God's Wrath on Unrighteousness
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Every sin is a challenge to God's absolute right to reign over His creation. From his sermon series in Romans, today R.C. Sproul considers the defiance of sin, the judgment it deserves, and the need we all share for Christ to deliver us from divine wrath.
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R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Every time I sin, beloved, I challenge and defy God's right to reign over his creation. |
| 0:09.4 | God's right to impose obligations to me as a creature made in his image. |
| 0:15.1 | Who am I to tell God that he has no right to restrain my behavior. |
| 0:28.5 | Ever since Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, the human race has declared independence from God. |
| 0:35.4 | And because of that, God's wrath is set against sinful man. |
| 0:39.8 | Today on Renewing Your Mind, R.C. Sprold begins a brief series focusing on the early chapters |
| 0:45.4 | of Romans. And as we'll see, the gospel must begin with bad news. Very bad news. |
| 0:55.2 | We turn our attention again to Paul's letter to the church at Rome and begin at chapter |
| 1:03.6 | 1, verse 22, and read to the end of the chapter. |
| 1:12.0 | Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God |
| 1:20.7 | into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Therefore, God also gave them up |
| 1:33.5 | to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves, |
| 1:41.7 | who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature |
| 1:48.0 | rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. And for this reason, God gave them up to vile |
| 1:59.0 | passions, for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is |
| 2:06.0 | against nature. Likewise, also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their |
| 2:15.7 | lust for one another, men with men, committing what is shameful, and receiving in |
| 2:24.2 | themselves the penalty of their error, which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God |
| 2:33.6 | in their knowledge, |
| 2:35.7 | God gave them over to a debased mind to do those things which are not fitting, |
| 2:44.3 | being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, |
| 2:59.1 | strife, deceit, evil-mindedness. |
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