The wrath of God of God is being revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men who by their unrighteousness suppress. Hold down the truth.

We are by nature, God rejectors.

So what hope do we have if we twist the truth of God

by nature?

John Piper turns to Romans 1, 28 to 32,

to answer that question in this episode of Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on November 8, 1998.

Paul's teaching about why a society degenerates further and further into unrestrained debauched, destructive evil is unlike any analysis you will hear today.

One of the reasons for that is that when a society is thinking into moral decay, it no longer has the categories or the framework to recognize what's happening so that the

analyses from within aren't accurate.

They are symptomatic of the problem.

The social mind becomes so defective that the moral decidence is reflected in it rather than being named by it. Now we live in such a day in America

and the inability to render sound moral judgments abounds everywhere you look, almost.

Which makes this passage of scripture incredibly relevant to us.

Precisely because it is so foreign to us.

Today, something that doesn't sound foreign, something that doesn't sound strange, morally, or spiritually, is probably an echo of the atmosphere we are breathing and

therefore of no use to us no matter how good it makes us feel. We need a word from outside our defective world and

our depraved thinking. We need a word from God. Now what we have in today's text is a list of 21 kinds of evil.

What I would like to do with these few verses is three things. I want to

ask where does this come from? Where does this list come from?

Then I want to ask, why is it here?

Why did he do this?

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