
the person and the personality of God
he is a God of love how many of you are
thankful for that
but Spurgeon said it this way God who is
love
is first of all light therefore any
thought of him being soft or indulgent
towards sin must be put away in other
words he is a
God of love he is a God of righteousness
and we see his righteousness in verse 18
of Romans chapter 1
where the Bible says for the wrath of
God
is revealed from heaven against all
unGodliness and unrighteousness of men
who hold the truth in unrighteousness
God sees men who have had the truth
but did not believe the truth and the
Bible predicts
a wrath upon those who have known it
but have not received it they deny
his existence and because of that
they feel that as if they believe there
is no God then there is no
accountability to God there is
no judgment day with God the  way to
deal with that issue
is just simply to say there is no God
therefore I can live however I
want to live but God is going to say to
them you
are without excuse and there will come
a day of judgment upon them now
we saw last week a document called the
Humanist
Manifesto some of you remember I spoke
about
Humanist Manifesto Three and the
sub-caption of their manifesto
their motto is good without God
they are good without God the secular
humanists say
and it's no surprise that the thousands
of signers of
Manifesto 3 are supportive and some are
involved in the anarchist activities
that we see today they are supportive
with respect to abortion they are
supportive with respect
to various issues that are against the
Bible because
when you sign a document that says I'm
good without God
there's no moral restraint in your life
and you can live however you want to
live
that's one of the root problems in
America today
is there are too many people that are
thinking they're good without God how
many of you would say
it isn't all good from my perspective
amen we need the Lord today we need God
in our lives
guiding us and directing us each and
every day
but their world view is informed
by a belief that denies the existence of
God
and church this is why world view
is so important because our world view
must be a biblical world view
if we are going to have the peace and
the unity and the direction that God
intended for our lives
the decline of the Christian identity
is particularly pronounced with young
people in America today
fully one-third of all Americans 35
years of age and
under deny that there is a God or say
that if there
is you cannot really know who he is
from the standpoint of claiming either
atheism or agnosticism
many today deny or define themselves as
secular in their mindset which refers to
the fact that there is an absence of any
binding theistic belief or authority in
their life
to say that one is secular is really
just a milder way of saying
I'm an atheist I'm a secularist I do not
believe in God and secularism is on the
rise in fact
this next chart will show you an
interesting trend and a sad
trend and that is to say that 21
of these today in America are
claiming either atheistic
or agnostic as their belief and that
trend is rising
with every year and that's why I'm
preaching this series
because it is time for Christians to
know what they believe
and why they believe it even about basic
things
like the existence of God one in four
unchurched adults
are skeptics either atheists or
agnostics today
now skepticism agnosticism
and atheism are not belief systems with
which
someone is born these are belief systems
that
are chosen and we're going to see why in
just a moment
I want you to notice the Bible tells us
why God's wrath will be kindled against
those who have rejected him as we begin
this morning notice in verse number 19
because that which may be known of
God is manifest in them
now this brings us first of all to the
inward revelation and these outlines are
all available
at lancasterbaptist.org if you want to
go back and do some study be sure to do
that
or you can pick them up Saturday night
and bring them in with you on Sunday
morning
there is an inward revelation in the
heart of
men concerning the existence of God
and we see in verse 19 it is manifest in
them
sometimes we refer to this as innate
truth
innate truth innate truth is that which
belongs to something as
part of its nature or constitution it
is something that
is known inwardly it is evident in other
words
God built into man the knowledge
of the existence of himself
now man does not always worship the true
God
but there is something within every man
that knows
there is a God an atheist then
is not born an atheist but has become an
atheist
because either someone has fed him lies
concerning God
or he has become angry because of
something that happened in his life
and has chosen not to believe in God but
atheism
is not natural it is not normal to deny
the existence of any kind of a god
to deny the existence of God must be
a deliberate volitional decision
it is innate within every man that there
is a God
this is an innate truth secondly it is a
unique
intellect that God has given to man he
has given to man
a unique intellect notice in verse 21
for a moment
we'll come back to these verses 19 and
20 but notice it says in verse 21
because that when they knew God they
