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Why Are These Things Happening

Romans 1:18 For mthe wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;" [1]

I.   Unwavering

     A. Always

     B. Above

II. Ungodliness

     A. Absence

     B. Allegiance

III. Unrighteousness

     A. Against

     B. Absolution

Introduction:  We have come through another tumultuous week of change on planet earth.  To understand what is happening means that we must understand the adversary.  He is the author of confusion.  He can only do what God allows him to do.  When God unleashes the devil to allow God’s wrath to be seen it is a hot, hot time.  The heat is on!  We are seeing the growing embers of God’s fire.

The people of God, we are being refined into the perfect church that will be ready for the picking out of this world.  To refine requires fire.  Riding through the oil fields of the southeast during the night darkness allows you to see the fire plumes coming from refineries.  In the northeast fire is used to smelter iron ore and blend it with carbon to make steel.  The fire to make steam with a boiler in a power plant is so bright that you must look though a welding hood otherwise you will suffer temporary loss of sight.  His fire is growing more each day.

Changes are coming so fast now that they are dizzying.  If you have ever experienced motion sickness someone probably told you to concentrate on something that doesn’t move.  If you are on a boat it is good to focus on the boat and not the water.  I’ve been told that watching the water go up and down is the worst thing to do.  It’s the same in flight.  If you can focus on the instrument panel you and not the ground it helps somehow.

Motion sickness is not a good subject for me to talk about because for no reason that I control, I’ve never experienced motion sickness.  I’ve gotten kind of queasy watching other people as they were sick but motion doesn’t bother me; except one time when I was having flight training for unusual attitude recovery.  My instrument instructor had me “under the hood.”  To simulate flying with no visual reference the student has a hood placed on his head that only allows vision of the instrument panel so the student cannot see outside of the plane.

George Matkins was my instrument instructor.  He was a very seasoned pilot.  He was check pilot for US Air when he gave me instrument instruction.  Check pilots qualify the line pilots for currency.  They are souped up flight instructors.  George wanted to get back in the cockpit but he lacked computer knowledge and the big jets all had glass cockpits.  We traded training.

When he retired he was flying international flights in Boeing 757s and 767s.  He loved flying more than anybody I had ever known and he was very talented.  I trusted him with my life in an airplane.

The day of my queasiness was not in a simulator.  We were in a real plane.  I was under the hood as directed me to put the plane into a spin.  When he lifted my hood so I could see, we were descending in a spiral.  I saw the ground approaching pretty fast and it was spinning.  He had to talk me out of getting sick.  YOU HAVE GOT TO FLY THE AIRPLANE OR WE ARE GOING TO DIE!  Ask Rachael after church if she is glad that George taught me that day.

When the world is spinning out of control you must focus on the unmovable truth.  When the world is spinning out of control you must put your life in the hands of The One that you can trust and learn from Him.

Scripture:  The scripture today is Romans 1:18.  Please stand if you can for the reading of God’s Word.

Prayer:  Please be seated.

Message:  Last week we talked about shame.   The apostle Paul said that He was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.  We considered the things that shame us.  How do you feel when the things that shame you are forced upon you?  I don’t know about you but it makes me sick.  It makes God sick too.  When God has had enough He does things to show who He is.  The more God is ignored the more He allows to happen.  We can read this truth throughout the Bible.

There are a few background scriptures that go along with this.  Acts 17:30 says, “And the times of this ignorance God iwinked at; but know commandeth all men every where to repent:[2]” [3]  Ephesians 5:6 says, “pLet no man deceive you with vain words: for qbecause of these things cometh rthe wrath of God upon sthe children of ||disobedience.[4]” [5]  Colossians 3:6 oFor which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on pthe children of ndisobedience:[6]” [7]  In Romans 5:9 Paul said this, “ Much more then, being now justified oby his blood, pwe shall be saved from wrath through him.[8]”  [9]

Listen again as we read Romans 1:18-20.  “For mthe wrath of God is.”  In a world where the Bible is revised every few years because of the way language changes, God’s wrath is unwavering.  For the wrath of God is!  We hear folks talk about a loving God and He is.  His love never changes.  For Him to be a loving God means that He must be a just God.  It would be terribly unfair for some to be paid for doing a thing right while others assume that to be righteous is payment enough.  Jesus was already the King of kings when He came here.  Jesus was obedient to God The Father expecting nothing in return except to honor His Father.

He had nothing left to be paid for.  It would be terribly unfair for Jesus to have suffered the cross for us so that sinners who continue in sin can simply go free.  The wrath of God is and will always be because God is and always will be above all things!  He does not conform to our way of ungodliness.  He is in heaven and that is where we must look to for His guidance.  That is a righteous thing.

For God so loved the world!  We see this word “for” in many places especially in the 1900 KJV that we use here for our pew Bibles.  It does not only mean that it is for God!  It means that because God loves us, that is the reason that God does what He does.  The wrath of God is revealed to us because God loves us who love Him.  If and when we decide to love God we display His Godliness.   If and when we decide to acknowledge and follow Jesus we are known by His name.  We are Christians.  That is why God does what He does for us.

So what is God against?  “For mthe wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.”  We assume that someone is either for a thing or against a thing.  We tend to look at it backwards or at least I do.  If someone is for me they can’t be against me.  Jesus actually took it further in Luke 9:49-50, 49 aAnd John answered and said, bMaster, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.” [10]

If a person is not coming out against something Jesus is saying that is the same as being for the thing.  Jesus is giving us the benefit of the doubt.  If someone doesn’t come right out and stand against the things that Jesus says are righteous, then that person is not to be put out.

