He also says he serves God with all his heart in preaching the gospel of Jesus, he prays for the believers in Rome and longs to see them to impart a spiritual gift and mutually encourage each other. He is bound to the Greeks and non-Greeks, not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God.
We are those entrusted with the gospel of God, and so he is compelled to preach the gospel. When we preach the gospel, we are simply discharging the trust given to us.
Paul teaches that the gospel is God's - He promised it before through His prophets in the Scriptures, regarding His Son. Paul preaches it and is unashamed of it, because it is the power of God for everyone who believes - first the Jew, then the Gentile. In it, a righteousness from God is revealed - by faith from first to last.
Paul's argument is that the sin of humans is deliberate, because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain.
They deliberately choose to not glorify Him or give thanks to Him. Since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities - His eternal power & divine nature have been clearly seen and understood from creation, so we are without excuse.
The sin of humans is spiritual - a deliberate throwing off of God's rule, mental - it is about our thinking and affects our hearts, moral - it means that they do things that are unnatural and don't serve God, and therefore the physical effects will come upon them.
God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of humans who suppress the truth by their wickedness. v24 shows that God gives them over to their sinful desires, v26 God gives them over to shameful lusts, v28 God gives them over to a depraved mind.
God promises there will be judgment for the sins of the world.
Four things said about God's judgment (2:1-16)
It is based on truth (v2)
God will give to each person according to what they have done (v6)
God does not show favouritism (v11)
The day is coming when God will judge people's secrets through Jesus, as the gospel declares (v16)
God's judgment is just and very real - it is coming one day to all.
2v7-10
We will be judged according to the way we live. Do we seek glory, honour & immortality (for God)? We will receive eternal life. Are we self-seeking, rejecting the truth and following evil? There will be wrath and anger, trouble & distress.
The day of wrath is delayed so that we may be judged through Jesus Christ -
"Because the sinless Saviour died
For God the just is satisfied
My sinful soul is counted free.
To look on Him and pardon me."
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