glorified him not as God neither were
thankful but became vain in their
imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened
professing themselves to be wise they
became
as fools now what we see in these verses
is that man
has been given an intellect with which
he can make choices
so here we see they knew God but they
chose not to believe in God
this was because they were created with
the ability to choose
God created us with a volition with what
sometimes
is called a free will I think of Genesis
1:26
and God said let us make man in our
what's that next word
image in our image in our likeness that
he might have dominion
over the fish of the sea and the fowl of
the air God said I am going to create
man
with a unique intellect and ability
to decide and to lead and to organize
now the very attempt to reason things
out and make value judgments
presupposes the existence of God
and the order of God who gave intellect
to his
creation this intellect is a moral
intellect for the Bible says
in verse 21 when they knew God they
glorified him
not as God neither were thankful you see
without God there is no moral there is
no
moral meaning rather to life so if
someone rejects God
it begins to show in the choices of
their life if someone believes in a
higher power and a higher authority
they are going to show that in the way
that they live
as well and oftentimes when you turn on
the evening news you are seeing the
result
of decades of teaching from atheists who
have taught their students that there is
no God
and you are now seeing the results of a
generation trained
that there is no God and it doesn't
matter how you live
and this is why the church is essential
because we
must preach the existence of God and the
influence of God that is needed in the
life of
every person and every great nation you
see the Bible tells us
something very interesting about this
intellect this innate
intellect Romans 2:14 says for when
the Gentiles
which have not the law do by nature the
things that are contained
in the law in other words even nations
and
societies that do not understand perhaps
the gospel
or even the full ramifications of the
Bible yet there's something within them
that realizes
we need law and order to function as a
society
and that comes from God even those that
have no biblical law
will still have a moral system you
cannot explain for example
man's sense of right and wrong good and
evil without concluding
that a being who is perfect gave us this
sense
of right and wrong for example law
and order stems from a belief
in God now that does not
imply that everyone who speaks of law
and order
either knows Christ or fully knows all
the Scriptures or is even
a great Christian but it implies this
that there is
embedded within them and understanding
that society cannot
last without law and order and that
innate and that innate intellect
is provided by
a consciousness of God within
their hearts and you'll notice
oftentimes
there are those who are saying we don't
want to have prayer
in a public place we don't want to have
the name of God
mentioned in a school or in this place
and so
much of this comes from the denial of
the existence of God
now the problem then for an atheist
is that if he admits evil in the country
in the world he must also admit that
there is good
in the world and the tragic thing is
that even some
are now denying the existence of evil
Richard Dawkins one of the
famed atheists of our time said in order
to allow for his atheistic view
he is denying now the existence of evil
he calls
the belief in God a delusion he knows
that
if he says there is evil then there then
must be good
and that would have to force him to look
at the source of good which is
God himself so some are even saying
there's no good
there's no evil there's a
relativism
in the approach to how it is all viewed
as coming to God
and seeking his direction for their life
there's a moral intellect
but there's also a moral purpose that
God has given to man
the Bible tells us that these who reject
God
miss that purpose verse 22 they profess
themselves to be wise
and they become fools and they change
the the glory of the uncorruptable God
into an image made like corruptable man
if you've ever visited and this passage
deals with
the ancient Greek world and the Roman
world and if you ever visit
some of the sites of the ancient
Greek world like the city of Ephesus for
example
you'll find many of the gods that are
there are animals that are
are made of stone but they are worshiped
and you'll find that there is the
worship of the moon and the sun
and they have turned these objects into
their gods
which is evidence of their rejection of
the true
God and so we see that there is a moral
purpose that is missed because
man says I'm wise but God says
you're a fool in fact the Bible says the
fool hath said in his heart
there is no God you see God
has placed within every man a desire for
purpose a desire for a greater purpose
I believe it was the Westminster
catechism that first asked the question
what is the chief end of man and man's
chief end is to glorify
God and to enjoy him forever
whatever you do do it all to the glory
of God and God has given us the ability
intellectually to understand
that there's a greater purpose in life
