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We are all idolators

We are all idolators. Romans 1:18-31. 1. What is the greatest danger to our world as we know it today?. 2. 3. 1. All mankind is under God's Wrath. 4. Nature of Gods wrath. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven. Orge. 5. upsurging. 6. 7. Human wrath.

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We are all idolators

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  1. We are all idolators • Romans 1:18-31 1

  2. What is the greatest danger to our world as we know it today? 2

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  4. 1. All mankind is under God's Wrath 4

  5. Nature of Gods wrath • For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven... Orge 5

  6. upsurging 6

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  8. Human wrath Unreasonable, irrational, uncontrollable, excessive, disproportionate Father ,head master 8

  9. Rationale for Gods wrath suppression of truth • For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousnesssuppress the truth. Not against us but against what we have done 9

  10. The truth suppressed • 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, inthe 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 Creation purpose..set stage for fellowship God n man Deliberate , premeditated 10

  11. It’s like this psychic switch went off in my heart, my mind, my soul. I hadn’t seen her for 30 years; I wasn’t even aware of her, and suddenly she’s there. I just love her so much" Narelle Grech and Ray Tonna 11

  12. Acts 17:26-27 • And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, The most natural thing in world..children 12

  13. March Tullius Cicero • "When one examines the heavens and the earth one cannot but believe that some god or higher power is responsible for such a magnificent, intricately designed and enormous structure" Plato, Aristotle 13

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  15. Love Wrath “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 Wrath is reflex of love India case 15

  16. Shin Dong Hyuk spouse 16

  17. 2. The consequence is deception and idolatry 17

  18. Altered thinking • 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 18

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  20. Rihanna and Brown 20

  21. Even if it's a mistake, it's my mistake…I'd rather just live my truth." 21

  22. Futile..in their thinking Mataia...idol..useless nothing Thinking that has loss touch with reality • Foolish hearts darkened Inner ability to reason became flawed 22

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  24. 2 Cor 4:3-4 • And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 24

  25. 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. Romans 1:22-23 Impossible to find their way back to God 25

  26. Idolatry • 24Therefore God gave them upin 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. Whom are you serving? 26

  27. Babel 27

  28. Idolatry is misdirected worship 28

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  31. 3. God's judgement was:Letting them go 31

  32. Altered morality • 24Therefore 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. 32

  33. 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. 33

  34. Evil behaviour • 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. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. 34

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  36. New York City Blackout July 14, 1977 25 hr black out Society code of conduct is too often a thin veneer and that when imposed conduct restriction are removed the human animal is quick to revert to unacceptable behaviour in order to satisfy his avarice his hate or both City began to devour itself . Abc news 36

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  39. And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family. Judges 8:27 39

  40. Ezekiel 14:1-2 • Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me. And the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. 40

  41. Jonah 41

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  43. His gospel message • “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” Jonah 3:4 43

  44. The response • And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, Jonah 3:5 44

  45. Jonah's response • Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” Jonah 4:3 45

  46. What are our idols? 46

  47. Challenge 47

  48. Testimony of woman 48

  49. Col 3:1-3 • If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above,not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 49

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