The Good News of Salvation in Jesus Christ

Studies in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans

Lesson 3 : The Universal Depravity and Responsibility of Man  (1:18-32)

GOD’S WRATH AND WHY IT IS JUSTIFIED (1:18-20)  –  THE ‘WRATH OF GOD’  –  CLEARLY REVEALED  –  UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN  –  WHO ‘HOLD DOWN’ THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS  –  NATURAL REVELATION  –  HOW DOES GOD REVEAL HIMSELF NATURALLY? (CREATION, PROVIDENCE, CONSCIENCE)  –  WHAT DOES MAN KNOW OF GOD BY NATURAL REVELATION?  –  WHAT IS THE END RESULT OF NATURAL REVELATION? (MAN IS WITHOUT EXCUSE)  –  ARE THE HEATHEN LOST?  –  THE FOUNDATION FOR THE GOSPEL: THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN  –  THE SAD TRANSACTION  –  GOD ‘HANDS THEM OVER’  –  THE ‘DE-VOLUTION’ OF MAN  –  MAN FINDS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOD  –  THE DUTY OF MAN  –  OXYMORON: PROFESSING WISDOM, MAN BECOMES A FOOL  –  THE PUNISHMENT OF GOD: GIVING MAN WHAT HE WANTS  –  ‘THE’ TRUTH EXCHANGED FOR ‘THE’ LIE  –  GIVEN OVER TO SHAMEFUL PASSIONS  –  GOD UNTOUCHED BY SINFUL MAN’S REBELLION  –  THE SINS OF LESBIANISM AND HOMOSEXUALISM  –  ‘THEY BURNED’  –  RECEIVED THE DUE PENALTY  –  GOD WAS NOT ‘WORTHWHILE’ KNOWING  –  GIVEN OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND  –  HOMOSEXUALS CAN BE SAVED!  –  ‘VICE LIST’ (1:29-31)  –  CONCLUSION / TRANSITION (1:32)  –  APPENDIX: STATISTICAL INFORMATION RE: HOMOSEXUALITY