than living for self
living as a fool but we can live for God
almighty
and this is an inward revelation God has
revealed it to man
that that which may be known of God is
manifest
in them and I want to encourage you when
you witness to friends and talk to
others about Jesus
while they may put up a wall of
rejection the fact is that within them
there's a curiosity about God
there's an emptiness without God there's
an inner witness that is convicting them
the Holy Spirit
to bring them to God and so may we be
faithful in this hour there is an inward
revelation of God
and oh how we thank God for that in fact
the Bible says
regarding the work of the Holy Ghost
that he witnesseth in every city
he's witnessing into the inner heart of
a man drawing them
to Jesus Christ but notice secondly
there's an outward revelation
we see an inward revelation we see also
an outward revelation
in verse 20 notice please for the
invisible things of
him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen being understood by the
things that are made even his eternal
power
and Godhead that they are without excuse
speaking again of those who reject God
they're without excuse why
because the things that God has created
are a wonderful testimony to the very
power of our God the invisible things of
him from creation
of the world the heavens declare the
glory
of God now as we think about this I want
you to think about
this outward revelation in two terms
first
I want you to think of it with respect
to the revelation
of cause and I speak here of cause
and effect every effect must have
an adequate cause the universe is for
example
an effect reason demands that whatever
caused the universe
must be greater than the universe
that cause is God who himself
is the uncaused cause he is eternally
pre-existent all-powerful God
who created the world remember in the
beginning
God created and so concrete reality
around us
owes its being to something else to
something greater
and the cause is almighty God now I
think about this and
and in many ways you can illustrate it I
think about the apple today and I think
about
this apple on the screen or this apple
in my hand and
when I think about something simple like
this piece of fruit it
it reminds me of the fact that the
apple did not bring itself
into being this apple did not
just appear the fact of the matter is
that a
tree pre-existed this apple and that the
reason that we have the apple
is because we have the apple tree the
tree does not explain its own existence
and
if you go back across all of the
physical causes
you cannot have an infinite series of
series of causes
you must at some point have a beginning
and the beginning is God
in the beginning God and
and so in the natural life around
us the beauty of creation around us
reminds
us that yes we see the effect
but the initial cause was the very
word of God and there must be one
self-existent cause in the beginning
God the Moody Bible Handbook describes
this beautifully when it says
the term cosmological comes from the
Greek word
cosmos meaning world this argument is
based on the fact that a cosmos
or world exists because something cannot
come from nothing
there must be an original cause that is
the reason for the world's existence
a man wears a wrist watch
although he has never seen a watchmaker
the fact of the existence of the
wristwatch
suggests that there is a watchmaker who
made the watch
the cosmological argument says that
every effect
must have a cause now the fact is that
scientists can speculate
and they do but all they really can do
is theorize about what happened
after their big bang and it's
interesting to me to hear them
talk about their thoughts and ideas
one particular scientist Stephen
Weinberg who is a
nobel prize-winning physicist said in
the beginning
there was an explosion that's his
description
of the beginning of the world the big
bang and when you follow the logic of
that particular
theory what man is saying is that we are
all
molecules in motion we are here by the
accident
of a bang that took place billions of
years ago
that's all there is but the fact is that
God
says he has placed us here for a purpose
and that we are more
than moving molecules we are his
creation
with a specific purpose and so we see
the revelation
of cause where where we see an effect
there is a cause
and we choose to believe it is not a big
bang
it is our big God
and I would suggest it takes more faith
to believe
in the accident of a big bang than it
does in the reality
of our God and so there is the
revelation of cause but I want you to
notice secondly
there is the revelation of creation now
we mentioned this a moment ago
creation verse 20 the Bible speaks of it
it says the creation of the world is
clearly seen
may I say this morning that God's
signature is all over his creation
when you stop and view the Grand Canyon
the Rocky Mountains
the Swiss Alps the great Pacific Ocean
when you see the beauty of this creation
it causes us to recognize there is a
power so much greater than accident
power so much greater than man's
ingenuity and we see that this creation
had
order the Bible says that God created
that is to speak of his institution
or
ordinance to bring to pass this that
did not previously
