• 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

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.

2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every
one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself— that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and
forbearance and patience, not knowing that
God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and
impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

21 you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking
the law. 24 For, as it is written, “The name of
God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” 25 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

• 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 22:37-40
• 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. John 14:15

• 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who
can understand it? 10 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” Jeremiah 17:9-10

2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we
all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
like the rest of mankind. Ephesians 2:1-3

10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for
God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” 13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 in their paths are ruin and misery, 17 and the way of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no
fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held
accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

• Sin’s Penalty, Power, Presence
• Adam and Eve before the Fall
– Able not to sin
– Able to sin
• All people after the Fall
– Not able not to sin
– Able to sin
• Redeemed Believers after the Fall
– Able not to sin
– Able to sin
• Glorified Believers in Heaven
– Able not to sin
– Not able to sin

• Without Christ all will suffer God’s wrath eternally
• No one deserves salvation
• All saved are saved by God’s Grace
• Therefore no boasting except in Christ
• Therefore be grateful always
• Therefore live to honor Christ