All right, so if you'll take your Bibles and go to Romans chapter 2 as we continue in our study through the book of Romans,

this is only our third week into it. So if you're new to our study, you haven't missed too much.

And I'll do somewhat of a recap as we head in here to chapter 2.

And as I've been saying for the past couple of weeks, before we can get to the good news in Romans, we have to first

make our way through the bad news. And the bad news that God tells us has to do with the human

condition. God's perspective of the human condition, the way he describes the human condition

is very different from the way the world describes the human condition.

The basic narrative of the world goes like this.

You are basically a good person.

And so just continue to be good and be kind and improve your already good condition and be even better.

And so the story goes.

But God's view of the human condition is quite the opposite.

That man is not basically good, man is basically bad, and thus mankind needs a savior.

That's why God sent Jesus to save us from our bad condition, to rescue us and to forgive us of our sins. But you can't and I can't

appreciate and understand our need for Jesus until we first see the bad news. Because since we are

sinners, we are subject to we deserve God's wrath. Now, the word wrath appears more in the book

of Romans, at least proportionally,

than any other book of the Bible. And so it is an important word. We need to understand. And this

basic definition is God's righteous anger, his divine indignation, and just punishment in response

to human sin. And so we are subject to God's wrath because we are guilty. We are

sinners. We're not good people. We're bad people. But God so loved the world that he gave

his son Jesus. So that's the good news. But we got to wade through the bad news. First three

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