exist and the Bible tells us in 
I Corinthians 14:40
let all things be done decently and in
order
and that was the plan of God Psalm 119
verse 89
forever o Lord thy word is settled in
heaven by the way how many of you are
thankful for that
thy faithfulness is unto all generations
thou hast established the earth and
it abideth and so we see in God's
creation an order
we see secondly it shows us a
designer
now a moment ago I read to you from the
Moody Bible Handbook this
illustration of a watch and I want you
to think about that for a moment
if you were to take all of the contents
of a watch
and just throw them the springs and 
all of the hands and all of these things
into a box and if you then were to just
shake
that box up and just shake it as much
as you possibly could
you are not going to open that box and
find a finely assembled
Bulova watch or whatever kind of
watch inside the box
but that is exactly what modern-day
brilliant so-called
scientists are telling us is what
happened
is that somehow this ordered universe in
which we live
came about by an explosion by a shaking
and suddenly boom here were the planets
here was the earth
here were the galaxies orbiting around
one another in order
what we are saying here this morning is
that this creation
shows us that there is a designer and
that the design
has a designer and that if we had a
beginning
we had a beginner and you can see God in
his creation
Psalm 19 in verse 1 and the heavens
declare the glory of God
and the firmament showeth his handiwork
day
unto day uttereth speech and night unto
night
showeth knowledge there is no speech nor
language where their voice is not heard
oh the heavens declare the glory of
our God so that the Bible says in verse
number 20
they are without excuse
why because there's an inward revelation
there's a voice that speaks to them
concerning the fact
there is a God there is a purpose in
this life
because there is an outward revelation
all around them telling them
that there is  an effect but
then there must be a cause
and there is a grandeur and there is a
beauty there is a design
then there must be a designer to this
design
and so we speak concerning the existence
of God
based upon the inward revelation based
upon the outward revelation
but I want you to notice finally this
morning the historical revelation of God
there is an historical revelation of our
God
notice again in verse 21 it says because
that
when they knew God
now sometimes when you witness people
will say
I just don't believe in a God that would
send someone to hell
who has never heard about him now we've
already established that God
has placed within the innate intellect
of every individual the
understanding that there is a God but I
want you to think back into history for
just a moment because
there are at least two times in all of
the world's history
where every inhabitant of planet earth
knew
the plan of God for their life first was
in the very beginning
with Adam and Eve God revealed his plan
for fellowship
God revealed his plan to them and even
after
they broke that fellowship in sin he
revealed his plan of redemption through
the shedding of the blood
of an innocent lamb and yet throughout
his revelation to that early family
there was a rebellion
there was a rejection bringing us to the
time of Noah
and it was during the time of Noah once
again when God saw that men constantly
thought only evil and wicked thoughts
and
he destroyed the world but there was a
family that was spared
and in that family is a testimony that
everyone
alive on planet earth knew the plan of
God
and yet no sooner did they come out of
that ark then
the sinful habits of man begin to be
displayed once again
and a rejection of the revelation of God
even in Noah's own family
the fact is that historically
God has revealed himself to this human
race
and this human race has rejected him
time and time again how many of you
sometimes are amazed
at the mercy of God towards this human
race I am
that he is so patient and loving and
merciful towards us
but in past cultures we see this when
they
knew God I think about
the Greek and Roman empires and I
mentioned the idolatry of those empires
and
we know of the great persecution upon
the church made
by the hands of the Romans but thinking
even before that
think if you would back to Noah who I
mentioned ago
all those who lived up to Noah knew the
truth about God
but they turned away from him into
sinful living
I think of Noah's father Lamech Noah's
father would have
lived and walked even with Adam there
was a
closer lineage of understanding of the
revelation of God by those
early antediluvian families nevertheless
they rejected
the very one that had created them
the Bible says in Genesis 6:5 and
God saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth and
that every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually
we see then that in history God revealed
himself
to this people Noah went
about for decades preaching the truth
preaching the truth of God preaching the
truth of rain and judgment to come
but he was in that culture in that
generation
rejected of men I think of Israel how
that time and again God warned them
and he said all around you are false
gods and all around you are a people who
