SUNDAY SERMON - “The Grace Of Shame” | How America Became Super Gay

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Romans 1:24-32 is clear, when a society willfully chooses to reject God's truth in exchange for the lie, as well as reject God's glory in exchange for the glory of the creature, God promises to hand them over to their sins and the horrible consequences which will inevitably follow. Romans 1:18 assures us that God has clearly revealed himself to all people, both by his creation and his just wrath toward sinners. So in Romans 1:24-32, the Apostle Paul is merely demonstrating precisely how the wrath of God is revealed. One clear demonstration of the wrath of God is God's choice to hand sinners over to their own lusts, so that they might receive the “due penalty” for their sin (the natural consequences of sin). In other words, sin is its own punishment (not the only/ultimate punishment). Apart from God’s “saving grace” (found only in Christ), all people have embraced their own rebellion by casting off the righteous rule of God and his Law. Therefore, on one level, Romans 1:24-32 applies to each and every individual who has been born. However, on another level, Romans 1:24-32 also applies to collective societies and cultures down through human history. At the Tower of Babel, arrogant sinners defied God and incurred his just judgment. At Sodom and Gomorrah, the people were so corrupt that God rained down fire and consumed their cities. Furthermore, when God told Moses and Joshua to utterly destroy the Canaanites, it was because these wicked and godless people had filled up the full measure of God's wrath by committing heinous acts of rebellion for over 400 years (Genesis 15:13-16). In short, when a society abandons God, God will abandon them.

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0:00.0	Amen. This morning we're going to put our series through the book of Joshua on pause.
0:04.7	If you're joining us for the first time, a typical steady weekend and week out diet of Covenant Bible Church.
0:12.0	When it comes to the preaching, is expository preaching, going through whole books of the Bible,
0:15.8	starting at the beginning and working our way towards the end, taking a few verses or perhaps an entire chapter at a time.
0:23.3	And so right now we are preaching through the book of Joshua after that, Lord willing,
0:28.0	we're going to preach through the book of Ezra.
0:31.0	And so Joshua is taking the land.
0:32.9	It's kind of the theme.
0:33.9	Taking the land.
0:35.1	And then Ezra is a book that comes on the heels of Israel,
0:40.1	the people of God having been conquered by their enemies because of their unfaithfulness to the Lord,
0:46.3	that they had taken the land by God's grace, but they proved to be faithless in the land.
0:51.9	And so they were under God's judgment and became captives.
0:56.0	They were exiles taken captive by enemy nations, but eventually in God's mercy once again
1:02.7	they were freed and allowed to go and reestablish, rebuild the land. So this year, that's our
1:09.0	goal is to look at Joshua taking the land, but then also
1:12.6	look at what it is to rebuild after having been conquered because of compromise, because of sin.
1:19.7	And I believe that there are a lot of correlations from the book of Joshua, but even more so
1:24.9	for our time and our place, our context today, with the book of
1:28.8	Ezra, what it looks like to be in a nation that was founded on Christian principles, but because
1:35.0	of apathy, because of compromise, because of unfaithfulness, there's been a regression.
1:41.9	And by God's grace, we're seeking to rebuild. You might say that we're seeking
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