God's Eternal Power And Divine Nature Of God

Creation

“For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God”1. God takes the initiative and reveals enough of himself so that those who sin and reject him are guilty. The created universe itself offers a natural revelation of the God who created it. What God has made and what people see lead them to understand his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature. God has given people this revelation in nature, but many people have chosen to ignore or reject it.

People’s rejection of God leads to the degradation. Their thinking becomes senseless, and their whole

Three times he affirmed that God gave them over. God allowed them to do what they wanted to do. He delivered them over (v.24) to the consequences of their sin. Immersion in their own sin became their punishment. Their sinful desires led to impurity. Sin affects this in his entire being, every part of the body: throat, tongue, lips, mouth, feet, and eyes. Although sin distorts, it does not remove the possibility of learning about God and his creation. Unrighteous people know enough of what God has revealed to know what is right and what is wrong. They knew that women and men who act as they did deserve death. Yet they still practice those evil acts and even applauded others who practiced such sense, encouraging vice in them. Paul’s description of those who rejected God and rebelled against him in the first century also characterizes people today who follow that same

The law no longer has any binding authority over believers as a way of salvation because they have died to the law by their union with the crucified Christ. The purpose of this release from the law twofold: that they might be joined to the resurrected Christ and that they might have fruitful lives for God. No longer under the rule of law because of their union with Christ and death, believers have died to what held them captive. They have been released from the penalties of the law through crisis sacrificial death on the cross. The result of this freedom is the ability to serve God in a fresh way as they are enabled by the spirit. The justified life in Christ is a life of blessings, a life of victory over sin and holiness in union with Christ, and the life of freedom from the law. For those in Christ Jesus no condemnation now exists. The life-giving Holy Spirit has set them free in Christ Jesus, delivering them from the enslaving power of sin and death. The Holy Spirit within believers give them a new power to defeat