worship false gods and lift up the
altars of Baal
but time and again though they knew God
though they knew him innately though
they knew him through revelation
they chose to reject him they turned to
idols and
were judged by being dispersed and taken
into captivity
because they rejected him and by the way
God is no respecter of persons and as
this country
turns away from God there is a judgment
day coming you mark that down
our only hope in America is to turn
back to God Isaiah 1:4
speaking to the children of Israel ah
sinful nation
a people laden with iniquity a seed of
evildoers
children that are corrupters they have
forsaken the Lord
they have provoked the Holy One of
Israel unto anger they are gone away
backward verse 9
except the Lord of hosts had left unto
us a very small remnant
we should have been as Sodom and we
would have been like
unto Gomorrah time does not permit to go
to culture after culture after culture
that has seen the revelation of God
has heard the gospel of Jesus and has
turned completely and entirely
away from it you can go to some of the
great
names of wickedness if there is such a
description
throughout world history and you will
find that many of these great
persecutors of the church
at one time knew about God they attended
Sunday School
some of the great dictators of Communism
had a knowledge of God but they put it
away
and their life became a life filled
with wickedness I think of the present
culture in which we live
notice in verse 21 it says but when they
knew God they glorified him not as God
neither were thankful
G.K.Chesterson said when men choose not
to believe in God
they do not thereafter believe in
nothing
they then become capable of believing in
anything
when men choose not to believe in God
they do not thereafter believe in
nothing they
then become capable of believing in
anything and some of the things that
people run to
their eastern meditation worshiping
rocks
turning to some type of of say
satanic cults or Wiccan
worship why do they turn to such
fallacies
because their heart is hardened to
almighty God you see
and we see it in the past cultures we
see it in the present cultures
the Bible says in verse 22 professing
themselves to be wise
oh we're so wise we don't need God we'll
even sign the Humanist
Manifesto that we are our own
gods that with our intellect we don't
need
God the Bible is very clear however the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom proverbs 1:7 say it with me the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge
anytime I see a church
a family or a nation that is lacking in
its fear of
God I get concerned
I and by the way to the contrary
whenever I see any sign of our nation
showing reverence to God I get
encouraged
people were so angry at the referencing
of God
this past week sometimes in the media
listen when I hear the name of my Lord
spoken of with respect in a public place
it encourages my heart
I just have a clip of the prayer of
Franklin Graham last week at the White
House I want you to hear it
[Music]
our heavenly Father which art in heaven
we thank you for the great bounty you
have bestowed on this nation
and the many blessings we have received
these past four years
and we pray this in the mighty name of
your son
my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
amen now when you hear someone stand and
proclaim the name of the Lord and they
may not agree with every
jot and tittle of your particular way
but may I just tell you something this
morning
we ought to thank God whenever his name
is reverenced in this culture
and we ought to take note of the fact
that there are times when his name
is completely dismissed in fact some who
want to give a pledge to our flag by
removing
the names under God and what I'm helping
you to understand this morning I pray
by the grace of God is that our culture
today
though we have this revelation of God
though we have
preaching and Bibles and though
we've had strong churches in our nation
there is a turning away from God and in
fact
even this evangelist and other
Christians
as they left the lawn of the White House
a few nights ago were
jeered and were cursed and were pushed
and were shoved
because of their faith many times their
faith in Jesus Christ and their belief
in God
and what I want us to realize as
Christians it's time
that we would rise up without fear and
without apology and say
I too believe in the Lord Jesus Christ I
believe in the name of God
and I'm thankful that he is my God
our society is distancing from Christian
theism
as the fundamental explanation of our
world and
of the moral structure of our human
society this is why
modern day anarchists promote the queer
family
and burn the Bible and this is why they
want to change
even the very titles mother and father
and in France recently they voted to
change the terms
from mother and father to parent one and
parent two in order that they might be
able to please this crowd
that denies God and denies the Bible and
in turn it's going to ruin their family
and ultimately
ruin their nation and by the way what
happens when a nation
rejects belief in God well notice in
verse 24 the Bible says and
just to synopsise hear some of the
response it says
wherefore God also gave them up
