LIVE: "He Gave Them Up" (Romans 1:18-32), Part 1/4

Send us Fan MailGod’s wrath is one topic most people try to soften, redefine, or dodge, but Romans 1 refuses to let us. We pick up at Romans 1:18 and follow Paul’s turn from the righteousness of God revealed by faith to the wrath of God revealed from heaven against ungodliness and unrighteousness. We talk plainly about what wrath is and is not, why it is a present reality as well as a future certainty, and why sin is never just “personal” but always vertical against God and destructive toward other people.From there, we get into the uncomfortable core: people “hold the truth in unrighteousness.” We unpack what it means to cling to an invented version of truth, why pride pushes us to add our own effort to salvation, and why receiving grace feels like receiving charity. We also connect the gospel to God’s sovereignty, insisting that saving power is God’s work from start to finish, not a project we complete with willpower, moral cleanup, or religious performance.Then we press into suppression of truth as a moral act, not an intellectual glitch. Romans 1:19 says what may be known of God is manifest within, so accountability is grounded in God’s revelation, not in our arguments. That shapes how we think about atheism, apologetics, and evangelism: we do not win people by getting stuck in endless debates, we bear down with the gospel and trust God to interrupt the heart.Subscribe for more verse-by-verse teaching, share this with someone who wrestles with grace and pride, and leave a review with the question you want us to tackle next.Support the showBE PROVOKED AND BE PERSUADED!