Are there any ungodly people then?  What is ungodliness?  To say that there is no god or that God is invalid is saying that there is only absence.  It is saying that God is nowhere.  Ungodliness then is refusing to have allegiance for God because you believe that you are your own God and nobody has any hold over you.

We pledge allegiance to a flag that represents a nation that is under God.  What does that mean to have allegiance in something?  Do you have allegiance for the nation which God has placed you into?  We are not to revere anything above God.  We are to appreciate what God has given us as any child who appreciates what their parents have given them through love.  If you discount God and all that He provides then you hold no allegiance for anything except what you consider to be from you alone.  That means that you are the Supreme Being in your little world view. The things that you treasure apart from yourself are all absent.  No God!  No allegiance!

To be unrighteous means that it does not matter to you that someone else matters.  It only matters that everyone cowers down to what you want.  It means that you are against everything and everyone that gets in your way of total absolution for you while everyone else is held in contempt.  It means that only your rights matter to you.  You are unrighteous to all except you.  God is righteous to the point that in 1 John 3:9 God spoke these words through John, “ vIf we confess our sins, he is xfaithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to scleanse us from all unrighteousness.” [11]

To such people as these there is no righteousness apart from what they consider to be acceptable to them.  Is it really possible to see so many things that you have no part in, that you are totally dependent upon, and not know that there is a greater power than yourself?  Verse twenty says no, “For othe invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, pbeing understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; ||so that they are qwithout excuse:”  [12]  Why are these things happening?  So that God can be clearly seen as The One True Righteous God.

Prayer:

Invitation:  Romans 1:21 "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but rbecame svain in their imaginations, and their tfoolish heart swas darkened. 22 uProfessing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And vchanged the glory of the uncorruptible God into wan image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and wfourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore xGod also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, yto dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed zthe truth of God into aa lie, and worshipped and served the creature ||more than the Creator, who is bblessed for ever. Amen." [13]

Today we have a choice as with every day.  Do we sink in despair while the things that are happening affect us or do we do that which we know to do?  Do we follow the crowd and believe those who are lost or do we continue to trust in the Lord with all our hearts.

The answer is clear Christian.  Through these tests our faith is made stronger so that we know more and more each day that He alone is worthy of our faith and our trust.  The invitation today is not to walk in a way that will cause the lost to turn away from us but to show faith in God even while living as a peaceable foreigner in this foreign, fallen world.  We are on our way to an eternity with our Righteous Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  The altar is open to pray for the strength to carry on in this fallen word.  Come to Him as we sing…

m So Acts 17:30. Eph. 5:6. Col. 3:6. Comp. ch. 5:9.
[1] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Ro 1:18). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
i So Ecclus. 28:7. Comp. 1 Pet. 1:14. See ch. 14:16.
k Luke 24:47. So Tit. 2:11, 12. 1 Pet. 4:3.
[2] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Ac 17:30). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
[3] American Bible Society. (1992). The Holy Bible: The Good news Translation (2nd ed., Ac 17:30). New York: American Bible Society.
p See Matt. 24:4. & Rom. 16:18. So Col. 2:4.
q Col. 3:6.
r See Rom. 1:18.
s See ch. 2:2.
|| Or, unbelief. Col. 3:6. See Heb. 4:11.
[4] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Eph 5:6). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
[5] American Bible Society. (1992). The Holy Bible: The Good news Translation (2nd ed., Eph 5:6). New York: American Bible Society.
o See Eph. 5:6.
p See Eph. 2:2.
n Eph. 5:5. Comp. Job 31:25, 26.
[6] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Col 3:6). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
[7] American Bible Society. (1992). The Holy Bible: The Good news Translation (2nd ed., Eph 5:6). New York: American Bible Society.
o See ch. 3:25.
p 1 Thess. 1:10. Comp. ch. 1:18.
[8] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Ro 5:9). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
[9] American Bible Society. (1992). The Holy Bible: The Good news Translation (2nd ed., Ro 5:9). New York: American Bible Society.
m So Acts 17:30. Eph. 5:6. Col. 3:6. Comp. ch. 5:9.
m So Acts 17:30. Eph. 5:6. Col. 3:6. Comp. ch. 5:9.
a Ver. 49, 50, Mark 9:38–40.
b ver. 33.
[10] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Lk 9:49–50). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
v Ps. 32:5. & 51:3.
x So Ps. 143:1.
s ver. 9. So 1 Cor. 6:11. See Ps. 65:3. & Rom. 4:25. & Tit. 2:14.
[11] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., 1 Jn 1:9). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
o Acts 14:17. & 17:24–27. ch. 2:14, 15. Comp. Ps. 94:10. Luke 12:48.
p Comp. Ps. 19:1.
|| Or, that they may be. But comp. Gk. of ch. 7:5.
q ch. 2:1 (Gk.). Comp. ch. 3:19.
[12] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Ro 1:20). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
r See 2 Kin. 17:15.
s Eph. 4:17, 18.
t ver. 31 (Gk.).
s Eph. 4:17, 18.
u Eccles. 7:23. Jer. 10:14?
v Jer. 2:11.
w So Deut. 4:15–19. Ps. 106:20. Ezek. 8:10. Wisd. 12:24. See Acts 17:29.
w So Deut. 4:15–19. Ps. 106:20. Ezek. 8:10. Wisd. 12:24. See Acts 17:29.
x ver. 26, 28. Ephes. 4:19. See Ps. 81:12.
y Comp. 1 Cor. 6:18. 1 Thess. 4:4. 1 Pet. 4:3.
z See 1 John 5:20.
a Isai. 28:15. & 44:20. Jer. 10:14. & 13:25. Amos 2:4. So Hab. 2:18. Comp. 2 Thess. 2:11.
|| Or, [rather].
b See ch. 9:5.
[13] The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Ro 1:21–25). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.