unto uncleanness through the lust of
their
own hearts notice in verse 26 for this
cause
God gave them up unto vile
affections verse 28 God gave them
over to a reprobate mind
I don't know when that point is in a
person's life in a nation's life
but apparently with these past cultures
and I believe we're flirting with danger
in this present culture
there comes a point when God says all
right that's what you want
you can have it it's going to be to your
own destruction and ladies and gentlemen
it has happened before in history I
remember walking through the prison
camps at Dachau
in Germany I remember as I
saw there of the various torture
chambers the gas
chamber where Hitler would take people
in telling them
they were going to have a shower or a
bath walking them into that room and
then
laying those dear Jewish people down
into the incinerator and
piling their bones out back like they
were some type of refuse
I remember seeing the sign of Adolf
Hitler posted over
the top of the entryway we want to raise
a generation of men
void of conscience how can
people come to such depravity how can
they
do such things to their fellow citizens
how can they
take life without even thinking about it
I will tell you how it is done it is
done when anything or anyone
else replaces the position of God
in their life
their idolatry for Hitler their hatred
for the Jewish people
brought them to the most despicable
actions known
to man Isaiah 5:20 says woe unto
them that call
evil good and good evil that put
darkness for light
and light for darkness that put bitter
for sweet and sweet for bitter
people that are murdering in our streets
and people that are destroying
private property and saying this is a
good thing people that are stealing from
stores and saying
this is our reparations ladies and
gentlemen this is the sign
of a people who need the Lord
desperately
because they're calling evil good and
good
evil and people are ethically empty they
are losing their identity because they
do not
know God and we are seeing our nation
progressively becoming more
and more de-Christianized and may I say
to you there is no hope
in atheism they are without excuse
according to God's word
there is an inner revelation an outer
revelation an historical revelation
that says
you are wrong about God and you're
getting it wrong about life
and you will get it wrong about eternal
life because the wages of sin
is death but the gift of God can only be
found
through the Lord Jesus Christ
Hebrews 9 is still in the Bible it says
very clearly
and as it is appointed unto
men once to die
and after this the judgment by the way
don't get in the mindset of well
how does God let all this happen and you
know what what's listen there will come
a day of reckoning my friend
God says there will come a day of
judgment
oh friend there is a God you can turn to
him this morning in repentance
and trust his son Jesus Christ Hebrews
11:6 tells us
but without faith it is impossible to
please him
for he that cometh to God must believe
that he
is and that he is a rewarder of those
that diligently seek him oh the thing
that
comes to my heart this morning in such
great convicting power
is not only that there is a God but that
there is a God that loves me
there is a God so great that he speaks
this world
into existence there is a God so great
that he brings judgment upon the world
in love in order that redemption might
come through Noah
there is a God that has such power and
yet he knows
me and he knows you individually he that
believeth on the son
John said he that believeth on the son
hath everlasting life and he that
believeth not the son shall not see life
but the wrath of God
abideth in him yes there is a God who
will judge there is a God who has a
place of eternal wrath
but that same God is a God of love he is
a God who has made a way of escape he is
a God that has a home in heaven for you
God does not want any to perish he's not
willing that any should perish but that
all
should come to repentance what a loving
God
we serve heard of a mom recently that
said
to her five-year-old son I am losing my
mind and he looked at her and said mom
whatever you do don't lose your heart
because I'm in there
friend this morning you are in God's
heart
this great creative powerful
God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth in him
should not perish but have
everlasting life
what a wonderful God we serve
if you don't know him I want to
encourage you this morning
come to him come to his forgiving son
find redemption in the blood that was
shed
in the power of the resurrection come to
God
today and if you claim to be a Christian
but you've been marching to the beat of
this world's drum
then come back to the Bible get a
biblical world view
join us on this journey of study avoid
the confusion in our culture
by getting into the Bible oh friend
we must allow God's word to align our
direction
as we worship and serve our God
because there is an inner revelation an
outer revelation
and an historical revelation and a
biblical revelation
and a Christological revelation and I
cannot reject
God's wooing of me I must follow the one
that has revealed himself to me and I
pray that you will do that this week
as well shall we stand together
