Inventors of Evil

Answers are hard to come by when we try to understand why there is so much violence in our world. "Why?" has got to be the most asked question ever. Why? There IS an answer.

I heard a prominent pastor once say, "When the pews get a little too full I like to pull out one of my 'Wrath of God' sermons." First off, can a church ever be "too full"? But secondly, what is a "Wrath of God" sermon. Open your Bibles to Romans 1 and hold on to your butts.

"18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." - Romans 1:18-32

There is a lot of present-day society represented in this passage of scripture from The Book of Romans. In light of the recent shootings in Texas and Ohio we seem to definitely be a world filling with "inventors of evil." And Paul was preaching to The Church in Rome itself 2000 years ago!

Imagine what the world will look like when Jesus returns and raptures His church out of here. It's not going to be pretty for those who have been left behind. Our future is a personal choice made by each one of us. The choice we make will have eternal consequences. The only question that remains is, "Are we ready?"

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