ROMANS Study Guide

d) Their removing God from their thinking was deliberate…they

did not consider keeping God in their thinking of any value!

As a direct result… God let this decision lead to its e vil

consequences… they developed a “depraved or reprobate”

mind (the inability to correctly judge things… unable to think

correctly). With no restrictions in their thinking… they begin

thinking and doing what they should not be doing before God.

Vs.28

e) Paul gives a short list of what characterizes such thinking

and action in vss.28-31 (reads like the morning newspaper)

f) Paul end’s this chapter by simply saying that those who do

such things…know in themselves that what they are doing is

wrong… (“righteous decrees” here are not the Mosaic laws but

the inner witness of the conscience) and will lead to their

death (separation from God). =But such people are too far

gone… they not only will not stop but they actually

“celebrate” those who practice such sins. Vs.32

Summary: Paul after his introduction launches his discourse on our justification by faith in Christ Jesus with the disturbing observation that all peoples now live under the wrath and coming judgment of God for their many sins. Mankind has distorted and suppressed the truth about God which can be clearly seen in creation.” Man’s rejection of God is not based on a lack of evidence of God’s existence but is a “heart rejection” of anything that stands in the way of self -desire (Ps.14:2-3). Paul has painted a very bleak and serious picture of the human race that stands under the wrath and judgments of God.