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Understanding That The Law Produces Unrighteousness (Romans 1:18-31)

Mick Mooney, April 14, 2010
Part of the Romans series, preached at a Web message service

An in depth study of Paul's letter to the Romans

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Romans 1:18-31

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. (ESV)

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  1. Hiya, just been listening to your ephesians (enjoyed romans – very much) cos I’m studying ephesians and I came across this teaching which really blessed me in reading eph 1 and thought I’d share it with you too, it also linked with Gal 3:24- Gal 4:7.
    In our culture when we talk about the adoption of a son we are actually talking about taking a non biological child and including it as part of your family. That’s a wonderful practice but that’s not what the bible means when it talks about adoption and it’s important we understand this. When the bible speaks about adoption it speaks about a father having his own biological son. What happened in those days was a father would take his son and would contract tutors and teachers to teach that child in certain areas to become effective in those areas. Once the Father was happy with the development of the Son he would then call a ceremony which was called the adoption ceremony. It was the acknowledgement of the young child now becoming mature, and in that moment the father identified the son as his heir. (The Jews still have a similar ceremony, BHAMITZVA where he becomes a son of the law, he has accomplished his learning).
    The words then which the son is referred to changes, what he was always referred to was nepios meaning a little child, one that doesn’t have legal standing yet (Gal 4:1), but the reference then changes to a different word, Huios , meaning sonship, a mature son an Heir, one that can inherit.
    If we can understand this meaning of sonship then you know you have been included not that you have to try to become, and we can take hold of our full inheritance.
    At this adoption ceremony two important things happened the first thing is that the father prepared a cloak or robe for his child. A cloak was a very important thing in biblical times because it referred to your identity. It revealed who you are, just like a uniform identifies your status in society today. For example if you were a king you had a king’s cloak, a priest; a priest’s cloak, a butcher; a butcher’s cloak and so on.
    The father prepared a robe for his son that would identify him as an inheritor, whenever he put on this robe everyone would know that he is now an heir.
    The second important thing at the ceremony was that the father would shout out publicly “This is my Son” (still done at Bhamitzva’s) .
    This information is helpful in understanding our identity as ‘adopted sons’ and our inheritance both of which the bible speaks a lot of.
    WOW! Enjoy love from rachel.

    • That’s awesome Rachel, thanks so much for explaning this, it gave me some well needed enlightment on our heavenly Father’s perspective and intention in His act of adoption towards us, Kingdom kids. Thanks again, and be blessed abundantly.
      Keeper.

  2. Thanks brother -:) I am listing now..

  3. Enjoyed listing….Thanks for sharing. Blessings

  4. Mick, i just started listening to Romans 1:1-31. It's wonderful to know i don't have to judge people. My church is talking about the need of accountibility partners. Isn't that the same thing as judging one another? You are a blessing to me. Agnes Grace

  5. Romans 5,1-11 was just mindblowingly amazing Mick! I feel like looking for more synonyms for 'good' as I run out of adjectives to describe Jesus… haha

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