Unbelief is inexcusable. Even people who have never touched a Bible are condemned for dismissing God’s clear revelation in nature. From his expositional series in the book of Romans, today R.C. Sproul warns of God’s wrath and points us to the only refuge from our guilt. Get R.C. Sproul’s commentary on the book of Romans for your donation of any amount: Learn more about the gospel, the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ: Meet Today’s Teacher: R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. Meet the Host: Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children. Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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Paul says that everyone in this world stands without an excuse. There's no excuse of ignorance before God, not when He Himself has given you the information, so that any plea of ignorance will be an empty plea and will have no effect with God.
The Book of Romans makes a powerful statement about the state of lost sinners. They are culpable for their sin, whether they want to admit it or not. Welcome to the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. Today, R.C. Sproul continues his short sermon series in the opening portion of the Book of Romans.
You can, of course, have Dr. Sproul as your guide through the entire epistle when you request his line-by-line commentary with your donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org before midnight tonight. In today's sermon, R.C. Sproul explains that each of us needs to find a solution for our sin because the wrath of God is revealed against our unrighteousness. Here's Dr. Sproul.
Paul introduces this epistle by mentioning the main theme of the revelation of that righteousness that is available to us in the gospel.
And so after that introduction and the setting forth of the theme of the epistle, I think that we would naturally assume and expect that he would then plunge immediately into an explanation of the content of the gospel and an explanation of this doctrine of justification by faith alone that is so central to the epistle.
but he no sooner mentions this wonderful revelation of the righteousness that is by faith that he switches and now introduces another revelation, the revelation of the wrath of God. And there's a method to his madness.
I'm sure the reason why the apostle introduces the wrath of God at this point is that no one can really fully appreciate the good news as good news except against the backdrop of our guilt before God. what the apostle says here before he develops the theme of the gospel is that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men.
Now think for a second how perfectly appropriate it is that a holy and righteous God would be moved to anger against evil. A good judge who has no distaste for evil would not be a good judge at all. But notice that God is angry with two distinctive things that are mentioned, ungodliness or irreverence, impiety would be another word. The Latin is impietos here, and unrighteousness.
Now, those two terms, ungodliness and unrighteousness, are wide and vast generic terms. that cover a multitude of sins. But Paul's not talking about a multitude of sins at the moment. He has in view one particular sin. There's one sin that provokes God's anger. And what I want us to grasp here, dear friends, is that this sin is a universal sin. It is a sin committed by every human being.
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