2. 2. Human Sinfulness: False Worship Romans 1:18-32 p. 1037 - 1038 Romans:

3. Disordered worship leads to disorder in Creation

4. Two Choices  Live in “Obedience of Faith”  Acknowledge who God is  Live under his grace and Lorship  Live in Sin – reject God  Live under some other Master Obedience of faith - OR - Sin (Rejecting God)

5. How it’s supposed to be Human Worship Care Stewardship Human Creation: Things & Animals Love

6. How we messed it up Human Creation: Things & Animals Worship Exploit Worship Exploit

7. 1. A Deliberate Choice  Humans “suppress the truth” (v 18)  God has made himself known through creation  It’s not what we know, but that we suppress it.  The existence of creation indicates a Creator  Humans exchanged the truth for a lie (v 25)

8. 2. God handed us over  God gave us over to our distorted desires: v. 24 “God gave them over to the desires of their hearts” v. 26 “God gave them over to shameful lusts” v. 28 “God gave them over to a depraved mind”  Two parallel phrases in the Greek: v. 17 “For the righteousness of God is being revealed... ” v. 18 “For the wrath of God is being revealed... ”  Happening simultaneously in the PRESENT !

9. 2. God handed us over... Disordered worship leads to disorder in creation  The natural is replaced by the unnatural  Leads to disorder in human relationships:  Greed, envy, murder, strife, deceit, gossip, disobeying parents, no mercy  Breaking the first 4 commandments (Exodus 20)  Leads to breaking the other 6 commandments  Paul is talking about societies in general.

10. Disordered worship leads to disorder in Creation  Human beings will not live in “obedience of faith”... because of an act of rebellion.  Reject the truth...... approve of others who do the same (v 31)