Romans Chapter 1Present Revelation of God's Wrath - Part 1

Refusal to Acknowledge and Thank God

Romans 1:18-20 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 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.


God is filled with fury at the attitude of all mankind because all men suppress the plain truth. There is a God. That there is a God in heaven is evident from the creation itself. All around us is order and beauty, complexity and variety that our minds tell us could only have come from a Creator. The silliest rubbish ever to spring from man’s perverse and rebellious mind is, for example, evolutionism. Taken to its logical conclusion it says that the universe created itself from nothing.

Can you imagine anything more foolish than that? You would have to be deceived or self-deluded in order to believe such a thing, when you are surrounded by the plain evidence of intelligent design and a power beyond human imagination. Yet such is the foolishness of man in his desire to deny God that he will grasp at this nonsense – or at any other nonsense – rather than submit to God.

If men submitted then they would be thankful to Him. Or, if they would be thankful then they might find the way to submission. But despite the fact that every part of the universe, including the wonder of our own bodies screams out the glory of God, and that our every breath is a gift that comes from beyond our own power to grant or sustain it – despite the obvious fact that we are creatures (creations) we prefer to be self-existent, self-reliant, self-absorbed, self-pleasing and self-serving little gods in our own right.