“Exchanging Truth for a Lie”

“Exchanging Truth for a Lie” (Romans 1:20–23)

Pastor Cameron Jungels

Eastside Baptist Church

Sunday AM, February 19, 2017

 

Romans 1:20-23, NIV

²⁰ For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-- his eternal power and divine nature-- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.  ²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.  ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

 

1. God has revealed himself with sufficient knowledge of himself to render all people accountable for their rejection of him (20).

             a. There is such a thing as natural revelation.

             b. What God reveals to people in nature is limited.

             c. The results of natural revelation are negative: enough to convict and leave them without excuse.

 

2. People suppressed and rejected the knowledge of God revealed in Creation and refused to give God the glory and thanks due him (21).

 

3. In our refusal to honor God, all people exchanged the truth about God for lies of our own making. We exchanged true worship of the Creator for the worship of that which is created (22–23).