You know, all you need to do is to be alive to realize that our nation is bitterly divided.

We've been divided before, but bitterly divided.

We are seeing some spectacular self-righteousness and judgmentalism in display between the various political factions. Each side calls the other evil.

Each side is convinced of their own self-righteousness and of the rightness of their political

position. I'm not here to condemn or judge either, but according to God, not me, but according to God, they will both be judged

severely by Him. In fact, all of creation will be judged by God, and that they seem to be closer

than we think. That is, unless they repent of their sin, that is unless they confess that they are

sinners and in desperate need of the Savior, that is unless they declare that there is no salvation,

there is no hope apart from Jesus Christ. In fact, God's word makes it very clear. The time of

ignorance God has overlooked, but now he commands

everyone everywhere to repent, for he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world by

this man, Jesus, whom he raised from the dead. That's the promise of God. And that's the only

basis of the judgment of God on the day of judgment.

In the last message, we saw how God will judge those who have inverted his truth.

We saw how God is going to judge those who have perverted his gifts.

We saw how God will judge those who have darkened mind.

And immediately following that pronouncement that we saw in the last message,

literally, if Paul was speaking and not writing,

you can literally sense that he has not taken a breath.

He did not even take a breath in without immediately

jumping straight, immediately, upon those moralistic, self-righteous religious Pharisees,

immediately from chapter 1 to chapter 2. There is no division in the original.

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